Review Summary: My all-time favorite progressive rock album.
2 of 2 thought this review was well written
Wow. I wrote this review when I was thirteen, and it was a goddamned mess. I want to delete it, but that isn't something we're allowed to do on this site, apparently. What silliness. So I'm just going to leave this text here and hope a mod deletes this review eventually.
Delete this review, mods! Please! It's an utter embarrassment!
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Good review, but try to stay away from track-by-tracks in the future. But if you want to use track by tracks, don't just avoid describing a song because you don't like it as much. Great description, very nice work. Absolutely amazing album as well. Just one thing:
Genesis albums are often critisized for problems such as lack of guitar, prominent and often poor synthesizers, and stretches of boredom.
Slight generalisation. Be careful about how you word that kind of thing, mention which albums this is true for, since this isn't necessarily true for Foxtrot through to ATOTT for example. I'm being quite picky here though.
dunno, I think this really pales in comparison to Foxtrot. It has two of Peter Gabriel's best songs (Dancing With the Moonlit Knight and Firth of Fifth), but the rest isn't all that great. both The Cinema Show and The Battle of Epping Forests have amazing moments, but tend to drag at times. And I Know What I Like is surprisingly bad imo... I've always enjoyed More Fool Me though, but both songs just don't fit on this album.
To me this album is always a bit like a slightly weaker version of Foxtrot, which did everything that's on here, only a tad better.
mendigo, i think the placement on foxtrot is all off compared to this. none of their albums, bar perhaps the lamb, really 'fit together' in the prog era, though this one comes the closest while still being the most interesting.
probably you're right when it comes to placement, but the songs on Foxtrot are way better than on here. Just compare "Get Them Out by Friday" and "The Battle of Epping Forests"... the latter seems much like a less inspired version of the former imo. Or the shorter songs, "Time Table" and "Can-Utility and the Coastliners" are both like little epics (especially the second), whereas here the two short songs sound much more like usual pop-numbers. I don't even want to try comparing anything here to "Supper's Ready". And actually the flow of Foxtrot isn't really any worse than this one when I think about it.
The Lamb, SEBTP and Foxtrot are almost tied imo. I've listened to The Lamb the most, so I'd have to say that's my favourite at the moment. It flows together the best, certainly, and is slightly more experimental than the other two, so I'd say that's my favourite, but they're all amazing albums.
i don't think of it that way mendigo, to me battle of epping forest is a progression/development in the quirky way that genesis became the pretentious prog rock band for.
but i will agree that supper's ready is one of my favourites. i'd tie my favourites as fifth of firth, suppers ready and the knife
This and Foxtrot are equally good, but I find myself listening more often to Foxtrot because of Supper's Ready (Genesis's best song IMO). I think Genesis's pinnacle of creativity is The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. However, this album and Foxtrot are more symphonic and "proggier".
I'm a little torn on Foxtrot. I completely adore Supper's Ready, my favorite Genesis song. Nothing on SEBTP can match the sheer emotional euphoria of that song. But Side 1 is just...well...it's not BAD by any means, but it just doesn't thrill me too much.
I actually don't have The Lamb, but I'm planning on getting it sometime. I'm a little nervous about it, though, because it's supposedly a big departure from their typical sound.
