🐁Good For A While:
Join us for another Mild Mannered Supermen Listening Party as we dive into Tony Banks’ 1979 debut solo album, A Curious Feeling — one of the most overlooked and fascinating solo records to emerge from the Genesis family.
Originally inspired by Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon, the concept evolved after Tony encountered the 1978 musical Charlie, leading him to reshape the story into something more supernatural and less directly tied to the original source. The result is a deeply atmospheric concept album about memory, identity, loss, and the consequences of changing the mind.
In this episode, we listen through the entire album and tell the story behind every song, tracing the narrative from beginning to end while exploring how the music supports the concept.
We also dig into the performances that make A Curious Feeling so distinctive. Tony Banks handled virtually all of the instrumentation himself, with Chester Thompson on drums and Kim Beacon delivering the lead vocals. That combination gives the album a unique character — unmistakably connected to late-’70s Genesis, but also very much its own world.
Along the way, we discuss Tony’s songwriting, keyboards, arrangements, production choices, and why this album deserves far more attention from fans of Genesis, progressive rock, concept albums, and classic 1970s prog.
If you love albums like Wind & Wuthering, …And Then There Were Three…, or the more atmospheric and keyboard-driven side of Genesis, A Curious Feeling is essential listening.
🎧 Put on the album and listen along with us as we explore the full story of Tony Banks’ A Curious Feeling.
Artist: Tony Banks
Album: A Curious Feeling
Released: 1979
Vocals: Kim Beacon
Drums: Chester Thompson
Episode: Mild Mannered Supermen Listening Party
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