THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY

Genesis last studio album with Peter Gabriel came up in 1974 and it was released as a double LP: a conceptual album that has become an absolute classic not only in Genesis discography but in the whole universe of Progressive Rock.

I have a weird relationship with double albums and almost any album that exceeds 50 minutes of length: I feel that in most cases double albums have a lot of filler songs and the albums get tedious and hard to process, there are some exceptions though: Pink Floyd's "The wall", Frank Zappa's "Joe's garage", The Who's "Tommy" and of course Genesis' "The lamb lies down on Broadway" are examples of great double albums that never gets boring or too long with the excess of filler songs.

Of course, not all the songs in such a long album are excellent but there is no single song that I could say is poor and I actually enjoy listening to the whole album at once. I don't listen to "The lamb lies down on Broadway" so frequently as I listen to "Selling England by the pound" or "Foxtrot" and that is why I haven't learned the album by heart and every time I listen to it, it is as if I was listening for the first time and I got amazed once again by its uniqueness.

I believe this record is not as symphonic as its predecessors, it seems more of a Hard Rock Opera album (not as Hard as "Tommy" but much more of an opera than "Joe's Garage"). What I love about "The lamb lies down on Broadway" is that even being such a highly loved and respected album, its songs are not as well known as the songs in other albums of the band, and that makes this an album for a more devoted audience.

This album was an excellent way of closing the Gabriel era of Genesis.

SONG RATING: The lamb lies down on Broadway, 5 Fly on a windshield, 5 Broadway melody of 1974, 5 Cuckoo cocoon, 4 In the cage, 5 The grand parade of lifeless packaging, 4 Back in NYC, 5 Hairless heart, 5 Counting out time,5 Carpet crawlers, 5 The chamber of 32 doors, 5 Lilywhite Lilith, 5 The waiting room, 5 Anyway, 5 Here comes the supernatural anesthetist, 5 The lamia, 5 Silent sorrow in empty boats, 4 The colony of slippermen, 5 Ravine, 4 The light dies down on Broadway, 5 Riding the scree, 5 In the rapids, 5 It, 5

AVERAGE: 4.83

PERCENTAGE: 96.52

ALBUM RATING: 5 stars

I ranked this album #44 on my TOP 100 favorite Progressive Rock albums of all time.

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