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5 Star: Can-Utility and the Coastliners. This is the best Genesis song ever. Tasty acoustic guitar and vocal melodies leading into the guts of the song. Lots of sounds, interesting guitar work, nice organ playing, drums and even good bass for Genesis. A tricky piece with different sections and some odd timing bits make it clever yet tasteful. Seriously, this is their best song ever (though not by much).

4 star: Supper's Ready. Not a fan of big long songs that mush different songs together to try and be clever, but Supper's Ready has strong enough sections to make it a classic. The piece really takes off at the 9/8 section and into the reprise at the end. It can give some goosebumps.

3.5 Star: Watcher of the Skies. It is a bit of a strange piece, with some haunting parts. I feel they could have done a bit more with it. Theres a lot of empty space. Certainly worth having in your collection of prog songs.

3 star: Horizons. yes, the short acoustic guitar piece, surprisingly enjoyable.

3 Star: Get 'em Out By Friday. Fun song. Some good playing and interesting sounds. The minimal Genesis requirement for a song.

2 Star: Time Table. Never cared much for this song. I like the chorus where it is a bit more aggressive, but the rest is a bit slow to me. For some reason the ending piano (or whatever keyboard that is) really annoys me as they keep changing keys as the song fades.

Overall I guess I have to give it a 4 Star as a prog album. A tough choice considering my fave Genesis song is on here, but some of the other material drags the album down a bit in my opinion.

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