SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND

I was in high school when started listening to Genesis and this album was the first one. I wasn't very thrilled with it partly because I didn't like Gabriel's voice and partly because it was my first touch with Genesis. After two months I gave it new chance and it blew me away, I was amazed and couldn't understand how I missed it.

First of all we have five impressive musicians: Peter Gabriel with his heavenly voice, Steve Hackett highly original guitar player who never exaggerates, Tony Banks extraordinary keyboard player, Mike Rutherford with his effective bass lines and amazing Phil Collins who never sounds as an ordinary drummer. Songwriting on this album is great as it was on "Foxtrot" but here we have more tight sound and kind of a pastoral feel through the whole album and that's what makes it even better than the last one.

This album shows what I like most about music: melodies from another world, inventive arrangements, incredible musicianship, great production clean and sophisticated sound and as I said before kind of a pastoral feel. My favorites are "Dancing with the Moonlight Knight", "Firth of Fifth", "The Cinema Show", but there is really no weak point (except maybe "More Fool Me" which doesn't fit well into album but it has it's qualities).

Well, what more can I say? Nothing! I can only give 5 stars to this album, everything else would be sacrilege. This is a true masterpiece of progressive rock and music in general also or at least that's how I see it.

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