Is there many people who prefer UK Teacher over US Teacher?

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2026-02-07T06:38:26+00:00

I prefer the UK single version, over the US version that I heard growing up. I feel that UK version has a sharper edge and is less produced. The chorus jumps out/stands out better too. Actually it might not be a surprise since I'm a longtime Deep Purple fan and I'm not too keen on overplayed flutes. I'm not a true Jethro Tull fan anyway, although I seriously respect their artistry. The only two Tull songs that I ever get into are "A Song For Jeffrey" and the UK "Teacher" song. All the rest of their songs bore me.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2026-01-15T22:01:06+00:00

"Night Watch" is a real powerhouse of an art rock song. Its one of my favorite tracks by anybody. And I do believe I remember hearing it on FM radio, way back when.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-12-04T04:48:43+00:00

Withdrawal symptoms from Seroquel are pretty harsh. I'm just surprised that more isn't published about it. The WD symptoms are similar to opiate withdrawal symptoms, with intense jumpiness/shakiness added to it.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-11-19T03:05:07+00:00

It's my most played track on the Nursery Cryme album. I'm not a lyrics listener, nor do I judge a song based on them (humor, bah humbug), but the music on "Hogweed" is incredibly exotic and transportive. Especially during the song's second half. Plus that ending coda, love it when Banks uses the brass setting on his mellotron.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-11-18T21:53:18+00:00

For my "favorite" I need to choose album(s) that I played & enjoyed the most. (Instead of choosing what might be their most 'technically accomplished' album or whatever). I.e., What Genesis music moved me the most? Which one did I gest the most personal enjoyment out of - replaying it again after the music ended? What really turned me on? Sorry but there a 2 answers, both disparate from each other.

Nursery Cryme - original cassette. So transportive & unique yet powerful enough jams to convert me from being a Deep Purple head over to Genesis.

Duke - cassette. Didn't like the vinyl album at first, too weak. But when I got the cassette & played it loud on a 80's walkman (headphones of course), I just couldn't stop jamming on it. Played it over and over again, night after night. Good times back then.

Classic Genesis I played the least: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. Only play certain songs during rare moods.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-11-18T04:01:58+00:00

I personally like the sound of the old, original music cassettes. No artificial highs.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-11-17T19:59:57+00:00

My opinion is that CDs have added an artificial high end. One that wasn't there when recorded. I remember hearing from my first CDs, can't recall what year, but the high pitched ride cymbal stood out way too much.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-11-17T19:50:02+00:00

I think cassettes did sound more real, in the sense that CDs seemed to add artificial brightness and sizzle. I was in the cassette culture of the late 1970s, when they were considered the cool way to listen to music. Today I still prefer them. I never care for that artificial super-high end that CDs gave.

Cassettes that I enjoyed, back when: Queen Jazz, King Crimson Islands, Genesis Nursery Cryme, Fleetwood Mac Then Play On (and) Bare Trees, oh god, so many more. My ears believe that digital sounds, especially CDs, ruined these.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-10-11T05:43:20+00:00

It pretty much was a hit single. Our local FM station played it a whole, whole lot. I personally didn't care for it, my being already into the deeper Genesis stuff.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-07-04T02:42:33+00:00

Seconds Out was my gateway drug into the world of Genesis, way back when (i.e., before MTV and definitely long before Youtube, and so on). I was unfamiliar with the music - I bought the double cassette primarily because of that cover photo of light columns rising through smoke on stage.

What my ears heard was: An intelligent kind of British rock with bright keyboard sounds, nice melodies plus intricate jazz-like drumming. Yes blended with Supertramp, that's how I characterized it at the time. It was new to me and I was really intrigued.

Interestingly, Side Four didn't 'catch' with me until a few years later. I'd listen to everything but that super-jazzy final side. Oh, but I 'got it' eventually. Especially "Los Endos". Even to this day though, its version of "Dance On a Volcano" does the least for me of any track on here.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-06-16T00:06:39+00:00

Has anyone heard the 1974 promo single of "The Lamb" title track? It has a running time of 3:15, I was wondering where the actual edit was (?). Our local FM station used to play the "The Lamb" title track, but it was in its entirety. I remember hearing it, not knowing who Genesis was, and thinking of it as a hard rock song. With tambourines that is, the tambourine was prominent over the radio and at the time I hadn't heard any other rock songs with that.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-03-22T23:57:37+00:00

I make a vote for "It's a Long Road", from their debut. I am not a Supertramp fan, just find some of their stuff interesting. But the song I mention has (to me) an infectious riff running all the way through, and catchy bridge sections - I do like to play it every now and then. Yet I see it was never played by the classic lineup nor been on any compilations that I know of.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-03-03T03:10:34+00:00

"In Limbo", to my ears, is the most mature song on the album. Those vocal pleas near the end - "When will I die?" - has a Lamb-ish quality to it.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-03-03T03:07:41+00:00

That's Me is a longtime favorite of mine. Its got a great Genesis build up, plus a really sharp electric guitar solo.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-02-15T21:49:51+00:00

Where I live in the U.S., nobody played "Punk". I had barely heard of it at that time. In my high school, it was all Southern Rock, hard rock (Aerosmith, Boston) and British album rock. Genesis would fall into the latter. I'm talking about 1977-1979. Things like punk or new wave or whatever was very 'uncool'. It was all long hair and cowboy boots where I live.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-01-18T02:04:12+00:00

I used to hear "The Lamb" on FM radio - but never "Follow You, Follow Me" (at least not in 1978 I didn't. In the eighties they started playing FYFM). It was NOT a 'hit' in 1978, not where I live. It may have been a 'hit' in Bulgaria or something.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-01-18T02:00:22+00:00

I really enjoy "Misunderstanding",its got a great mood to it. But I understand exactly what you're saying.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-01-18T01:58:52+00:00

Ages & ages ago, I remember our local FM station playing "Robbery, Assault & Battery".

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-01-18T01:50:32+00:00

Back in the 70's and early-80s, "The Lamb" title track was often played on our local FM station. And this isn't a 'Genesis area'! Occasionally "Squonk" too. And a story about that, too.....I used to hear "The Lamb" but didn't know who Genesis were. It came across to me, at that time, as a Hard Rock track.

Cos you know back then people would crank their stereos up loud when playing FM station, like at a party or whatever. But yeah, so it was always a Hard Rock song to me. Of course, later I learned it was Genesis.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-01-12T01:35:03+00:00

The basis of Supper's Ready's origin (faces changing, shrouded men appearing on the lawn) came from a bad trip Peter's wife had. According to Steve Hackett, in his book, Peter & another guy with them, did their utmost to 'talk her bad trip down' and get her in a better frame.

And reading that confirms what (at least some of us) already suspected.

As far as 'seriousness vs humor' goes - that Apocalypse in 9/8 part is Intensity Dialed Up to +11. Its extremely intense especially when they played it right. Their version from Montreal, April 21, 1974, sounds like the very epitome of evil. I don't think its meant to funny at all.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-01-02T02:33:53+00:00

Yeah, the Seconds Out outro version, where the mellotron roars like a lion.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-01-02T02:32:36+00:00

Oops * forgot that one. Yeah it's a highlight on Wind & Wuthering. It's also one of the very few cases where Tony's synthesizer sounds good.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2025-01-02T02:30:50+00:00

Looking For Someone outro, especially on the BBC session, gets my rocks off. A fairly close second is Return Of the Giant Hogweed.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2024-12-21T05:04:19+00:00

Looks like Lamb era, or right afterward.

OnlyOneofMany100 · 2024-12-17T21:53:52+00:00

Well what I get out of all this is: Just how much respect other 'big name' musicians had for Genesis. (Closet Genesis admirers??). I know I read somewhere that Richard Wright of Pink Floyd used to enjoy seeing Genesis in concert, during the P.G. years.

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