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GENESIS A Trick Of The Tail 1976 UK CHARISMA w/INNER NEAR MINT GENESIS
A Trick Of The Tail

1976 UK Charisma (CDS 4001)
*****Second Press with lightly textured sleeve and the Old Compton Street address for Charisma:
"Marketed by Charisma Records Ltd, 70 Old Compton Street, London W1." ****
GREAT COPY, ONCE PLAYED AND LIKE NEW

MATRIX: (crossed out) A//3 T 1 1, CDS 4001 A/3 / CDS 4001 B//3 T 12 11

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 survive without its former leader

Side A:
Dance On A Volcano (5:52)
Entangled (6:25)
Squonk (6:26)
Mad Man Moon (7:32)
Side B:
Robbery, Assault And Battery (6:13)
Ripples (8:02)
A Trick Of The Tail (4:32)
Los Endos (5:47)

LABELS: NEAR MINT / MINT
A clean, unmarked set of labels with little signs of use.
One spindle trace on one side, none on the other
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT / MINT
Both sides shine like new with just one superficial hairline on Side A
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays like new throughout with an occasional light tick and one click on Side A but nothing else to fault and I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate so these may well disappear after a clean/ spins
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
The lightly textured gatefold is as crisp, sharp and fresh as the day it was made with just one tiny mark (small stain) on the bottom front
INNER SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Again like-new with just one tiny mark (small stain) in one corner

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