The Lamb V The Wall - Progressive Rock Music Forum

The Lamb by far.

OK, the story is absurd and there's too much filler. And the theme's American, and I'm no fan of the relevant parts of US culture. It would have made an excellent single album.

IQ's Subterranea has some ideas in common but was executed far better.

But as for The Wall; apart from Comfortably Numb, it's dross.

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Blacksword wrote:

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Blacksword wrote:

The main difference between the two albums, for me, is that the Lamb has some of Genesis' finest music, and the Wall has some of Floyd's worst. That doesn't mean I don't rate The Wall. It's a great album, but in relative terms, compared to Animals, WYWH and DSOTM, and perhaps even Meddle, it is weak. It's also less progressive in terms of the bands style, whereas with the Lamb, the band were still arguably on the ascendancy. But then, Trick is my favourite Genesis album, so I would say that..

I think the Wall is as whole much better than WYWH. And the weakest music of Floyd is in AMLOR, although I don´t say it bad, because Floyd hasn´t made an bad album (only really bad music is in Gilmour´s solo albums, specially the second one, also quite much into Zee & Mason´s collaboration albums (not including Fictitious Sports). Also I am not the biggest fan of Radio K.A.O.S.

I certainly agree about AMLOR, but I'd say Final Cut is even worse. It's a painful listen. AMLOR is just a bit boring. IMO.

It´s not long ago I listened Final Cut after long time, I liked it much more than before! Now I think it is some kind of "Poor man´s The Wall", but not in negative mind. Really I think it´s better than Momentary.

Definitely The Lamb

The Wall, very easily. Actually, I think both are very similar, not only because they are both double albums with a story, but because both come after only doing single albums, and both have shorter more traditional songs compared to the longer and more instrumental ones from their previous albums... and for me, both albums suffer because of that, and both are nowhere near my favourites from both bands. However, I really don't find so much to enjoy from the Lamb, while I do feel that The Wall is a great piece of rock, it's only that what Floyd did before was so much better still.

Though they cover completely different topics, the wall has always provided more of an emotional impact on me whereas I am more interested in the story and concept of the Lamb.

My vote goes for the wall today but that could honestly change on the flip of a coin, both are great records that provide the listener with different yet equally thought-provoking concepts and ideas. (Walls got less filler, too! Wink

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The most dangerous man in America.

hmm both monumental yet both flawed. I voted equal, though my preference is probably slightly towards Lamb because I prefer lyrical obliqueness

The Lamb!

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

The Lamb is the greatest prog album ever Wink

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Poll Question: Which do prefer
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
The Wall	16	[18.82%]
The Lamb	52	[61.18%]
Neither	6	[7.06%]
Both are equal	11	[12.94%]
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