Strictly Inc is the self-titled project album, 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...

, and Wang Chung

Wang Chung (band)

Wang Chung are an English New Wave musical group.The group found their greatest success in America, with five Top 40 hits in the US, all charting between 1983 and 1987, including "Dance Hall Days" , "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" and "Let's Go!" .-Pre-history: The Intellektuals and 57 Men :Jeremy...

 lead vocalist Jack Hues

Jack Hues

Jack Hues is an English musician, who is best known for forming the 1980s British new wave band, Wang Chung...

, in 1995 on Virgin Records

Virgin Records

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. Tony Banks wanted the album release—as the title suggested—with no reference to the band members; but the record company went against his wishes. This was Banks' fifth studio album (and seventh album overall).

It was released on 11 September 1995 in the UK. The album has never been released in the USA. The album is called Strictly Inc instead of Strictly Incognito because there was already a band in the UK named Incognito

Incognito (band)

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The album had three outtake

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s: two untitled instrumentals and the song "Back To You", which was released as a b-side and which was co-written by 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...

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Reception

Allmusic praised "Tony Banks' distinctive, multi-layered keyboard playing", but contended that the album is a glaring failure due to a lack of memorable songs and the ineffectiveness of the combination of Jack Hues' vocals and Banks's music.

Track listing

1. "Don't Turn Your Back On Me" - 3:59
2. "Walls Of Sound" - 5:07
3. "Only Seventeen" - 4:57
4. "The Serpent Said" - 5:28
5. "Never Let Me Know" - 6:20
6. "Charity Balls" - 4:38
7. "Something To Live For" - 5:17
8. "A Piece Of You" - 4:47
9. "Strictly Incognito" - 5:05
10. "An Island In The Darkness" - 17:21

Personnel

• Jack Hues
  Jack Hues
  Jack Hues is an English musician, who is best known for forming the 1980s British new wave band, Wang Chung...
  
   : vocals, guitars
• 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
• John Robinson : drums
• 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:...
  
   : guitars
• Nathan East
  Nathan East
  Nathan Harrell East is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego...
  
  : bass

Singles

• Only Seventeen (cd single) (August 1995)

1. Only Seventeen
2. Only Seventeen (A Saabson/Svenson Remix)
3. The Serpent Said
4. Only Seventeen (House Mix by Andy Falconer)

• Only Seventeen (promo cd) (1995)

1. Only Seventeen (radio edit)
2. Only Seventeen (LP version)
3. The Serpent Said
4. Only Seventeen (House Mix by Andy Falconer)

• Walls of Sound (cd single) (1996)

1. Walls Of Sound (Remix) (Additional production and remix by Chris Hughes and Jack Hues)
2. Back To You – 4:51 (Words & Music by Tony Banks and Nik Kershaw; vocals: Jack Hues)
3. Only Seventeen (Instrumental) – 4:57