The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway...

I can't lie, friends; for some reason the entirety of SEBT just doesn't hold up to me as a "10/10" record compared to Foxtrot.

I think Foxtrot is Genesis' best offering in this era. That album is perfect to me. SEBT is almost perfect. The parts that are good are some of the best, but the album overall from start to finish isn't as perfect as Foxtrot for me. Same with Lamb. The parts that are killer are really killer. It's not as consistent as Foxtrot all the way through.

Frenetic Zetetic wrote: The Anders wrote: I prefer Lamb to SEBTP too. I just listened to SEBTP yesterday, and to be frank I don't think it is quite the masterpiece it is often hailed as. I really like tracks such as "Firth of Fifth", but tbh. they kind of lose me on side 2. On Lamb I think the compositions are more focused and much more tense, plus sonically I find it much more elaborate. "More Fool Me" has always kept it from a perfect 10/10 score for me. It's still a 9.9/10; the other parts more than make up for it for me. Something about Gabriel's delivery and timing on Lamb really stands out to me.

Frenetic Zetetic wrote: HackettFan wrote: It's the greatest album ever. Six stars out of five. Side three ensures that sixth star. The Waiting Room to me is core of the weird sheet I conceive of as Progressive Rock. The musical continuity went beyond song and elevated to whole album in a way that was never successfully accomplished before. 6/5 stars, ha!  So you're one of the rare few whom prefer Lamb to SEBT?

Yes. I even like Nursery Cryme better than SEBTP. When I was in school I didn't like SEBTP much because it was wimpy. It didn't hold up well against Hard Rock, while the Lamb did. Everyone I knew in school who knew of Old Genesis hailed the Lamb as a classic and were sometimes unaware of what came before it. It was the first Genesis album I ever heard (it belonged to a friend). I'm some number of years younger than most of the elders on here (53 y.o. in one half hour), and the interest for the time with me and my peers was with heavier music. But so there's no mistake though, I have indeed come to appreciate the merits of SEBTP since those youthful days.

Definitely my favorite Genesis album and album overall. Some truly brilliant musical moments, but Chamber of 32 Doors always stuns me. Such emotional intensity packed in a perfect prog package!

The Anders wrote: I prefer Lamb to SEBTP too. I just listened to SEBTP yesterday, and to be frank I don't think it is quite the masterpiece it is often hailed as. I really like tracks such as "Firth of Fifth", but tbh. they kind of lose me on side 2. On Lamb I think the compositions are more focused and much more tense, plus sonically I find it much more elaborate.

HackettFan wrote: It's the greatest album ever. Six stars out of five. Side three ensures that sixth star. The Waiting Room to me is core of the weird sheet I conceive of as Progressive Rock. The musical continuity went beyond song and elevated to whole album in a way that was never successfully accomplished before.

This album contains material... Lamb for its great groovy "It seems they cannot leave their dream" sequence (too slow on the album, I find ); Lamia for how all those sumptuous ingredients were managed, Grand Parade, if played (on YT) at 1,25x  speed has a great summit at 2'24, one rare short possible escape from the everlasting scent of melancholy (in which the very similar Giant Hogweed's remains deeply, er, entangled) that prevents me from really enjoying (prog) Genesis.

Edited by jayem - January 12 2019 at 17:09

micky wrote: The only thing worse than making an album of boring music, along with a silly ridiculous concept is making it is a double album.