Description
Offered for sale is a Japanese pressing of A Trick of the Tail by Genesis, including the original obi.
About this copy: This copy of A Trick of the Tail is a 1983 Japanese pressing of an album that was originally issued in 1976.
Unlike earlier issues, this copy does not feature a gatefold cover.
The cover is VG++ and close to M- with slight fading at the top edge. The obi is VG+, with slight fading, but no wrinkles or tears.
The lyric insert is M-.
The disc is M- with a couple of spindle marks on the labels, but no marks on the vinyl. Clean disc!
A nice copy of a terrific LP.
Background: Released in 1976, A Trick of the Tail was the seventh album by Genesis and the band’s first with Phil Collins on lead vocals.
The album reached #3 on the UK charts and #31 on the U.S. charts.
Allmusic.com gave A Trick of the Tail a 4 1/2 star review:
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.
| Country of origin: | Japan |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Charisma |
| Catalog Number: |
20PP-70 |
| Year of Release: | 1983 |
| Format: | Stereo |
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