SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND

Foxtrot is my favorite record of the big three, but Selling England is pretty darn good too. The first three songs are as good as any prog music I've ever heard. Firth Of Fifth is one of my all-time favorites at this point. I wish I could've written just one tune like this in my life. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight and I Know What I Like are also great songs. These three songs, put together, create an outstanding beginning to this record. But I must say the record seems to get a tad slow in places for me after that. More Fool Me and After The Ordeal feel like filler to me. Cinema Show and Epping Forest are mostly excellent but they both feel as if they would been better songs had they been cut down in length. I'm being very picky here, obviously. Epping Forest and Cinema Show are very good tunes as they stand, but I personally would enjoy them more if they were shortened a little (I'm sure Gabriel and his mates are really concerned over my criticisms). By the way, this is my first post on ProgArchives. I didn't know it but I've been a prog fan all my life (I just didn't quite understand until recently what, exactly, prog was). I've always been a big fan of Jethro Tull, Yes, King Crimson, ELP, etc., but I never got the chance to here any Peter Gabriel Genesis in my youth (only the Phil Collins era, ughh!). After finding this site I decided to check Genesis out. Well, it's been an eye opener to say the least. I owe ProgArchives a debt of gratitude that I can never repay. To find more great music from the 70's is absolutely thrilling to me at this point in my life. I never thought that would happen. I can't stop listening to these three records. It's wonderful!