Songoftheday 4/17/15 - I'm coming down coming down like a monkey but it's alright, like a load on your back that you can't see but it's alright...

"Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" - Genesis
from the album Invisible Touch (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #3 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's Song of the Day comes from the British progressive rock band Genesis, who had transformed into a pop hitmaking machine on their Invisible Touch album, which had already spawned top ten hits "Throwing It All Away" and "Land Of Confusion" as well as the #1 title track. The fourth single from the record took them closer back to their prog roots, editing down a nearly-nine-minute moody and percussive piece, "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" down for radio consumption. The video put the trio of Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks in the Bradbury Building, the backdrop to a crucial scene in Blade Runner...

"Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" reached the top-3 on the American pop chart in April of 1987. The track went to #8 on the adult contemporary radio chart in Billboard, but surprisingly stopped down at #45 on its Mainstream Rock list. Internationally, the record made the top-20 in England and Canada, and was a #23 hit in Germany.

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here's a better-sounding radio version of the song...

...and their extended jam from the tour behind the album...

...and from the We Can't Dance tour in 1992...

Finally, Genesis shilled some beer with the song...

and lastly, from their reunion gig in 2007 (along with "Invisible Touch"), though you can feel Phil's strugglin' on the vocals so the key's lowered...

Up tomorrow: R&B act born from the breakup of a gossipy band goes old-school. We be jammin', indeed.