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"I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" was the first charting single by the rock band Genesis. Its original b-side was the non-album track, "Twilight Alehouse." The single was first released in the UK in August of 1973.
"I Know What I Like" is also the second track on the Selling England by the Pound album. A lighthearted pop song, it provides a moment of relief after the opening number, "Dancing With The Moonlit Knight." The Selling England album cover, which was famous in its own right, provided inspiration for the song.
The song's lyrics, like much of Peter Gabriel's in his Genes
"I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" was the first charting single by the rock band Genesis. Its original b-side was the non-album track, "Twilight Alehouse." The single was first released in the UK in August of 1973.
"I Know What I Like" is also the second track on the Selling England by the Pound album. A lighthearted pop song, it provides a moment of relief after the opening number, "Dancing With The Moonlit Knight." The Selling England album cover, which was famous in its own right, provided inspiration for the song.
The song's lyrics, like much of Peter Gabriel's in his Genesis days, tell a story. It portrays a young man who pushes a lawn mower for a living and shares his philosophy on life that he does not want to grow up and do great things, being perfectly happy where he is.
The song has a somewhat Eastern sound, full of hand percussion rhythms and an electric sitar riff from Mike Rutherford (played in concert by Steve Hackett), and it foreshadows the world music that Gabriel would later experiment with in his solo career. Rutherford's bass playing is also highly prominent, and guitarist Steve Hackett uses a unique effect during the intro and ending to imitate the sound of a lawn mower.
"I Know What I Like" was the band's biggest pop hit for many years and was the first tentative step in bringing Genesis into the mainstream. It's success would not be topped until ...And Then There Were Three...'s "Follow You Follow Me," some five years later, and it remains the band's biggest hit without Phil Collins as frontman.
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Manufacturer: Charisma Records
Release date: 3 August 1973
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