THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY

The Lamb Lies Dow On Broadway - This massive adventurous concept album that was released a year after their brilliant "Selling England By The Pound" album received very bad reviews when it was released. Even Genesis themselves, notably Tony Banks, was disatisfied with it because it was a very hard album to make. "The recording started out great, but turned into hell at the end" said Banks in an interview I read a couple of months back. Still, this album is considered as their best along with "Foxtrot" and "Selling England".

The concept of this album is about Rael, a puerto-rican street punk who lives in NY and experiences strange things in the underground streets of Broadway. It's a well written story by Peter Gabriel and the music that the rest of the band contributes is mostly excellent, despite a few unfocused spots as well as a couple of "filler" songs. It's a patience required album, and newcomers to the band should start with "Foxtrot" or "Selling England" before this one. Otherwise, it's a very good album, some flaws, but overall 4 stars.