Foxtrot

This article explains the music album; for other meanings, see Foxtrot (disambiguation) .

Foxtrot
Genesis studio album
Publication (s)	October 6, 1972
admission	August 1972
Label (s)	Charisma Records
Format (s)	CD, DVD, Hybrid-SACD, LP
Genre (s)	Progressive rock
Title (number)	6th
running time	50:53
occupation	Peter Gabriel : vocals , flute , oboe Tony Banks : keyboard , vocals Phil Collins : drums , percussion , vocals Steve Hackett : guitar Mike Rutherford : guitar , bass
production	David Hitchcock
Studio (s)	Island Studios, London (England)
chronology Nursery Cryme (1971) Foxtrot Genesis Live (1973)

Peter Gabriel in stage costume for Watcher of the Skies

Foxtrot ( English for "Foxtrot") is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Genesis . It was released in October 1972 and is the second work of the first Genesis line-up with Peter Gabriel , Tony Banks , Mike Rutherford , Phil Collins and Steve Hackett . Foxtrot is considered a classic of the progressive rock phase of Genesis in the 1970s .

Musical background

With Supper's Ready , Foxtrot contains one of the most widely regarded longtracks in the history of progressive rock. This 23-minute epic consists of seven musically independent parts that fit together harmoniously to form a complete work. In addition to Supper's Ready , Watcher of the Skies is another classic of the band, which has long been in Genesis' concert repertoire.

In addition to musical innovations such as the 9/8 time signature at Supper's Ready , the band continued their lyrical versatility. So is Watcher of the Skies from a science fiction credit history of Arthur C. Clarke , while Timetable on melancholy, the romantic image of the medieval reflects life. Get 'em out by Friday tells of a rather subversive dystopia in which a couple is forced to sell their apartment under unfounded promises. Can-Utility and the Coastliners again focuses on the legend that the Viking king Cnut the Great (ger .: Canute the Great ) to have brought the sea to retreat. Lastly, Supper's Ready is an extensive and psychedelic collection of texts on the intricacies of modern life with numerous religious and mythical references.

Track list

All titles were written by Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett and Mike Rutherford.

1. Watcher of the Skies - 7:19
2. Time Table - 4:42
3. Get 'em out by Friday - 8:35 am
4. Can-Utility and the Coastliners - 5:43
5. Horizons - 1:39
6. Supper's Ready - 22:53

   I. Lover's Leap

   II. The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man

   III. Ikhnaton and Itsacon and Their Band of Merry Men

   IV. How Dare I Be so Beautiful?

   V. Willow Farm

   VI. Apocalypse in 9/8 (Co-Starring the Delicious Talents of Gabble Ratchet)

   VII. As Sure as Eggs Is Eggs (Aching Men's Feet)

Charts

Album: (GB place 12, D place 45)

occupation

• Peter Gabriel - vocals , flute , Howarth oboe , percussion
• Tony Banks - organ , mellotron , piano , 12-string guitar , vocals
• Mike Rutherford - electric bass , bass pedal , 12-string guitar, cello , vocals
• Steve Hackett - electric guitar , 12-string guitar
• Phil Collins - drums , percussion, vocals

reception

In its book Rock - The Complete Works of the Greatest Rock Acts in Check: All Albums, All Songs (Part 1), the magazine eclipsed describes the album as “in sum” as Genesis' “most diverse and coherent album”. This u. a. because of the track Supper's Ready , which "with its thousand ideas and moods [...] belongs to the most lyrical and eventful prog pieces of all time". Consequently, the magazine awards the work the highest category Kaufrausch and it lands in first place in this publication in the overall view of all Genesis albums.

For Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic , Foxtrot is "the rare art rock album that excels in both art and rock" and it is "therefore a high point of the genre (and of the decade)". The work received the full rating of 5 stars from him.

The magazine Rock Hard ranks the album at number 1 in a list of the 15 most important progressive rock albums. The editor Michael Rensen especially points out the emotionality that grabs the listener: “The LP grabs you deeper, much deeper, completely down in your soul, where music never otherwise penetrates. "

In June 2015, the renowned trade journal Rolling Stone voted the album 14th of the 50 best progressive rock albums of all time .

Web links

• Reviews of Foxtrot on the baby blue pages

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sascha Seiler, Walter Sehrer, Joe Asmodo, Matthias Bergert, Mike Borrink, Marcus Wicker, Steven Thomson, Wolfram Porr, Michael Fuchs-Gambock, Carsten Agthe: Genesis . In: eclipsed-Redaktion (Hrsg.): Rock - The complete works of the greatest rock acts in check: all albums, all songs . Part 1. Sysyphus Verlag GmbH, Aschaffenburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86852-646-2 , p. 8-21 .
2. ^ Foxtrot - AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine. In: Allmusic.com. Retrieved April 19, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Rock Hard No. 277, June 2010, p. 84.
4. ^ Dan Epstein: 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time - Genesis, 'Foxtrot' (1972). In: Rolling Stone . Wenner Media, June 17, 2015, accessed on September 23, 2015 .