Genesis

Selling England By The Pound (1973)

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Genesis proved that they could rock on Foxtrot but on its follow-up Selling England by the Pound they didn't follow this route, they returned to the English eccentricity of their first records, which wasn't so much a retreat as a consolidation of powers. For even if this eight-track album has no one song that hits as hard as "Watcher of the Skies," Genesis hasn't sacrificed the newfound immediacy of Foxtrot: they've married it to their eccentricity, finding ways to infuse it into the delicate whimsy that's been their calling card since the beginning. This, combined with many overt literary allusions -- the Tolkeinisms of the title of "The Battle of Epping Forest" only being the most apparent -- gives this album a storybook quality. It plays as a collection of short stories, fables, and fairy tales, and it is also a rock record, which naturally makes it quite extraordinary as a collection, but also as a set of individual songs. Genesis has never been as direct as they've been on the fanciful yet hook-driven "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" -- apart from the fluttering flutes in the fade-out, it could easily be mistaken for a glam single -- or as achingly fragile as on "More Fool Me," sung by Phil Collins. It's this delicate balance and how the album showcases the band's narrative force on a small scale as well as large that makes this their arguable high-water mark.





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Analyzed: Genesis / Selling England By The Pound

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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track

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DR12      -1.48 dB   -17.98 dB      8:04 01-Dancing With The Moonlit Knight

DR12      -1.02 dB   -16.43 dB      4:07 02-I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)

DR12      -1.47 dB   -17.39 dB      9:36 03-Firth Of Fifth

DR14      -5.77 dB   -26.60 dB      3:12 04-More Fool Me

DR13      -0.70 dB   -18.39 dB     11:46 05-The Battle Of Epping Forest

DR12      -4.86 dB   -20.65 dB      4:18 06-After The Ordeal

DR13      -1.68 dB   -18.83 dB     12:39 07-The Cinema Show/Aisle Of Plenty



Number of tracks:  7

Official DR value: DR13



Samplerate:        96000 Hz

Channels:          2

Bits per sample:   24

Bitrate:           2629 kbps

Codec:             FLAC









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