“Home By The Sea” by Genesis

"Home by the Sea" turns up on Genesis's self-titled 1983 album as the first half of a two-part suite, and it's the sound of a band with one foot in the prog attic and the other on the pop dance floor. Tony Banks wrote the words and the whole band wrote the music, and the story is pure ghost-train fun: a burglar breaks into a house, finds it haunted, and ends up the prisoner of its ghosts, sentenced to hear out their stories forever.

The first half hooks you with a snappy pop chorus; then "Second Home by the Sea" opens into a long instrumental workout straight from the band's progressive past, the pair running past eleven minutes. Phil Collins drums and sings, Mike Rutherford handles guitar and bass, and Hugh Padgham co-produced with the band. Collins later held it up as an example of Genesis cutting tracks without everyone playing at once.

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