OT as hell: ready meals

I thought that was when they were firing up the hookah?

 

<Baffled>

 

He probably walks across the sitting room and turns the television
off.

 

Work in progress says...

TOG doesn't have anything as new-fangled as a television, he still keeps
clear access to his fully stocked for the night air raid shelter at all
times.

 

Not the lyrics, the costume PG wore. Though I'd have said more a
double daisy type thing.

 

Supper's ready

<sighs> <waits for prog fans>

 

Work in progress says...

It's an obscure Genesis reference, I know.

 

Err,

"We watch in reverence, as Narcissus is turned to a flower."
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"A flower?"

There is that too. Roll on March 16th at the RAH!

 

Obscure! Bloody obscure! I'll give you obscure!!

It's probably *the* most famous Genesis song ever.[1]

[1] Excluding those known by all the Jonny Come Latelys that think "I
Can't Dance" is classic Genesis.

 

Bollocks is it. While I'm far from a massive Genesis fan, I do know a
lot of their stuff, but I've never heard that song, as far as I know.

And I was around in the 70s too, although TBF the only time I saw
Genesis was post-Gabriel, on their Abacab tour in, err, 1980?

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Ace wrote:
[Suppers Ready]

And there was me having you down as a "Friday Night Rock Show" kind of
guy.

Assuming you've listened to a fair amount of rock; AOR, prog, heavy or
otherwise, I'd be surprised of you'd never heard it (or some of it).

Then again, it never got a lot of airplay for the obvious reason that
it's 23 minutes long (IIRC).

I saw them at Wembley Arena in 1981. I think that was Abacab. Or
maybe the later, self-title album.

I have tickets for their Twickenham show in July.

 

Quite possibly. But that doesn't make it their most famous song, does
it?

Well there you are then.

My memory is vague on this - it could equally well have been 1981.

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Surely, something can be famous without everyone having often heard or
seen the thing in question.

OK - I guess I was seeing it from a Genesis fan's POV. To be fair, I
would say that for the majority of Genesis fans, when asked for a
famous Genesis song, would answer "Suppers Ready". This may not be so
much the case amongst people who have only heard later, post-Gabriel
Genesis.

In that case, I'll go for Turn It On Again.

I still wouldn't say "Suppers Ready" was obscure, just that I'll admit
it's probably not the most famous[1], OK?

[snip]

A quick Google[2] shows:
Duke 1980
Abacab 1981
Genesis 1983

[1] Although still "up there".
[2] I'm not quite Phil L just yet.

 

Quite modern effectively, then. Everything is relative, Alison.

 

CT says...

Listen, bucko. Genesis as a band are fucking obscure, so just one line
from a little known song they wrote is even further and further back
into the depths of obscurity. In other words, it's so obscure it almost
doesn't exist.

 

What - all 28 1/2 minutes of it?

Phil

 

I dunno - the youth of today.

Think of the Greek word for beginning and add long songs and Peter
Gabriel.

Phil

 

And it's hey babe, with your guardian eyes so blue..

Always keen to tess-cooperate..

Phil

 

Hang them all!

Mind you - I quite happily stumped up the money to see Genesis at Old
Trafford later this year. Even bad Genesis is better than 90% of the
pop-pap on the radio.

Phil

 

Or 28 minutes for the live (and to my mind better) version.

Swine. By the time I tried to get them (10am on the morning they were
released) they were sold out..

So I've ended up at Old Trafford.

Phil