FOXTROT

Supper's Ready is the best part of the album,arrangments on the whole album are great but sometimes band loses a melody, anyway very good album with brilliant 23- minute "Nursey Cryme" and "Selling England" are better, but I love this album as well. I was a little disappointed to learn much of "Supper's Ready" was written as separate little songs and not as one epic piece conjured up from Gabriel's wild imagination! It takes a little away from it, but overall, you have to be awed by it. Is it true that this is the first song ever to fill an album side? (I know, "Horizons" is there too, but I think of that as a necessary prelude, and remember being disappointed learning they didn't precede Supper's Ready with it in concert). I know it precedes "Close to the Edge" and "Gates of Delirium" by Yes and "2112" by Rush, but am not sure if there are others out there made before it of which I'm unaware. Anyway, fantastic album - and for those of you that think "Get 'Em Out by Friday" is no good, man.....what an unbelievable lyric! How can you think that? There's sooo much going on in that song! Maybe one of their BEST lyrics. Like "Hogweed" on "Nursery Cryme", the premise is wild to begin with, but there is so much underlying jabs at government and politics that it makes it even more unbelieveable. It took a while for me to get into "Can-Utility" but learned to love it. Great album.