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I saw Genesis in 1973 in Reggio Emilia - Italy.
I was 17 years old.
Now I'm 68 and I continue to hear Genesis.
The best.
Beato te!!
Genesis, Pink Floyd... Abraços do Rio.
This is one of the absolute best uses of the Mellotron ever.
DEFANITELY!
not one of the best - it is the best - number 1
This and the Choir mode... other worldly...
Gabriel had such a dynamic voice, damn, really went from yelling to almost lullaby levels of singing, amazing stuff.
Spot on
Totally! It was like Meg Ryan correcting me❤
I remember one Saturday morning in the Autumn of 1972 going through by bus to Falkirk (17 miles away) specifically
to buy this album, never heard it before and had no Genesis albums, loved the Paul Whithead artwork. Was blown away when I put
this on the turntable. Still have the album, happy memories.
👏🙏
Falkirk had three record shops in 1972 - none now of course. We may have crossed paths. I would have been buying the first Roxy Music album! My best mate was a massive Genesis fan back then and had this album too.
@@virtualsymmetry1159 Spent hour after hour in Findlays Music Shop in the Cow Wynd before it was renamed as Bruces. If you frequented the Falkirk music scene in the early 70s you may remember a band called Bodkin, these guys really should have made it big, there 1972 album is rare and still sells for a fortune. I had a copy from one of their gigs but loaned it to a friend, what a pity as I never saw it again. Happy days.
Epic!!!
The Mellotron has such a unique sound, makes songs sound so good!
Well, good on Steve to suggest to Tony to get that Mellotron off of King Crimson in the first place.
Yes, yes it is!
I didn't know that.Thanks for the info.iI will ad it to my GENESIS Knowledge.😊
The Rain Song is also a great mellotron song
It needs more cowbell
One of the best opening tracks of all time.
Sure is ! it COMMANDS attention ! I bet when this is played LOUD at a concert hall or amphetheather.. ALL chit chat and talking HUSHS to silence out of the viewer mouths as the tune begins.. I can just see this.. Unfortunately never got to see them do this one live
"Watcher of the Skies" is the Song, that made me a Genesis Fan back in '76 😎🤩!
Great Song ☺️!
Great Band 🤗!
Enjoy their Music to the very days 👍🏻!
Live long and prosper! 🖖🏻🖖🏼🖖🖖🏽🖖🏾🖖🏿
the best thing is to listen to the old and the best remastered editions (not the remixes like here)
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same expect yesterday lol, its just so unlike most songs,
This is not a song, is a monument
Nursery Crime, Foxtrot, Selling England by The pound, The lamb líes down on Broadway, A Trick of a Tail, Wind & Wuthering ❤️🎶
invisible touch too
@@liammusgrove6334
Few awesome songs in there, its just a little too 80s poppy
This is my list too. The other albums are good-to-okay, but they're just not as hard-hitting as Nursery Crime through Wind and Wuthering. Yes, I'm alienating Trespass on purpose as I only like 2 songs on that album :)
the best thing is to listen to the old and the best remastered editions (not the remixes like here)
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@@mattdrummond3552 Get the remastered flac version of trespass and listen on world class headphones (about 10 times). It will change your mind...I think it might be the best of PG era Genesis!
Tony Banks is right up there with the other greatest keyboard players like Keith Emerson.
Both very different kind of players , but of course genius's for sure.
@Jorge García Robles Heresy.
@@MomentsNotice I wouldn't want to say one musician is better than another, what with taste being subjective and the whole question of what is it that we're really trying to quantify with a term like "better" in re to the arts anyway...? But I will say that at least IMHO Tony was always the most *tasteful* prog rock keyboardist. All of his solos are through-composed with no 32-bar stretches of improvised wankery or whathaveyou. He didn't even try to draw attention to himself while on stage, preferring to let all the focus be on the singer.
Just an opinion freely given; not trying to ruffle any feathers. Looking forward to seeing them this coming December 8th in Columbus, OH (and already feeling rather melancholy about this, knowing it's very likely gonna be my last chance to see them).
Aye. And I say even more harmonically sophisticated, albeit in a a less obvious, less flashy, more subtle way. The way TB uses moving triads over static bass notes and/or bass ostinatos, creating tension/release, suspensions and resolutions and over more 'vertical' and i'mpressionistic' harmonic colours is kinda second to none IMHO, and largely responsible for the core musical character and personality of Genesis.
Mr. Banks IS the Greatest modern composer, period.
Special thanks to Steve Hackett and his band for performing this in their every tour
They haven’t performed it on every tour. It was out of the Hackett band setlist for about 3 years until it was brought back last year. But they do a great rendition and I look forward to being in the audience when they can tour again, and Watcher will be on the setlist next tour!
There's an interview somewhere where Steve relates how at some show or other it was so loud with the stage lighting and fog machines and all that as well that it felt to him (during Tony's intro) that maybe a spaceship was lifting off... Kinda fits in with the lyrics, lol -- but when he relates this story you really can tell how strongly it impressed him.
I guess Hackett is the real owner of Genesis Progressive song. Once Gabriel performe other kind of songs now a days and Colins, Rutheford and Banks just performed a dancing songs after Hackett and Gabriel left the band, I just have this way to believe in!!!
@@carloseduardorenha9869 That is very true about Steve
Steve Hackett leaves Genesis................then.................plays Genesis Revisited. Steve should have just stuck with the band. Wrongheadedness if you ask me.......but you didn't.
When music had depth... amazing.
it still does, listeners don't. music is fine. look harder in better places.
Phil Collins, the Drum Duet, the Tambourine Man! He needs to be resurrected as one of the top drummers of all time.
What a prophetic song and album. Genesis was truly ahead of its time. Good stuff!
The music is so DYNAMIC! Never tire of listening to it, 44 years.
This song has the best mellotron intro ever....hands down....
Sure!!
I don’t think Phil Collins gets nearly as much credit as being one of the greatest drummers of all time as he deserves.
Agreed!!
How a bout “Brand X”?
No, he does not. People think he's just a singer, but a lot of people don't remember he did not want to be and that a drummer is what he always wanted to be, nothing more...
As much as I dislike the direction he took the band after they became a trio, there's no denying what a phenomenal drummer he is, as well as singer, frontman and songwriter. An all-around amazing musician.
Philip Collins ist a traitor
Shocking how young these guys were when all of these prog-rock classics were recorded.
Too bad the young guys these days aren't making epic music like this. Too many of them are too wrapped up in their phones, or "hip-hop" to make real music like this.
Agree, Phil was just 21, Hackett 22 and the others were about the same.
Definitely some seriously precocious creativity, musicianship and band chemistry going on.
@@dadonaldd I guess, that's what their parents said back then. Instead of staring at phones it was listening to useless records.
@@dadonaldd Even in the 70s very few people made music like this. There are still many bands that make music like this, Haken, Dream Theater, etc.
My favorite Genesis album with an excellent track to kick it off.
And an awesome track to end it!!!
The staging, with Peter disguised as some kind of interestellar vampire, was awwwsome. Yhe mellotron, glorious.
Greatest opening EVER
The song that started ALL of my Genesis love.
As I get older I listen to these wonderful songs and can’t help but tear up at their beauty. Also knowing that there will never be any new genesis music. A band of my lifetime
🎶 Watcher Of The Skies 🎶 Thanks Genesis For This
Great & Fanatastic Song, You're The Best!!!!!
GENESIS FOREVER!!!!! 🎤🎹🎸🥁🎸🎼
This was Genesis when they were utterly brilliant. This album unsurpassable. My opinion, but im guessing millions think the same. Good era to live through, Gaz from Seaton in Devon UK
Sure waz mate...the good times.
Gaz from London.
I lived in London (parts of) all my life. Mainly SE London. But 3 years ago moved Seaton Devon. Im 69 now. But do remember the early Genesis years. Suppers Ready my favourite track of all.... Gaz
I went to Knebworth twice in 78...saw genesis on one and Peter Gabriel on the other, it was a treat for sure with Frank zep.. The tubes.. Tom petty.. Jefferson starship... Bloody good times... Saw sabbath and yes just before that...wished I had seen E.LP.
The follow up album had a solo vocal by PC - end of Genesis as we know it .....................................................
A great song from a great album. Pure heaven to listen to. ❤️❤️❤️
Genesis, the very best of the best. Nobody writes music and lyrics at such level anymore.
Awesome. Masterpiece. Sublime mellotron!!! The legend...Genesis forever!!! ❤❤❤ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ EnzoItaly
I still have the original album somewhere, played it to death. 70s, dark room. This and Yes (close the edge) couldn't ask for more.
"If you want a drum intro, Watcher of the Skies by Genesis." ~Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear Series 6 Episode 2
How I just got here. Not impressed though. To each their own though.
,
D
Same thing that brought me here, today! He and Richard are both wrong, though. When the Levee Breaks has the best drum into ever. It's not complicated but it evokes so much feeling.
@@beerlite6940 Top Gear fans having little taste doesn't surprise
Richard Hammond is so full of shit when it comes to Genesis.
One of music's ultimate prog songs
This song came out before I was even born. Doesn't matter. It's amazing.
Wonderful Song! I love you, Genesis!
One of the best intros to a record!
Watcher Of The Skies!
My first album, only 6 yrs old. Thanks dad, thanks genesis. I appreciate this masterpiece at 19yrs when my father was already dead.
Classic opening track for concerts! 🎹🎶🎧
Greatest genesis album. Best progressive rock album of all time.
Man, Tony's keyboards on this whole album.
Close to the edge
One of the best Mellotron intos ever. No one used it better than Tony did. And the rhythm on this...I've listened to it a thounsand times, and I still can't tap along accurately to it..
😂 keep practising ❤
Best intro ever, really!
Nothing to be said. The best. Loved it then, love it now (50) years later.
"Watcher" is such an outstanding musical experience, even decades after its release. All the Genesis artists shine here, but listen to Phil's drumming. The keyboards and bass dominate the mix, but when you isolate the drums, you hear some really cool rat-at-tat measures. Very cool.
I'm no drummer, but this song's rhythm always makes me think of the word "paradiddle".
(Best i can explain it is that this is the word they use for a common technique where one alternates between the use of left and right hands in passages where you're repeatedly striking the same drum head over and over, so in the sheet music or a song chart you might see someone writing "LLRL, RRLR" or whathaveyou so they remember the particular strike pattern that makes it the most ergonomically practical to play that section.)
yeah.
Later in 2022 see it live
Very strong fabulous magic eternel ! THANKS ! Genesis forever always THE BEST.
Simply the best progressive band ever period!!
Saw them 3 times since '75.
They were at their best with Gabriel.
Daz Gamer
Then Pink Floyd.
the best thing is to listen to the old and the best remastered editions (not the remixes like here)
czcams.com/video/lQIiWUkgLfE/video.html
King Crimson
You haven't listened to Attack Attack! (US)
Great band Genesis!!!!! Foxtrott a wonderful LP with wonderful songs.
Fantastic opening. I've listened to it for thousand of times.
"Watcher of the Skies", la intro de mellotron más magnífica y sombría, enigmática y atrapante de una banda de rock en toda su historia.
I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUU PHIL COLLINS !!!!!!! GENESIS!!!!!!! THEY ARE MASTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah - and so were Gabriel and Hackett
@@thomasfholland and Banks !
It's Peter Gabriel singing, not Phil Collins
@@berdi4berdi4 yes I know!!! ;) so....
@@amhs1947 I'm with you sister, Collins has a more rock-ready voice overall for 73-76 Genesis material, but PG is great also.
That mellotron 🥰
One of the greatest bass lines
I know. This is an incredible album. Phil Collins' drumming is tight Peter Gabriel's vocals are wonderful and Tony Banks on mellotron is fantastic. It still brings chills even after so many years.
Yes!!!
Witnessed their performance from (71-77) in Toronto & Buffalo. Absolutely fantastic every time. (5) times
I saw them in Philadelphia in the mid 1970's right after Peter Gabriel had left. I remember seeing women walking around with renaissance era dresses on.
This album is a masterpiece in my opinion,and also the best album..
Melhor banda do rock progressivo de todos os tempos... GENESIS FOREVER 🎶🎶🎶🎶👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The golden age of English keuboardists. Banks, Wakeman, Emmerson, Lord, Mraz.et.al. So glad their mums made them take piano lessons. This tune was an encore for a few tours. Nothing beats the cape, the eyes, the bat wing headband....
Spot on mate
this is one of my favorite Genesis songs
I love the Mellotron at the beginning
it's not a synthesizer, it's a Mellotron used with the "orchestra" sound bank.
Don't forget the end as well!
@@brunoprimas1483it’s a’tour de force’ from start to finish..
Genesis one of the best band in the world..tks Peter Gabriel Anthony banks steve hackett phill collins and mike rutherford
Another masterpiece from Genesis 1972.
Whole another dimension for pop rock music at that time. Literally ahead of their times.
Yes!!!
this is prog rock
I’m so glad I had 2 very cool older brothers to turn me on to such greatness. And great parents allowing me to go to the show! Sweet memories!💖💕
Magic and Out of this Universe!!!
I LIKE THE BASS, GUITAR, AND ORGAN ON THIS SONG.
The lyrics on this album are so varied ,mysticism,biblical,sci fi,nonsense,social commentary,very creative.
Only words are spine tingling and REVERANCE
Masterpiece!
Watcher of Skies is Genesis Classic
Foxtrot definitely my favorite Genesis album
Mon album préféré 💓
I really like both era's of Genesis but this album Foxtrot and the previous, Nursery Cryme are my favorites.
“Watcher of the Skies” ~ Genesis ~ 1972
“Watcher of the skies, watcher of all
His is a world alone, no world is his own
He whom life can no longer surprise
Raising his eyes beholds a planet unknown
Creatures shaped this planet's soil
Now their reign has come to end
Has life again destroyed life
Do they play elsewhere, do they know
More than their childhood games
Maybe the lizard's shed its tail
This is the end of man's long union with Earth
Judge not this race by empty remains
Do you judge God by his creatures when they are dead?
For now, the lizard's shed its tail
This is the end of man's long union with Earth
From life alone to life as one
Think not, now your journey's done
For though your ship be sturdy
No mercy has the sea
Will you survive on the ocean of being?
Come ancient children,hear what I say
This is my parting council for you on your way
Sadly now your thoughts turn to the stars
Where we have gone, you know you never can go
Watcher of the skies, watcher of all
This is your fate alone, this fate is your own”
Songwriters: Peter Brian Gabriel, Phillip David Charles Collins, Michael Rutherford, Anthony George Banks, Stephen Richard Hackett.
💙💙💙💙💙
Il primo brano mai ascoltato dei Genesis, in un juke box della spiaggia di Licola. Avevo 13 anni e fu amore al primo ascolto. Non li ho mai più lasciati.
Love this song of Genesis
The lyrics are heavily influenced by Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke -amazing book that was adapted by the SyFy channel a couple of years ago.
Amazing masterpiece never gets old.
If I were stuck alone on an island, it would be this and Suppers Ready and so, so many more Genesis songs! ❤❤❤
The very first song I ever heard in concert. Phila Convention Center 1974. Still a fan. So many memories. I'm 66 today and still love Genesis.
I grew up listening to Peter Gabriel's solo albums but not really listening to any Genesis other than their later hit songs with Phil Collins singing lead. I'm now doing a deep dive into early Genesis and what's really striking is how well-developed Gabriel's very unique singing style already was at such a young age. It was all there long before his solo career.
The first 3 Albums after Peter left were great, after that I sort of left them...?
Questo intro è immortale..... vivrà per sempre...che canzone magnifica....solo i Genesis ti facevano volare così
È vero. Sono straordinari e poi tutti capaci di suoni incredibili e meravigliosi.
Concordo... qualità inarrivabile
Though your ship be sturdy, no mercy has the sea, when you survive on the ocean of being.
Essa música é simplesmente fantástica, baseada na história Rescue Party de Arthur C. Clarke. Impressionante como a música traduz exatamente o sentimento de um extraterrestre que visita um planeta deserto que o próprio homem destruiu. A interpretação de Peter Gabriel como vocalista é maravilhosa, bem como todos os integrantes da banda. Melhor banda de rock progressivo de todos os tempos! 💙💙💙
Concordo amiga...Um saludo de Italia....Amo Brasil, seu Povo, sua musica.....Ate' mais....Ciao
😮😮😮😮😮
😍🥰🤩😇
I smoked so much ty stick hash and skunk too this good times no regrets 65 years old
AMAZING SONG! Here are the LYRICS for those inspired to SING ALONG.
Watcher of the skies watcher of all
His is a world alone no world is his own
He whom life can no longer surprise
Raising his eyes beholds a planet unknown
Creatures shaped this planet's soil
Now their reign has come to an end
Has life again destroyed life
Do they play elsewhere, do they know
More than their childhood games?
Maybe the lizard's shed its tail
This is the end of man's long union with Earth
Judge not this race by empty remains
Do you judge God by his creatures when they are dead?
For now, the lizard's shed its tail
This is the end of man's long union with Earth
From life alone to life as one
Think not now your journey's done
For though your ship be sturdy, no
Mercy has the sea
Will you survive on the ocean of being?
Come ancient children hear what I say
This is my parting counsel for you on your way
Sadly now your thoughts turn to the stars
Where we have gone you know you never can go
Watcher of the skies watcher of all
This is your fate alone, this fate is your own
Thanks for the lyrics...
You ROCK!
I found out this song was partly inspired by Marvel Comics.
Nobody yet has talked about the tremendous playing of Mike Rutherford, an under-rated bass and guitar player.
Met him Bahrain in F 1 week 2017 , in Boots , getting drops for his ears haha. Great guy
I was wearing a Hackett polo shirt haha
@@klnine I guess he wasn't wearing Peter Gabriel's t-shirt?
Just saw Steve Hackett last night played the whole foxtrot album live in Camden New Jersey unbelievable all I can say is go see it Steve still got it my friends
Just a Great Opening Song to a Album!!!
Js Bach !!
The first song that blew my mind...
Genesis FOREVER ♥️👍
Unici,irripetibili,magnifici,irraggiungibili.....❤❤GENESIS!
This was the first album that I bought with my own money after leaving school and starting work. 1972 I think. One of my new work mates invited me round after work and he played it. I had never heard anything like it before. I just had to buy a copy the very next weekend. Bought it again on cd in the 80’s. I love to hear it, takes me back to happier days, before I ruined my life by getting married. Haha.
This has become one of my favorite Genesis tracks. One of many.
Love this song!
Great keyboards and everything else.😊
Awesome
excelente grupo que dejo historia a hasta nuestros dias y el futuro del rock
Ooooh absolutely wonderful thanku so much love an God bless x
El primer album que compre de Genesis fue Foxtrot, en el 2006, han pasado 15 años de eso, ahora yo tengo 34. Descubrir la extraña portada el arte, las letras, que increible primera cancion para comenzar un album. Le tengo mucho cariño a este album. Gracias Genesis mi banda de Rock prog favorita. Saludos desde Leon,Gto, Mexico 🇲🇽
The Annunaki are the watchers.
This music is absolutely astounding. Rich melodic speech, harmonies breathtaking orchestration constantly renewed in the use of the stamps of the instruments, in short a Babylonian sound architecture erected by humbles and impetuous interpretes-composers🌺🕊
Spine tingling. Best piece on that great album
Kindly disagree
Supper's Ready is #1
#2 Can-Utility..
This is #3 which tells you a whole lot about how good the album is.
Angel of Peace and love.