Forgotten '80s Album: Invisible Touch

With news that Genesis is reuniting for a UK tour this fall.

Invisible Touch is the thirteenth studio album by the English rock band Genesis, released on 6 June 1986 by Atlantic Records in the United States and 9 June 1986 by Charisma and Virgin Records in the United Kingdom. After taking a break in group activity for each member to continue with their solo projects in 1984, the band reconvened in October 1985 to write and record Invisible Touch with engineer and producer Hugh Padgham. As with their previous album, it was written entirely through group improvisations and no material developed prior to recording was used.

Invisible Touch was a worldwide success and reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 3 on the US Billboard 200. It remains the band's highest selling album after it was certified multi-platinum for over 1.2 million copies sold in the UK and 6 million sold in the US. Genesis became the first band and foreign act to have five top five singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, with "Invisible Touch" being their first and only song to reach No. 1 on the charts.

No.    Title    Length
1.    "Invisible Touch"    3:29
2.    "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"    8:49
3.    "Land of Confusion"    4:46
4.    "In Too Deep"    4:59
Side two
No.    Title    Length
1.    "Anything She Does"    4:06
2.    "Domino"
Part One – "In the Glow of the Night"
Part Two – "The Last Domino" 10:42
3.    "Throwing It All Away"    3:51
4.    "The Brazilian" (instrumental)

Shall We Play a Game? Wargames Remake is a Go

The favorite movie of a generation of computer hackers is going to be remade.

MGM is really fixated on remakes, and their latest project is a remake of WarGames. I have to wonder if Matthew Broderick will be in it. The good news is that it will incorporate modernized video games (cool) and that Seth Gordon will be directing it. Even though it only makes sense in Hollywood logic, as the director of King of Kong, he’s at least got some video game movie experience.

The unknown is Noah Oppenheimer, the man recently hired to write the script. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Oppenheimer is a senior producer for The Today Show, but has recently branched out into feature film writing with a script called Jackie O that’s perked up a few ears. Plus, he was attached to a Snabba Cash remake that, so far, hasn’t been made yet.

Let's hope they don't screw this classic up!