Foxtrot - Genesis

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at May 9 16:52

Supper's Ready is a song by the band Genesis. A recorded version appeared on their 1972 album Foxtrot, and the band performed the song regularly on stage for several years following this. Live versions appear on the albums Seconds Out (recorded in 1977) and the compilation Genesis Archive 1967-75 (recorded in 1973). Nearly 23 minutes in length, the song could be described as a medley of seven separate shorter songs, although some musical and lyrical themes do re-appear throughout. True to some main tenets of progressive rock, the song undergoes multiple changes in time signature, key signature, Leitmotif, instrumentation, and mood. Even as such, the song's musical structure remains today to be quite avant-garde. The song's writing is credited jointly to the whole band (Banks/Collins/Gab...Read more

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at May 9 16:38

Foxtrot is the fourth studio album by British progressive rock band Genesis and the second from the "classic" lineup of Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, and Steve Hackett. The album was recorded and released in 1972 as the band's career quickly gained momentum. Foxtrot was also Genesis' first album to enter the UK charts, reaching # 12 and paving the way for a long and successful chart career for the band. Still, it failed to reach the US charts, as their contemporaries, Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Jethro Tull, were more popular at the time. Both "Watcher of the Skies" and "Supper's Ready" rank among some of the band's most beloved works, and became live favorites. "Watcher of the Skies" and "Get 'Em Out by Friday" appeared on 1973's Genesis Live, while...Read more

Posted : 2 years, 6 months ago at May 9 16:33

1. Watcher of the Skies
2. Time Table
3. Get 'Em Out by Friday
4. Can-Utility and the Coastliners
5. Horizon's (Hackett)
6. Supper's Ready:
(I) Lover's Leap
(II) The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man
(III) Ikhnaton and Itsacon and Their Band of Merry Men
(IV) How Dare I Be So Beautiful?
(V) Willow Farm
(VI) Apocalypse in 9/8 (co-starring the delicious talents of Gabble Ratchet)
(VII) As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs (Aching Men's Feet)