Product Description
Very Rare Actual 1976 Japanese First Pressing ~ Still In Beautiful Condition! Heavy Grade Textured Cover Includes Textured Insert With Lyrics In English & Japanese. Despite It Being The First Album Without Peter Gabriel (Phil Collins Took Over Lead Vocal Duties), ‘A Trick Of The Tail’ Is Undoubtedly One Of The Finest Works In The Genesis Oeuvre, Featuring “Dance On A Volcano”, “Squonk”, “Ripples”, Brilliant Instrumental Track “Los Endos” & More!
Condition – Vinyl: EXCELLENT! Couple of very light surface marks, which do not affect play. Sounds NM ~ fantastic!
Condition – Cover: EXCELLENT! Minor foxing, light shelf wear.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautiful packaging. It is no coincidence that all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! Top condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Dance On A Volcano
Entangled
Squonk
Mad Man Moon
Side 2:
Robbery, Assault And Battery
Ripples
A Trick Of The Tail
Los Endos
AMG –
In almost every respect, this feels like a truer sequel to Selling England by the Pound than Lamb, returning the group to the fanciful fairy tale nature of its earlier records. 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.