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* CallBack: One of the wolves in "White Mountain" being called One-Eye is probably a reference to "One Eyed Hound", a song made during the sessions for [[Music/FromGenesisToRevelation their previous album]].
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* CallBack: One of the wolves in "White Mountain" being called One-Eye is probably a reference to "One Eyed "One-Eyed Hound", a song made during the sessions for [[Music/FromGenesisToRevelation B-Side to their previous album]]."A Winter's Tale" single.
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* MeetTheNewBoss: How "The Knife" ends, with a victorious shout of "we have won" and a reprise of the lines "some of you are going to die; martyrs, of course, for the freedom that I shall provide," indicating that the song's narrator has become just as despotic of a tyrant as the evil that he overthrew.
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* NewSoundAlbum: The transformation from folk-inspired psychedelia to ProgressiveRock has taken root here, something that will be cemented through ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
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** While 8-track releases of the album preserve the original running order, a rarity for the format, "White Moutain", "Stagnation", and "Dusk" are all split into two parts due to them overlapping with the changeovers between programs.
** UK cassette releases swap "Looking for Someone" and "Stagnation", which incidentally results in side two being considerably shorter than side one.
** While 8-track releases of the album preserve the original running order, a rarity for the format, "White Moutain", "Stagnation", and "Dusk" are all split into two parts due to them overlapping with the changeovers between programs.
** UK cassette releases swap "Looking for Someone" and "Stagnation", which incidentally results in side two being considerably shorter than side one.
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* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Cassette releases in the UK, France, Germany, and Chile bill "Dusk" as "''The'' Dusk".
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* KnightTemplar: The protagonist of "The Knife", who winds up no better than the tyrants he overthrows.
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* KnightTemplar: The protagonist of "The Knife", who winds up no better than the tyrants he overthrows. As the song progresses, he goes from rallying people against evil to giving detailed instructions for massacres and mutilation; at the end of the song, he proclaims victory, but implies that he'll only continue pushing armed violence.
* KnightTemplar: The protagonist of "The Knife", who winds up no better than the tyrants he overthrows. As the song progresses, he goes from rallying people against evil to giving detailed instructions for massacres and mutilation; at the end of the song, he proclaims victory, but implies that he'll only continue pushing armed violence.
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* MusicalPastiche: "The Knife" was a pastiche of The Nice, to the extent that its WorkingTitle was in fact "Nice". The organ part was inspired by its then-up-and-coming organ player, one [[Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer Keith Emerson]].
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* MusicalPastiche: "The Knife" was a pastiche of The the Nice, to the extent that its WorkingTitle was in fact "Nice". The organ part was inspired by its then-up-and-coming organ player, one [[Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer Keith Emerson]].
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The interlude in "The Knife", where a group of soldiers mow down a crowd of protesters, was inspired by the Kent State University shootings in the United States from the previous year.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The interlude in "The Knife", where a group of soldiers mow down a crowd of protesters, was inspired by the Kent State University shootings in the United States from States, which occurred one month before the previous year.album began recording.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The interlude in "The Knife", where a group of soldiers mow down a crowd of protesters, was inspired by the Kent State University shootings in the United States from the previous year.
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''Trespass'' is the second album by Music/{{Genesis}}, released on 23 October 1970.
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''Trespass'' is the second album by Music/{{Genesis}}, Music/{{Genesis|Band}}, released on 23 October 1970.
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In the aftermath of ''Music/FromGenesisToRevelation'', the band split from producer Jonathan King and sought to find a new sound for themselves. After drummer John Silver departed the band to pursue an education in Cornell, Genesis started touring as a professional band with new drummer John Mayhew. It was while in residency in Soho that they had come across producer John Anthony, who signed them into the Creator/CharismaRecords label and brought them to Trident Studios in UsefulNotes/{{London}} to record. (In America, the album was originally licensed to Creator/ImpulseRecords, the {{jazz}} imprint of {{Creator/ABC|Records}}, who reissued it themselves years later.) The original run sold around six thousand copies, not highly successful but better than ''From Genesis to Revelation'', and enough to build up a live following. Much to their surprise it charted at #1 in UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}, leading to a first overseas concert there. Anthony Philips quit the band shortly after recording, almost splitting the band before they decided to name Mick Barnard as a replacement before settling on Music/SteveHackett. John Mayhew was also replaced with Music/PhilCollins in the intervening months before the release of ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
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In the aftermath of ''Music/FromGenesisToRevelation'', the band split from producer Jonathan King and sought to find a new sound for themselves. After drummer John Silver departed the band to pursue an education in Cornell, Genesis started touring as a professional band with new drummer John Mayhew. It was while in residency in Soho that they had come across producer John Anthony, who signed them into the Creator/CharismaRecords label and brought them to Trident Studios in UsefulNotes/{{London}} to record. (In In America, the album was originally licensed to Creator/ImpulseRecords, the {{jazz}} imprint of {{Creator/ABC|Records}}, Creator/{{ABC|Records}}, who reissued it themselves years later.) later; the US rights to the album would later be inherited by Creator/{{MCA}}, who own said Stateside rights to this day.
The original run sold around six thousand copies, not highly successful but better than ''From Genesis to Revelation'', and enough to build up a live following. Much to their surprise it charted at #1 in UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}, leading to a first overseas concert there. Anthony Philips quit the band shortly after recording, almost splitting the band before they decided to name Mick Barnard as a replacement before settling on Music/SteveHackett. John Mayhew was also replaced with Music/PhilCollins in the intervening months before the release of ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
The original run sold around six thousand copies, not highly successful but better than ''From Genesis to Revelation'', and enough to build up a live following. Much to their surprise it charted at #1 in UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}, leading to a first overseas concert there. Anthony Philips quit the band shortly after recording, almost splitting the band before they decided to name Mick Barnard as a replacement before settling on Music/SteveHackett. John Mayhew was also replaced with Music/PhilCollins in the intervening months before the release of ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
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* SubduedSection: "The Knife" has a calm midsection with a flute solo from Gabriel.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: "The Knife", a HardRock song on an album full of pastoral FolkRock (though all six tracks also qualify as ProgressiveRock).
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* LongestSongGoesLast: "The Knife", although that track beats "Stagnation" by a mere nine seconds.
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* LongestSongGoesLast: "The Knife", although that track beats "Stagnation" by a mere nine seconds. Its nine-minute length on the album was nothing, though; it was known to reach up to nineteen in concert. ("Stagnation", meanwhile, was thirteen minutes at one point before being edited down.)
* LyricalColdOpen: "Looking for Someone" opens with only Gabriel's vocals and a faintly audible organ (made somewhat more audible on [[TheNotRemix the 2007 remix]]).
* LyricalColdOpen: "Looking for Someone" opens with only Gabriel's vocals and a faintly audible organ (made somewhat more audible on [[TheNotRemix the 2007 remix]]).
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* MusicalPastiche: "The Knife" was a pastiche of The Nice, to the extent that its WorkingTitle was in fact "Nice". The organ part was inspired by its then-up-and-coming organ player, one [[Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer Keith Emerson]].
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* ProtestSong: Gabriel wrote the lyrics to "The Knife" as a {{parody}} of one.
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* MotorMouth: The verses of "The Knife" are sung at breakneck speed.
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In the aftermath of ''Music/FromGenesisToRevelation'', the band split from producer Jonathan King and sought to find a new sound for themselves. After drummer John Silver departed the band to pursue an education in Cornell, Genesis started touring as a professional band with new drummer John Mayhew. It was while in residency in Soho that they had come across producer John Anthony, who signed them into the Creator/CharismaRecords label and brought them to Trident Studios in UsefulNotes/{{London}} to record. (In America, the album was originally licensed to Impulse Records, Creator/ImpulseRecords, the {{jazz}} imprint of {{Creator/ABC|Records}}, who reissued it themselves years later.) The original run sold around six thousand copies, not highly successful but better than ''From Genesis to Revelation'', and enough to build up a live following. Much to their surprise it charted at #1 in UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}, leading to a first overseas concert there. Anthony Philips quit the band shortly after recording, almost splitting the band before they decided to name Mick Barnard as a replacement before settling on Music/SteveHackett. John Mayhew was also replaced with Music/PhilCollins in the intervening months before the release of ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
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''Trespass'' is the second album by Music/{{Genesis}}, released on 23 October 1970. In the aftermath of ''Music/FromGenesisToRevelation'', the band split from producer Jonathan King and sought to find a new sound for themselves. After drummer John Silver departed the band to pursue an education in Cornell, Genesis started touring as a professional band with new drummer John Mayhew. It was while in residency in Soho that they had come across producer John Anthony, who signed them into the Creator/CharismaRecords label and brought them to Trident Studios in UsefulNotes/{{London}} to record. (In America, the album was originally licensed to Impulse Records, the {{jazz}} imprint of {{Creator/ABC|Records}}, who reissued it themselves years later.) The original run sold around six thousand copies, not highly successful but better than ''From Genesis to Revelation'', and enough to build up a live following. Much to their surprise it charted at #1 in UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}, leading to a first overseas concert there. Anthony Philips quit the band shortly after recording, almost splitting the band before they decided to name Mick Barnard as a replacement before settling on Music/SteveHackett. John Mayhew was also replaced with Music/PhilCollins in the intervening months before the release of ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
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''Trespass'' is the second album by Music/{{Genesis}}, released on 23 October 1970.
In the aftermath of ''Music/FromGenesisToRevelation'', the band split from producer Jonathan King and sought to find a new sound for themselves. After drummer John Silver departed the band to pursue an education in Cornell, Genesis started touring as a professional band with new drummer John Mayhew. It was while in residency in Soho that they had come across producer John Anthony, who signed them into the Creator/CharismaRecords label and brought them to Trident Studios in UsefulNotes/{{London}} to record. (In America, the album was originally licensed to Impulse Records, the {{jazz}} imprint of {{Creator/ABC|Records}}, who reissued it themselves years later.) The original run sold around six thousand copies, not highly successful but better than ''From Genesis to Revelation'', and enough to build up a live following. Much to their surprise it charted at #1 in UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}, leading to a first overseas concert there. Anthony Philips quit the band shortly after recording, almost splitting the band before they decided to name Mick Barnard as a replacement before settling on Music/SteveHackett. John Mayhew was also replaced with Music/PhilCollins in the intervening months before the release of ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
In the aftermath of ''Music/FromGenesisToRevelation'', the band split from producer Jonathan King and sought to find a new sound for themselves. After drummer John Silver departed the band to pursue an education in Cornell, Genesis started touring as a professional band with new drummer John Mayhew. It was while in residency in Soho that they had come across producer John Anthony, who signed them into the Creator/CharismaRecords label and brought them to Trident Studios in UsefulNotes/{{London}} to record. (In America, the album was originally licensed to Impulse Records, the {{jazz}} imprint of {{Creator/ABC|Records}}, who reissued it themselves years later.) The original run sold around six thousand copies, not highly successful but better than ''From Genesis to Revelation'', and enough to build up a live following. Much to their surprise it charted at #1 in UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}, leading to a first overseas concert there. Anthony Philips quit the band shortly after recording, almost splitting the band before they decided to name Mick Barnard as a replacement before settling on Music/SteveHackett. John Mayhew was also replaced with Music/PhilCollins in the intervening months before the release of ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
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''Trespass'' is the second album by Music/{{Genesis}}, released on 23 October 1970. In the aftermath of ''Music/FromGenesisToRevelation'', the band split from producer Jonathan King and sought to find a new sound for themselves. After drummer John Silver departed the band to pursue an education in Cornell, Genesis started touring as a professional band with new drummer John Mayhew. It was while in residency in Soho that they had come across producer John Anthony, who signed them into the Creator/CharismaRecords label and brought them to Trident Studios in UsefulNotes/{{London}} to record. (In America, the album was originally licensed to Impulse Records, the {{jazz}} imprint of ABC, who reissued it themselves years later.) The original run sold around six thousand copies, not highly successful but better than ''From Genesis to Revelation'', and enough to build up a live following. Much to their surprise it charted at #1 in UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}, leading to a first overseas concert there. Anthony Philips quit the band shortly after recording, almost splitting the band before they decided to name Mick Barnard as a replacement before settling on Music/SteveHackett. John Mayhew was also replaced with Music/PhilCollins in the intervening months before the release of ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
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''Trespass'' is the second album by Music/{{Genesis}}, released on 23 October 1970. In the aftermath of ''Music/FromGenesisToRevelation'', the band split from producer Jonathan King and sought to find a new sound for themselves. After drummer John Silver departed the band to pursue an education in Cornell, Genesis started touring as a professional band with new drummer John Mayhew. It was while in residency in Soho that they had come across producer John Anthony, who signed them into the Creator/CharismaRecords label and brought them to Trident Studios in UsefulNotes/{{London}} to record. (In America, the album was originally licensed to Impulse Records, the {{jazz}} imprint of ABC, {{Creator/ABC|Records}}, who reissued it themselves years later.) The original run sold around six thousand copies, not highly successful but better than ''From Genesis to Revelation'', and enough to build up a live following. Much to their surprise it charted at #1 in UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}, leading to a first overseas concert there. Anthony Philips quit the band shortly after recording, almost splitting the band before they decided to name Mick Barnard as a replacement before settling on Music/SteveHackett. John Mayhew was also replaced with Music/PhilCollins in the intervening months before the release of ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Visions of angels all around dance in the sky./Leaving me here forever goodbye.]]
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Leaving me here forever goodbye.]]
Leaving me here forever goodbye.]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Visions of angels all around dance in the sky./Leaving me here forever goodbye.]]
->''"Stand up and fight, for you know we are right.\\
We must strike at the lies\\
That have spread like disease through our minds.\\
Soon we'll have power, every soldier will rest,\\
And we'll spread out our kindness\\
To all who our love now deserve.\\
Some of you are going to die -\\
Martyrs of course to the freedom that I shall provide."''
-->--'''"The Knife"'''
''Trespass'' is the second album by Music/{{Genesis}}, released on 23 October 1970. In the aftermath of ''Music/FromGenesisToRevelation'', the band split from producer Jonathan King and sought to find a new sound for themselves. After drummer John Silver departed the band to pursue an education in Cornell, Genesis started touring as a professional band with new drummer John Mayhew. It was while in residency in Soho that they had come across producer John Anthony, who signed them into the Creator/CharismaRecords label and brought them to Trident Studios in UsefulNotes/{{London}} to record. (In America, the album was originally licensed to Impulse Records, the {{jazz}} imprint of ABC, who reissued it themselves years later.) The original run sold around six thousand copies, not highly successful but better than ''From Genesis to Revelation'', and enough to build up a live following. Much to their surprise it charted at #1 in UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}, leading to a first overseas concert there. Anthony Philips quit the band shortly after recording, almost splitting the band before they decided to name Mick Barnard as a replacement before settling on Music/SteveHackett. John Mayhew was also replaced with Music/PhilCollins in the intervening months before the release of ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
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!!Tracklist:
[[AC:Side One]]
# "Looking for Someone" (7:08)
# "White Mountain" (6:46)
# "Visions of Angels" (8:09)
[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Stagnation" (8:51)
# "Dusk" (4:15)
# "The Knife" (9:00)
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!!Principal Members:
* Music/TonyBanks – keyboards, guitars, backing vocals
* Music/PeterGabriel – lead vocals, flute, percussion
* John Mayhew - drums, percussion, backing vocals
* Anthony Phillips - guitars, dulcimer, backing vocals
* Music/MikeRutherford – guitars, bass guitars, cello, backing vocals
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!!Then let us drink, then let us smile, then let us trope:
* AlbumTitleDrop: In the starting verse for "White Mountain":
-->Outcast, he trespassed where no wolf may tread.
* AfterTheEnd: The protagonist of "Stagnation" was the only remaining surviving member of the human race.
* {{Bowdlerize}}: On the live version of "The Knife", this part of the lyrics:
-->I'll give you the names of those you must kill\\
All must die [[WouldHurtAChild with their children]]\\
Carry their heads to the palace of old\\
Hang 'em all high, let blood flow NOW!
::: Has been changed into this...
--->I'll give you the names of those you must kill\\
Hang 'em and burn 'em quickly\\
Cover them up in Trafalgar Square\\
Hurry to see, you'll see them DEAD!
*** Yet, funnily enough, the "Hang 'em/let blood flow" line was moved to the end of the verse the changed lines were on.
* EpicRocking: In a sign of things to come, only "Dusk" runs less than six minutes.
* FullCircleRevolution: "The Knife" is about how violent revolutions just lead to the entrenchment of a new dictator.
* KnightTemplar: The protagonist of "The Knife", who winds up no better than the tyrants he overthrows.
* MeetTheNewBoss: How "The Knife" ends.
* LongestSongGoesLast: "The Knife", although that track beats "Stagnation" by a mere nine seconds.
* NewSoundAlbum: The transformation from folk-inspired psychedelia to ProgressiveRock has taken root here, something that will be cemented through ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: "The Knife", as quoted above. The revolutionaries plan to kill their enemies and put [[DeadGuyOnDisplay their corpses]] (or just [[OffWithHisHead their heads]]) on display.
* SoleSurvivor: "Stagnation". The backstory, as written in the liner notes:
-->To Thomas S. Eiselber, a very rich man, who was wise enough to spend all his riches in burying himself many miles beneath the ground. As the only surviving member of the human race, he inherited the whole world.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Visions of angels all around dance in the sky./Leaving me here forever goodbye.]]
->''"Stand up and fight, for you know we are right.\\
We must strike at the lies\\
That have spread like disease through our minds.\\
Soon we'll have power, every soldier will rest,\\
And we'll spread out our kindness\\
To all who our love now deserve.\\
Some of you are going to die -\\
Martyrs of course to the freedom that I shall provide."''
-->--'''"The Knife"'''
''Trespass'' is the second album by Music/{{Genesis}}, released on 23 October 1970. In the aftermath of ''Music/FromGenesisToRevelation'', the band split from producer Jonathan King and sought to find a new sound for themselves. After drummer John Silver departed the band to pursue an education in Cornell, Genesis started touring as a professional band with new drummer John Mayhew. It was while in residency in Soho that they had come across producer John Anthony, who signed them into the Creator/CharismaRecords label and brought them to Trident Studios in UsefulNotes/{{London}} to record. (In America, the album was originally licensed to Impulse Records, the {{jazz}} imprint of ABC, who reissued it themselves years later.) The original run sold around six thousand copies, not highly successful but better than ''From Genesis to Revelation'', and enough to build up a live following. Much to their surprise it charted at #1 in UsefulNotes/{{Belgium}}, leading to a first overseas concert there. Anthony Philips quit the band shortly after recording, almost splitting the band before they decided to name Mick Barnard as a replacement before settling on Music/SteveHackett. John Mayhew was also replaced with Music/PhilCollins in the intervening months before the release of ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
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!!Tracklist:
[[AC:Side One]]
# "Looking for Someone" (7:08)
# "White Mountain" (6:46)
# "Visions of Angels" (8:09)
[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Stagnation" (8:51)
# "Dusk" (4:15)
# "The Knife" (9:00)
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!!Principal Members:
* Music/TonyBanks – keyboards, guitars, backing vocals
* Music/PeterGabriel – lead vocals, flute, percussion
* John Mayhew - drums, percussion, backing vocals
* Anthony Phillips - guitars, dulcimer, backing vocals
* Music/MikeRutherford – guitars, bass guitars, cello, backing vocals
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!!Then let us drink, then let us smile, then let us trope:
* AlbumTitleDrop: In the starting verse for "White Mountain":
-->Outcast, he trespassed where no wolf may tread.
* AfterTheEnd: The protagonist of "Stagnation" was the only remaining surviving member of the human race.
* {{Bowdlerize}}: On the live version of "The Knife", this part of the lyrics:
-->I'll give you the names of those you must kill\\
All must die [[WouldHurtAChild with their children]]\\
Carry their heads to the palace of old\\
Hang 'em all high, let blood flow NOW!
::: Has been changed into this...
--->I'll give you the names of those you must kill\\
Hang 'em and burn 'em quickly\\
Cover them up in Trafalgar Square\\
Hurry to see, you'll see them DEAD!
*** Yet, funnily enough, the "Hang 'em/let blood flow" line was moved to the end of the verse the changed lines were on.
* EpicRocking: In a sign of things to come, only "Dusk" runs less than six minutes.
* FullCircleRevolution: "The Knife" is about how violent revolutions just lead to the entrenchment of a new dictator.
* KnightTemplar: The protagonist of "The Knife", who winds up no better than the tyrants he overthrows.
* MeetTheNewBoss: How "The Knife" ends.
* LongestSongGoesLast: "The Knife", although that track beats "Stagnation" by a mere nine seconds.
* NewSoundAlbum: The transformation from folk-inspired psychedelia to ProgressiveRock has taken root here, something that will be cemented through ''Music/NurseryCryme''.
* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: "The Knife", as quoted above. The revolutionaries plan to kill their enemies and put [[DeadGuyOnDisplay their corpses]] (or just [[OffWithHisHead their heads]]) on display.
* SoleSurvivor: "Stagnation". The backstory, as written in the liner notes:
-->To Thomas S. Eiselber, a very rich man, who was wise enough to spend all his riches in burying himself many miles beneath the ground. As the only surviving member of the human race, he inherited the whole world.
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