Still (Tony Banks album)
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Still is the fourth studio album (and sixth album overall) released by Genesis
Genesis (band)
Genesis are an English rock band that formed in 1967. The band currently comprises the longest-tenured members Tony Banks , Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins . Past members Peter Gabriel , Steve Hackett and Anthony Phillips , also played major roles in the band in its early years...

 keyboardist
Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

 Tony Banks
Tony Banks (musician)
This article is about the musician. For other people named Tony Banks, see Tony BanksAnthony George "Tony" Banks is a British composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist...

 in 1991 on Virgin Records
Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...

 in the UK and Giant Records in the US. The album was originally going to be named after the track "Still It Takes Me By Surprise", but was later shorted to Still. Despite a fairly heavy promotional effort by Giant Records, the album still failed to sell well. However, many fans consider it to be his best solo album.

Track listing

  • All songs written by Tony Banks except where indicated
  1. "Red Day on Blue Street" (Tony Banks & Nik Kershaw
    Nik Kershaw
    Nik Kershaw is an English singer-songwriter. The one time jazz-funk guitarist was a mid-1980s teen idol. His 50 weeks on the UK Singles Chart in 1984 beat all other soloists...

    ) 5:53
  2. "Angel Face" 5:23
  3. "The Gift" 4:00
  4. "Still It Takes Me By Surprise" 6:32
  5. "Hero For an Hour" 5:01
  6. "I Wanna Change the Score" (Tony Banks & Nik Kershaw) 4:34
  7. "Water Out of Wine" 4:43
  8. "Another Murder of a Day" (Tony Banks and Fish
    Fish (singer)
    Derek William Dick, better known as Fish, is a Scottish progressive rock singer, lyricist and occasional actor, best known as the former lead singer of Marillion.-Biography:...

    ) 9:13
  9. "Back to Back" 4:38
  10. "The Final Curtain" 5:01

Singles

  • I Wanna Change The Score (May 1991)
  1. I Wanna Change The Score (with Nik Kershaw)
  2. Hero For The Hour
  3. Big Man (by Bankstatement
    Bankstatement
    Bankstatement is a solo project by Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks, issued under a band name. The other "band" members were singers Alistair Gordon and Jayney Klimek. Banks had the idea for Bankstatement after hearing of the success that Mike + The Mechanics were having in both Europe and America...

    )
  4. The Waters of Lethe

  • The Gift (June 1991)
  1. The Gift (with Andy Taylor)
  2. Back to Back (with Jayney Klimek
    Jayney Klimek
    Jayney Klimek , is an Australian singer and songwriter.-Family background:Jayney comes from a family steeped in music. Brother Alf Klimek was a founding member of The Other Ones / Spliff Radio Show. Her twin Johnny Klimek is a successful Hollywood composer...

    )
  3. A House Needs A Roof (by Bankstatement
    Bankstatement
    Bankstatement is a solo project by Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks, issued under a band name. The other "band" members were singers Alistair Gordon and Jayney Klimek. Banks had the idea for Bankstatement after hearing of the success that Mike + The Mechanics were having in both Europe and America...

    )
  4. Redwing

  • Still It Takes Me By Surprise (February 1992)
  1. Still It Takes Me By Surprise (edit) (with Andy Taylor)
  2. The Final Curtain (with Nik Kershaw
    Nik Kershaw
    Nik Kershaw is an English singer-songwriter. The one time jazz-funk guitarist was a mid-1980s teen idol. His 50 weeks on the UK Singles Chart in 1984 beat all other soloists...

    )
  3. Still It Takes Me By Surprise (with Andy Taylor)

Musicians

  • Tony Banks
    Tony Banks (musician)
    This article is about the musician. For other people named Tony Banks, see Tony BanksAnthony George "Tony" Banks is a British composer, and multi-instrumentalist, who performs as a keyboardist and a guitarist...

    : keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , Bass synth
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

    , Drum
    Drum
    The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...

     Programming, vocals
    Singing
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     on 5
  • Nik Kershaw
    Nik Kershaw
    Nik Kershaw is an English singer-songwriter. The one time jazz-funk guitarist was a mid-1980s teen idol. His 50 weeks on the UK Singles Chart in 1984 beat all other soloists...

    : Vocals on 1, 6 & 10
  • Fish
    Fish (singer)
    Derek William Dick, better known as Fish, is a Scottish progressive rock singer, lyricist and occasional actor, best known as the former lead singer of Marillion.-Biography:...

    : Vocals on 2 & 8
  • Andy Taylor: Vocals on 3 & 4
  • Jayney Klimek
    Jayney Klimek
    Jayney Klimek , is an Australian singer and songwriter.-Family background:Jayney comes from a family steeped in music. Brother Alf Klimek was a founding member of The Other Ones / Spliff Radio Show. Her twin Johnny Klimek is a successful Hollywood composer...

    : Vocals on 7 & 9
  • Daryl Stuermer
    Daryl Stuermer
    Daryl Mark Stuermer is an American musician who plays guitar and bass for Genesis during live shows, and lead guitar for Phil Collins during most of his solo tours and albums.-Biography:...

    : Guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

  • Vinnie Colaiuta
    Vinnie Colaiuta
    Vincent Colaiuta is an American drummer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Republic, Pennsylvania, he began playing drums as a child and received his first full drum kit from his parents at the age of 14...

    , Graham Broad
    Graham Broad
    Graham Broad is an English drummer who has been playing professionally since the age of fifteen, after attending the Royal College of Music in 1970....

    : drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Luis Jardim
    Luís Jardim
    Luís Alberto Figueira Gonçalves Jardim is a Portuguese percussionist, born in the Madeira Island, best known for his work with producer Trevor Horn.-Family:Jardim is a cousin of Alberto João Jardim...

    : percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Pino Palladino
    Pino Palladino
    Pino Palladino is a Welsh bass guitarist who gained fame playing primarily rock and roll, blues rock, and rhythm and blues music, although he has been lauded for his ability to play most genres of popular music, including jazz, neo soul, and funk...

    , James Eller: Bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Martin Robertson
    Martin Robertson
    Charles Martin Robertson was a British scholar of classical art and archaeology and poet. He was the elder son of Donald Struan Robertson and Petica Coursolles, née Jones , who hosted a literary salon. Martin Robertson, as he was always known, attended the Leys School and Trinity College Cambridge...

    : Saxophone
    Saxophone
    The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...


  • Produced by Tony Banks and Nick Davis
  • Engineered by Nick Davis
  • Assisted by Mark Robinson
  • Recorded at the Farm, Surrey
  • Technical assistance: Geoff Callingham and Mark Bowen
  • Photography by Carl Studna
  • Design by Wherefore Art
    Wherefore Art?
    Wherefore Art? is an art studio and design studio based in London, England. The studio has designed such books as The Beatles' The Beatles Anthology, The Rolling Stones's A Life on the Road and album art covers for Genesis, Phil Collins, Mark Knopfler and Eric Clapton....

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