THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY

How do you start to review an album which guided you through your early years and sti ll seems relevent today but STILL receives mixed reviews from Genesis fans ? Easy really----if you first got into them around the Trespass period, grew to love Foxtrot, marvelled at the musicianship on Nursery Cryme and then thought the songs , and structure of them, of Selling England couldn,t be bettered, then you were right! The Lamb is a classic, absolutly enchanting, and provided a role model in RAEL for every 15 year old to hold on to--only problem is i,d never heard the early stuff, so when P.G left i veered towards his career-loved it, still do, the man,s the man is too good to be knighted. In the late seventees i decided to track down the early stuff and was absolutely amazed at this body of work which Gabriel / Genesis had produced, and can now appreciate it as classic prog . It,s understandible that the early years fans feel negative about The Lamb as it really isn,t a classic Genesis era album--that ended with Selling England, Gabriel needed new challenges----can you imagine him singing HOGWEED these days!! So, accept The Lamb for what it is... an astonishing concept for it,s time, immaculately played and unbelievably memorable, probably one of the best albums in prog rock history, but incomparable to classic Genesis