The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway... - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Almost everything, really, but Fly on a windshield sometimes gets a second spin

(although I prefer to enjoy the whole album without interruptions or skips)

Not really listen to the big stars of prog anymore, excepted this album that still sounds fresh and modern to me. I like all of it.

My favourites are:

1. Riding the Scree

2. In the Cage

3. The Colony of Slippermen.

4. Fly on a Windshield

5. The Chamber of 32 Doors

No doubt it's a really good album. I probably even prefer it to Selling England By the Pound as it is more easily accesible musically, and probably more sonically interesting too. They kind of lose me on side 4 though.

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It's a great album and it deserved a stage show ... but I'm not sure that audiences (specially today) will enjoy some of the instrumental passages telling the story via film or visual ... that's just not prog enough because there ain't no lyrics telling them what it is and means!

Edited by moshkito - January 10 2019 at 07:21

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Amazing album from start to finish, no fillers for me (not even The Waiting Room). Full of originality, with a really cool concept. Fly on a Windshield, In the Cage, Back in NYC, Carpet Crawlers, The Lamia, Chamber of 32 Doors, Lilywhite Lilyth, Riding the Scree... but even "lesser tracks" like Broadway Melody, The Grand Parade, Anyway, The light Lights Down on Broadway... are amazing. One of the top albums of all-time prog.

Still love The Lamb as much as when I first bought it - on double cassette back in '77 LOL

Almost impossible not to think of it as a single piece of music in it's intended order, but if I had to rank my fave songs...

1) The Lamia

2) The Colony of Slippermen

3) The Grand Parade

4) The Supernatural Anaesthetist

5) Fly on a Windshield/Broadway Melody 1974

6) In the Cage

7) Counting Out Time

8) The Carpet Crawlers

9) In the Rapids

10) Anyway

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A truly great album, and although it rests just below Foxtrot and SEBTP in my affections, that is not to suggest it is not a prog masterpiece. As I stated in another fairly recent post, the album's synergy is its strength. The whole remains stronger than its individual parts and while the whole album is littered with classic moments (I'll highlight The Lamia/Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats, Carpet Crawlers and practically the whole of Side 1 as being very special) - none touch the likes of Supper's Ready, Firth of Fifth, The Musical Box, Cinema Show, Watcher of the Skies etc. as stand-alone tracks, in my humble opinion. The narrative and vocals obviously dominate, but the instrumentation is fantastic (has an instrumental-only version ever been created, maybe on YouTube etc., to show just how superb Hackett, Banks, Rutherford and Collins worked together?)

The album works best as one long, undulating and emotional journey, with light, shade, pathos and humour throughout. The Archives Box live recording is recommended listening too. It's not always easy finding the time for all 4 sides, but whenever I do, it rewards me without fail.

P.S. The Musical Box and Los Endos tribute bands do great justice to the album, as well.

Edited by Squonk19 - January 10 2019 at 16:50

“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”

Colony of Slippermen is stuck in my head all day.

All.

Day.

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I guess it's a good album, but for me a step down from the previous ones... and even more, for me it's got no sublime songs as the best ones from Gabriel's era. If this is the direction Gabriel was going to take the band, then I guess I don't really regret him leaving at the time he did. It's sort of an equivalent to The Wall from Pink Floyd's discography, but yet I easily get more enjoyment out of that one.

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