(Mostly) Instrumentals from The Lamb
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Topic: (Mostly) Instrumentals from The Lamb
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Subject: (Mostly) Instrumentals from The Lamb
Date Posted: December 06 2020 at 10:34
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Genesis' 1974 double album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, was unusual for the fact that there are . . . instrumentals(!) Previously, Steve Hackett's "Horizons" and Steve and Tony's "After the Ordeal" duet had been the only such compositions committed to vinyl. We all know that the album's music was written and recorded before Peter Gabriel sat down to impose his libretto over the top, which probably explains the odd number of wordless songs. Which is your favorite? I have, as you can see, chosen to include the three mostly-instrumental songs in which Gabe's singing occupies less than 30 seconds of the total. This may have been a mistake but I'm willing to let it fly--to see what happens. Good luck! ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: December 06 2020 at 10:39
| For me probably either silent sorrow or hairless heart. Fly on a windshield is great too but never thought of it as an instrumental. |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: December 06 2020 at 10:59
| It’s hard to pick a favorite, each one fits to the part of the story they belong to. Maybe The Waiting Room, followed by Hairless Heart. |
Posted By: thief
Date Posted: December 06 2020 at 12:10
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I could vote for anything not called Silent Sorrow and Ravine. Ultimately +1 for Hairless Heart, haunting melody really buried at the heart of the journey. ------------- TOP20 Songs https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=124211" rel="nofollow - Genesis https://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=125999" rel="nofollow - Rush |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: December 06 2020 at 12:35
| Broadway Melody is not even mostly instrumental. It has lyrics throughout. But I love this post because these Lamb tracks are underrated to me. I'll go Anaesthetist because it's one of my favorite Hackett solos. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: December 06 2020 at 15:39
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Hairless Heart gets the nod for this poll. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: December 06 2020 at 16:15
| Although I really like the choral mellotron on silent sorrow in empty boats I went with hairless heart. |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: December 06 2020 at 17:43
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Hairless Heart is probably the highlight of a very patchy album. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: December 06 2020 at 17:55
Right you are! I was listening to another track when I typed in the wrong name! Je m'excuse! ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Awesoreno wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 06 2020 at 18:03
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Hearing "Hairless Heart" at a play's after-show party, and not knowing what it was, was the start of a long and deep journey into Prog for me, and while I had already discovered what it was a couple of years before joining here (through internet music samples), I don't think that I'd be here or have got so deeply into Prog had I not spend so much time searching for that song (if only I had never heard it). ;) It remains my favourite by Genesis (rather like how The Rock was most important to me by The Who). ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: December 06 2020 at 19:01
| The Waiting Room is awesome. |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: December 06 2020 at 21:49
| the whole album is so amazing and creative when I see a list like this---it really shows how great it is---I love Hairless Heart--but Fly on a windshield really blows me away but is it really just an instrumental? |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: December 06 2020 at 23:25
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Hairless Heart has the catchiest chorus vocal melody on the entire record, IMHO! NO TIME for romantic escape... ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: December 07 2020 at 00:00
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The Waiting Room over Silent Sorrow... ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: December 07 2020 at 00:48
You're thinking of Back in NYC which precedes Hairless Heart, but includes a reference to a "fluffy heart" (where the name for HH comes from). But yeah, Back in NYC is AWESOME.
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: December 07 2020 at 11:39
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A true instrumental tack which always gets me: Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats. It is simple on the surface but it conveys a mood of melancholy, regret, and yes, sorrow, beautifully. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: December 07 2020 at 14:23
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Riding the Scree > Windshield >= Supernatural Anaesthetist > Waiting Room > Silent Sorrow > Hairless Heart > Ravine ------------- 
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Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: December 07 2020 at 23:46
Correct, and I always forget that...because IIIIIIII don't care....WHO I HIT! No you're only...as strong...yes you're only...as strong...as the weakest link...in the chain!   ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Awesoreno
Date Posted: December 08 2020 at 01:35
| Love that wail he gives. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: December 08 2020 at 05:30
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Hairless Heart ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: December 08 2020 at 07:23
I got into trouble for playing "Back in NYC" in a school music lesson once, just because he says "I'm not full of sh*t". The same teacher also stopped us playing "Squeeze Box" by The Who midway through the first verse.
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Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: December 08 2020 at 18:01
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Here Comes the Supernatural Anæsthetist just over The Waiting Room ------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: December 10 2020 at 14:01
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"The Waiting Room" without doubt. It's the most experimental, and one of my favourite parts of the album. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 10 2020 at 14:20
Actually Windshield's lyrics and Broadway's lyrics are separated by a great instrumental break, but it's not clear to which track it should be attributed. I always assumed it was part of Broadway based on the vinyl track space on the vinyl I had bought back then, but apparently the flow seems reversed in recent years
  (Genesis never went that
far again) while the latter is an absolute bore .------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: December 10 2020 at 15:16
Yep. I was going to say how can that be since Hairless Heart is instrumental.
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Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: December 15 2020 at 11:10
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Whenever I listen to TLLDoB, I ALWAYS skip over The Waiting Room. I find it a complete bore and a total waste of time and space. I know a lot of people hate it, but Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats is my choice, and one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs the band has ever done!
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 17 2020 at 02:26
| Riding The Scree |