Hello everyone! My name is Brandon, and welcome to my channel. Growing up as a kid in the 70's/80's and in high school and college in the 90's, I was fortunate to experience what I consider to be the best 3 decades of music ever, back when it was all new. My fondness and addiction to that music continues to this day. Having watched reaction channels here on RU-vid for many years now, I have always wanted to start one of my own. Now is the time to make my dream a reality by creating music reactions to the songs from my favorite decades, the 70's, 80's and 90's. The good thing about my life's musical journey is that, though I know countless songs from these eras, I have never explored deep into the albums of many of these artists. Now I have the perfect opportunity to discover hundreds of new gems from back in the days! I'm quite excited and hope you enjoy my reactions, and that you will come along on this musical adventure with me. Much love, peace and great tunes!!!
My favourite off the album, a carefully crafted disco ballad with superb groove and tone colouring that really added something new to disco - a genre that , by 1979/80, everyone had already done their turn on. This is a work of superb musical craftsmanship seen as a disco track - but the lyrics add a carefully half-veiled commentary on the drug trade from the Caribbean to high-life circles in Florida and California at the time. This is the same era that the superb documentary "Cocaine Cowboys" is talking about, and the song has the same feel as the Miami Vice TV series - I think it was actually used once on the soundtrack for the series! :)
OK, as usu l I can't, but just wanted to mention that Keith Emerson also did soundtracks, especially for Dario Argento's Inferno. I am so ignorant that I had no idea he was in Genesis... What a fountain of knowledge you are, Brandon 😊
Hey Brandon, thank you for the songs. I always found Thom Yorke a bit too plaintive to my taste, did you know he wrote the soundtrack for Suspiria 2018? Fun fact: one of their songs was featured on the Air France playlist (changing each month, during which it was played in the aircrafts). One flight attendant who had heard it one time too many said "Why is she wailing, did she lose her dog?". This is unfortunately my most cherished Radiohead memory...
I saw them in 1979 and they were absolutely amazing live. Loudest show I've ever been to and I was completely entranced for 1½, 2 hours, however long they played (time stopped for the duration). They were pioneers. I'll never stop being grateful for picking up my used copy of Ricochet at Selectadisc in Nottingham on a whim in 1978. Best £1 I ever spent.
Fantastic. Saw them live at Glastonbury 97. Wonderful 😊 Have you done any music from Kid A, Brandon? The opening track “Everything in the it’s Right Place” is totally otherwordly for me - it was used in the strange movie “Vanilla Sky” ❤
"Street Spirit (Fade Out)": great composition. One of my favorite RADIOHEAD songs. By the way, the band has never hidden that they were heavily influenced by VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR but especially by PETER HAMMILL's solo production and you can hear it in the structures and arrangements. My two favorite RADIOHEAD albums: 'OK Computer' (1997) and 'The Bends' (1995). From VDGG: 'Pawn Hearts' (1971) and 'Godbluff' (1975). From PETER HAMMILL (and here I won't be very original for the first one): 'The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage' (1974) and 'Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night' (1973). Thanks, Brandon.
Let Down is also my favorite song. I was happy to see how pulled in you were on a first listen. It has so much to share and take in and feel, it really needs multiple listens. Also, regarding the lineup of the band, it's Thom, Johnny, Ed, Colin, and Phil. Not sure who the other two people you mentioned are!
Hi RC! Happy that I picked your fave! The other 2 were guest musicians (cello, viola and violin). Ultimately I don't think they played on Street Spirit, but they were somewhere playing on The Bends! Thanks for watching!
Two of my favorites, especially "Street Spirit (Fade Out)". It hit particularly hard today as I found out earlier that an old friend succumbed to his 5 year battle with cancer today. My eyes are stinging . . . .🥺 R.I.P. Don. 😔
Was really excited to get to this one. Thanks for doing the live version, too. Intense indeed! Brandon, look up the Belgian tv performance they did. Totally entertaining and contains the song "Twilight Alehouse" which didnt make it to the album " Nursery Cryme."
Don’t know much Radiohead…..they came on the scene when I was “ too old” to be exposed to them much. They weren’t on the channels I was listening to. But hell…..MAJOR RESPECT for this top-tier band.
Hey, thanks for dropping into the 90s for these! I HIGHLY recommend "Subterranean Homesick Alien" if you have not heard it before....talk about atmosphere 😊
I'm a HUGE Radiohead fan. The are EVERYTHING, that i want in music. It is a little hard to decipher what Tom is singing, sometimes. Which only draws me in closer.
React to Chris Rea .Working on It Time to see how he can rock. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z0fOoyiIq7M.html.....Chris Rea - Burning Feet time for you too see his true blues ..ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xYmKLtvhP7I.html
In one of Michael Moorcocks's Eternal Champion books. The Veterans of the Psychic Wars are a band of human heroes who refused to surrender and now forever fight to defend humanity when Erekose (?) needs an army. They come from all times and all wars. So, they include soldiers in furs and stone tipped spears to liveried troops with flintlocks and armored men with energy weapons.
That live footage is cool, I only wish they had done a better job of syncing up with the audio which is from the live album, Genesis Live. I noticed they inserted a shot of a more contemporary Steve's torso during solo, Lol.. it was probably hard to get enough footage of each member from tbe show. It was obviously one guy with a hand held camera, sneaking around the sidelines, trying not to intrude, Haha.. But it does give us a sense of what Peter was like onstage back then. Otherworldly and a wee bit menacing..
The cameramen from that period didn't know what rock was. Did not know what was important to film. Just focused on the singer, and here on the drummer and keyboardist (from behind !). You almost never see the bass player.
Yes, that's pretty apparent. At least the image quality is good. Plus I now know it's different performances just strung together...Thanks for tuning in!
Saw them three times and will see them again this December. I love the new lineup. They end each concert with a 30-40-minute improvisation in the vein of the 70s.
Excellent reaction sir, if you want to watch the oldest Genesis live video, from March 1970, and with the original Trespass line-up, this is the video of "Looking for Someone" (original studio audio). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9bfwF-sRC6w.html
Discovered this song lately, very good and captivating. Even if heard many Yes Songs I probably missed this, my mistake. A great one, in the line of 90125 also with Trevor Rabin, what a guitar master, by the way. Sure, Jon's voice presence are conforting that it's Yes, because it could be another great band, because it isn't typically what they usually delivers. This was somehow progressive and deep. Thanks!
Hi Brandon. One of only a few from them I don't absolutely love! 'Hogweed' and 'Robbery, Assault and battery' the same. Just an excuse to remind you about the live 'Musical Box' on the Midnight Special if you're onto Nursery Cryme next. Cheers
The camera work back then was so disappointing,the quality was good but I think the camera people probably never listened to there music, this video is prime example during Hacketts solo they show peter doing nothing and don't even talk about the lamb footage, disappointing we don't have really good footage of my favorite band for 50 years.
According to you, this song is "the closing track on the original record". Yes, partially true. CDs had just been invented and were starting to appear in stores. Because Polydor wanted CDs to sell (they were much cheaper to make than vinyl discs or tapes), they made the last track of this album, "Freedom Someday", a CD-exclusive. So, on the "record", Sleepwalkers is the last track. But the focus had shifted to the new format already.
You had exactly the reaction I anticipated you having with Tangerine Dream. Your brain is not prepared for the kind of stimuli that their music gives and doesn't know what to make with them and of them. They are truly unique, there's no one even in the Kraut rock scene that can be compared to them (maybe Popol Vuh, but they're much more melodic). However, I must warn you that perhaps by chance, you chose two very atypical tracks. The "typical" TD (if there is such a thing with such a chameleonic band) is VERY dark. Heavy, but not in the same sense as one says "heavy metal". Dense. Gloomy, charged with anguish, and a sense of urgency before some kind of doom. There's a reason why I define TD's music as "the soundtrack to the end of the world". TD appeared in Berlin, or more precisely, at that time, *West* Berlin. An island of capitalism, wealth, and freedom in the middle of the grim Iron Curtain. A city that had already been blockaded once, and it had been a time of great deprivation. A city surrounded on all sides by an impenetrable, heavily militarized wall. A place where the Cold War was not just something you read about in the news and a distant threat that you tried not to think too much about. The Cold War was part of the day-to-day experience in West Berlin, and everyone there was keenly aware that if the muted East-West confrontation ever heated up, they'd be the first victims. To escape that, Berlin developed a hedonistic spirit that still survives in the reunified city, as they tried to live each day as if it were the last - because they knew very well that it really might be. But TD didn't create music for that hedonism. They created music to illustrate the undercurrents that the Berlin hedonism tried to hide. If you had taken "Ricochet" or "Phaedra", for example, you'd have a completely different first impression of TD. And they were incredibly influential. Not in the same sense as their also immensely influential compatriots, Kraftwerk (who were from Düsseldorf, the extremely wealthy epicenter of the West German postwar "economic miracle", and had a completely different outlook of things). Kraftwerk can be credited with teaching the world how to make music with electrons, as I said when you reacted to "Autobahn", and they practically wrote the instructions manual (especially in the more experimental "Radio Activity"), but they did so in a way that favored its incorporation into mainstream music - which, in turn, did exactly that. But it was TD that created the fine details. Their work with sonic textures originated the tone you still hear today in virtually all electronic arrangements. You can still hear A LOT of TD in today's EDM. You'll listen to a lot of TD's techniques and sonic textures in any rave you go to. TD were never meant to be popular stars, but they were a band of musicians who played for other musicians - who listened attentively. On a related but different note, I was amused with that part when you said that it could be background music, but at the same time you didn't want it to be in the background. That's practically the definition of ambient music as described by Brian Eno in the liner notes of his historic "Music for Airports" album! Is TD's work "ambient music"? Parts of it can be perceived and used as such, but it wasn't deliberate as Eno's ambient work was. When you get to Eno, you'll understand what I mean. (Incidentally, or maybe not, Eno spent a couple of years in Berlin in the late 1970s, as did David Bowie - and together they made the legendary "Heroes" there. I don't know if Eno and TD had any direct contact, but Eno probably listened to them, and it's anyone's guess whether either of them influenced the other.)
Yea, by this point I think you know my musical mind fairly well! Wow, so they get much darker? You know I'm there for that. Very helpful to know the context from which the band was born, and how far reaching their art truly was/is. A good reminder that Eno needs to be on my channel...Thanks for watching this one Goytá and for the always highly insightful comment!
So, Peter is lip-synching! 😳 I cannot say he looks very fetching with grey hair and I was hoping someone was going to take that damn whistle away from Phil. It was a good idea to listen to the song in the studio and live. He is no Phil Collins, but John Mayhew acquitted himself well IMO. Similarly, Steve's playing on this is much much better than Anthony's. I agree with your rating. This was an experimental work out and lay the groundwork for what was to follow in subsequent albums.
Not his greatest look ha but boy is it memorable. Then you add the red dress and Fox head on top of that! Glad I got to watch them in this era again. We agree!! And happy bunny days are ahead on Tuesday..........😏
This is the first Genesis song I heard on the radio many years ago. It left me very surprised and shocked, I had never heard anything so strong, the second was Eleventh Earl Of Mar, even stronger, that made Genesis become one of my favorites forever.
I'd recommend ALL of it...probably their finest live recordings...Hackett still there of course, and the Cinema Show with Bill Bruford and Phil together...The rest of the album is Chester fresh from playing with Weather Report and Frank Zappa, suddenly thrown into a reserved Englishmen's Prog Rock band...bit of a culture shock for him😅 Apparently the story goes that Tony,Mike etc were all worried that Chester didn't like the music as he would repeatedly say 'man that's Bad' during rehearsals 😆
Oh and I would love to know if you've heard the album 'A Secret Wish' by Propaganda? From 1985, one of the finest and lesser known albums from that era. I think it would BLOW YOURE MIND🤩🤯😁. Electronic instruments and programming mixed with acoustic instruments, a fusion of the industrial and romantic with angular German vocals. Do check it out if you can...It would be a great reaction...😎
My first exposure to Genesis was the live album. Couldn't understand most of the lyrics and, because I had seen the Dead live, I didn't care! Some of the great lines come through, some of the things I thought I heard were wrong my ears were still very happy!
That was a nice surprise in deciding to review both versions, thank you. Hope the video wasn't too distracting, since it only included part of the song and they had to loop it or include other video. The audio from the live version was definitely from their Genesis Live album performance. Once you hear it a few more times, you'll definitely pick up on Phil's and Steve's nuances that carry them forward into the future albums and how they're different than John and Anthony. Also, it has proto-metal sound to it, which is quite novel and not something Genesis really returned to (other than Hogweed, probably).
It's on the original sleeve in your back, not only a beautiful paradise, maybe you should have changed the angle to the other side, that big knife was there with a bejeweled handle. So the music is more powerful the begin reminds me Deep Purple, but you know it's Genesis, first turn is more subtle but then it goes on seriously, long instrumental parts on guitar solo, and then organ solo. This time Mayhew had some work with the more heavier drumming, but later was remade later with Phil for the live. Well it wasn't my favorite because of his "almost" hard rock feel but it was surely an important one for the band. It was fun to get that quality, (Remasted) video for a change for sure, it is clearly better performed with the definitive lineup 😉 I believe it was the first time I watched this version! These boys were on fire, Peter (nice big hairs🤔) of course, and Phil with a whistle in his mouth 😂! That second version deserved Platinum 😎🎶. Thanks!
Great composition. Live version is awesome! A very openly socio-politically engaged GENESIS. Power abuses; absolute power abuses absolutely. Thank you.
The Knife - the battle cry of a nascent prog powerhouse, the one Genesis would become from here on. Considering their catalogue up to then, this song was quite a bold musical move (thanks, Peter 🙂). I can't help wondering what the studio album would sound like had it been recorded with today's production quality... The musicians are firing on all cylinders here 💥and I'm loving it! 🧡💚💙
Hello! Yes, I can imagine the closing song shocked a lot of fans! Great point. Let's have Genesis record a new version! Well, they might as well do the whole album....😌 Have a beautiful day! 😊
While I tend to find it distracting, I'm sure whom ever edited it together did the best they could? Even professionals get it wrong sometimes when editing together footage from a single concert and I attribute this to the editor not being a musician or at least only knowing how to play one or two instruments? As a long time drummer/percussionist I usually notice drummer clips that aren't in sync with the music or just totally playing the wrong thing visually, but for say guitars and keyboards I'll only notice if the rhythm and/or direction of pitch is wrong where as a skilled keyboardist or guitarist will notice if the notes or chords played match what is heard. And with wind instruments I'd likely only notice rhythmic anomalies since pitch direction on those is more of a mystery to me! 😊
@@JohnLRice thats all well and good, but this is beyond what you are describing. Such the 1 second of Pete playing tambourine thats used 50 times just for one example. I dont see any frame that correlates to the song.
Great reaction to a great finale of a fantastic song both studio and live performances Mr Brandon and your comments are spot on in regards to the sound they were evolving into; thanks for your reaction 🙏👍🤤
