Artist: Genesis
Release: 1976
Format: LP
Label: Charisma
Catalog# 6369974
“A Trick Of
The Tail” is the seventh studio album by British progressive rock band Genesis
and the first to feature drummer Phil Collins as full-time lead vocalist
following the departure of original vocalist Peter Gabriel. It was released in
February 1976.
After Peter
Gabriel departed for a solo career, Genesis embarked on a long journey to find
a replacement, only to wind back around to their drummer, Phil Collins, as a
replacement. With Collins as their new frontman, the band decided not to pursue
the stylish, jagged postmodernism of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway a move
that Gabriel would do in his solo career and instead returned to the English
eccentricity of Selling England by the Pound for its next effort, A Trick of
the Tail. In almost every respect, this feels like a truer sequel to Selling
England by the Pound than Lamb; after all, that double album was obsessed with
modernity and nightmare, whereas this album returns the group to the fanciful
fairy tale nature of its earlier records. Also, Genesis were moving away from
the barbed pop of the first LP and returning to elastic numbers that showcased
their instrumental prowess, and they sounded more forceful and unified as a
band than they had since Foxtrot. Not that this album is quite as memorable as
Foxtrot or Selling England, largely because its songs aren't as immediate or
memorable: apart from "Dance on a Volcano," this is about the sound
of the band playing, not individual songs, and it succeeds on that level quite
wildly to the extent that it proved to longtime fans that Genesis could
possibly thrive without its former leader in tow.Side one
2. Entangled (6:26)
3. Squonk (6:29)
4. Mad Man Moon (7:35)
Side two
1. Robbery, Assault And Battery (6:16)
2. Ripples (8:06)
3. A Trick Of The Tail (4:34)
4. Los Endos (5:46)
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