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THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAYGenesisSymphonic Prog4.31 | 3445 ratings |
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Not to be confused with the backwoods blue movie of the same name, the band's 6th studio
album is simultaneously a logical progression from the developements of Selling England By
the Pound and a look back to the other leanings of the earlier albums. As much as other
double albums are called rock operas, this one strikes me as more of one than any of them.
Yes, reading the story helps, but I think the story is better told through the lryics, sung super-
emotionally by a now master of expression, Peter Gabriel. The music provided by the band is
just as emotional, with many different styles emerging unexpectedly at key points in the story
and dramatic effects and chord changes employed distinguishedly. I've heard many
interpretations of the story, including meaninglessness, but I've always connected the
excellent album art by Hipgnosis to the id/ego/superego correlation between the main
character(s) that I seem to get from it, as well as being a possible spiritual allegory. There are
moments of superb playing to be found here, namely in "In the Cage", "The Colony of
Slippermen", and "Riding The Scree", (Phil Collins does a good John Bonham on the
eerie "Broadway Melody of 1974", or "Fly On a Windshield" if you have the Genesis Definitive
Edition Remaster CD), but the music as a whole focuses more on emotionally resonant
dramatics like "The Chamber of 32 Doors", "The Lamia", and the closing "In the Rapids"/"it.".
The sound and production also foreshadow some of the direction the band would take on the
next few albums. Some wonder why this epic wasn't made into a movie, but I think the
recording was pulled off so well that any attempt at recreating it visually would actually take
away from the experience.
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