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Album #3, the first with the lineup that we all know, Gabriel, Collins, Hackett, Rutherford and Banks. The theatrical side of Gabriel breaks out when touring for this album with The Musical Box being a crowd pleaser. Clip #1 is just superb. This album did not even chart in rhe U.S. and only reached #39 in the U.K. It was my introduction to a group which, while yet to reach it's potential, would become one of my favs for a brief time. Prog rock at its finest.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Harold The Barrel

Best Track - The Musical Box

Play me Old King Cole
That I may join with you,
All your hearts now seem so far from me
It hardly seems to matter now.

And the nurse will tell you lies
Of a kingdom beyond the skies.
But I am lost within this half-world,
It hardly seems to matter now.

Play me my song.
Here it comes again.
Play me my song.
Here it comes again.

Just a little bit,
Just a little bit more time,
Time left to live out my life.

Play me my song.
Here it comes again.
Play me my song.
Here it comes again.

Old King Cole was a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul was he.
So he called for his pipe,
And he called for his bowl,
And he called for his fiddlers three.

But the clock, tick-tock,
On the mantlepiece -
And I want, and I feel, and I know, and I touch,
the wall

She's a lady, she's got time,
Brush back your hair, and let me get to know your face.
She's a lady, she is mine.
Brush back your hair, and let me get to know your flesh.

I've been waiting here for so long
And all this time has passed me by
It doesn't seem to matter now
You stand there with your fixed expression
Casting doubt on all I have to say.
Why don't you touch me, touch me,
Why don't you touch me, touch me,
Touch me now, now, now, now, now...


1) The Musical Box - *** - live
YouTube - Genesis - The Musical Box (live '73) Remastered
2) For Absent Friends - ** - audio
YouTube - 02 - For Absent Friends | Genesis | Nursery Cryme
3) The Return Of The Giant Hogweed - ** - audio
YouTube - 03 - Return of the Giant Hogweed (The Dance of the Giant Hogweed) | Genesis | Nursery Cryme
4) Seven Stones - *** - audio
YouTube - 04 - Seven Stones | Genesis | Nursery Cryme
5) Harold The Barrel - * - audio
YouTube - 05 - Harold the Barrel | Genesis | Nursery Cryme
6) Harlequin - ** - audio
YouTube - 06 - Harlequin | Genesis | Nursery Cryme
7) The Fountain Of Salmacis - *** - live
YouTube - Genesis - The Fountain of Salmacis

3's - 3
2's - 3
1's - 1

Rating - 2.3