"If this were the last day of your life my friend...

[beanzontoast]

...coomon chaps get with the plan..it's guess the album time....

Genesis - And Then There Were Three.

Actually, Snowman is my favourite track from that one.

 

[Mr Pig]

There are some great songs on there.

 

[beanzontoast]

There are some great songs on there.

I will always associate it with my best memories of being at college - a guy down the corridor played it endlessly one year just before Christmas. Everything was going well in life. We were all getting caught up in the seasonal spirit.

Fantastic on a decent sound system.

 

[ChrisKH]

BigonaBianchi commanded respect
Whatever bike he wanted, he could get
The light on his handlebars commanded respect
It aint no lie Bianchi was feared by everyone......

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Genesis - And Then There Were Three.

Correctomondo mate!

Yes it has happy memories for me as well...Christmas...crashed in fornt of a log fire at home drawing pictures of dragons breathing fire but friendly, mushrooms tall as houses...things like that were important at 15

BigonaBianchi commanded respect
Whatever bike he wanted, he could get
The light on his handlebars commanded respect
It aint no lie Bianchi was feared by everyone......

..erm....dunno that album

 

[Mr Pig]

Fantastic on a decent sound system.

Never get tired of Follow You Follow Me. Really their last good effort though, pretty much everything they did after that was crap.

Genesis albums are all well recorded.

 

[beanzontoast]

Never get tired of Follow You Follow Me. Really their last good effort though, pretty much everything they did after that was crap.

Genesis albums are all well recorded.

Agree. That album was the pinnacle for me as far as Genesis went.

Also recall a guy at college testing his new 'stereo' out using Yes - Wondrous Stories. I'm not a big Yes fan, but the speakers were huge things about a metre tall and it was the best sound quality I'd ever heard. Every instrument was as clear as could be. Certainly showed the band off.

Anyone else come across them using Enya's Orinoco Flow in the electrical shops to try to convince people how amazing the sound systems are?

 

[Fnaar]

If it was the last day of my life, and I knew it, and I was healthy enough to do these things (so why is it my last day..er...) I'd do these (not nec in this order)

have a good old cycle
have a good old shag
have a good old w@nk (if the sha@g didn't work out )
have a fag or two and a spliff or two
drink a reasonable amount of beer
drink an obscene amount of red wine
take my dog for a walk
go to the beach

 

[Fnaar]

and eat some mince pies
and a rump steak
and some chips
and squid cooked in its own ink from spain
and eat some olives with garlic

 

[NickM]

All fnaar's things (except the fags, the dog, the red wine and the reasonableness over beer), plus lob a few hand grenades from the public gallery of the House of Commons and pick off the survivors with a hunting rifle.

 

[Mr Pig]

Agree. That album was the pinnacle for me as far as Genesis went.

Most of their earlier stuff was better. Technically, a lot better.

come across Orinoco Flow in the electrical shops?

Yes, the low-end ones mostly. It's actually a very bland recording, very flat and compressed, not much in the way of dynamic range. Sounds big though.

I remember why CD came out and they were all playing Brothers In Arms, mainly because it was one of the few hit albums you could actually buy on CD! Shops still had rows of turntables back then, those were the days...

 

[spandex]

Go for a bike ride and have a beer or two, play some chess, head home and strip clean my bike then do some baking and cook some food.

 

[NickM]

Clean a bike you're never going to ride again? You're weird, you are...