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Poll Question: Which of these (mostly) instrumental songs from The Lamb is your fave?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
4 [9.30%]
2 [4.65%]
13 [30.23%]
6 [13.95%]
5 [11.63%]
3 [6.98%]
0 [0.00%]
10 [23.26%]
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    Posted: December 06 2020 at 10:34
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. 

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Edited by BrufordFreak - December 07 2020 at 09:27
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For me probably either silent sorrow or hairless heart. Fly on a windshield is great too but never thought of it as an instrumental.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hairless Heart gets the nod for this poll. 
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Although I really like the choral mellotron on silent sorrow in empty boats I went with hairless heart.
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Hairless Heart is probably the highlight of a very patchy album.
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Originally posted by Awesoreno Awesoreno wrote:

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.

Right you are! I was listening to another track when I typed in the wrong name! Je m'excuse!
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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).
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The Waiting Room is awesome.
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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?
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Hairless Heart has the catchiest chorus vocal melody on the entire record, IMHO!

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The Waiting Room over Silent Sorrow... 
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Originally posted by Frenetic Zetetic Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Hairless Heart has the catchiest chorus vocal melody on the entire record, IMHO!

NO TIME for romantic escape...

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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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.
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Riding the Scree > Windshield >= Supernatural Anaesthetist > Waiting Room > Silent Sorrow > Hairless Heart > Ravine
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Originally posted by Awesoreno Awesoreno wrote:

Originally posted by Frenetic Zetetic Frenetic Zetetic wrote:

Hairless Heart has the catchiest chorus vocal melody on the entire record, IMHO!

NO TIME for romantic escape...

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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Love that wail he gives.
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Hairless Heart
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