Artist: GENESIS
Album: WIND & WUTHERING REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1977/ 2008
Media type: CD

Wind & Wuthering is a studio album by British progressive rock band Genesis, originally released in January 1977.

Wind & Wuthering was the second Genesis studio album featuring Phil Collins as lead vocalist. It was released within a year of A Trick of the Tail. It was also the last full studio album to include guitarist Steve Hackett. The album has a much more sombre atmosphere than the previous one, particularly in its second half.

Tony Banks has said Wind & Wuthering is one of his two favourite Genesis albums. Steve Hackett has also stated that he is "very fond" of this album.

Wind & Wuthering reached number 7 in the UK and #26 in the US. In the US, "Your Own Special Way" gained FM airplay.

The album's title derives from two pieces: The "Wind" comes from "The House of the Four Winds", the title given by Hackett to a piece that later became the quiet bridge for "Eleventh Earl of Mar"; the "Wuthering" alludes to the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontл. The titles of tracks 7 and 8 are derived from the novel's closing sentence: "I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."

"Eleventh Earl of Mar" refers to the historical figure of John Erskine, 11th Earl of Mar by one reckoning.

TRACKLIST :

"Eleventh Earl of Mar" (Tony Banks/Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford) – 7:41
"One for the Vine" (Tony Banks) – 10:00
"Your Own Special Way" (Mike Rutherford) – 6:19
"Wot Gorilla/Inside And Out (Phil Collins/Tony Banks/Steve Hacket/Mike Rutherford) – 9:38
"Spectral Mornings (Steve Hacket/Tony Banks) – 6:37

"All in a Mouse's Night" (Tony Banks) – 6:37
"Blood on the Rooftops" (Steve Hackett/Phil Collins) – 5:27
"'Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..." (Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford) – 2:23
"...In That Quiet Earth'" (Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford/Tony Banks/Phil Collins) – 4:50
"Afterglow" (Tony Banks) – 4:12

LINE-UP :

Phil Collins – drums, percussion, vocals
Steve Hackett – guitars, kalimba, autoharp
Tony Banks – keyboards
Mike Rutherford – basses, guitars, bass pedals