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Cristi
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Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
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Octopus II
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I like both equally.
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RockHound
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Both are great.
I prefer Tales because it sounds more cohesive. The Lamb, by contrast, is a schizophrenic album about schizophrenia.
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Moyan
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"Tales from Topographic Oceans"
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Blacksword
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Much prefer The Lamb, musically, and lyrically. TFTO has some good musical moments but the themes and the concept do nothing for me. Overall it feels like they were trying too hard to be clever. I suspect they weren't, but I can understand the cynicism towards this album, and I share some of it.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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miamiscot
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My two favorite LP's ever.
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The Prog Corner
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thief
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Tales have a "greater" concept, but the execution is subpar at times. It drags, meanders, loses its steam. Lamb is more focused (but still faulty).
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Enchant X
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Genesis. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
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Awesoreno
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A LAMBSLIDE HA!
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richardh
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I think TFTO could have been better if it wasn't just Anderson and Howe driving it (..over the cliff imo). Lamb is about 70-80% absolutely brilliant. If both were 60 minutes , Lamb would be 5 stars (instead of 4) and Tales 4 stars (instead of 3). There just isn't enough 'going on' with Tales. It's an 'idea' lacking inspiration. Lamb feels a lot more like a band project that only slightly veered off the road. Has any ex-member of Genesis turned on it like Wakeman did with tales?
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tdfloyd
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A huge fan of both bands, if my desert island aloud me only one of the groups discography I would choose Genesis, but I feel the Lamb is overrated. Tony should have told Peter to shut up a few more times.
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Frenetic Zetetic
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I have to laugh, because while I do love both records - I agree and I know exactly what you mean by "weird" regarding Lamb. What I love about Lamb is it truly is the quintessential Peter Gabriel fever dream lyrical expose. It's full bore unrestricted Peter Gabriel in every sense possible. It's like Supper's Ready on steroids, which doesn't automatically make it as good or better by any means. What really grabs me on Tales, though, is how Anderson and Howe (mostly the former) extrapolated so much creativity out of a single footnote on a Yogi in his book. It wasn't a dedicated chapter, nor even a section in the book - a damn footnote! A lot of people rail on Yes for their "airy" and "padded" musical/lyrical concepts and attempts - but for me that's just further proof of how friggin' magical that band was at that time. Their creativity was, for all practical intents and purposes, seemingly limitless. I'd imagine they could have made as equally a majestic, impressive, divisive progressive rock recording in 1973 had Anderson and co. felt equally as moved, impressed, inspired, and motivated to create had it been a TV Guide advertisement from their hotel room instead!
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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iluvmarillion
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Never been a great fan of Lamb, but that's just me. Concede there's a couple of killer tracks including Cage and Carpet Crawlers. Side 4 I found really disappointing as though the band have simply run out of ideas.
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Dellinger
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Tales for me, I have some sort of aversion towards The Lamb Lies Down in Broadway (even though there are a few songs within it that I do like a lot).
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dr wu23
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Lamb , but don't really bother to listen to either these days.
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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I like them both for different reasons but about the same. Neither is the best by either band imo. I think as a double I probably prefer the wall over both to be honest.
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Progosopher
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A difficult choice since I rate both as 5 star albums. I was tempted to go with the "both" option, which I often regard as a cop-out. Both options are sprawling obscure affairs. The Lamb is psychological in a mostly Jungian way with some elements of classic mythology. It also fits both Campbell's hero's journey structure and the structure of ancient classics such as Homer's Odyssey. TFTO is a mystical journey which also follows the structure of ancient classics. It is more intuitive than analytical, and thus provides the ground for more personalized reflection, which appeals more to me right now. I voted TFTO.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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Neu!mann
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Topographic Oceans easily, despite it's flaws... the album attempts to musically convey the entire breadth of human knowledge, whereas The Lamb is just a weird story.
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"we can change the world without anyone noticing the difference" - Franco Falsini
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DarkTower
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I like both but prefer Lamb.
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Manuel
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I like and enjoy both pratically the same.
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