THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY

Genesis

Symphonic Prog

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pteeboy

I'm going to keep this rather short...

I appreciate everyone's comments regarding 'Lamb', both for and against. I agree that it's both different from the group's earlier works (which is still love!), plus perhaps, 'Trick of the Tail' - after that, I frankly think things went downhill for Genesis.

At the time the original vinyl two-album set was released (I've still got my original mint copy in my collection) it was considered a very ambitious work, with a lot of Los Angeles' FM rock music stations having trouble picking a track for airplay - a few were brave enough to actually play a single side or even all four sides, which is how I first heard it.

While I'd agree it is an uneven work compared to something like 'Selling England by the Pound', taken as a whole, I believe it is a true prog classic.

If you'd seen the group's concert at the Shrine Auditorium in L.A. (as I did the following week after hearing the whole LP played on the radio), you'd have been blown away with the complete package of Gabriel's lyrics and storyline, the group's excellent arrangements and musicianship, and the effective, yet-simple stagecraft - you'd understand the need for some of the 'filler' (as the detractors call it) for PG's costume changes. Some three decades-plus on, it's still fresh in my memory.

I'd only wish that the concept had been developed into a full-on musical, as the live show felt like some kind of abridged 'highlights' concert. Gabriel and Co wrote a work that Andrew Lloyd Weber(writer of cheesy-pop-tunes-without-plots disguised as musica theatre) has never had the skills or talent to create! The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, for all its faults deserves to be concidered a classic, and a must-have for anyone's music collection.

| 5/5 | 2006-1-15

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