it must be a miracle that such a group ever existed (and this goes for Yes, Gong, Caravan, KC, White Noise, Van der Graaf & many more then...) These experiences led Gabriel to contemplate notions of good against evil and the supernatural, and eventually inspired the lyrics to not only "Lover's Leap", the opening section, but the entire song. Later he summaried that "Supper's Ready" describes a personal journey through various scenes from the Book of Revelation. He gave a more detailed summary in Tony Palmer's book All You Need Is Love–"The ultimate cosmic battle for Armageddon between good and evil in which man is destroyed, but the deaths of countless thousands atone for mankind, reborn no longer as Homo sapiens". [13] Gabriel also cited the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress as a source of inspiration, as with the story to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974), his final album with the group. [6] Recording [ edit ] https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/genesis-announce-north-american-dates-last-domino-tour-1162641/

Good vs. Evil: The song portrays a battle between good and evil, with each section representing a stage of the conflict. The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man and his followers can be seen as the forces of evil, while the unnamed narrator (who appears in several sections) and the unnamed heroes in Willow Farm represent the forces of good. And, I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.Anche l’interludio scorre libero in Willow Farm. Apocalypse in 9/8 (Co-Starring the Delicious Talents of Gabble Ratchet) (15:36 – 20:50) Dalla finestra spalancata, Peter vide strane figure con tuniche bianche nel prato che non era il solito prato della casa dei genitori di Jill.

Bowman, Durrell (2016). Experiencing Peter Gabriel: A Listener's Companion. Rowman & Littlefield. p.29. ISBN 9781442252004. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a Human(s); and the number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six - - 666.

It still really works for me. It’s one of those things when we were playing along, it seemed to have a direction. The early part, the acoustic part, was a piece that I’d written on the guitar and I thought it had great atmosphere and it could go somewhere else. We’d already done the song “The Musical Box“ on the previous album, and the idea was perhaps this to be the follow-up of “The Musical Box“. But, we were going along, and it was doing some nice stuff, and then we had this other song, it was a song of Peter’s called “ Willow Farm“ that was a separate song. We were doing this pretty little bit in the middle of “Supper’s Ready“, and I thought, wouldn’t it be fantastic if we stopped the song suddenly and just go into this “Willow Farm“, really ugly little downward chord sequence that happens at the front of it. I thought it would just be such a great contrast.

Pythagoras and his students believed that everything was related to mathematics and that numbers were the ultimate reality and, through mathematics, everything could be predicted and measured in rhythmic patterns or cycles. According to Iamblichus, Pythagoras once said that "number is the ruler of forms and ideas and the cause of gods and demons." Compare this with Peter's programme where Pythagoras - a greek extra in this drama - is deliriously happy that he has measured out just enought milk and honey on his cornflakes - a measurement of taste? Is there really no accounting for taste? Scientifically speaking - yes. Also, if number is the cause of gods and demons, then compare this with note (32). L’ego di King l’aveva indotto a sottovalutarli, ora i Genesis si ricordano di lui e gli dedicano questa parte di Supper’s Ready che parla del mito di Narciso, che si piaceva talmente tanto venne trasformato in fiore mentre si specchiava nell’acqua.

1. It’s 23 minutes long

To activate one's prayer capsule is an interesting science-fiction type of phrase. It also implies that the followers of the G.E.S.M.'s relgion no longer rely on personal initiative to send thoughts and well wishes to those around them in prayer - all they have to do is pop a pill, and their prayers are sent. Compare this to the current practice in medicine, where instead of costing a fortune in insurance to have regular visits to a psycho-analyst, the chemical companies make it cheaper to simply hand out prozac or similar antidepressants.

Mike from Buffalo Ny, NyThe musical concept is way ahead of its time. The timing changes and the various types of sounds is absolutely incredible! I cavalieri dalla pelle scura sono quasi sicuramente guerrieri del faraone Ikhnaton (“Servitore di Aten“), raro modo di chiamare il signore egizio conosciuto come Amenhotep IV (“Lo Spirito di Amon è Soddisfatto”). Poi, i Genesis scrivono anche gli altri pezzi, sette canzoni da 3-4 minuti l’una che unite assieme saranno Supper’s Ready. A sua volta un mini album dentro Foxtrot. In the tale told by Ovid, Echo, a nymph, falls in love with a vain youth named Narcissus, who was the son of the blue Nymph Leirope of Thespia. The river god Cephisus had once encircled Leirope with the windings of his streams, and thus trapping her, had seduced the nymph. Concerned about the baby's welfare, Leirope went to consult the prophet Teiresias regarding her son's future. Teiresias told the nymph that Narcissus "would live to a ripe old age, as long as he never knew himself." From an interview in 1980: G: "The land [on the farm where I lived as a child] used to belong to my grandfather, and there is a big house, Coxhill, which is lived in by a guru now. It's the house where I imagined the story of 'Musical Box' taking place, a big Victorian manor with wood paneling, a billiard room, and croquet lawn. I used to look at the dragonflies - butterflies, flutterbies, gutterflies! They used to fly around the river on the farm and now, fifteen years later, they have all dissapeared, which is sad."Also compared here is a germ in a seed that grows. This brings to mind the phrase "germ of an idea". Also it is connected with note (26) and (27). Oppure vuole dire che unificare le religioni è solo una fregatura, un imbroglio di chi vuole far credere che una religione sia superiore a un’altra. But, we were going along, and it was doing some nice stuff, and then we had this other song, it was a song of Peter's called 'Willow Farm' that was a separate song. We were doing this pretty little bit in the middle of 'Supper's Ready,' and I thought, wouldn't it be fantastic if we stopped the song suddenly and just go into this 'Willow Farm,' really ugly little downward chord sequence that happens at the front of it. I thought it would just be such a great contrast. Sometimes Phil Collins would pretend he wasn't listening by saying "I'm sorry everybody, I wasn't actually paying attention to what he was saying", then start playing a jazzy little riff on the hi-hat. Peter would then improvise some vocal sounds like "Bom tiddly BAM toodly doobim toodoo" or something like that.)