THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY

At long last, the PERFECT Genesis album. With each of the five albums that preceded this one, you could feel the screws tightening and the band bettering themselves with each album. They struck gold with The Lamb.

The long compositions are mostly gone, though the songs on here flow into each other well enough to comprise longer songs. Each disc has one "epic"; "In the Cage" on disc one and "The Colony of Slippermen" on disc two, and these are among the best songs on each disc.

It's nearly pointless to bicker over which songs are best because each of the twenty-three songs on The Lamb, including its instrumental segues, are brilliantly written and executed. There is absolutely nothing to complain about on this album, except perhaps that "It" is an anticlimactic closer and kind of sad because it was the last song Peter Gabriel recorded with the group.

This album has gone down as one of the prog rock classics and as a classic concept record. Believe the hype; every good word you hear about this album is true. If you don't already have this (though if you're on this site you probably do), buy it the very next time you set foot inside a record store.