Ballad Of Big (track)
by Genesis
Year: 1978
From the album ...And Then There Were Three (track #3)
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Ballad Of Big appears on the following album(s) by Genesis:
- ...And Then There Were Three (track #3) (this album) (1978)
- 1976-1982 (track #20) (compilation) (2007)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/15/2025 17:33 | Johnnyo | 41,667 | 80/100 |
| ! | 08/26/2025 13:33 |  ExTeaSea | 12,134 | 86/100 |
| ! | 07/31/2025 19:18 | machiaj | 8,768 | 74/100 |
| ! | 04/22/2025 18:38 | matterhornrider | 22,347 | 86/100 |
| ! | 04/05/2025 21:27 | FrancK | 4,325 | 83/100 |
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Squonk007 04/09/2021 08:08 | #268369
I quite like this, it's a little quirky. As ever the drumming is very good from Phil and the guitars are unusual. I'd have preferred a much more definitive statement for the end rather than a fade out but by and large a nice track.
An odd song, but not a bad one. Just odd. The strangest thing about it has to be the stark contrast between the odd verses and the even verses. The odd verses are really cool with their swinging swagger, powered by Collins' cutting vocals, Rutherford's guitar riffing and Banks' guitar-synths. But the odd verses only take up a little bit of the song. More time is dedicated to the even verses, which are pretty much just generic stomping prog. Not bad, but not nearly as cool as the odd verses. If you isolated the odd and even verses from each other, you would think they're from two different songs. The lyrics are also a bit too corny, essentially telling the story of a big cowboy guy who gets mad easily and dies because of his hubris. Overall, the song feels a little unfinished, but the end product isn't bad at all. If they just formulated the entire song around the feel of those odd verses, this would have had a chance to be And Then There Were Three's standout tune. But as it stands, it just feels a little out of place.
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