Tuna Day

I like Genesis and what’s more I like Prog Rock.

Blame it on my Dad, as this is the sort of thing that was playing in our house during the seventies.  There was a time when I would have loved to have said that I was big fan of The Clash when I was seven but to be honest my main musical references at the time were the likes of Yes and Genesis.  Of course during my teenage years and through my twenties I was in denial of some sort and would never admit it but now I’m well into my thirties there seems to be little wrong in declaring a love for Prog.

I was listening to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway today, so a track from that was lined up to be today’s selection, but on the way home from work this came up on shuffle.  Take a listen to the full track in it’s spendour over at last.fm, an epic nine and a half minutes that starts with Tony Banks’ fine piano work and contains some of Peter Gabriel’s less nutty lyrics about “sheep in pens”, “undinal songs” and “madrigals”.  There’s also some great big old synth work and a great violin-effected solo from Steve Hackett.

Also on the last.fm page currently is a clip of a later version minus piano intro and with a very hairy Phil Collins on vocals.  Worth a look for the double headed axemanship going on.

If you like this then try the whole of the Selling England by the Pound album it comes from, IMHO the best of the Gabriel era Genesis albums.  Worth getting hold of for the one about the lawnmower – I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)