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'''Invisible Touch''' is the thirteenth studio album by Genesis, released in 1986. As their most commercially successful pop album, it got generally favorable reviews from critics and produced five US Top 5 singles, including the title track which reached the pole position.
The album was structured to appeal to both newer and older Genesis fans, with radio-friendly singles like "Land of Confusion" and the title track for pop fans, and longer tracks like "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" and "Domino" aimed more towards fans of the band's progressive rock style of the 1970s. The idiosyncratic instrumental "The Brazilian" showed the band had not lost its willingness to experiment.
The lyrics on this album are among Genesis' rare attempts at social and political commentary, with "Domino" evoking a nightmarish nuclear war scenario and "Land of Confusion" commenting satirically on the political turmoil of the Reagan/Thatcher/Gorbachev era. A widely acclaimed video for "Land of Confusion", featuring the Spitting Image puppets, was nominated for MTV's Video of the Year Award, but ironically lost to Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer. "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight", another hit song from the album, dealt with drug addiction, while "Anything She Does" took a humorous yet subtle look at pornography.
Catching Genesis at their commercial peak, ''Invisible Touch'' was an instant UK #1, while it reached #3 in the US and went six times platinum there. The album was supported by the 1986-87 Invisible Touch Tour, a concert video of which was released in 1988.
A SACD and DVD double disc set (including new 5.1 and Stereo mixes) is planned for release in September 2007.

Contents

Track listing

Personnel

Chart positions

Track listing

All music by Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford.
#"Invisible Touch" (lyrics: Phil Collins) - 3:27
#"Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" (lyrics: Phil Collins) - 8:53
#"Land Of Confusion" (lyrics: Mike Rutherford) - 4:45
#"In Too Deep" (lyrics: Phil Collins) - 4:58
#"Anything She Does" (lyrics: Tony Banks) - 4:07
#"Domino" - 10:42
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★ Part One - In The Glow Of The Night (lyrics: Tony Banks)
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★ Part Two - The Last Domino (lyrics: Tony Banks)
#"Throwing It All Away" (lyrics: Mike Rutherford) - 3:49
#"The Brazilian" (instrumental: Tony Banks) - 4:49

Personnel

★ Phil Collins - drums, percussion, vocals

★ Tony Banks - keyboards

★ Mike Rutherford - guitars, bass guitar

Chart positions

'Album' - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1986	The Billboard 200	3

'Singles' - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1986	"Anything She Does"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	40
1986	"Domino, Pt. 1 - In The Glow Of The Night/Pt. 2 - The Last Domino"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	29
1986	"In Too Deep"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	25
1986	"Invisible Touch"	Adult Contemporary	3
1986	"Invisible Touch"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
1986	"Invisible Touch"	Billboard Hot 100	1
1986	"Land Of Confusion"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	11
1986	"Land Of Confusion"	Billboard Hot 100	4
1986	"Throwing It All Away"	Adult Contemporary	1
1986	"Throwing It All Away"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
1986	"Throwing It All Away"	Billboard Hot 100	4
1987	"In Too Deep"	Adult Contemporary	1
1987	"In Too Deep"	Billboard Hot 100	3
1987	"Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"	Adult Contemporary	8
1987	"Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	9
1987	"Tonight, Tonight, Tonight"	Billboard Hot 100	3