Nursery Cryme
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Publication |
November 12, 1971 |
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admission |
August 1971 |
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| Label (s) | "The famous Charisma label" | |||
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Format (s) |
LP, CD, DVD, Hybrid-SACD |
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Title (number) |
7th |
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running time |
39:28 |
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John Anthony |
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Studio (s) |
Trident Studios, London (England) |
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Nursery Cryme (English for 'child house crime') is the third studio album by the British rock band Genesis . It was published in November 1971 ( Charisma CAS 1052). It is the first album in Genesis’s first regular line-up with Peter Gabriel , Steve Hackett , Tony Banks , Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins .
background
The title is a play on words from Nursery Rhyme ( nursery rhyme or children's song ) and Crime ( Crime ) and refers to the story of the song The Musical Box , in the text of the first verse of the popular English nursery rhyme "Old King Cole" is included. In the song of Genesis, a girl with a croquet bat catapults eight-year-old Henry's head into the “musical box” . Harold the Barrel , a sarcastic song about the attempts to dissuade a suicide from his plan to which he was driven in the first place, establishes a tradition of the band of writing subversive songs with socially critical content with black humor .
Nursery Cryme is considered to be the first highlight of the progressive rock phase of Genesis. With The Musical Box and The Fountain of Salmacis , two tracks are included on the album, which are among the band's most popular songs among fans and which are musically most similar to the follow-up albums . On the other hand, the album still partly reverts to previous albums, such as the Trespass ballad Seven Stones .
The Musical Box was the only track on the album to establish itself regularly in the set lists of the Genesis world tours . A live version of the complete piece is next to the also on Nursery Cryme included The Return Of The Giant Hogweed on the 1973 released album Genesis Live to hear. Since the Wind & Wuthering Tour in 1977 , the group has only used the final section of The Musical Box in a medley . The title was last performed live on the We Can't Dance Tour in 1992 . A recording on the album The Way We Walk as CD and DVD released.
Steve Hackett was one of the first guitarists to use the playing technique of tapping in The Musical Box and The Return of the Giant Hogweed , the establishment of which is commonly attributed to Eddie Van Halen and Yngwie Malmsteen .
Track list
All tracks written, arranged and played by Genesis.
- The Musical Box - 10:27
- For Absent Friends - 1:48
- The Return of the Giant Hogweed - 8:12 am
- Seven Stones - 5:09
- Harold the Barrel - 3:01
- Harlequin - 2:55
- The Fountain of Salmacis - 7:56
occupation
- Tony Banks - organ , mellotron , piano , electric piano, 12-string guitar , vocals
- Michael Rutherford - electric bass , bass pedal , 12-string guitar, vocals
- Peter Gabriel - main vocals , flute , bass drum , tambourine
- Steve Hackett - electric guitar , 12-string guitar
- Phil Collins - drums , vocals, percussion
production
- Produced by John Anthony
- Recorded by David Hentschel's
assistant - Mike Stone - Album design - Paul Whitehead. Inspired by "The Musical Box"
Charts
Album: (GB # 39)
Web links
- Nursery Cryme at Discogs (English)
- Reviews of Nursery Cryme on the baby blue pages
Individual evidence
- ^ Siegfried Schmidt-Joos , Barry Graves : Rock-Lexikon. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1973, 2nd edition 1975, reprint 1978, ISBN 3-499-16177-X , p. 152 f.
- ↑ http://foxtrot.de/GGfSetlists/sl_genesis_wind.htm , accessed on November 3, 2015.
- ↑ satt.org: In conversation with Steve Hackett. Retrieved February 20, 2016 .