FOXTROT

This record, together with The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, can easily be classified as the best of Genesis in their golden years, I find myself always going back to these two (well three!...) records and never do I get tired of them. There are always new elements you notice, new sounds hidden away in the mix. Depending on your hi-fi equipment you'll notice one or another subtlety each time you listen. Then there's the grandious music! Banks really gives his best on this masterpiece, Hackett gets a bit more space and even an intro track for the Opus Magnum that is Supper's Ready. The lyrics, all the way through, are pure genius and very interesting reading too. Some tracks have sections that are so beautiful that you can't listen to them without losing your breath, for example Can-Utility and the Coastliners has an instrumental section with Tony Banks leading that really blows me away, every time! I just have to listen to it at full volume to feel it with all my senses... wow... you just say "it's great to be alive to enjoy this musical treat!". That's how the whole record is, you enjoy it all, there are no soft spots, no duds, all top notch prog. Whoever doesn't appreciate this is either deaf, dead or just trying to be obnoxious :-)