THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY

First of all, like all good prog, you can't always figure out what is all the stuff in certain album when you listen to it in the first time, and so is with LLDOB. It has lots of passages on disc 1 that become favorites in the exact moment we listen to them, but disc 2 is generally more difficult. I'm not saying disc 2 is bad, but it has songs like "The Waiting Room" and "Ravine" that make the weaker point of the album. Also, there are songs that aren't easy to like when you first listen to them such as "Colony of The Slippermen", "Light Dies Down on Broadway" and "Riding The Scree" but soon became favorites of mine. The disc 2 also as some of the best passages of the album,"The Lamia" and "In the Rapids / It".

There is one interesting fact about the production of the album. "Broadway Melody of 1974" was supposed to begin in the second part of "Fly On a Windshield" at 2:47, but due to a production error I think, the album was released as it is now. So, I consider both songs to be part of one bigger song (ok, only 33 seconds bigger).

With so many excellent tracks to be found here, I will hightlight two of them: "In the Cage" and "Fly On a Windshield / Broadway Melody of 1974". Both of them are heavier than what you could expect on albums such as Foxtrot and SEBTP, but they fit perfectly in this album. Although I give this album a very high rating, it doesn't really have an epic song, being "In the Cage" the song that stays closer to that concept. But come on! This is a concept album, it is supposed to be appreciated as a whole piece, and that piece IS EPIC!

I highly recommend this to every prog and every rock fan, but if you are being introduced to the band (or to the Peter Gabriel era), maybe Foxtrot is slightly better to begin.

5 stars easily

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