Just downloaded all of the podcasts - hoo boy, you people don't screw around, do ya?

1) You're right, which makes the time difference between Melt and Invisible Touch even greater.
2) Correct.
3) Citation needed indeed. The first side is a gem, the second starts well and ends thin. Then again, I still listen the hell out of Duke, so what do I know?

I will, thanks!

He still is. When I saw Hackett a few years ago playing Genesis stuff, I had to re-listen to a lot of original tracks, since so many of the parts I thought were from Banks were actually Hackett.

His first four are called Peter Gabriel. A word to describe the cover is used to differentiate between them, so we get "Car", "Scratch", and "Melt". "Security" was due to a sticker on that album's shrink wrap. The one after that was So, and he switched to two-letter album names for new releases with no other…

This was Collins' final album on drums for Gabriel, and it was released in 1982. Invisible Touch was 1986. Like albums from Abacab and up, about half of it is listenable.

Gabriel's solo albums got better with each one. "Games Without Frontiers" is such a simple song that it holds up today. Yes, it is cool.

I think Collins wasn't working on Gabriel albums at that time. I like to think that Gabriel showed Collins how to do inventive stuff, and Collins went for a cash grab.

Phil Collins gave us gated drumming, and Eddie Van Halen says he learned about tapping from Steve Hackett. When can we just admit that mid-'70s to early '80s Genesis is more influential that we realize?

Peter Gabriel's third album. It has a melting face on the cover; "Games Without Frontiers" and "Biko" are among its tracks. Back then, Gabriel didn't want to name the albums, thinking they were closer to issues of a magazine rather than individual albums.

Dear President (gag) Trump:

In high school history we had a student teacher who mistook Nazi-controlled France for Vichy and had Free France running the south. I had to stand up and correct her because I was (and still am) the little history nerd.

I'll allow it.

97% in Atlanta. We got a banana, then macaroni in cheese, then a lemon peel, then back to mac & cheese…

Played "Eclipse" on my Anker and iPod while my company went to the street to watch.

I've asked before - does Trump get to choose his own personal physician for his annual checkup? Could he be forced to go to Bethesda, the spot where presidents usually get their checkups, but then order the results to be sealed? The guy must have a canned ham for a heart with all of the junk food and soda he slurps…

Someone elsewhere suggested "Cannin' Bannon". Alliteration is still effective.

Semtex works better, I hear.

Big minor chess pieces - PAWN-uments!

Remember the Republican move to have something named after Reagan in every county of the country (thanks, Grover Norquist)? Same deal.