Gabriel-era Genesis "It’s Scrambled Eggs" - October 02 2005
Has anyone noticed the connection between the albums "Nursery Cryme", "Foxtrot", "Selling England by the Pound", and "the Lamb Lies Down..."?
Obviously you know the frequent mention of "eggs" in the last three.
"Supper's Ready" was the introduction to this symbolic idea of "eggs" representing something to do with life or mankind, something that I can't seem to place exactly. If your not sure of these mentions I will go over them.
"There's Winston Churchill dressed in drag He used to be a British Flag, plastic bag, what a drag The frog was a prince, the prince was a brick the brick was an egg, the egg was a bird
Hadn't you heard?" Supper's Ready (also taking note that the final movement is called "As sure as eggs is eggs")
Of course we know in "Selling England" the final phrase is "It's Scrambled Eggs." This I believe is relating how all the problems in England are "Scrambled Eggs" referring to the same symbol that was used in Foxtrot.
Summerizing the Selling of England by the pound to Supper's Ready.
Once again at the end of an album ("Lamb Lies Down...") we have the mentioning of eggs and quite a lot in "it."
"Just a little bit of it can bring you up or down
Like the supper it is cooking in your hometown
it is chicken, it is eggs
it is in between your legs
it is walking on the moon
leaving your cocoon."
This sentence I believe starts off with a reference to the Musical Box (just a little bit), The Supper is self explanitory (Supper's Ready, Foxtrot.) Now if you look at the lyric sheet of Foxtrot after Supper's Ready it says (CONTINUED). Therefore we know that Selling England is a continuation of Foxtrot (or Supper's Ready at least.)
After reading the lyric booklets over and over to make connections it almost seems that these albums (or the lyrics at least) were planned by Gabriel. I feel that he planned on leaving Genesis when he wrote "the
Lamb" due to the conclusion of all the albums from "Nursery Cryme" to "the Lamb..." All of the lyrics are interrelated and Gabriel wanted to end the Genesis career perfectly (hence he had to take a two week break and write the entire Lamb Lies Down...) The central idea of selling england and basically selling the world by the pound is summarized at the end of "the Lamb..." which leads to why I think the idea was concluded. Let me know what you guys think. I just want to see if anyone else knows of any connections between these albums and create a discussion over the central issue of Gabriel-era Genesis albums. I hope I phrased what I wanted to say correctly.
Also take note that the Nursery Cryme artwork is in the field on Foxtrot's artwork. The only difference is that the nurse is going to opposite direction in Foxtrot (compared to Nursery Cryme's front cover.)
