Genesis – Selling England by The Pond (1973)

A1 	Dancing With The Moonlit Knight 	8:02
A2 	I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) 	4:03
A3 	Firth Of Fifth 	9:36
A4 	More Fool Me    (Vocals – Phil Collins)	3:10

B1 	The Battle Of Epping Forest 	11:43
B2 	After The Ordeal 	4:07
B3 	The Cinema Show 	11:06
B4 	Aisle Of Plenty 	1:34

Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Phil Collins
Electric Guitar, Guitar [Nylon String Guitar] – Stephen Hackett
Keyboards, Twelve-String Guitar – Tony Banks
Twelve-String Guitar, Bass, Sitar [Electric Sitar] – Michael Rutherford
Vocals, Flute, Oboe, Percussion – Peter Gabriel

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. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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