It's Gonna Get Better (track)
by Genesis
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Squonk007 08/09/2021 13:23 | #272378
My favourite on Side 2. I like the mood and atmosphere created by the instrumentation on the intro to the song.
With lines like "Reach out, hands in the air, don't care," you can tell that this is a pop song through and through, and unsurprisingly the rest of the lyrics are fairly sappy too. But it's a solid pop song overall. Rutherford's groovy bass work on this one really shines, as it does wonders in moving along the melody in combination with Collins' drumming. You could argue that there's a hint of prog on this one with that backward sample of an old cello suite that opens and closes the song, made to sound like Banks' synthesizers. It's far from their strongest album closer, but a good enough way to end the record (certainly better than Abacab's album closer, Another Record).
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