THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY

There are very few albums that hit me on an emotional level. The first (and last) album to do this was Pink Floyd's The Final Cut. With brilliant lyrics and haunting music, Final Cut was one of the few album I felt had a MOOD. It twisted my emotions in me and nearly brought me to tears it was such a depressing (yet totally brilliant) album.

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway does the same thing, but in a different way. Rather than making you think of all the tragedies of war as the Final Cut manages, The Lamb Lies Down makes for FEEL for the PERSON that is Rael. In most of my reviews I'll do a track by track summary of the songs, but there would simply be too much information to be said about this brilliant masterpiece of not just prog, but ALL music. The story behind it, the shifts in mood from the thriving Back in NYC to the beautifully sad The Lamia so the cheery sounding (yet clearly not) final tracks, the album grips your attention and won't let you go until you realize what you're lstening to. What that is is up to you to decide, but every MUSIC fan should at least give this album a few spins while reading the outstanding, magnificent lyrics.