A TRICK OF THE TAIL

This album mostly composed by Tony, at least 3 songs written and composed by himself. The other's about the stuff by the band. The album starts with energic opus "Dance On A Volcano" - which become stage favourites. Then, harmonious guitar works "Entangled" by Steve. This was one of my favourite tracks in this album. Then, "Squonk" came attacking. Attacking what? Some people says this tracks - which written by Mike and Tony - referred to Peter. It shown in: "Here I am, I'm very fierce and frightening. Come to match my skill to yours. Now listen here, listen to me, don't you run away now I am a friend, I'd really like to play with you. Making noises my little furry friend would make. I'll trick him, then I'll kick him into my sack. You better watch out ... You better watch out!" But finally there's a hidden messages at the closing piece in "Los Endos". I think, it's written by Phil: "There's an angel standing in the sun. Free to get back home." This is some good-luck message I think. By the way, the fourth song was "Mad Man Moon", a moody track about a dream about somewhat linked to mad man moon (I don't know what exactly). Then, the second side came with "Robbery, Assault & Battery", a story-based song. Then, 8-minute slower song called "Ripples" written by Mike was a wuthering song. And, the title-track starts with tuneful keyboard sounds by Tony, a beautiful track. Finally, the jazz-fusion style opus called "Los Endos" came. This track was very Brand X sounding, wasn't it? The genius Phil attached the Brand X sounds into his primary band, the results was a very powerful track, "Los Endos". Another Genesis-Brand X style one was "Wot Gorilla?" which appear in their next studio album.

Well, I would say this is a perfect album. No bad materials can be found here. Phil can cover up the spot that Peter left perfectly (even, sometimes I think Phil had sung little bit better than Peter. But Peter's the one, he's the true Genesis' vocalist I think). Steve's guitar sounds more 'tasty' than previous album, "The Lamb". Tony and Mike's stuff works good too. Probably, this was the last Genesis' great album. And also, to me, this album contains the band's greatest words ever written.

Five stars was the results, I'll go with it.