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Genesis
Selling England By The Pound (1973)
FLAC LOSSLESS 24bit-96kHz
UK PBTHAL Vinyl Rip


allmusic.com...

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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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