THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY

GENESIS history is full of contradictions and "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" is one of them. Following the development of their music, after the absolutely dark and imaginative "Foxtrot" came the softer and friendlier "Selling England..." so the logical evolution would have been an even softer album closer to HACKETT/COLLINS era than to any previous release. But Mr. GABRIEL had a surprise, an aggressive conceptual (With clear references to "The Trial" by Franz Kafka) album designed by and for him, that became an icon of progressive rock.

The songs are shorter but very complex and the concept is hard to understand (Still some fans are discussing what's the central point of Rael's story). It's hard to mention best songs because the whole album is important for the logical sequence of the story and can't be separated into parts without having the risk of loosing the main point of the album.

Even when the nature of conceptual albums lead us to listen the album as a whole entity rather than to listen separate songs being that a conceptual album is like a book and the tracks are like chapters), there are songs that really impressed me, so if you ask me, the claustrophobic "In the Cage" and the tittle song are highlights of this masterpiece that costed me so much time to understand and love.