#0, Speaking of music...
Posted by Gryphon on Feb-05-16 at 02:53 PM
LAST EDITED ON Feb-05-16 AT 03:04 PM (EST) Another thing I'd sort of forgotten about since the last time I read through NXE is what a pronounced Genesis axis runs through the series musically. I mean, yes, the opening song is one of theirs, but beyond that, almost every track on Invisible Touch is identified with one part or another of the series in my head. There's also quite a lot of Phil Collins's '80s solo work in there, in spirit if not citation. Post-Genesis Peter Gabriel, too, come to think of it!I note this publicly because it has become fashionable for my contemporaries to dis Collins lately, for reasons I can only assume have something to do with Ironic Gen-Xers embarrassingly aping Millennial Disdain, and well, fuck that. I'm stickin' by him. Well I've been waiting, waiting here so long But thinking nothing, nothing could go wrong Well now I know She has a built-in ability To take everything she sees And now it seems I'm falling, falling for herShe seems to have an invisible touch She reaches in and grabs right hold of your heart She seems to have an invisible touch It takes control and slowly tears you apart Well I don't really know her I only know her name But she crawls under your skin You're never quite the same And now I know She's got something you just can't trust It's something mysterious And now it seems I'm falling, falling for her She seems to have an invisible touch She reaches in and grabs right hold of your heart She seems to have an invisible touch It takes control and slowly tears you apart She seems to have an invisible touch She reaches in and grabs right hold of your heart She seems to have an invisible touch It takes control and slowly tears you apart Well she don't like losing To her it's still a game And though she will mess up your life You want her just the same And now I know She has the built-in ability To take everything she sees And now it seems I've fallen, fallen for her She seems to have an invisible touch She reaches in and grabs right hold of your heart She seems to have an invisible touch It takes control and slowly tears you apart She seems to have an invisible touch She seems to have an invisible touch She seems to have an invisible touch She seems to have an invisible touch - Genesis "Invisible Touch" Invisible Touch (1986) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
#1, RE: Speaking of music...
Posted by Gryphon on Feb-05-16 at 03:14 PM
In response to message #0
There's one track on Invisible Touch, more than... well, any other song anywhere, really... that startlingly well-encapsulates the emotional baggage of being a fanfiction author, at least as I have experienced being one over the years.(That last verse particularly resonates today, in light of what I was just musing about over in the other thread.) --G.
You know— You decorate the garage walls Hang in people's halls Live in secret drawers If you could look around you I wonder what you'd see Fiction— That's all you really are, I know Editorial dreams They can't make you real Tell me where you came from And where you're going to I won't ever, no I'll never get to know her Or be the cause of anything she does I won't ever, no I'll never get to hold her Well do you think this aching could be love? You know— You've figured in some fantasies You would not believe Just what you've had to do Life goes on around you and all because of you No, I won't ever, no I'll never get to know her Or be the cause of anything she does I won't ever, no I'll never get to hold her Do you think this aching could be love? I won't ever, no I'll never get to know her Or be the cause of anything she does I won't ever, no I'll never get to hold her Do you think this aching could be love? You know— That in twenty years or more You'll still look the same As you do today You'll still be a young girl when I'm old and grey No! I won't ever, no I'll never get to know her Or be the cause of anything she does I won't ever, no I'll never get to hold her Well do you think this aching could be love? I won't ever, no I'll never get to know her Or be the cause of anything she does I won't ever, no I'll never get to hold her Do you think this aching could be love? - Genesis "Anything She Does" Invisible Touch (1986)
#5, RE: Speaking of music...
Posted by StClair on Feb-06-16 at 10:38 PM
In response to message #1
so very much, yes.
#2, RE: Speaking of music...
Posted by mdg1 on Feb-05-16 at 08:07 PM
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True story... When I first heard the chorus, I thought the song could be about Kitty Pryde.
#3, RE: Speaking of music...
Posted by Gryphon on Feb-05-16 at 09:51 PM
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>True story... > >When I first heard the chorus, I thought the song could be about Kitty >Pryde. Kitty's a nice girl. She would not literally rip out your heart. Could, admittedly. But wouldn't. :) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
#4, RE: Speaking of music...
Posted by mdg1 on Feb-06-16 at 03:33 PM
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True. It's really more an Emma Frost thing.
#8, RE: Speaking of music...
Posted by ebony14 on Feb-08-16 at 08:54 AM
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>>True story... >> >>When I first heard the chorus, I thought the song could be about Kitty >>Pryde. > >Kitty's a nice girl. She would not literally rip out your >heart. > >Could, admittedly. But wouldn't. :) >Kitty's a ninja. Heart ripping is for gauche, unsophisticated types that can't kill you from the shadows. Ebony the Black Dragon "Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. But it's always a small Caribbean lizard."
#9, RE: Speaking of music...
Posted by Arashi on Feb-08-16 at 12:46 PM
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>>>True story... >>> >>>When I first heard the chorus, I thought the song could be about Kitty >>>Pryde. >> >>Kitty's a nice girl. She would not literally rip out your >>heart. >> >>Could, admittedly. But wouldn't. :) >> > >Kitty's a ninja. Heart ripping is for gauche, unsophisticated types >that can't kill you from the shadows. > >Ebony the Black Dragon > >"Life is like an anole. Sometimes it's green. Sometimes it's brown. >But it's always a small Caribbean lizard." Agreed. Everyone knows it's more civilized to put a poison pill directly into their stomach.
#6, RE: Speaking of music...
Posted by Gryphon on Feb-06-16 at 11:54 PM
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Hey, I found the Virtual On track we used as BGM in the "Angel hacks the mainframe" episode. "She's Lost Control (Viper II Theme)"--G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
#7, RE: Speaking of music...
Posted by Wiregeek on Feb-07-16 at 03:41 AM
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Had a get-together recently, where I used Phil Collins to challenge such luminaries as Disturbed, Rage Against The Machine, and Lordi for "Angriest Music." And walked away with the prize. The man with or without Genesis, had an amazing emotional range.
#10, RE: Speaking of music...
Posted by Gryphon on Feb-13-16 at 10:47 PM
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>Had a get-together recently, where I used Phil Collins to challenge >such luminaries as Disturbed, Rage Against The Machine, and Lordi for >"Angriest Music." And walked away with the prize. The man with or >without Genesis, had an amazing emotional range. On a point of order, he's not dead. In fact, by an odd coincidence, the Guardian ran an article about what he's up to now just the other day. :) --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
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