Way Of The World (track)
by Genesis
Year: 1991
From the album We Can't Dance (track #10)
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Way Of The World appears on the following album(s) by Genesis:
- We Can't Dance (track #10) (this album) (1991)
- 1983-1998 (track #27) (compilation) (2007)
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Squonk007 06/01/2021 13:22 | #270233
Good bass work, another catchy one. There's nothing too complex here but a decent enough track.
Yet another cynical song, attacking the viewpoint that all the trouble and strife is "just the way of the world" and we have all the time necessary to clean it up. Rutherford shines on this one with some of the album's best bass work, and the rest of the melody is fairly clean too. It gets a little too close to "75-easy-listening" territory at some points, namely in the chorus, but there are some nice moments in here, such as Rutherford's aforementioned bass work as well as Banks' short but effective keyboard solo in the bridge. A fine song and not much else.
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