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Wind & Wuthering is the eighth studio album by British rock band Genesis, originally released in December 1976.[1]

Tony Banks has said Wind & Wuthering is one of his two favourite Genesis albums.[7] Steve Hackett has also stated that he is "very fond" of this album.[7]

Titles

The album's title derives from two pieces: The "Wind" comes from "The House of the Four Winds" (a Chinese restaurant in Manhattan), the title given by Hackett to a piece that later became the quiet bridge for "Eleventh Earl of Mar"; the "Wuthering" alludes to the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The titles of tracks 7 and 8 are derived from the novel's closing sentence: "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."

"Eleventh Earl of Mar" refers to the historical figure of John Erskine, 11th Earl of Mar by one reckoning. The first line of the song ('The sun had been up for a couple of hours, covered the ground with a layer of gold') is the first line of the novel The Flight of the Heron by D. K. Broster.

"Afterglow" was composed by Tony Banks, who described it as a spontaneous piece that was written in about the same amount of time as it takes to play it and somewhat resembles "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"; it became a staple on Genesis tours for over 10 years, from the 1977 Wind & Wuthering Tour until the 1986/7 Invisible Touch Tour.[8] It was played as part of the 2007 Turn It On Again: The Tour, as part of a medley that also included "In The Cage", "The Cinema Show", and "Duke's Travels."[9] A Moog Taurus bass pedal is used to create a drone effect on which much of the song is structured.[citation needed]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Eleventh Earl of Mar"Mike RutherfordTony Banks, Steve Hackett, Rutherford7:41
2."One for the Vine"BanksBanks10:00
3."Your Own Special Way"RutherfordRutherford6:15
4."Wot Gorilla?"(Instrumental)Banks, Phil Collins3:12
Side two
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."All in a Mouse's Night"BanksBanks6:35
2."Blood on the Rooftops"HackettCollins, Hackett5:20
3."Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers…"(Instrumental)Hackett, Rutherford2:23
4."…In That Quiet Earth"(Instrumental)Banks, Collins, Hackett, Rutherford4:50
5."Afterglow"BanksBanks4:10

Note that original North American Atco Records pressings of the album banded "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..." and "... In That Quiet Earth" together as a single track. The running time for the combined track on these pressings is listed as 7:13 (i.e., 2:23 plus 4:50).

2007 SACD/CD/DVD Release

A new version of Wind & Wuthering was released in the U.K. and Japan on 2 April 2007. It was released in the US and Canada as part of the Genesis 1976-1982 box set on 15 May 2007. This includes the entire album in remixed stereo, the entire album in surround sound, and related video tracks.

  • Disc 1, in the European and Japanese releases, is a hybrid SACD/CD. The stereo layer includes the remixed tracks, and the SACD layer is a multichannel surround sound remix.[10]
  • Disc 1, in the Canadian and U.S. releases, is a standard CD, containing the stereo remixes. No SACD layer is included.[11]
  • Disc 2 also includes the following video tracks:
  1. Band interview about this album (2006).
  2. Genesis on The Mike Douglas Show (U.S. television), 1977 (sourced from bootleg video). Songs include "Your Own Special Way" and "Afterglow".
  3. Japanese television appearance, 1977 (sourced from bootleg video). Songs include "Eleventh Earl of Mar", "One For the Vine", and "Your Own Special Way".
  4. World Tour Program, from 1977 tour (13 page gallery).

Chart performance

Wind & Wuthering reached number 7 in the UK where it remained on the charts for 22 weeks, and No.26 in the US. In the US, "Your Own Special Way" became the band's first charting single with Collins as lead vocalist, at #62, and gained FM airplay.

Personnel

Production

  • Produced By David Hentschel & Genesis
  • Recorded & Engineered By David Hentschel
  • Assistant Engineers: Pierre Geoffroy Chateau, Nick Bradford

Tour

Genesis toured in support of Wind & Wuthering between January and July 1977. This tour marked the debut of Chester Thompson as their touring drummer and final tour with guitarist Steve Hackett. The tour was documented on the Seconds Out album.

Setlist

  1. "Squonk"
  2. "One For the Vine"
  3. "Robbery, Assault and Battery"
  4. "Your Own Special Way" (performed on UK shows in January, 1977 and the whole of the North American leg in February and March, 1977)
  5. "Lilywhite Lilith"/"The Waiting Room"/"Wot Gorilla" (performed at London's Rainbow Theatre show on 1 January 1977)
  6. "All In a Mouse's Night" (performed on UK shows in January, 1977)
  7. "Inside and Out" (performed on South American and second European legs replacing "Your Own Special Way")
  8. "Firth of Fifth"
  9. "The Carpet Crawlers"
  10. "...In That Quiet Earth'"
  11. "Afterglow"
  12. "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)"
  13. "Eleventh Earl of Mar"
  14. "Supper's Ready"
  15. "Dance On a Volcano"
  16. "Drum Duet" (replacing the instrumental coda of "Dance On a Volcano")
  17. "Los Endos"

Encore:

  1. "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"
  2. "The Musical Box" (closing section)
  3. " The Knife (Earl's court)

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b c Gallo, Armando (1980). I Know What I Like. Los Angeles: D.I.Y Books. p. 161. ISBN 0-283-98703-0.
  2. ^ Wind & Wuthering at AllMusic
  3. ^ "Wind And Wuthering by Genesis on MSN Music". Music.msn.com. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
  4. ^ Andy Fyfe Q, May 2007, Issue 250.
  5. ^ Marsh, Dave (24 February 1977). "Genesis: Wind & Wuthering : Music Reviews". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 1 December 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ Nathan Brackett; Christian David Hoard (2004). The new Rolling Stone album guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 327–328. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8.
  7. ^ a b Reissue Interviews 2007, on the Wind and Wuthering 2007 SACD/CD/DVD Release
  8. ^ [1]
  9. ^ genesis-movement.org
  10. ^ Formats described at http://www.genesis-news.com/genesis/reviews/sacds/1976-1982.htm
  11. ^ a b Explained in interview with producer and remixer Nick Davis, at http://www.genesis-news.com/genesis/reviews/sacds/interview-with-nick-davis.htm
  12. ^ The DVD interface has two audio choices: Dolby 5.1 and DTS 5.1. If the Dolby 5.1 option is chosen on a system that does not support surround sound, the Dolby stereo mix is played.
  13. ^ Comparison from Sound and Vision magazine article online at http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/musicreviews/2285/genesis-in-surround.html
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