Genesis - Return Of The Giant Hogweed

For tonight's selection, we have this from Genesis' 3rd album, Nursery Cryme. It is the first album with Steve Hackett.

Side topic: Phil Collins didn't ruin Genesis, pushing Steve Hackett out did (discuss...)
(my personal take: neither action "ruined" Genesis. They just changed the type of music they wanted to produce. You either liked it or you didn't, get over it. I have a soft spot for the Collins era, since it was my gateway into their back catalog.)

Anyway, returning to our regularly scheduled program.

This song is, to me, the epitome of progressive rock. Simultaneously an amazing performance, coupled with some of the nerdiest lyrics in prog, which puts it in the top 10 nerdiest all time. The song is about a toxic invasive species, the giant hogweed, which apparently makes poison ivy look like laurel leaves. It is the Vladimir Putin of plants.

It's a great sing-along. The closing lyrics are:

Mighty Hogweed is avenged!
Human bodies soon will know our anger
Kill them with your Hogweed hairs!
Heracleum Mantegazziani

And must be sung at full volume.

Does your favorite song have a Latin taxonomy reference?

Here is the original from Nursery Cryme


And here is the Steve Hackett version from his Genesis Revisited work. You get to see the tapping technique for which he is justly famous for. You can see why his addition to the band was critical to their incredible output from Nursery Cryme to Wind and Wuthering.
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