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“No Reply At All” by Genesis
From the album Abacab (1981)
“No Reply At All” by Genesis appears on 14 radio countdowns from 6 stations between 2012 and 2024. It was first released in 1981 on the album Abacab. Its best result is #293 on the BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2012).
Genesis picked "No Reply at All" to launch Abacab, their 11th studio album, in America in September 1981; Britain never got it as a single and heard "Abacab" first instead. The giveaway is the horns: Earth, Wind & Fire's own wind players, billed as the EWF Horns, punching through a chart by Tom Tom 84, the arranger Thomas Washington. Phil Collins sings lead, plays drums and wrote the words, with the music credited to him, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford.
It lunges for the pop mainstream, but the old Genesis still lurks in Rutherford's knotty, melodic bass lines and in a cross-handed Prophet-5 part from Banks that echoes the intro to "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". Hugh Padgham engineered, and the single edit, second verse snipped out, made the US Top 30 that fall.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 293 | Big 100 | BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2012) | 500 |
| 2013 | 381 | Big 100 | BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2013) | 500 |
| 2013 | 361 | Big 100 | BIG 500 Labor Day Countdown (2013) | 500 |
| 2014 | 982 | Big 100 | BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2016 | 392 | Big 100 | BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2016) | 500 |
| 2017 | 401 | Big 100 | BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2017) | 500 |
| 2018 | 428 | Big 100 | BIG 500 Memorial Day Countdown (2018) | 500 |
| 2019 | 903 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 | 1025 |
| 2020 | 842 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) | 1025 |
| 2021 | 421 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s | 909 |
| 2022 | 935 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) | 1025 |
| 2023 | 450 | 97.1 The Drive | 97.1 The Drive Memorial Day Weekend Rock N Roll 500 (2023) | 500 |
| 2023 | 896 | 101.5 WPDH | WPDH Top 1015 (2023) | 1015 |
| 2024 | 485 | WMGK | WMGK Philly 500 (2024) | 500 |
Also listed as: No Reply at All; No Replay at All.
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