NURSERY CRYME

First of all,This is my very first Prog cd.My parents gave it to me as a christmas present. You begin this with ''The Musical Box'' a ten minute tale about a love or someone in love but the other isn't and then it ends in murder.Its starts out very quiet and ends with a bang.

Then ''For Absent Friends'' comes in(with Phil collins on lead vocals) to mellow you out after the excitment of ''The Musical Box''.It talks about two widows who visit church.It kinda has a folk feel more than Progressive.

After that,''The Return of the Giant Hogweed'' which has a heavy start,very similar to ''The Knife''. This tells another story about how innocent gardeners plant the deadly Hogweed. The Hogweed then comes to terrorize others. Which leads to a battle at the end. Where the townspeople beleive they won but it then turns out the Hogweed is alive and well ready to seek revenge.

Like the pattern of this album,it goes to another ballad.This one called ''Seven Stones''.It tells of an old man telling his tale.I don't have too much to say about this song.Not very exciting if you ask me.

We then go to another story about a crazy person who chopped offf his toes and served them all in tea.''Harold The Barrel'' is a very good track.Which Gabriel humourously keeps changing voices. But it goes tragic in the end with Harold either jumping from the window ledge to the whole world below or he gets arrested not a very good ending.But a standout track.

''Harlequin'' is abit of weak track because its just not really exciting.Not very memorable.

''Fountain of Salamacis'' goes to Greek mythology telling a tale.It tells of Hermaphroditus who is seduced by Salamacis drinking her water.which they then join and Hermaphroditus becomes two genders.Very good track.Even if the lyrics are a little odd but then again Genesis has always been odd.

In Conclusion,this album is very good.With two weak tracks. Its a very up-down album due to the constat switching of to faster songs to ballads.

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