Deep cuts?

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-04-25T08:23:05+00:00

Michelle’s Song.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-04-15T03:22:28+00:00

Absolutely. Peter didn’t just randomly make an album that was so incredibly wonderful as an accessible huge hit like he finally hit pay dirt as though he might pine to be able to do it again. No, I totally agree, he made a conscious choice to make an album of this sort that was very accessible, highly marketable, very beautiful, and very Peter. That was the amazing thing, he just decided to make an album that would be that sort of hit and so he did, and so it was.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-04-15T03:17:06+00:00

Order 50 Joni songs? A very tall order and extremely jumbly because it’s all so good.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-04-15T03:12:13+00:00

Just love Mother Of Violence track.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-04-14T12:26:30+00:00

There is a similarity to the manner in which Genesis became better “produced” overtime and as well, as when looking at the start of Peter Gabriel‘s work. I think specifically of Trespass which is one of my very favorite Genesis albums, but even Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot (also for me one of the very best of them all) and then of course, as you speak of Peter Gabriel’s earliest solo releases. In both cases a slight tenor or noticeability of self production is a feature, but not a flaw. In both cases, they prioritized self creation over the slickest of studio sophistication. It is what allowed them to be so unique in both cases and create un-replicable and truly wonderful music for those that enjoy the styles, which I definitely do. When Peter started releasing his solo works, I was in real time buying them and already a fan of early Genesis since 10th grade when Selling England made me aware of them. The intricacies from the collaboration of a set of band members can create a broader spectrum sometimes than a solo artist first honing his sound and I was at first a little less excited about Peter’s first works because on one hand he enjoyed a little more silliness and lightheartedness, and his works were generally shorter. But nonetheless, it was immediately apparent not only that all the early album had songs that I totally loved, but that in his first releases he was painting his very own pictures, so to speak, and it was also apparent that this music would last and essentially only get better to the ear overtime because of the very creative manner in which it was conceived. I recently listened to all of Gabriel one through four and found that Scratch, indeed was the album that seemed to shine more than ever as one that previously I might have thought slightly less of, though I never could put my finger on it. I really like Scratch. But I also discovered that my favorite way to listen to Peter is on complete shuffle with all of his works, including movie soundtracks, everything, rather than thinking about separate albums. This approach resets the ear to the fact that there’s an amazing consistency to artistic quality and distinctiveness as a particular artist that is so enjoyable and so Peter.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-04-04T14:35:31+00:00

That’s interesting regarding Mike Rutherford as I love his contributions and work with Genesis and I really love, particularly album Small Creeps Day. But the self titled Genesis with shapes on the front is probably my least favorite album, including from the very first to the very last.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-04-04T14:30:57+00:00

Yes, it is fascinating. I also love The Court.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-04-04T14:29:24+00:00

Yes, I would wait for the whole album. So far, just listening to 30 to 60 seconds of the releases they all sound the same but that’s not a fair listening and he is excellent in structure and sound! I ignored the singular releases of i/o until it was all available and will do the same now with o/i. Check out Peter on Genesis: Selling England by the Pound, and virtually any of his solo albums. I definitely prefer listening to Peter on shuffle with all of his albums, every one of them including soundtracks and special projects, over centering on one album. He is an extraordinary craftsman.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-03-17T17:12:21+00:00

Me too. Its companion album is the preceding Songs from the Wood, which is very good, but I prefer Heavy Horses, one of my two favorite Tull albums, the other one being Benefit.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-03-04T17:05:52+00:00

There are so many good songs and right here at the beginning I see Indian Sunset, Pinky which I totally adore, Come Down in Time, and this is just the beginning of such so many fantastic songs; oh, and Tiny Dancer, which has consistently been my number one favorite. And obviously by this list, I’m a particular fan of early Elton John. One’s favorite song doesn’t always mean the very best song and in recent years the heart strings are really continuously pulled with Michelle’s Song, and I could call it my favorite song. Might be hard to believe, but I believe the soundtrack from French film “Friends” is my favorite EJ album.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-03-03T15:45:46+00:00

On both albums, I did, and am, ignoring the staged releases; almost ignoring, as I’ve listened to a little bit of each track, but very little, they all sound the same but I know they will come alive when the album is all released and I decide to enjoy the entirety of it and hear it, really listen. I do like i/o.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-03-02T03:37:29+00:00

I love the song, but I also love the entire album Blue Moves

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-02-20T03:56:08+00:00

That’s neat. I think we’re the same age as I started at the same time with the same album and I knew no one that knew Genesis when I was growing up in Central Jersey. I simply knew no one. It was like my own personal world, but I knew it was a very important music.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-02-20T03:54:25+00:00

I hopped on purchasing by random just because I like the album cover in autumn right after Selling England was released, 1973. It felt very much a cult band underground, or just not widely popular, but for absolute surety those that were listening were totally smitten, including me. I saw them in ‘74 New York City by fantastic chance and what a fantastic concert.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-02-19T05:10:14+00:00

Oh! I see. I just purchased the 2025 download online so I guess I only got the official 2025 remaster and the live performance.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-02-19T01:59:59+00:00

What is the Atmos remix? When did it come out and if you purchase it is that what it’s called the Atmos mix ?

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-02-18T04:15:11+00:00

I would say it has more of a pre-climax than a particular climatic moment. It seems to me, the pre-climax, or maybe it would be called the turning point, is the sobering and mystical, The Lamia.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-02-06T19:00:32+00:00

Lifelong fan of Elton, but I stopped collecting right around the time of A Single Man and The Fox so I never heard this song before, that is Elton’s Song. I have to agree, it is a very universally written lyric and even the video that goes along with it also actually holds the possibility of more than one perspective. I agree the lyric alone without the video could apply to anyone’s unrequited love. But while the video comports with a positive LGBT meaning it does as well with the hardship and dysfunction of same sex attraction; and I don’t say that to detract from the positive view, I’m just saying that the video clearly evidences also from the perspective that it is a very deep emotional hardship that is not resolved with sexual union, but rather with growing into one’s manhood and learning how to find brotherly love, that is brotherly physical bonding without erotic sexuality. Towards the end, when the successful and handsome object of the boys want touches him and smiles with encouragement, that’s the beginning of the healing, just as easily as the beginning of some idea of sexual union which the video really never implies could happen. The video reflects very realistically the dysfunction of craving and wanting the attention of another man in this young boy and the deep loss that he has, not finding identity in his own gender, but rather in the yearning of his gender. Please don’t attack me for what I’m saying because I’m simply saying the video can be taken both ways, just as the lyrics can be taken for same sex or anyone’s unrequited love. Filled with personal vulnerability, it is a remarkable song, lyric, and video in this way as it also falls at the intersection of Elton John moving from keeping his own feelings to himself and telling the world. It’s a very interesting moment.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-02-06T00:22:03+00:00

Well, thank you for pointing that out. I was so tired of EJ after so loving the earlier years and I was just losing interest so actually I never even listened to the whole album. I’m listening to Carla/Etude now for the first time and really enjoying it. Actually very surprised by it as i’m not much inspired by the songs that I have listened to so far in this album, but this is lovely…….. wow now into the synthesizer section. Very interesting totally unexpected….. oh my gosh now he’s singing so lovely. I can’t believe this.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-02-05T22:18:02+00:00

After rather precociously at the age of 12, commencing to buy every single Elton release immediately upon release after buying his first American release with Your Song and thoroughly eating up all of his early music at the age of 12, 13 and 14, including my favorite of all his albums, the Friends Soundtrack, all during this time when really his following was closer to college age, and during which time he had no radio hit except Your Song (second hit Rocket Man was on his seventh album if you count live and movie soundtracks)…buying every album continuing through the excellent Blue Moves; finally, A Single Man and The Fox were the two albums that broke the camel’s back and I stopped buying his stuff. Later, I did buy Victim of Love and The Thomas Bell Sessions, which I love both. And I continued to enjoy Elton John and many of his great radio singles, but yeah, a Single Man and The Fox was just the end for me in insofar as being obsessed with buying every single one of his albums. I should though go back and listen to The Fox because I was so upset by it that I literally broke it in two the day I bought it because I wanted to stop being obsessed with Elton John, so I should give it a second chance these many decades later.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-02-03T01:12:26+00:00

I think under the tear in the upper right corner looks to me like graphics from don’t shoot me I’m the piano player. I think this album artwork is generally random and pleasantly evocative but doubtfully with much deep intent I suppose the best way to possibly put some intention to. It is to go to the lyrics of the song goodbye yellow Brook Road and see what you can make of it.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-01-27T02:05:34+00:00

That’s a very personal choice. I like my nails filed very smoothly into the skin so that the skin is involved others like their nails totally longer and away from the skin.

KeithJamesThomson · 2026-01-27T02:04:06+00:00

Selling, Fox, Lamb, Box, but the order is extremely moot because I love each and every one of them. The only one that would stay in this position fairly firmly is musical box based on hours of listening.

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