FOXTROT

Genesis at it's pastoral and story-telling height. Not perfectly polished and refined like Selling England, but the compositions are just a little better. Well, Supper's Ready is a helluva lot better. A little unfair because it's 23 minutes and offers such epic, eloquent, and virtuoso performances.

We've had endless threads on Supper's Ready. Hard to tell if their is much meaning to it. The most I ever figured out was the plot, which was the result of a program brochure they released at a 73 concert.

Two lovers are really distant with one another in our world (their's and presumedly ours) and then get pulled into alternate realities where they adventure together meeting scientists full of malice, an army spawned from the ground, narcissus, and many others. Eventually they fall subject to narcissu's very own weakness and are pulled into their reflections in a pool and switch to yet another world where everything is mindlessly busy. Sounds a but like Britain or the States if you ask me. Their actions are arbitrary and at a whistle everything changes instantly. More mindless ensues. Afterwards a quiet section occurs where I assume the lovers are comtemplative. Or something. Eventually the are taken back to the world from which they originated to find that an apocalypse is in procession. Many apolocalyptic references burn true until it comes to a climax... The lovers once again find each other in one anothers arms as they first had at the beginning of their adventure. It feels like forever since they've been in each other's loving arms. The distance that once separated them has vanished. Their souls ignite and the love courses like a river and grows like a seed. An angel arrives and lets them know that supper is ready and to prepare to be taken to a place of peace.