Stay Together (album) Puns

From Genesis to Revelation (1969) to The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974) remain the same as in our timeline

Following the band's frustrations with the Lamb Lies Down On Broadway tour, and in order to keep up the momentum that had been gathered over their first six albums, Genesis rethinks its writing strategy, and all five members agree not to take on any outside projects, following the debacle with Peter and William Friedkin.

Voyage of the Acolyte (1975)

The band leans hard into its progressive roots, and finally puts the live staple 'Twilight Alehouse' on an album. 'Voyage' is largely regarded as the most Hackett-heavy album of any in the Genesis discography.

• A1 Ace of Wands - 5:25

• A2 Twilight Alehouse - 7:48

• A3 Hands of the Priestess - 5:01

• A4 Star of Sirius - 7:07

• B1 A Tower Struck Down - 4:52

• B2 It's Yourself - 5:25

• B3 Shadow of the Hierophant - 11:44

A Trick of the Tail (1976) as in our timeline

Wind and Wuthering (1977)

• A1 Eleventh Earl of Mar - 7:53

• A2 Moribund the Burgermeister - 4:20

• A3 Please Don't Touch - 3:38

• A4 One for the Vine - 9:59

• B1 All In A Mouse's Night - 6:39

• B2 Here Comes The Flood - 5:39

• B3 In That Quiet Earth - 11:24 > (a) Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers > (b) In That Quiet Earth > (c) Afterglow

Scenes from a Night's Dream (1978)

The band decides to experiment with including more shorter tracks, fearing becoming pigeonholed as a group reliant on developing longer tracks.

• A1 Scenes from a Night's Dream - 3:29

• A2 Undertow - 7:34

• A3 White Shadow - 5:19

• A4 Carry On Up The Vicarage - 3:10

• A5 The Lady Lies - 6:08

• B1 Deep in the Motherlode - 5:15

• B2 On The Air - 5:34

• B3 Racing in A - 5:06

• B4 Burning Rope - 7:10

• B5 Follow You, Follow Me - 4:00

Duke (1980)

• A1 Duke's Suite - 28:06 > (a) Behind the Lines > (b) Duchess > (c) Guide Vocal > (d) Turn It On Again > (e) Duke's Travels > (f) Duke's End

• B1 Overnight Job - 5:44

• B2 No Self Control - 3:55

• B3 The Waters of Lethe - 6:33

• B4 Spectral Mornings - 6:37

Abacab (1981)

Abacab is widely regarded as the band's pivot into a more 'pop rock' sound, though progressive elements still permeate.

• A1 Abacab - 6:56

• A2 Games Without Frontiers - 4:06

• A3 This Is Love - 5:16

• A4 Hideaway - 5:58

• A5 Jacuzzi - 4:36

• B1 Droned/Hand in Hand - 8:11

• B2 The Dodo Suite - 16:38 > (a) Naminamu > (b) Dodo > (c) Lurker > (d) Submarine

Home By The Sea (1983)

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So how about Nikki’s latest comments that the band has stayed together for forty years due to their camaraderie? I think that’s a far fetched remark. Any thoughts??

I’ve been in a relationship with my wife for the past 25 years, married for 20 in November. I have an adult child from a previous marriage but we never had any children of our own. I'm 62 this year and she's turning 51.

My wife is an alcoholic, let’s just get that out of the way. It started with champagne in the morning when she had a health issue a few years ago that required morning medication, her way of making the potentially scary situation more tolerable and light-hearted. It was only half a glass when it started so I laughed along with her and indulged it but now she finishes the whole bottle. Alone. Sometimes even pops a second.

We’ve always had a good time together and enjoyed to drink but the last year has become unmanageable with her. I haven't enjoyed going out for a while - she always orders a negroni with ice on the side. Let me be clear this is on top of choosing a bottle to share (the first of many). There's a 99.99% chance of her slurring heavily by the end of the first course. She barely eats and cries all the time. She says it must be because of allergies to hormones but I know it's because she’s always hungover and her stomach has shrunk. She can’t walk unassisted by the end of dinner and usually ends up leaving without her heels on. It’s embarrassing to say the least but I just try to just get her home as quickly as I can. I have not seen her with less than a bottle of liquor a day for well over a year now. Usually gin and definitely straight-up. Last year really ramped up her drinking and the tension between us is unbearable. She’s hard to live with.

Blow-up fight last night. I found a frivolous charge she made on one of my cards (without asking me) so I cancelled her access to everything. Money is not an issue as we're more than comfortable but the point is that she hasn't worked since we've been married and doesn't contribute to the house. So this means she can just drink ALL DAY and spend my money? too much for me to bear anymore. I told her (calmly) that she must go to rehab for her problems or I will walk. She called me callous and vindictive. I told her she wasn't acting like the woman I married and she replied something about how I've made my choice and rehab won't fix anything, which is absurd and angered me and I said she made a choice to sink into the bottle. Still mad so I slept in the guest house. Leaving for the office this morning, she was already half a bottle in. I didn't say bye but I heard her yell out after me sa

The band went from pop punk to straight up pop. The band wasn’t successful on their later albums but this is when I ignored them all together

If you have screaming matches with your partner in front of your child regularly, and think that is better than separating, that is terrible parenting and you probably should not raise children with your partner.

I mean those words, you are likely unfit to be parents together if you force your child to grow up around such a toxic relationship. If you really are a good parent, don’t make that toxicity their norm. Either work together on your relationship or get your child away from that environment.

Seriously, please do not stay with your partner just so your adult child can tell everyone how traumatizing you both were.

EDIT 1: Notice my use of the words “probably” and “likely”. There are almost always going to be exceptions with any situation. My favorite example below is how some stay just because they can’t bear the idea of not seeing their kids. So yes, there are partners who have fought and are still good parents, but I stand by my opinion that this is often not the case.

EDIT 2: To anyone who resonated with this post;

You are not your parents, you don’t have to repeat their mistakes. Let your parents’ relationship inspire you, be the partner and parent they weren’t.

[TO ANYONE READING THIS:

You have the choice to feel relieved now WITHOUT NEEDING A REASON. Try it and KEEP DOING IT until that happy relief is your daily standard without effort. It takes conditioning and might not happen overnight, but it is worth it.

Forgive EVERYONE, INCLUDING YOURSELF. Forget the past, find happiness in experiencing the present moment. Build up the strong feeling of expecting ONLY good for everyone, regardless of what they have done. Try it and tell me you don’t feel a huge weight off your shoulders.

I cannot recommend this enough to anyone who feels like they could use some relief in their life.]

It’s not selfish if it’s done properly. There is nothing wrong with sitting down with your partner and deciding you’re gonna ride it out until the kid(s) have completed a healthy and normal childhood. Obviously there are extreme case where one partner is just making it impossible but in the average instance saying together for the kids is valid and possibly even better.

My girlfriend of 2.5 years is a lesbian, she confessed this to me about a month ago. When we first started dating, she told me that she was bisexual, and favored women physically. I didn't mind.

About six months ago, something in our relationship changed. She started being distant, avoiding me completely in person (staying at work until I was already in bed) and via phone/text (saying she didn't have a signal or her phone was dead anytime I tried to get ahold of her). I suspected that she was cheating, and when I confronted her about how she was acting weird she admitted that she'd been confused due to developing feelings for a female friend of hers. She'd been spending less time with us both to try and figure out  what was happening with her. We talked at length about how maybe she wasn't feeling sexually satisfied and I upped by bedroom game and things improved.

Then last month, she throws this bombshell at me- she's determined that she's a lesbian. She admits that she loves me, but she's not "in" love with me. She felt like I deserved to know that she'd never be able to love me the way that I love her, but she still wants to be together. We live in a conservative area and she has super religious family that she's close to and she wants kids. She promised to never have sex with someone else.

The thing is, I love her. I was planning on proposing before she gave me this news. And I'm happy? I think. We still have sex. Share a bed. Laugh and joke. But things just seem different. I noticed that she doesn't kiss me anymore unless we're having sex.

The thing is, I have absolutely struggled with women before her. I never found someone like her that I just geled with. And she's great to me. She takes care of me when I'm sick, genuinely cares about me and my family, she's a 50/50 partner around the house and financially. And like I said, I absolutely love her. Can't get enough time with her. But I just don't know if deep down in my heart that will be enough long term.

Any advice?

Thank you, best show ever...

About a month ago my husband and I got into a fight, nothing serious, just something small that happens every now and then, and I didn't think much of it. Figured it would pass in a day or two and everything would go back to normal, which it would have, if not for my husband's friend.

You see, after my husband and I had this fight, I left to go run errands and his friend, let's call him Tony, came over to drop something off after work. My husband and his friend hung out for about an hour or two before Tony had to leave, which again I was aware of and didn't think much of. They hang out often and it's not out of the norm.

About two days after our fight I actually ran into Tony at our local pharmacy, I had about a 20 minute wait and Tony spent a few minutes catching up with me to see how everything was going. Explained that work was fine, I asked how he was doing and about his job, you know, normal small talk you have with people that you aren't very close with.

While we were making conversation you could tell he seemed a little nervous. He kept on looking at his phone and would avoid eye contact with me, which was a little strange, he was always a chill guy. He ended up leaving and a few minutes later he came back in and asked if he could talk to me in the parking lot. At this point I was a little weirded out, but I agreed.

Once we were outside he explained to me that the day he went over to see my husband, the day he and I had our fight, he said a lot of horrible things about me and he thought I had the right to know.

This is everything Tony told me that my husband said; I'm a bitch, I'm a cunt, I'm overweight, I'm not something worth being with anymore, he thinks something is mentally wrong with me, I treat people like animals, I used to be more fun, I used to be more attractive, and that he hasn't gotten much out of this relationship.

Tony said that my husband was just venting to him after our fight, but he felt uncomfortable with everything he was saying about me. Tony said that if he had a partner say all of those horrible things about him, that he would want to know.

I thanked him for letting me know, feeling kind of numb not knowing what to believe. Tony ended up going home and I got my medication, but I ended up just sitting in my car thinking about everything that was said to me. Then I remembered that I have security cameras set up in my home, and I decided to watch what happened when Tony came over, and it was really bad.

Everything that

EDIT: So new the new patch today has added pretty much exactly this, what an awesome coincidence! Off to buy a lotto ticket.

Sometimes you have a good game with a random stranger and maybe want to play together the next game without the hassle of friends/invites/joining each other.

Wouldn't it be great if you could just click "Play again with team" (or something similar idk), and then just join the next game together and continue as a team. Only those wanting to stay in team would be put together obviously, and new randoms could fill the remaining slots..

Maybe there is some downside to this I'm missing?

Seems like you would get more good games and make new friends this way.

Keep watching, HODL tha fckn door. Literally. Don't let them in. 😤🦍

Ah. Just. From the heart.

Edit: Reading all the comments I felt there's so much similarity in what happens to everybody. Maybe there's a pattern. Maybe there are signs but we're so lost in caring for the person we love that we totally dig a huge emotional ditch for ourselves.

And while they're working with a ladder, we're constantly digging deeper with a shovel.

And the end result is. We get left inside the ditch so deep that there's only very little light coming in. We lose hope.

I wish you guys strength and happiness.

Remember, you got into the ditch voluntarily and nobody else can get you out of there. You owe it to the person who loved unconditionally. They deserve to be loved and cared for too.

Always invest time in friendships. And never take your friends for granted for someone "special.

They would have Clint Capella, ECF. PJ Tucker, ECF. Chris Paul, WCF. Teams really should be patient, not play the trade machine so much.