THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY

Lamb is a concept album and that´s why it is not fair to compere it for excample Selling or Foxtrot, which are more collection of different kind of songs. Lamb must confider as a whole album, one long song, you can´t pick songs out of the album and say this is good and this is terrible. It is a piece of music and you must listen it that way, like symphonies or movies. And it is a kind of theatralic musical drama, a progrock opera, composed novel. And it works fine! Perhaps it´s more pop than earlier albums but it is more mature and less raw than Selling or Foxtrot. Peter´s role is very dominate, perhaps too dominate but still it works very well. It was double albums and concept albums time then, allmost every progband made they own and Lamb is one of the best double album ever! And you can hear which direction Peter was going to and it was good decision that Peter left the band, for both, Genesis and Peter. Peter was ready to do something more simply and different but Genesis wanted to continiue in same line, for few years anyway. Peter was lost few years and found his style in his third solo album. Genesis made great albums after Lamb, Trick and Wind and after Steve left the band, their style changed more pop. Lamb was and is one of the best Genesis albums ever, in the same line with Selling England and Trick. It was the top seasons of Genesis and notice that it was not depented of Peter, they made great albums after him! Peter´s role is a little bit overrated, he was frontman of the band but did not made the music alone, Tony and Mike made most of the songs and Peter and Steve some. Great album of the great band.