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GENESIS. FOXTROT. CHARISMA CAS1058 G/F UK 1972-ORIG LP

GENESIS.----------FOXTROT.

ORIGINAL UK RELEASE ON THE FAMOUS CHARISMA LABEL.

CAT No CAS. 1058. 1972. GATEFOLD SLEEVE . MAD HATTER LABEL.

MATRIX A1/B1.

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ORIGINAL FIRST ISSUE

Foxtrot is the fourth studio album by British progressive rock band Genesis and the second from the "classic" lineup of Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, and Steve Hackett.

Album history

The album was recorded and released in 1972 as the band's career quickly gained momentum. Foxtrot was also Genesis' first album to enter the UK charts, reaching # 12 and paving the way for a long and successful chart career for the band. Still, it failed to reach the US charts, as their contemporaries, Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Jethro Tull, and to a lesser extent, Pink Floyd, were more popular at the time. It was not the first Genesis album to appear in the charts: Trespass had reached #1 in Belgium in 1971, shortly followed by Nursery Cryme's #4 placing in Italy. Foxtrot managed to better its predecessor's performance by attaining the #1 position in the Italian charts.

Both "Watcher of the Skies" and "Supper's Ready" rank among some of the band's most popular works, and became live favourites. "Watcher of the Skies" and "Get 'Em Out by Friday" appeared on 1973's Genesis Live, while the 23-minute-long "Supper's Ready" was omitted due to space considerations. Live versions of that track did appear on 1977's Seconds Out (with Phil Collins on vocals), as well as the 1998 box set Genesis Archive 1967-75.

"Can-Utility and the Coastliners" is based on the legend of King Canute, who supposedly ordered the seas to retreat to mock the sycophancy of his followers. An early, longer version of the song found its way into pre-album live sets; known as "Bye Bye Johnny", it featured an extended instrumental section in which the haunting Mellotron string sound dominated. However this particular version never made it to the recording stage.

"Horizons" starts with the central idea of Bach's Prelude of the first Cello Suite and then develops its own piece, baroque style. The song accomplishes the function of a prelude.

The title of the album may be a nod to the Mellotron Mark II used by Banks at the time, which included foxtrot as one of the preset rhythms in its tapeset. The 'fox on the rocks' (a phrase itself reminiscent of the works of Dr. Seuss) is mentioned in the lyrics of the "Willow Farm" section of "Supper's Ready", and is featured in the album artwork. This figure in a red dress with a fox's head became one of Gabriel's earliest stage costumes.

Track listing

All songs by Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford.

 Side one

1. "Watcher of the Skies" – 7:21
2. "Time Table" – 4:45
3. "Get 'Em Out by Friday" – 8:36
4. "Can-Utility and the Coastliners" – 5:44

 Side two

1. "Horizons"[1] – 1:39
2. "Supper's Ready" – 22:54

1. "Lover's Leap"
2. "The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man"
3. "Ikhnaton and Itsacon and Their Band of Merry Men"
4. "How Dare I Be So Beautiful?"
5. "Willow Farm"
6. "Apocalypse in 9/8 (co-starring the delicious talents of Gabble Ratchet)"
7. "As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs (Aching Men's Feet)"

 Sound

With Trespass and Nursery Cryme as warmups, Foxtrot was the album that finally showed the full promise of Genesis as a progressive rock band. Book-ended by "Watcher of the Skies" and the 23-minute "Supper's Ready", Foxtrot's sound shares much with Nursery Cryme while demonstrating a marked improvement in terms of songwriting, musicianship, and overall production. Rutherford made more prominent use of his bass pedals, for example adding great slabs of bass to the middle section of "Can-Utility and the Coastliners", and using them as the main bass instrument for most of "Supper's Ready". Banks' mellotron introduction to "Watcher of the Skies" is one of the most celebrated uses of the instrument in rock music[citation needed] - so much so that the manufacturers of the mellotron, Streetly Electronics, now supply the "Watcher Mix" sound as a mellotron tape set.

 Personnel

• Peter Gabriel – vocals, flute, percussion, oboe
• Steve Hackett – guitar
• Tony Banks – organ, guitar, piano, electric piano, mellotron, vocals
• Mike Rutherford – bass, guitar, vocals, bass pedals, cello
• Phil Collins – drums, percussion, vocals

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