Invisible Touch
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| Studio album by Genesis | ||
| Released | June 9, 1986 | |
| Recorded | October 1985 – March 1986 | |
| Genre | Pop rock | |
| Length | 45:42 | |
| Label | Atlantic Records | |
| Producer(s) | Genesis, Hugh Padgham | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Genesis chronology | ||
| Genesis (1983) |
Invisible Touch (1986) |
We Can't Dance (1991) |
Invisible Touch is an album by Genesis, released in 1986. As their most commercially successful pop album, it got generally favorable reviews from critics and achieved five US Top 5 singles, including the title track which reached the pole position.
The album was structured to appeal to both newer and older Genesis fans, with radio-friendly pop singles like "Land of Confusion" and the title track for pop fans, and longer tracks like "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" and "Domino" aimed more towards fans of the band's progressive rock style of the 1970s. The idiosyncratic instrumental "The Brazilian" showed the band had not lost its willingness to experiment.
The lyrics on this album are among Genesis' rare attempts at social and political commentary, with "Domino" evoking nightmarish nuclear war scenarios and "Land of Confusion" commenting satirically on the political turmoil of the Reagan/Thatcher/Gorbachev era. A widely acclaimed video for "Land of Confusion", featuring the Spitting Image puppets, won Genesis the MTV Video of the Year award.
Catching Genesis at their commercial peak, Invisible Touch was an instant UK #1, while it reached #3 in the US and went six times platinum there.
A SACD / DVD double disc set (including new 5.1 and Stereo mixes) is planned for release in June/July 2007.
[edit] Track listing
All songs by Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford.
- "Invisible Touch" (lyrics: Phil Collins) - 3:27
- "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" (lyrics: Phil Collins) - 8:50
- "Land Of Confusion" (lyrics: Mike Rutherford) - 4:45
- "In Too Deep" (lyrics: Phil Collins) - 4:58
- "Anything She Does" (lyrics: Tony Banks) - 4:07
- "Domino" - 10:42
- Part One - In The Glow Of The Night (lyrics: Tony Banks)
- Part Two - The Last Domino (lyrics: Tony Banks)
- "Throwing It All Away" (lyrics: Mike Rutherford) - 3:49
- "The Brazilian" (instrumental) - 4:49
[edit] Personnel
- Phil Collins - drums, percussion, vocals
- Tony Banks - keyboards
- Mike Rutherford - guitars, bass guitar
| Genesis |
| Tony Banks | Phil Collins | Mike Rutherford |
| Peter Gabriel | Steve Hackett | Anthony Phillips | John Mayhew | John Silver | Chris Stewart | Bill Bruford | Daryl Stuermer | Chester Thompson | Ray Wilson |
| Discography |
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| Studio albums: From Genesis to Revelation | Trespass | Nursery Cryme | Foxtrot | Selling England by the Pound | The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway | A Trick of the Tail | Wind & Wuthering | ...And Then There Were Three... | Duke | Abacab | Genesis | Invisible Touch | We Can't Dance | Calling All Stations |
| Live Albums: Genesis Live | Seconds Out | Three Sides Live | Live/The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts | Live/The Way We Walk, Volume Two: The Longs |
| Compilations: Turn It On Again: The Hits | Platinum Collection |
| Box sets: Genesis Archive 1967-75 | Genesis Archive 2: 1976-1992 | Genesis 1976 -1982 |
| EPs: Spot the Pigeon | 3 X 3 |
