To a poor boy from the backstreets of Market Harborough who relied on Radio Luxemburg and Radio One for his music, Genesis's I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) was like a song from another planet.
It was a track from their 1973 album Selling England by the Pound and reached number 21 in the UK singles chart the following year.
Your Own Special Way comes from 1976's Wind & Wuthering. It failed to trouble the top 40 in the UK, but it was a similarly minor hit in the US too.
This is Genesis at a transitional stage. Peter Gabriel has left the band, but its full philcollinsisation is yet to take place.
For some reason I thought of Your Own Special Way the other day, after quite possibly not having heard it since it was released in 1977.
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I like the two 'transition' albums (this plus Trick of the Tail); the Collinsisation really took hold from 'Duke' IMO. Albeit I consider Mama, Tonight (x3) and Abacab excellent pieces of songwriting, which possibly have little to do with Phil himself.
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