THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY

This is an album that often seems to get mixed reviews. Overblown, pretentious, bla bla bla. It's awesome! This is a rare case of a concept album where the songs, although they tell an interesting story together, also work very well on their own. Disc one is immediately likeable. 'In The Cage' has some of Tony's most adventurous keybord work and Phil's drumming is out of control! 'The Grand Parade...' has you scratching your head saying "How do they do that?!?" and 'The Carpet Crawlers' is arguably their most beautiful song. The biggest complaint that I hear about this album is that it's 2nd disc isn't as good. I disagree. It takes a few more listens than the first one to get into it perhaps, but it is every bit as good as the first one. 'Lilywhite Lilith' is probably their rockiest song since 'The Knife' (although 'Back In NYC' rocks pretty good too.) Also, 'Anyways' and 'The Lamia' is as good as anything they've ever done. Check out the keyboard work in 'The Colony Of Slipperman' and 'Riding The Scree' and Peter's hillarious Mick Jagger impersonation on the closing song 'it' is an excellent way to end the album! My second favourite album of all time and let's not forget, this is a double story-telling concept album that came out 5 years prior to 'The Wall' "It's only knock and knowall but I like it!"