One Man's Fool (track)
by Genesis
Year: 1997
From the album Calling All Stations (track #11)
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One Man's Fool appears on the following album(s) by Genesis:
- Calling All Stations (track #11) (this album) (1997)
- 1983-1998 (track #40) (compilation) (2007)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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70/100  | 3 days ago | Exist-en-ciel | | 69/100 |
55/100 | 08/01/2025 04:36 |  AAL2014 | | 76/100 |
100/100 | 04/09/2025 08:44 |  Squonk007 | | 73/100 |
100/100 | 02/19/2024 14:11 | Phmus84 | | 100/100 |
70/100 | 07/07/2023 05:12 | juanr1096 | | 79/100 |
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This track has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 77.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 15.6.
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Squonk007 08/13/2021 17:34
A decent closer that keeps you interested. It's well put together and has a nice pace about it.
A solid track, almost groovy in moments (thanks to Rutherford's bass), powered mostly by Banks' ethereal keyboards, Zidkyahu's metered percussion and Wilson's subdued vocals. I'm not a big fan of the cheesier synths used in the choruses, but they're not unbearable, just a little uninspired. The lyrics are deeper than the typical "confounding relationship" theme used on Calling All Stations, as they draw from a terrorist attack in Manchester that happened during recording. Like other songs on the album, it's probably too long. I'm undecided about whether or not I like the second half, as it starts off as this kind of proggy build-up before turning into a standard rock/pop outro. Not a terrible change, but not the one I was expecting. Maybe they could have done the safe thing and just cut this song in half. Maybe that would have improved my rating? Not sure. 80 is still a solid number, regardless.
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