'Suppers Ready', on the other hand, sounds like a collection of ten wholly sub-standard tunes tacked together to make a nonsensical side-long epic out of assorted pigs' ears because someone in the band might have heard Pink Floyd's 'Echoes' the year before and thought that this was the way of the future. The arch giveaway here is that the band build themselves up into such a blurry Onanistic frenzy through this piece of drivel that they resort to roping the usual biblical sludge into the very end of it because You Can't Get Bigger Than God and that makes for a finale beyond all others, perhaps even one that makes you forget that the rest of it makes no sense at all. The manner in which a myriad lost and clueless souls have tried to read 'meaning' into the lyrics (partly fed by one P Gabriel who thought it wise to come up with some sort of vague meaning for these broken-but-glued-together ideas, as the chances of being approached by people enquiring 'what the shiny green fuck does this mean?' were better than merely 'high') describes the other lexicographical games that proved Bacon wrote Shakespeare, The Pope is the beast of the Revelation and that an infinite number of typewriting monkeys will one day rattle out the words 'a misplaced footfall made him stray from the path prepared for him'.
Lizard wins by a KO but misses the title shot.
Mike Dickson
Mark Pring wrote:
Not sure which is worse, Supper's ready or Lizard. On
balance I think Supper's ready is just worst, as the
end of Lizard is quite interesting on headphones and
Supper's ready has no redeeming features, on other
hand Lizard has Jon Anderson, hmmm.
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