Supper's Ready, The Musical Box or The

[ArnoldLayne]

Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and why?

[dawg]

1. Supper's Ready!!!

It's the most epic of the three choices. It basically begins with Peter Gabriel's wife getting possessed and then follows through into a bizarre retelling of the Book of Revelations, with lots of interesting and melodic little twists along the way.

Also, Willow Farm rules.

[ArnoldLayne]

4. I agree Supper's Ready is a Classic Progressive Rock

song..very Epic

[Miles Archer]

2. Supper's Ready, because...

...I saw Genesis at Winterland on the "Wind & Wuthering" tour (the same set list that became the "Seconds Out" live album.

Collins tore that stage up, particularly the "Gods of Magog" segment, and one of the big treats of the concert was when he would leave the microphone at center stage and climb up to his drum kit and the twin thunder of Collins and Chester Thompson would fill the hall. That happened in "Supper's Ready" and to call that evening's performance of the song "majestic" would be an understatement.

[hifiguy]

3. The Lamb

for the sheer creepiness of "The Carpet Crawlers" and the ass-kicking rock and roll of "it."

But given a choice, I take Selling England By The Pound every time.

[ArnoldLayne]

6. My favorite album is Foxtrot

[cemaphonic]

5. The Musical Box

I think this has some of Collins' best drumming - jazz inflected, and has some great interplay between him and the guitar lines. And I love that Baroque organ riff toward the end of the song - it's totally cheezball when other prog bands do this sort of thing, but it works here. I also like the variety of guitar textures, fingerpicking, heavy blues lead, slide, etc. And the story is totally crazy and creepy.

Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is alright, but it always sounds to me like Genesis aping Quadrophenia.