Invisible Touch was a 1986 album by Genesis, one of their most commercially successful pop albums. The album itself got generally favorable reviews from critics and had two number one hit singles and a widely acclaimed video for "Land of Confusion", featuring the Spitting Image puppets, for which Genesis won the MTV Video of the Year award.
The band structured the album to appeal to both newer and older Genesis fans, with radio-friendly pop singles like "Land of Confusion" and the title track appealing to pop fans, and longer tracks like "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" and "Domino" aimed more towards fans of the band's prog style of the 1970s. The strange instrumental "The Brazilian" showed the band had not lost its willingness to experiment. The lyrics on this album are among Genesis' rare attempts at social and political commentary, with "Domino" evoking nightmarish nuclear war scenarios and "Land of Confusion" commenting satirically on the political turmoil of the Reagan/Thatcher/Gorbachev era.
Track listing
all songs by Tony Banks, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford
- "Invisible Touch" (Banks, Collins, Rutherford) - 3:26
- "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" (Banks, Collins, Rutherford) - 8:50
- "Land of Confusion" (Banks, Collins, Rutherford) - 4:44
- "In Too Deep" (Banks, Collins, Rutherford) - 4:57
- "Anything She Does" (Banks, Collins, Rutherford) - 4:06
- "Domino" (Banks, Collins, Rutherford) - 10:41
- Pt. 1 - In the Glow of the Night
- Pt. 2 - The Last Domino
- "Throwing It All Away" (Banks, Collins, Rutherford) - 3:48
- "The Brazilian" (Banks, Collins, Rutherford) - 4:49
"Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" was initially two independent tracks, "Monkey" and "Zulu". Most of "Monkey" made it to the song, and most of "Zulu" became "The Brazilian". "In Too Deep" was featured in Neil Jordan's film Mona Lisa. Many clips from the album were also featured in the movie American Psycho.
Personnel
Production
- Producers: Genesis, Hugh Padgham
- Engineer: Hugh Padgham
Charts
Album
| Year
| Chart
| Position
|
| 1986
| The Billboard 200
| 3
|
Singles
| Year
| Single
| Chart
| Position
|
| 1986
| "Domino"
| Mainstream Rock Tracks
| 29
|
| 1986
| "In Too Deep"
| Mainstream Rock Tracks
| 25
|
| 1986
| "Invisible Touch"
| Adult Contemporary
| 3
|
| 1986
| "Invisible Touch"
| Mainstream Rock Tracks
| 1
|
| 1986
| "Invisible Touch"
| The Billboard Hot 100
| 1
|
| 1986
| "Land of Confusion"
| Mainstream Rock Tracks
| 11
|
| 1986
| "Land of Confusion"
| The Billboard Hot 100
| 4
|
| 1986
| "Throwing It All Away"
| Adult Contemporary
| 1
|
| 1986
| "Throwing It All Away"
| Mainstream Rock Tracks
| 1
|
| 1986
| "Throwing It All Away"
| The Billboard Hot 100
| 4
|
| 1987
| "In Too Deep"
| Adult Contemporary
| 1
|
| 1987
| "In Too Deep"
| The Billboard Hot 100
| 3
|
| 1987
| "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"
| Adult Contemporary
| 8
|
| 1987
| "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"
| Mainstream Rock Tracks
| 9
|
| 1987
| "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"
| The Billboard Hot 100
| 3
|
Invisible Touch album made it to #1 on the United Kingdom charts and #3 on the US charts. The single "Invisible Touch" made it to #1 in the US and #15 in the UK. "In Too Deep" and "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" made it to #3 in the US, the latter helped by its repeated appearance in Budweiser beer commercials.
