SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND

Dancing with the Moonlight Knight- is one of the best openings of any CD. The song is rather slow at first then it picks up about 2 minutes into the song with Gabriel being the front of the song with some really good vocals. Being 8-minutes long it keeps you interested and wanting more. True masters piece easily a 5 star song.

I know what I like- is more rock but the if you listen to the lyrics they are ever odd and prog filled. The song has a nice sympathizer playing with lots of percussion instruments playing at the same time. It's a nice song that is lighter that stimulates the mind and is a solid 4 ½ star song.

Firth of Firth- starts with a nice little Piano solo for about the first 1 minute of the song then it opens with a slow and kind of boring drum and sympathizer part. It's slow and in my mind the worst song on this album and just doesn't belong in its place with the album. 3 ½ Stars

More Fool Me- Phil Collin's voice fits perfectly with this song that is one of the more somber slow song on the album. This is really a love song in some parts that is sweet simple and short. This is a solid 4 star song.

The Battle of Epping Forest- the song first starts like an army march (which later you find really fits the song nicely) before picking up into a nice and fast song with nice vocals fitting with the loudness of the instruments perfectly. At roughly 3-minutes into the song there is a nice keyboard solo. The song then changes at 5 minutes 30-seconds into a more peaceful song that throws you for a loop, but it seems to fit almost perfectly. Then with 4-minutes left it changes back to where it started just for the chorus. Peter Gabriel changes his pitch and tone so much, but it almost always seems to fit. This could be the best song on this album. Easily 5 stars.

After The Ordeal- a nice break from "Epping Forest" that seems to somewhat fold right into Cinema Show. A nice instrumental peice of music a good 3.5 stars.

Cinema Show- this is one of the most beautiful songs that I have heard. Its a nice soft song picking up slightly with some of the most harmonic lyrics I have heard. At about 3 minutes they break it up with one of the most beautiful peices these ears have ever been graced to listen to. You really need to sit down and listen to this part more then once to get full respect for it. At times I just seems to drift away with the soothing sounds. Then maybe one of the best parts comes up that is another more complex instrumental peice. Its more powerful then the other part and really brings the song to a nice closier.

Aisle of Plenty- almost seems part of the "Cinema Show" and some could almost miss it if it didn't sound like it through out the song. Really it seems to be the missing part of "Dancing with the Moonlight Knight" that was just needed to complete the song, and there is no better place then starting the strong begining with a powerful ending. Also a 5 star song that ends the album nicely.

In short this is one of the best albums ever made and is equal to or maybe greater then "Close to the Edge", without a doubt a 5 star album.

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