Foxtrot | Loppylugs

Submitted by Matthew Baker on 17 February 2013 - 9:34pm

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Artist:

Genesis

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a_97

Nationality:

Year:

1 972

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0000

Num-of-tracks:

Track-listing:

Watcher of the Skies*Time Table*Get 'Em Out by Friday*Can-Utility and the Coastliners*Horizons*Supper's Ready

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

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m_36

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Spotify-URL:

1P9AuGH530Oy9JEW5XVuxo

Grooveshark-URL:

Foxtrot/180972

Short-title:

foxtrot

nominator-ID:

u_2

Meeting-date:

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

MusicBrainz-URL:

release-group/81d890d2-e71a-3e96-b3f1-4ddb3b6feb81

Wikipedia-URL:

Foxtrot_(album)

Spotify-link-type:

album

Discogs-URL:

Genesis-Foxtrot/master/28853

Allmusic-URL:

foxtrot-mw0000196095

BBC-URL:

68dp

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reviewed by

Matthew Baker

the dangers of public school

6

I wish I could go back in time, just for a day, to some dreary 70s festival; get pissed on, driunk on cider and spiked with bad acid wearing terrbile clothes; carry a leaking, massively heavy ex army tent and then maybe get a feel off some girl with a really hairy fanny. Then Jethro Tull would play I'd reconnect with my folk heritage, or some shit. But Genesis would save the day with their time signatures and Peter Gabriel being a weird cunt.
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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

If you go down to Willow Farm

6

Longer pieces do often suit a lot of bands in this era / style and the stand out piece for me was the much heralded Supper’s Ready. This is much more ambitious musically and lyrically than the rest of the album, and partly works for me as it's not trying to tell a slightly awkward and twee little tale but is just a mad splurge of slightly surreal and off the wall ideas, a lot of it is pretty funny, too.

I am a big fan of Phil Collins' drumming, I think he's great, he does play it as a bit of a lead instrument though and I'm not sure he's always holding the often-changing time-signatures and tempos together that well. It doesnt help that there aren't really strong following-the-beat bass lines to try and pin the rhythms down either. Supper’s Ready felt, again, like a bit of an exception - like they had rehearsed this a lot more.

You gotta luvv the Mellotron and Steve Hackett's occasional searing lead lines and you got to admire their ambition but if it wasn't for the last track I wouldnt be taking it out of its dust cover too often I have to admit.
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reviewed by

Richard Norbury
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Genesis, we're not supposed to like them. I would have been persecuted at school if I admitted to listening to this. I wish it would calm down a bit, everything seems to be trying to be too complicated, but overall it's an interesting listen and not too bad.