FOXTROT

Incredible Album. This was my first Genesis album and now one of my favorites albums. It starts out with "Watcher of the Skies", a nice 7 minutes opener beginning with long organ chords which slowly get louder and the guitar bass and drums come in with a nice rthym, as can be heard on this site, Though the bginning is a bit long. Next is "Time table" which is a 'good' track with good vocals from Peter Gabriel and intereting lyrics. This is the ballad of the album, get certainly not in the least bit as cheesy as many ballads.

Next is "Get 'em out by Friday" which is a splendid tale about a big company evicting people from a British apartment complex!!! This song is one of my favorites from the album (next to "Supper's ready") and Gabriel does some nice characterized vocals for all the different thesbians.

Next is "Can-utility and the coastliners" which is a short 6 minute track and is (In my personal opinion) underrated because it features many great elements including very nice bass lines by Mike Rutherford!!! And on to "Horizons", which is a soft extremely short intrumental with nice acustic guitar by Mr.Hackett!!!!! This is a great prelude to the magnum opus that is the masterpiece Supper's Ready!!!!!!!!!

What to say about "Supper's ready". It starts off quickly with nice vocals and harmony talking about how a guy missed his 'babe' but! What I tended not to notice was the poetic talk about the saintly men moving across the field, which is nice touch between verses. After that a nice melodic soft section dominated by lush key chords and harmonized vocals. Next is the Sactuary man part which is very nice and melodic with climactic work with the chorus. After a nice upbeat section it sends you into a nice soft section about human flesh, figures by pools, and flowers. Leading directly into the willow farm part which is one of my favotites. After a wierd lyric section ("mom-diddly-washing" etc.) It goes into a dark section about the end of the world in 9/8. After a slightly long instrumental section in the middle, vocals come back in and the momentum builds. This leads right back into a more dramatic section of the biginning lyrics, leading into one of the most climactic incredible endings of any epic i've heard!!!!!!!! And it ends, one of the greatest prog epics next to Close to the Edge. Very great. If you are new to Genesis first listen to all the mp3s on this site and then buy this. You will not be dissappointed.