Molti album dei Genesis (specie i primi) si collocano ai primi posti tra le infinite produzioni prog della storia, non solo inglese, ma mondiale. È un gruppo, quello capitanato prima da Peter Gabriel, poi dal batterista improvvisatosi cantante Phil Collins, che merita di essere ricordato negli anni a venire, per sempre. Il progressivo abbandono di alcuni membri della band (Gabriel, appunto, e Steve Hackett) non ha certo giovato, anche se ha permesso di trovare soluzioni e sperimentazioni nuove.

Invisible Touch rappresenta il punto di approdo ad un restyling musicale per i Genesis, che, dopo un percorso esclusivamente prog, si cimentano nella produzione di brani decisamente più pop. Ed ecco arrivare uno strepitoso successo commerciale, dacché le loro canzoni vengono assorbite da spot pubblicitari e fatte conoscere al mondo intero. È un album che combacia con lo spirito degli anni '80, pregno di sonorità elettroniche, ma con un'impronta prog che il gruppo di Collins mantiene pressoché intatta. Progressive nell'animo i Genesis, ma aperti alle tendenze dei tempi e alle mode effimere. Tra i brani più importanti vanno segnalati Land of Confusion e Tonight, Tonight, Tonight.

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01   Invisible Touch (03:29)

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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 her

She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah
She reaches in and grabs right hold of your heart
She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah
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
And it's something mysterious
And now it seems I'm falling, falling for her

She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah
She reaches in and grabs right hold of your heart
She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah
It takes control and slowly tears you apart

She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah
She reaches in and grabs right hold of your heart
She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah
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'll want her just the same
And now I know
She has a 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, yeah
She reaches in and grabs right hold of your heart
She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah
It takes control and slowly tears you apart
She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah
She seems to have an invisible touch, oh
She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah
She seems to have an invisible touch, oh
She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah
She seems to have an invisible touch, oh
She seems to have an invisible touch, yeah
She seems to have an invisible touch

02   Tonight, Tonight, Tonight (08:53)

I'm coming down, coming down like a monkey, but it's alright
Like a load on your back that you can't see, ooh but it's alright
Try to shake it loose, cut it free, just let it go, get it away from me.

Cos tonight, tonight, tonight - oh, I'm gonna make it right
Tonight, tonight, tonight - oh.

I'm going down, going down, like a monkey, ooh but it's alright
Try to pick yourself up, carry that weight that you can't see,
Don't you know it's alright
It's like a helter skelter, going down and down, round and round
But just get it away from me - oh.

Because tonight, tonight, tonight - oh
We're gonna make it right
Tonight, tonight, tonight - oh.

I got some money in my pocket, about ready to burn
I don't remember where I got it, I gotta get it to you
So please answer the phone, cos I keep calling, but you're never home
What am I gonna do
Tonight, tonight, tonight - oh
I'm gonna make it right
Tonight, tonight, tonight - oh.

You keep telling me I've got everything, you say I've got everything I want
You keep telling me you're gonna help me, you're gonna help me, but you don't
But now I'm in too deep
You see it's got me so that I just can't sleep
Oh get me out of here, please get me out of here
Just help me I'll do anything, anything
If you'll just help me get out of here.

I'm coming down, coming down like a monkey, ooh but it's alright
It's like a load on your back that you can't see,
Ooh don't you know that it's alright
Just try to shake it loose, cut it free, let it go
But just get it away from me
Cos tonight, tonight, tonight - oh
Maybe we'll make it right
Tonight, tonight, tonight - oh.

Please get me out of here
Someone get me out of here
Just help me I'll do anything, anything
If you'll just help get me out of here
Tonight - oh, I'm gonna make it right
Tonight, tonight, tonight - oh.

Yes tonight, tonight, tonight - oh,
Yes I'm gonna make it right, tonight, tonight, tonight - oh...

03   Land of Confusion (04:46)

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I must've dreamed a thousand dreams,
Been haunted by a million screams.
But I can hear the marching feet,
They're moving into the street.

Now did you read the news today?
They say the danger's gone away.
But I can see the fire's still alight,
Burning into the night.

There's too many men, too many people,
Making too many problems,
And not much love to go round,
Can't you see this is the land of confusion.

This is the world we live in,
And these are the hands we're given.
Use them and let's start trying,
To make it a place worth living in.

Oh Superman where are you now?
Everything's gone wrong somehow.
The men of steel, men of power,
Are losing, control by the hour.

This is the time, this is the place,
So we look for the future,
But there's not much love to go round.
Tell me why this is the land of confusion?

This is the world we live in,
And these are the hands we're given.
Use them and let's start trying,
To make it a place worth living in.

I remember long ago,
Oh when the sun was shining,
And the stars were bright, all through the night,
And the sound of your laughter, as I held you tight.
So long ago.

I won't be coming home tonight,
My generation, will put it right.
We're not just making promises,
That we know, we'll never keep

There's too many men, there's too many people,
Making too many problems,
And not much love to go round.
Can't you see this is the land of confusion?

This is the world we live in,
And these are the hands we're given.
Use them and let's start trying,
To make it a place worth fighting for.

This is the world we live in,
And these are the names we're given.
Stand up and let's start showing,
Just where our lives are going to.

04   In Too Deep (04:59)

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All the time I was searching
Nowhere to run to
It started me thinking
Wondering what I could make of my life
And who'd be waiting
Asking all kinds of questions to myself
But never finding the answers
Crying at the top of my lungs
But no-one listening

All this time
I still remember everything you said
There's so much you promised
How could I ever forget

Listen
You know I love you but I just can't take this
You know I love you but I'm playing for keeps
Although I need you I'm not gonna make this
You know I want to but I'm in too deep

So listen, listen to me
Oh you must believe me
I can feel your eyes go thru me
But I don't know why

Oh I know you're going
But I can't believe
It's the way that you're leaving
It's like we never knew each other at all
It may be my fault
I gave you too many reasons for being alone
When I didn't want to
I thought you'd always be there
I almost believed you

All this time
I still remember everything you said
There's so much you promised
How could I ever forget

Listen
You know I love you...

So listen, listen to me
I can feel your eyes go thru me

It seems I've spent too long
Only thinking about myself
Now I want to spend my life
Just caring bout somebody else

Listen
You know I love you...

05   Anything She Does (04:09)

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You know
You decorate the garage wall
Hang in people's halls
Live in secret drawers
If you could look around you
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 know her
Do you think this aching could be love?

You know
You've figured in some fantasies
You would not believe
What you've had to do
Life goes on around you
All because of you

I won't ever no I'll never...

You know
That in twenty years or more
You still look the same
As you do today
You'll still be a young girl
When I'm old and grey

I won't ever no I'll never...

06   Domino: Part One: In the Glow of the Night - Part Two: The Last Domino (10:45)

07   Throwing It All Away (03:51)

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Need I say I love you?
Need I say I care?
Need I say that emotions,
Are something we don't share?
I don't want to be sitting here,
Trying to deceive you
Cuz you know I know baby
That I don't wanna go

We can not live together
We can not live apart
And that's the situation
We've known it from the start
Every time that I look at you,
I can see the future
Cuz you know I know baby
That I don't wanna go

Just throwing it all away
Throwing it all away
Is there nothing that I can say,
To make you change your mind?
I watch the world go round & round
And see mine turnin' upside down

Throwing it all away

Now who will light up your darkness?
And who will hold your hand?
Who will find you the answers,
When you don't understand?
Why should I have to be the one,
Who has to convince you?
Cuz you know I know baby,
That I don't wanna go

Then some day you'll be sorry
Some day when you're free
Memories will remind you,
That our love was meant to be
But late at night when you call my name,
The only sound you'll hear
Is the sound of your voice calling,
Calling out to me

Just throwing it all away
Throwing it all away
And there's nothing that I can say
Hey......

We're throwing it all away

Just a throwing it all away

Just a throwing it all away

08   The Brazilian (04:48)

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(Instrumental)


  • perfect element
    25 ott 17
    Recensione: Opera:
    Personalmente, il periodo Collins è quello che preferisco, anche se il disco in questione, a parte i brani citati in conclusione e poco altro è deboluccio.
  • Lao Tze
    25 ott 17
    Recensione: Opera:
    il disco è quello che è, la recensione dice nulla o quasi, l'impronta prog è pressoché assente.
    L'unica impronta degna di nota è quella della manona di copertina.
  • hjhhjij
    25 ott 17
    Recensione: Opera:
    Stendo un enorme velo pietoso su tutto.
    • mrbluesky
      25 ott 17
      MI sarei giocato la casa che ti beccavo qui
    • Kotatsu
      25 ott 17
      Non so perché ma anche io avevo come un presentimento...
    • hjhhjij
      25 ott 17
      Ahahahah
  • mrbluesky
    25 ott 17
    Recensione: Opera:
    Dischetto pop da metà classifica.Il fatto è che la loro avventura poteva considerarsi conclusa con Duke,da Abacab in poi avrebbero dovuto quantomeno cambiare nome
  • voiceface
    25 ott 17
    Recensione: Opera:
    Perché scrivere una didascalia di un disco già recensito 4 volte?
    • hjhhjij
      25 ott 17
      E la cui esistenza sarebbe da dimenticare, una volta per tutte ?
  • zappp
    25 ott 17
    Recensione: Opera:
    disco che se lo avesse fatto un poppettaro di professione sarebbe stato anche "notevole", ma non i Genesis...
    • hjhhjij
      25 ott 17
      Un poppettaro mediocre alla Boy George magari si. Ma un poppettaro di professione più dignitoso 'na roba come "Into Deep" se la sognerebbe di notte... Come incubo
  • woodstock
    25 ott 17
    Recensione: Opera:
    mandane a bomba
  • PanamaRed
    30 ott 17
    Recensione: Opera:
    "il periodo Collins è quello che preferisco" è una frase da brivido
    • Lao Tze
      31 ott 17
      'periodo Collins' può anche voler dire A Trick of a Tail o Wind & Wuthering, non necessariamente quest'obbrobrio.
  • GinoRamone
    17 dic 17
    Recensione: Opera:
    Via Gabriel ed Hackett finiti i Genesis. Sarebbe stato più onesto cambiare nome ed evitare di sporcarlo con queste porcherie poppettare

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Altre recensioni

Di  London

 Invisible Touch si erge come un monumento granitico al peggior sound degli ottanta.

 Consigliato a chi ha soldi da buttare o ottimisti radicali che ripongono nei Genesis una fiducia ai limiti dell'impossibile.


Di  Hetzer

 Il peggior disco dei Genesis ha ben poco di salvabile.

 Se non si trattasse di Genesis, il disco non sarebbe forse, dico forse, poi così male.


Di  alberto88

 Invisible Touch è il paradigma di un disco divertente e gradevole senza pretese, ma mediocre artisticamente.

 In confronto Invisible Touch dei terribili anni 80 brilla come oro.


Di  paolo1968

 l’avido Phil Collins, preoccupato per le spese per il suo dodicesimo divorzio e per la fornitura annuale di Minoxidil...

 gli ignari Tony e Mike... piombarono in un sonno profondo per un buon mese... Phil, coadiuvato dal fido produttore Hugh, si mise all’opera, componendo e suonando da solo l’intero album.

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Fatboy Slim

You've Come a Long Way, Baby

Successiva
The Clash

Should I Stay or Should I Go?