 Selling England by the Pound has been praised by other songwriters and musicians . Rush drummer Neil Peart has said : " I think Selling England by the Pound is an enduring masterpiece of drumming . Beautiful drumming , lovely sound , and the arrangements , I think they really nailed the best of what that band as an entity could have done with that album . " Fish , solo artist and former lead singer of Marillion , has called it " the definitive Genesis album " , praised its " emotive " quality , said the wordplay was " one of the things that became quite an influence on me - the games within the lyrics " and concluded it " took a whole jump forward and was the album that really got me into Genesis " . Singer and songwriter Robert Pollard of Guided by Voices considers Selling England by the Pound one of his ten favourite records of all time . John Lennon said he really liked the album during a radio interview , which the band took great encouragement from . 
