Supper's Ready Ultimate Poll!

akamaisondufromage wrote: irrelevant wrote: I've listened to it about twice and thought it was meh. Not bad, but meh.    Meh bleedin meh!  I hate it , maybe but meh?  Suppers Ready?  Meh?  Good Grief!

irrelevant wrote: akamaisondufromage wrote: irrelevant wrote: I've listened to it about twice and thought it was meh. Not bad, but meh.    Meh bleedin meh!  I hate it , maybe but meh?  Suppers Ready?  Meh?  Good Grief!  I don't hate it, well I don't like the first part at all. But overall I think it's nothing special and just average.

Edited by Ytse_Jam - October 08 2012 at 13:53

It was the epitome of the movement of music at the time. It is historically supremely important.

Mostly bored.  No real desire to ever fire it up.

I find it an excellent song, among my favourites. Though it did take a bit of time to reach that status, at first I found it rather dull and didn't understand all the fuss about it. I do sort of like the studio version better, though both live versions I know have parts I like more than on the studio one; specially the second half, which is much more powerful, and I like Phil's singing it better on Seconds Out. However, both live versions butcher the "comic" part in the middle, while on the studio version I actually like it pretty much, and I find the song to be perfect from beginning to end, one fabulous musical passage after another. Also, I do understand people might see it as separate pieces of music patched together, but for me they just flow perfectly and wouldn't think about listening to any of them on its own, I must listen to the whole piece.

I'm really very surprised how much adored is this Epic here... I imagine you all like this:

Gandalff wrote: I'm really very surprised how much adored is this Epic here... I imagine you all like this:

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Not really. It is just recognised by many prog rock fans as a great work. It ticks many boxes; composition, musicianship (especially considering the bands age at the time), atmosphere, concept etc.

It's not for everyone, but is any piece of music. I remain underwhelmed by Caravan, but accept that they adored by many. Each to their own.

Willow Farm and the Apocalypse in 9/8 are awesome, but the rest doesn't do much for me. Objectively, I can see why the ending would be cathartic, but subjectively I feel nothing. So I voted for "I like it!". I remain underwhelmed by many of these so-called "epics".

Shamed to say, being a prog head in the 70's (blame the hick town I lived in, could not find much Genesis), I had not fully heard Supper's Ready until about 6 years ago when I purchased Foxtrot.  Absolutely loved it at first listen.  It slowly winds its way through many wonderful phases then crescendos to a climatic end.  Epics need to build upon itself...