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"Can You Tell Me Where My Country Lies..." the beginning of the opening track "Dancing whit the moonlight knight", the most famous verses of Progressive Rock start an album that is an authentic masterpiece.

If Genesis with the previous albums had already demonstrated having a very defined style and sonority, here catch up the apex of the perfection. Very elaborate songs, words that reflected the genius of Gabriel, that became a real poet, sometimes dark and ambigous. Nearly all the songs of this LP were riproposed during concerts.

"... Moonlight knight" preannounces, with a simple beginning, its successive musical evolution, apparently not connected to the begin. "I know what I like" is one POP song, then transformed by Genesis, with their unmistakable style, in one of their more famous songs.

It could be made the same speech for all the songs of the album, but they deserve some word in more "Firth of Fifth" and "More Fool Me".

"Firth of Fifth" is a beautiful little suite. Its beginning is a spectacular IMPROVVISO of piano (Banks is a genius!!!), when the piano stops to play Peter Gabriel starts to occupy the scene, singing a masterpiece in verse of difficult interpretation; but the most important part of all song is along musical interval, that it begins with the magical sound of the flaute, and then continue with a long part of sintetizher and a spectacular solo of guitar, that it will carry on to the resumption of the topic begins that will conclude this song, whose only weak point is the fact that soon or later it must end.

"More Fool Me" is a sweet ballad whit romantic tones in which Phil Collins appears as singer, a kind a premonition of the future ruole of Phil.