Line #55 Music/WindAndWuthering


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/windandwuthering.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"Like the dust that settles all around me, I must find a new home."'']]
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4	->''"Masters of the wonders... weavers of fables... spinners of myths and mysteries... the storytellers of music. Genesis."\
5	"Hear Genesis: Genesis Here."''
6	-->--'''{{Tagline}}s''' from the album's advertising campaign.
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8	''Wind & Wuthering'' is the eighth studio album by Music/{{Genesis\|Band}}, released in 17 December 1976 by Creator/CharismaRecords in the United Kingdom and Creator/AtcoRecords in the United States. It was the final album to feature guitarist Music/SteveHackett, whose departure led to the next album being called ''Music/AndThenThereWereThree''. It was also the first time that the band recorded out of their native UK, since the success of the ''Music/ATrickOfTheTail'' tour had them relocate to the Netherlands.
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11	!! Tracklist:
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13	[[AC:Side One]]
14	# "Eleventh Earl of Mar" (7:45)
15	# "One for the Vine" (10:00)
16	# "Your Own Special Way" (6:19)
17	# "Wot Gorilla?" (3:21)
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19	[[AC:Side Two]]
20	# "All in a Mouse's Night" (6:39)
21	# "Blood on the Rooftops" (5:28)
22	# "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..." (2:20)
23	# "...In That Quiet Earth" (4:54)
24	# "Afterglow" (4:11)
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26	!!Principal Members:
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28	* Music/TonyBanks – keyboards
29	* Music/PhilCollins – vocals, drums percussion
30	* Music/SteveHackett – guitars, kalimba, autoharp
31	* Music/MikeRutherford – guitars, bass guitars
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33	!!Eleventh Earl of Mar couldn't trope them very far:
34	* TheEndingChangesEverything: The final line of "One for the Vine" reframes the entire song in a different light, since before then, it wasn't clear that it was describing [[spoiler:a StableTimeLoop, or that it had any science-fiction elements]].
35	* EpicRocking: "One for the Vine" and the "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..."/"...In That Quiet Earth"/"Afterglow" suite are both at least ten minutes long, while "Eleventh Earl of Mar", "Your Own Special Way", and "All in a Mouse's Night" are above six minutes.
36	* FullCircleRevolution: "One for the Vine" combines this with [[spoiler:a StableTimeLoop: the central character eventually becomes the "chosen one" whose army he ran away from at the start of the song]].
37	* GeneralFailure: The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Erskine,_Earl_of_Mar_(1675%E2%80%931732) Eleventh Earl of Mar]], who led the Jacobite rising of 1715 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sheriffmuir and lingered near Perth long enough for pro-government forces to respond]].
38	-->Out on the road in the direction of Perth,\
39	Backwards and forwards in a circle they went\
40	Found a city half open and ready to greet\
41	The conquering heroes, with blisters on their feet.
42	* GodGuise: In "One for the Vine", [[spoiler:the primitive people that the protagonist encounters mistake him for "[[TheChosenOne God's Chosen One]] who's come to save us from all our oppressors/[[{{Pride}} We shall be kings on this world]]", [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone with predictable results]].]]
43	* GroundhogDayLoop: "One for the Vine".
44	* HeelRealization: At the end of "One for the Vine", [[spoiler:the time-travelling VillainProtagonist appears to have one when he recognises his past self walk off and vanish into the past, though by this point it's much too late to do anything, thanks to the StableTimeLoop nature of the plot.]]
45	* {{Instrumental}}: "Wot Gorilla?", "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers...", and "...In That Quiet Earth"
46	* LiteraryAllusionTitle: "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..." and "...In That Quiet Earth" are named after the last sentence in ''Literature/WutheringHeights''. The "Wuthering" part of the album title was also inspired by the book.
47	* LongestSongGoesLast: If played in a continuous suite, "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..."/"...In That Quiet Earth"/"Afterglow" (11:24).
48	* MeetTheNewBoss: In a way, also present in "One for the Vine", though [[spoiler:thanks to a StableTimeLoop, the same person actually serves as both the new boss and the old boss.]]
49	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone The protagonist of "One for the Vine" had one [[spoiler:when finding out he was both the chosen one and the oppressor]].
50	* NonIndicativeName: Those unfamiliar with the songs in question are unlikely to guess that "One for the Vine" is about [[spoiler:warfare]] or that "Blood on the Rooftops" is about [[spoiler:watching TV]].
51	* RecurringRiff: One of the riffs from "Eleventh Earl of Mar" is reprised in the second half of "...In That Quiet Earth".
52	* ReCut:
53	** While UK 8-track releases preserve the LP running order, a rarity for the format, "One for the Vine", "Wot Gorilla?", and "Blood on the Rooftops" are all split into two parts due to them overlapping with the changeovers between programs.
54	** North American 8-track releases reorder the tracklist to conform to the four-program format. On these releases, the new running order is "Eleventh Earl of Mar", "One for the Vine", "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers...", "...In That Quiet Earth", "Afterglow", "Blood on the Rooftops", "Wot Gorilla?", "Your Own Special Way", and "All in a Mouse's Night". Additionally, "One for the Vine" is split into two parts due to it overlapping with the changeovers between programs 1 and 2.
55	* ShoutOut:
56	** "All in a Mouse's Night" was inspired by ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''. The end of the song, in which the cat is defeated by a ten-foot-tall mouse, similarly stems from the ''Tom and Jerry'' shorts "Jerry and Jumbo" and "Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?"
57	** The song "Blood on the Rooftops" has the line "The grime on the Tyne is mine all mine all mine", referencing [[Music/{{Lindisfarne}} Lindisfarne's]] famous "Fog on the Tyne".
58	* SiameseTwinSongs: "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..." "...In That Quiet Earth", which in turn transitions directly to "Afterglow". North American releases of the album prior to the 1994 Definitive Edition remaster even sequence the former two songs as one track.
59	* StableTimeLoop: The plot of [[spoiler:"One for the Vine", particularly where the protagonist becomes the "Chosen One" that his army was running away from]].
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