Foxtrot vs. The Lamb

Even though I consider it a masterpiece, The Lamb is almost my least favorite Gabriel era release (only better than SEbtP in my opinion), so not talking as a fan...But  even though it's long, I wouldn't touch a note, it's a concept album and each track is an important part of the story, touching it would be some sort of blasphemy. 

I always believed that from Trespass to Foxtrot, Genesis developed a unique dark and dense atmosphere that falls over the listener as thick mist, that sound created mostly by the interplay between Hackett and Banks is somehow lost in SEbP and exchanged for a lighter and more friendly sound, in The Lamb they return to the obscure sound, but less successful.

Iván

Spoken wisely!  

Hackett & Banks are sublime on The Lamb, but it goes on a bit too long for my tastes.  Foxtrot has its weak moments with "Time Table" and "Horizons," but overall, the power of the remaining music is amazing. 

The F word in this case as you guessed is 'filler' , the (poor) joke on my part is that f**k is censored here and so indeed should filler be as it should not be uttered when talking about the Lamb.  As snowsnow says those tracks that some think of as filler are either beautiful in their own right or/and play a part in the story which I always see as a film soundtrack.  See 'It' which I always imagined to be playing as the credits ran at the end.  Anyway, we / I do not know what was in their mind at the time and I have no right to edit it.  For me its my favourite of theirs  so I am biased too.  Take a part away and you destroy more than just that little bit like taking part of Supper's Ready away.

 

Apologies for non native speakers of English. 

 

The 'making that clear' was a joke too as you might have guessed.  But of a similarly poor standard.

 

 

 

Foxtrot for me.