History Music / SuppersReady

* {{Narcissist}}: "How Dare I Be So Beautiful?", which directly alludes to the myth of Narcissus staring at his reflection in the pond and getting turned into a flower.

* UncommonTime: "[[CaptainObvious Apocalypse in 9/8]]"[[note]]Which is actually more accurately described as ''9/4''.[[/note]]. The Hammond L-122 tonewheel organ solo is an exception as parts of it are in CommonTime.

* {{Bookends}}: "Lover's Leap" and "As Sure as Eggs Is Eggs" both open with the same melody (though the bulk of the latter actually uses the main melody of "Ikhnaton and Itsacon").

* EpicRocking: Teases throughout, until Apocalypse in 9/8, when they never look back. The song as a whole is 23 minutes long, so it definitely counts.

"Supper's Ready" is a seven-part song by the seminal progressive rock band Music/{{Genesis}}, appearing on their 1972 album ''Foxtrot''. At around 23 minutes long, it takes up one side of the original vinyl release (apart from a brief unrelated instrumental entitled "Horizons") and is Genesis' first real RockOpera (if "The Musical Box" doesn't count, anyway). Alongside ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway'', it's one of the major contributors to Genesis' lasting reputation and influence on progressive rock, and it's exactly how a surrealist prog-rock opera should be done.

Note that, while this is the only twenty-plus-minute suite Genesis released, it's not the only one they wrote. From ''Selling England by the Pound'', "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight", "The Cinema Show", and "Aisle of Plenty" were originally conceived as a single composition, but the band split "Dancing" and "The Cinema Show" up after deciding it was too similar to "Supper's Ready". Also, from ''Duke'', "Behind the Lines", "Duchess", "Guide Vocal", "Turn It On Again", "Duke's Travels", and "Duke's End" were originally a side-length suite as well, but the band split it up for a number of reasons, similarities to "Supper's Ready" being one of them. The latter of these was still performed in its entirety live, however (it is sometimes referred to as "The Story of Albert" when performed in this form).

** There's also a gentle flute-and-guitar segment between "Willow Farm" and "Apocalypse in 9/8" that lasts for about two minutes; it doesn't clearly belong to either movement, as its melody and chord progression aren't found in either of them (or, indeed, anywhere else in the song). Because it isn't given a title, it could almost be considered an unusual early example of a HiddenTrack.

!!The song is divided into:[[note]]Track lengths are unofficial[[/note]]

#"Willow Farm" - 4:33[[note]]counting an interlude of about 1:54 that doesn't definitively belong to either this or the following movement, as detailed under SubduedSection below; excluding the interlude, "Willow Farm" runs for about 2:39[[/note]]

"Supper's Ready" is a seven-part song by the seminal progressive rock band Music/{{Genesis}}, appearing on their 1972 album ''Foxtrot''. At 23 minutes long, it takes up one side of the original vinyl release (apart from a brief unrelated instrumental entitled "Horizons") and is Genesis' first real RockOpera (if "The Musical Box" doesn't count, anyway). Alongside ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway'', it's one of the major contributors to Genesis' lasting reputation and influence on progressive rock, and it's exactly how a surrealist prog-rock opera should be done.

!!The song is divided into:
#"Lover's Leap"
#"The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man"
#"Ikhnaton and Itsacon and Their Band of Merry Men"
#"How Dare I Be So Beautiful?"
#"Willow Farm"
#"Apocalypse in 9/8 (Co-Starring the Delicious Talents of Gabble Ratchet)"
#"As Sure as Eggs Is Eggs (Aching Men's Feet)"

* SubduedSection: Between "Apocalypse in 9/8" and "As Sure as Eggs Is Eggs". All of the instruments drop out, the flute comes in, then church bells, then a drum roll, then quieting under Peter's vocals, followed by full instrumentation returning via a drum break.

* UncommonTime: "[[CaptainObvious Apocalypse in 9/8]]". The Hammond L-122 tonewheel organ solo is an exception as parts of it are in CommonTime.

Note that, while this is the only twenty-plus-minute suite Genesis released, it's not the only one they wrote. From ''Selling England by the Pound'', "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight", "The Cinema Show", and "Aisle of Plenty" were originally conceived as a single composition, but the band split "Dancing" and "The Cinema Show" up after deciding it was too similar to "Supper's Ready". Also, from ''Duke'', "Behind the Lines", "Duchess", "Guide Vocal", "Turn It On Again", "Duke's Travels", and "Duke's End" were originally a side-length suite as well, but the band split it up for a number of reasons, similarities to "Supper's Ready" being one of them. The latter of these was still performed in its entirety live, however.

* LyricalColdOpen

* MindScrew

Note that, while this is the only twenty-plus-minute suite Genesis released, it's not the only one they wrote. From ''Selling England by the Pound'', "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight", "The Cinema Show", and "Aisle of Plenty" were originally conceived as a single composition, but the band split "Dancing" and "The Cinema Show" up after deciding it was too similar to "Supper's Ready". Also, from ''Duke'', "Behind the Lines", "Duchess", "Guide Vocal", "Turn It On Again", "Duke's Travels", and "Duke's End" were originally a side-length suite as well, but the band split it up for a number of reasons. The latter of these was still performed in its entirety live, however.

* UncommonTime: "[[CaptainObvious Apocalypse in 9/8]]". The solo is an exception as parts of it are in CommonTime.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The lyrics to "Lover's Leap" are heavily based on a real-life supernatural experience that Peter Gabriel and his then-wife Jill had at her parents' house.

* TriumphantReprise: The initial singing of "Lover's Leap" isn't necessarily dark, per se, but since it's at the beginning, it's clear that problems are about to occur very soon for the protagonists. When the lyrics are reprised after "Apocalypse in 9/8", the tone is much more positive, especially since it leads directly into the triumphant finale.

Note that, while this is the only twenty-plus-minute suite Genesis released, it's not the only one they wrote. From ''Selling England by the Pound'', "Dancing with the Moonlit Knight", "The Cinema Show", and "Aisle of Plenty" were originally conceived as a single composition, but the band split the two up after deciding it was too similar to "Supper's Ready". Also, from ''Duke'', "Behind the Lines", "Duchess", "Guide Vocal", "Turn It On Again", "Duke's Travels", and "Duke's End" were originally a side-length suite as well, but the band split it up for a number of reasons. The latter of these was still performed in its entirety live, however.

!!"Supper's Ready" contains examples of:

* WinstonChurchill: In "Willow Farm", he's dressed [[CrossDresser in drag]] and used to be a British flag.[[note]]Plastic bag, what a drag.[[/note]]

* TheWalrusWasPaul: Gabriel's descriptions of the song do little to increase its comprehensibility. His way of announcing it at concerts was telling a [[ShaggyDogStory completely unrelated story]] (involving earthworms) ending on the punchline ''Supper's Ready''.

* EpicRocking: teases throughout, until Apocalypse in 9/8, when they never look back.

* {{Narcissist}}: "How Dare I Be So Beautiful?".

* WinstonChurchill: In "Willow Farm", he's dressed [[CrossDresser in drag]] and used to be a British flag.

* TheWalrusWasPaul: Gabriel's descriptions of the song do little to increase its comprehensibility. His way of announcing it at concerts was telling a [[ShaggyDogStory completely unrelated story]] (involving eartworms) ending on the punchline ''Supper's Ready''.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic

* SubduedSection: Between "Apocalypse in 9/8" and "As Sure as Eggs Is Eggs". All of the instruments drop out, the flute comes in, then church bells, then a drum roll, then quieting under Peter's vocals, followed by full instrumnetation returning via a drum break.

"Supper's Ready" is a seven-part song by the seminal progressive rock band Music/{{Genesis}}, appearing on their 1972 album ''Foxtrot''. At 23 minutes long, it takes up one side of the original vinyl release (apart from a brief unrelated instrumental entitled "Horizons") and is Genesis' first real RockOpera (if "The Musical Box" doesn't count, anyway). Alongside ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway'', It's one of the major contributors to Genesis' lasting reputation and influence on progressive rock, and it's exactly how a surrealist prog-rock opera should be done.

As Music/PeterGabriel has said, it's "a personal journey which ends up walking through scenes from Revelations in TheBible."

* GratuitousPanning: All throughout the song, but especially in "Willow Farm", in which the vocals very obviously pan from left to right during one line, and back to the left in the next.

"Supper's Ready" is a seven-part song by the seminal progressive rock band Music/{{Genesis}}, appearing on their 1972 album ''Foxtrot''. At 23 minutes long, it takes up one side of the original vinyl release (apart from a brief unrelated instrumental entitled "Horizons") and is Genesis' first real RockOpera. Alongside ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway'', It's one of the major contributors to Genesis' lasting reputation and influence on progressive rock, and it's exactly how a surrealist prog-rock opera should be done.

"Supper's Ready" is a seven-part song by the seminal progressive rock band Music/{{Genesis}}, appearing on their 1972 album ''Foxtrot''. At 23 minutes long, it takes up one side of the original vinyl release and is Genesis' first real RockOpera. Alongside ''Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway'', It's one of the major contributors to Genesis' lasting reputation and influence on progressive rock, and it's exactly how a surrealist prog-rock opera should be done.

As PeterGabriel has said, it's "a personal journey which ends up walking through scenes from Revelations in TheBible."

"Supper's Ready" is a seven-part song by the seminal progressive rock band Music/{{Genesis}}, appearing on their 1972 album ''Foxtrot''. At 23 minutes long, it takes up one side of the original vinyl release and is Genesis' first real RockOpera. Alongside ''TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway'', It's one of the major contributors to Genesis' lasting reputation and influence on progressive rock, and it's exactly how a surrealist prog-rock opera should be done.

* '''MindScrew'''