Reviews (page 5 of 7)
My policy on double albums is that you need a really good reason to not just release two separate albums. Usually I'm looking for some sort of concept, but TLLDOB seems to lack one. Side 1 alone as an LP would garner 4 stars, but having to then listen to a weaker version of the same album brings my rating down somewhat. The songs get gradually less convincing in terms of melody and hooks (which are generally the best indicator of how good a tune is). The first half of The Waiting Room, early on disc 2, is bad for this reason. The Colony of Slippermen is similarly hard to approach on a first listen. There are quite a few good tracks to balance these ones out, though. The Carpet Crawlers sounds like something from Pink Floyd's The Wall or The Final Cut – complete with uncomfortably Waters-esque vocals and soft, fast synth lines. The quiet atmosphere is quite different to the rest of the album. One of the best tracks for sure. Lilwhite Lillith is also very strong, if only for the funny way they say "Lillith". What the heck is going on in the lyrics of Counting Out Time? "Erogenous zones I love you / ... / Touch and go with one to six / Bit of trouble in zone number seven / ... / There's heaven ahead in number eleven / Getting crucial responses with dilatation of the pupils / Honey get hip, it's time to unzip / To unzip zip zippa zippa zip, whoopee!" Also in the final track, aptly titled It: "It is chicken, it is eggs / It is in between your legs / ... / It has no home in words or goal / Not even in your favourite hole / It is the hope for the dope" One drug too many, I'm guessing. For the relatively banging predecessor album Selling England By The Pound, this is a bit of a disappointment. 3/5 Key tracks: Broadway Melody of 1974, Carpet Crawlers, Lilywhite Lillith, The Lamia
Not my first exposure to prog rock so this was pretty nice. feeling a bit more pop rock on some songs so i'm guessing they were transitioning to the genesis most people are familiar with. Nice written and some songs are a bit catchy. nothing i will remember but it was a nice experience.
Listen, I love a good concept album, but this was a mess. It seemed like they were trying to bite off more than they could chew with it. Even with the long run time, it still felt like they struggled to tell a cohesive story. There are a couple good songs throughout, and “Counting Out Time” and “The Carpet Crawlers” really grabbed my attention, but it’s just not a very strong album. The songs don’t need to spell out the story completely, but there were a lot of times where I just felt lost. Technically it’s a good album, and of course the Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins-era Genesis isn’t going to put out anything truly terrible, but I hoped for a lot more. A 90 minute Genesis concept album should be right up my alley, but this didn’t work for me.
i like a good concept album so i was intrigued going into this. after listening im no longer intrigued. they were way too focused on trying to tell the story that they forgot to make the songs good. the instrumentation is really good but the songs themselves are a slog to get through especially with a double albums worth
It's not bad - but it's tiring, it feels like a marathon and it squeezes out any interest I could have had. It's like running a marathon, there's times you want to give up and if you don't you might the runner's high again - but it's a rough journey.
I have given Genesis a fair shot, listening to several of their albums, but they just don’t resonate with me the way Rush does, for example:(
could i write poetry to this? n
Enjoyable prog-rock, but double album length works against it, 1st album much more interesting and consistent. Standouts: In the Cage
++: Fly on a Windshield, Broadway Melody of 1974, In the Cage, Counting Out Time, Lilywhite Lilith, The Waiting Room, Riding the Scree +: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Cuckoo Cocoon, The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging, The Chamber of 32 Doors, Anyway, The Colony of Slippermen a. The Arrival b. A Visit to the Doktor c. The Raven +-: Carpet Crawl, Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist, The Lamia, Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats, Ravine, The Light Dies Down on Broadway, In the Rapids, it. -: Back in N.Y.C., Hairless Heart 7,0/10
Struggle to get into prog Genesis. More and more feel it's really just prog metal I like. This was generally fine but in its length and meandering only partially memorable. On repeated listens I'd probably like it more. But that would take a lot of investment and time...
That was long. Good though, great musicianship, peotic lyrics. A type of longer rock I'd pick if I had to
слишком сложно и много. я продолжу думать про более тщательное знакомство с дженесис/прогроком/Габриэлем/Коллинзом но позже)
This could have been a great 45min album but it felt watered down by the length
We moesten net nog Selling England By The Pound luisteren en dit is toch één pod nat. En dan is dit ook nog een dubbel-cd. Het is allemaal prima in elkaar gedraaid, maar (wellicht door de pech dat het direct achter een zelfde soort Genisis album volgt) ik was het bij cd 2 toch flink zat.
Vrij kort na het andere album van Genesis, krijgen we al dit (dubbel)album. Soms is dat vervelend, zo kort na elkaar dezelfde muzikant, maar ik noemde al in mijn vorige review dat ik het moeilijk te vergelijken vond. Daar krijg ik nu de kans voor. Zoals eerder gezegd, jammer dat we niet een album uit een andere periode krijgen, maar de wegen van de snobs zijn ondoorgrondelijk, dus we zullen het hiermee moeten doen. Al ben ik vooraf al heel bang: een dubbelaar met een enorm naar snob riekende albumtitel. Het is nog meer een album van composities, een compleet verhaal blijkbaar, een progrock-opera. Maar we missen hier ook weer de voor mij zo belangrijke hitjes, of in ieder geval bekendere of herkenbare nummers. Verder heb ik hetzelfde idee als bij het andere album van Genesis uit de snoblijst. Het is mij soms iets teveel compositie en te weinig liedje. Het is wat dat betreft uitwisselbaar met het andere album, al denk ik dat dit wel iets beter is. Alsnog vind ik het een gemiste kans, dat we niet (ook) een later album van Genesis zonder Peter Gabriel in deze lijst hebben. Het is wederom geen vergeetbare 3, maar meer dan een 3 kan ik er ook niet van maken.
Like Pink Floyd's ‘The Wall’, the fantastical dream sequences/hallucinations make an already convoluted plot tricky to make sense of even with the aid of a written synopsis. I can't accuse Genesis of taking themselves too seriously, as there's humour in the lyrics, but it's clearly overwrought at times too - it's almost stuck halfway between being self-important and being a joke. So I have to wonder why, if you're gonna make the effort to create a sprawling, musically complex opus, you'd commit to making it quite like... this? Or maybe the oddness of it all is its charm…? Don’t get me wrong, the album definitely contains some cool moments but as a whole it’s a bit confounding. And long.
Look... I don't know, man. This thing is just a lot. And I don't mean it's "a lot" in terms of its plot. Well, not entirely, at least. I knew ahead of time that this album had a particularly strange story, and after reading over the synopsis on Wikipedia... Yeah, it sure is. I'm sure it means something to someone, but just at a glance, it comes across like one of those surreal "I'unno, shit just happens" kinda plots. A lamb lies down on Broadway, and 80 minutes later, a raven is stealing the protagonist's penis, which he had cut off to avoid becoming a slipperman as a result of having sex with the laima — and this is after Death tried to kill our protagonist with gas, but our man just shrugs it off and walks away. In terms of plot, it's basically the audio equivalent of one of those heady art films you're told you're supposed to like **because** it's so weird and doesn't make any sense. I mean, it's not like I can't deal with strange plot; TOMMY certainly isn't very normal. It's just, all this... Fwoof. So I didn't bother listening to the lyrics. I mean, I heard that despite the plot they're actually really good, but, hey, if I'm not bothering with the story, I may as well throw out the words all together. If this website had comments (and thank goodness it doesn't) I'd give you full permission to call me out on this front. In the absence of lyrics, then, this thing would have to live and die off of its melodies, and I had faith in it. After all, I liked SELLING ENGLAND BY THE POUND enough to consider it a new benchmark for judging prog albums, and that was literally the one before this. I'm not expecting this to sound **exactly** the same, of course, but I didn't doubt they'd keep up that same quality level. And they did, don't get me wrong. In the first half of this, I was thinking that even though I haven't heard enough of their catalog to make a complete call (I haven't even heard "Supper's Ready") this was probably their masterwork. It was so good! The performances are top notch! There's some damn good melodies on this! I mean, damn, I gotta kick myself in the ass some more for not listening to this material sooner. I couldn't get enough of it! Then it kept going. And going. And going. And going. And... Like, this is what I mean by "it's a lot." This thing is 94 minutes and dense with material — 23 tracks, goodness. And no matter how much I like what I'm hearing, well, "too much of a good thing" isn't a saying for nothing. And I didn't even listen to this thing in straight shot; I queued it all up by record side, one at a time. So maybe I should have taken more time between sides? Who knows! All I can tell you is that even if I had been listening to the lyrics, I probably wouldn't have been able to for the whole album. It gets me thinking about the plot again. It's like, I'm no stranger to concept albums. Matter of fact, I love a bit of story in my music. I find I tend to have stronger attachment to songs if I can understand them in the context of a narrative than if they were presented on their own; it's why I take to jukebox musicals as much as I do. It's why I imagine fight scenes and general music videos to songs so much. So, I just think about the rock operas I love: THE WALL, TOMMY, JOE'S GARAGE... And the thing about them is no matter how weird they get, and something like JOE'S GARAGE gets very weird, is that there's a strong sense of action and reaction. There are characters who make choices, and it's all pretty easy to latch on to. Compare with THE LAMB, where... I mean, like I said: it's an art film. There's barely any plot to speak of; it's mostly just the protagonist running around randomly and seeing strange things until the album, like, jus' kinda stops. I can only identify one choice he makes on the whole album, and it's when he chooses to save his brother over returning to New York. However, I don't have any attachment to what's going on. Who's the protagonist? Who's his brother? What's their relationship? Why do they suddenly have the same face? What does any of this mean? Maybe if I read the long-ass summary Gabriel wrote into the gatefold... But just taking the music on its own, I have no idea. Hell, I haven't even felt the need to mention the protagonist's name: it's Rael, for the record. Like... I just can't picture it. And no matter how much I like the music, if a concept album can't succeed on that front... Fwoof. It feels like something I need a lot more time with; a lot more than this randomizer would allow. I can imagine after a couple or so spins I'd forgive it for its nonsensical plot and just enjoy it on its melodies — if I can do it with Coheed And Cambria... Like, I don't want my issues with the plot and the length to take away too much from how good the music itself is. I do really like what I've heard of this era of Genesis and what they've made and I wish I'd gotten into them sooner. And maybe if I had I'd be more familiar with this album and would be able to be lighter on it. But on just a first listen... I can't lie about how I feel. Once more for the world: fwoof.
I really like Invisible Touch (the song, haven't listened to the whole album), so i thought I'd really like Genesis. I am now realising it was stupid to think I'd enjoy a band Street hearing one song. I didn't really enjoy this album. There were a few songs that i liked, but I didn't enjoy most of them. I have also generally struggled with longer albums and this is definitely a long one at 1.5hrs. I was enjoying disc 2 more than disc 1 but then it just became instrumentals.
Like most things involving Peter Gabriel, this critter here is a lot. I think I've listened to this -- or part of this -- maybe once before.If you're feeling proggy, there's a lot of good stuff to get into -- solid musicianship, extended concepts, some general weirdness. I liked it this time around just fine. And that's about as far as I can go -- I really didn't have the time to sit and appreciate it for the full runtime, so it made for pleasant enough background music. I guess my brain wasn't in "challenge me" mode. Counting Out Time may be the worst song about sex ever written.
Det kan noget sine steder. Men det bliver for langt, både i spilletid og i spyttet. Helt ærligt så vil jeg hellere have 80er Genesis med Land of Confusion, I Can’t Dance og Jesus He Knows Me
This album can objectively only be given a 3 as the sheer numerical average of what I felt like giving it and the propensity this album had to impress me and piss me off with each track. I felt like giving it the same review Taylor did at MANY points, particularly at Cuckoo Cucoon and Counting Out Time. It does many things so well, but makes you wait way too long for them. I blame this album for feeling so unmotivated to keep up with the review, but alas, here I am, white Monster in hand, reviewing. If you're going to make a concept album you want people to stay engaged during, at least make it enjoyable ALL the way through.
The Lamia - Great song The first disk was pretty mid but i felt the second disk built up really well to songs like The Lamia which was my favourite. Honestly i feel like it would be better to split the album by disk but alas. Gonna go 3/5
This was way weirder than I expected. I grew up with the radio-friendly hits, so this felt like walking in on someone’s dream mid-sentence. Definitely some big, sweeping moments. There's ambition all over the place. Sometimes it just wanders. Didn't hate it. Didn't love it. That said, it has its charm. It’s got that early-70s flavor that’s hard to hate. Some bits dragged, some were weirdly great. Definitely not the band I remember from the MTV days. Spins: 2 Playlist Additions: - Carpet Crawlers - Lilywhite Lilith - The Lamia
I have no interest in this type of music and I'm old enough and secure enough to give up on this lmao
I generally don't like the idea of a concept album, because it feels overly high-minded and pretentious. Pete Townsend is most famous for his concept albums that he promises to fans of The Who and I would just prefer he write good songs that aren't necessarily connected to a larger story about a boy who (insert action he takes) but is not prepared for (insert event) and he must navigate his way around (insert location) to achieve his dream. I also prefer Genesis when they mix together the prog-rock and 80's rock together on an album. Peter Gabriel's weird dressing up act isn't necessarily my thing either and I've always thought he was a sufficiently good lead singer but his music has always been a "3" on a scale of 1-5. BUT, this double album that is also a concept album is worthy of a listen. It's still probably too long and bombastic for me to listen to frequently but there are some good songs on here and the not-as-good songs tend to be briefer. Out of 23 songs, I would say half of them are worthy of a listen. The first five songs are a strong way to start the album and I do wish it kept the energy up through the entire album. Side 2 fades in terms of song quality. It feels like Genesis was working to get a double album out of these tracks. Either that or...drugs. I am, once again, asking that artists consider not making their album a double album. Yes, you have a lot of songs written, and yes, they are SO GOOD in your opinion. Maybe they are wonderful but leave a little bit for the next concept album you do.
such a novel concept of being a double album, though as someone who thinks genesis is alright... its good for the first like 50mins. some good track afterwards, but still a wonderful album haha. good driving music to and from a gig.
Kan nog säkert lista ut detta album på några dagar men själva musiken är inte tillräckligt bra för det
Interesting and I'm still undecided on how much I like it.
This was fine. It was a bit long and I kinda tuned it out after a while. Bits and pieces of it were good and the rest just felt forgettable.
A complex entry in Genesis's discography. It has good instrumentation and some nice songs, but I feel like it didnt really grab me (especially compared to other prog rock concept albums). Overall- decent album but didnt capture me. 2.5 to 3 range
3 stars not the Genesis music I was expecting but still good.
I was annoyed to see this come up on the generator, because it's a) progressive rock and b) the brainchild, at least in part, of Peter Gabriel, perhaps the most insufferable figure in 20th century popular culture. And that was before I saw the 90-minute runtime!! So, I'm loathe to admit that I actually liked this record a decent bit. It's tight throughout, with some blistering highs, which I actually think come when it sheds the prog and embraces Gabriel's pop sensitivities (!). The Carpet Crawlers is a true marvel, a song that I can only imagine could mean anything to anyone, but to me, means that the only way out is through ("We've got to get in to get out"). The album's definitely too long for my taste, but I did go back and listen to it a second time before logging my review, so that's worth something. I hate finding out that my biases were misplaced >:-(
Good album for the most part.
Me, pointing at Peter Gabriel as slipperman to my drug dealer: ‘I’ll have what he’s having!’ This is my first intro to genesis (other than, of course, Phil Collins’ Tarzan soundtrack and I had absolutely no idea it was going to be like this - an hour and a half, track into track, absolutely bloody bonkers. I think this merits another listen as right now I have no idea where this stands with me. All I know is I put this on to unpack the dishwasher and an hour later I’ve cleaned my whole house.
I’ve been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn’t understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins’ presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group’s undisputed masterpiece. It’s an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I’ve heard in rock. Phil Collins’ solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist.
The album kind of fell off after the first record, and overstayed it's welcome a bit, but not a bad album all in all. Ironically, Genesis was better without Peter Gabriel, and Peter Gabriel was better without Genesis. Favourite songs: Counting Out Time, Broadway Melody of 1974, Fly on a Windshield, Hairless Heart Least favourite songs: The Waiting Room 3/5
Not their best
Solid, very entertaining.
Long
I am much more familiar with Genesis and Peter Gabriel as separate entities, and in my opinion, it is much more interesting if you looked at their relationship in reverse. It would likely be considered a super group... Peter Gabriel joins Phil Collins and Genesis to create an ambitious concept album that explores the estranged vision of the self in the melting pot of 1970s New York City. Still, it is a concept album. While musically, it held my attention, I didn't follow the purported narrative suggested in articles about the album. But I believe them, and I trust Gabriel and the whole gang, so I am guess that it would grow on me. So, today, I give it a three and half, convinced it might eventually move higher in my book.
I like Genesis, but this one was loooong. Sort of like the band Yes, this one at times sounds like music theory nerds making an album. There's some good songs, I know it's a concept album but I felt like the point could have been made in a shorter period of time. 'It' jams.
Peter Gabriel going way over the top with his creative vision. I don't find it particularly appealing - I enjoy the Phil Collins version of Genesis way more - but maaaaaaaaaan, the sheer effort that was poured into this. No wonder Gabriel split from the band after this.
I never understand the big fuss. It's not bad but it's not ...I don't get the fuss
По мнению А: 3/5 По мнению С: 3/5 ИТОГОВАЯ ОЦЕНКА: 3/5 (13.02.2025)
⭐️⭐️⭐️ this is a very long album and a bit of a complex listen for me. this will require future listening to figure out whether or not i like it
Never heard this one. It got better as it went through. Good van music waiting for work
Wait, THIS is what Genesis sounds like? I was thinking it would be more like jammier Peter Gabriel (which, I guess technically …), but this was kind of cool and noisy at some points. Definitely coming back to this one. —— update: Came back to it, and uuuugh, I wish I had never started listening to the lyrics!!! You’re ruining everything, Phil Collins!
So I was pleasantly surprised at first, not because I dislike Genesis (I actually LOVE the invisible touch album) but because I didn’t expect this album to be so psychedelic and progressive. I really liked the first like 6ish songs but like most albums this long (23 songs!) it’s just bloated and too long. Like it really overstayed its welcome. I had to try and listen to the second half of the album twice cause I thought maybe I was being too critical but the later part of this album doesn’t really add anything substantial, where I. Contrast the beginning of the album is great. Honestly had this album been edited down to just like 12-14 songs that would’ve pushed the album to a four.
All new songs for me... not bad.
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is widely regarded as one of Genesis's most important and influential works, inspiring generations of progressive rock musicians. -- https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/178476/Genesis-The_Lamb_Lies_Down_On_Broadway-Hybrid_Stereo_SACD?srsltid=AfmBOoqY9Ce99zbVJVEBShZlZ8FNg-GMGjxxdWnZBMC8ETwR_b21g0Ci
I can't say I've been a fan of Genesis, though their early material is preferred and when Peter Gabriel was still in the band. I've heard bits and pieces of "The Lamb..." and I liked what I heard, but never in it's entirety. I appreciate some Prog rock, if I'm in the mood and this was enjoyable enough, especially the first two sides of the record, but with sides 3 and 4, it started to drag and get into the category of, "they should have cut it shorter". Overly long, for my tastes and a taste of Genesis is good, but too much and I'm full.
Counting Out Time is so wack and fun
This album was interesting. There were a lot of experimental type songs sounds, a lot that reminded me of Pink Floyd. It was okay. I'll give it 3 start
This is a wild and diverse album. Very very proggy and not very similar to their later albums. Amazing keyboard work. Rich, thick arrangements of sound. You can hear the influence of this album in many of the prog jam bands that are currently popular like Umphrey’s McGee. While it’s got a lot of energy, there weren’t many tracks I connected with. Sonically however, it’s outstandingly diverse.
Progtacular
Not sure what to make of this one. It feels like it may take multiple listens to enjoy.
Proggy AF but didn't mind this. Would probably give it another run.
as someone with a poor tolerance for prog i didn't mind most of this. it's a bloated, arrogant album in the way prog often is, but feels harmonious, energetic, urgent. there are many skips, but it warrants a relisten.
Incredibly wacky in both good and bad ways. I can't honestly say this means as much to me as it does for some but I can definitely appreciate the passion and the earnestness that drives this project. It goes through so many twists and turns and you can never guess where the narrative goes next. I guess the modern equivalent would be those forum threads where everyone has to write one sentence of a story, to predictably unpredictable results. Favourites: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, In The Cage, Lilywhite Lilith, It (7/1001, 19th Mar. '25, 2144h.)
5/10 - it’s boring. Counting out time has some interesting instruments. So does colony of slipper men. Neither are particularly good tho.
It was okay. Nothing made me want to hit repeat.
10/1001 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is a really perplexing album. Over 90 minutes long and a great and quite imaginative concept, sadly however, it’s way too ambitious. Listening to the first LP was pretty good, and the music definitely held its own in comparison to its ambitions. The second LP though, not so much. Most of it fell flat and blended together until the last few songs on the d-side. I kinda get why people started disliking the pretentiousness of prog in the mid to late 70s. And at over 90 minutes as already mentioned it really is pretentious and self indulgent. That doesn’t mean it’s bad per se. Most of the first half was still very good. 3,5/5
Genuinely wondering why does no prog rock work on me as a huge Pink Floyd fan. These records are missing something I don't what.
Eclectic and interesting. Experimental
2.9 The issue with including double-length concept albums on this list is that unless you have an affinity with the band already it's exceedingly hard to give it the time and attention it would need to get into it. I've listened to this several times over the course of a couple of weeks, most likely therefore rushing through other albums in the process. I quite enjoyed Selling England by the Pound from this list which is why I'm giving it more attention than I normally would. And yet it's still too much. The opening three tracks are a great starter. It then gets a bit too proggy but fair enough, I quite liked those parts on SEBTP. As you get to the hour mark though the fatigue really starts to set in. And you know there's still another 34 minutes to go. I had Pink Moon the other day, I could have listened to that and then gone on to another task in the same time that I'm now effectively waiting for this album to finally end. The resurgence of 'down on broadway' is a nice harper back to good times, but its not enough to save what is a tiring slow meandre to the finish line.
2.75
Rock progresivo. Disco larguísimo. Ni fu ni fa.
Bastante rollo ... Mejor la segunda parte.
Kind of reminds me of Tommy by the Who - there was a bunch of prog type stuff done at this time that just left me cold.
It was alright, but it get a bit long..
Much prog, much talent, much length, much… ability to zone out. Like I would definitely agree with someone defending this album as creative and technically impressive feat of musical discovery, but I would ask them to turn it down.
At the start of this album I was really surprised and into it, and then I found myself getting less into it by the end of disc 1. Disc 2 had some cool moments but I had already kind of lost the plot.
Fun, but not super gripping
Definitiv anders. Aber nicht schlecht anders.
6/10. Probably close to a 6.5 but regardless — it started out great. Was thinking it’d lead to an 8 but it went the wrong direction for me from there.
I was not familiar with any of the old Peter Gabriel stuff, but I knew it was prog rock and not the poppy Phil Collins 80s Genesis, so the weirdness did not surprise me much. Long album, but it was OK, interesting stuff, but not an album I'm looking to listen to again any time soon. Did Phil Collins sing lead on any of these songs, or is his singing style and sound just that similar to Peter Gabriel that it's hard to tell the difference? Favorite track: Carpet Crawlers or Anyway.
As "prog-rock concept" albums go, this one wasn't too bad. Several of the songs here are really good, I just felt it stretched on for far too long.
I quite like a bit of early Genesis, but this has always left me a bit cold. Perhaps it's the length, perhaps it's the rambling storytelling going on, perhaps it's the lack of memorable tunes. But, for whatever reason, this always leaves me a little cold and it's not an album I'd pick out to come back to. Foxtrot, sure. Selling England by the Pound, yes. I think Seven have a copy of Trespass on CD somewhere. But not The Lamb. The Carpet Crawlers is, obviously, a lovely tune. The Lamb Lies Down itself is OK as well. But there's too much going on here and, ultimately, I'm an 80s kid so this version of Genesis was something I came back to after I'd gotten into Marillion and so on. This is a 3. It's all fine, but not my favouriteGenesis thing. Glad I came back to it and listened again though. Now, where's that copy of Script For a Jester's Tear...
No. 285/1001 The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 3/5 Fly on a Windshield 3/5 Broadway Melody of 1974 3/5 Cuckoo Cocoon 3/5 In the Cage 3/5 The Grand Parade 2/5 Back in N.Y.C. 2/5 Hairless Heart 3/5 Counting Out Time 4/5 The Carpet Crawlers 4/5 The Chamber of 32 Doors 4/5 Lilywhite Lilith 3/5 The Waiting Room 2/5 Anyway 3/5 Here Comes 3/5 The Lamia 4/5 Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats 3/5 The Colony of Slippermen 3/5 Ravine 2/5 The Light Dies Down On Broadway 4/5 Riding the Scree 2/5 In the Rapids 4/5 It 3/5 Average: 3,04 Very long prog rock record. Didn't like some things they did musically. Collin’s voice is a big plus. Overall I‘m pretty indifferent.
I actually enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. Spacy prog rock with excellent vocals and compelling songs. Maybe I like Genesis?
listen, there's nothing wrong with it. i quite like it, even. i like the prog in it. it's just not rocky enough to entertain me.
Good but too long 3.5
Heavy. I like it better when Genesis was a five piece.
Decent listen.
I like Genesis. But I like the Phil Collins led Genesis. I do like the Peter Gabriel album, but this... There are some interesting themes, but overall I don't come back to this album.
Long album, maybe too long with a odd story . But has a lot of great songs, would be much better if it was a single album.
Okay but not my style
This is prog rock so I'm sure it'll rank low globally. I enjoyed this album, but the runtime was fairly long. It doesn't match the same love I have for albums like Tarkus or Yes, but it was a nice, high energy listen. High side of 3 for me.
Never listened to a Genesis album before this. And to jump in on a double disc release! Let's Go! First disc was cool and prog rock stuff that I liked overall, sounded a bit like Emerson Lake and Palmer: opening/title track, "Back in NYC", and "Counting Out Time". Hope you caught this gem from "Counting Out Time": "Erogenous zones I love you, Without you, what would a poor boy do?" Second disc seemed really atmospheric and less musical overall. What I remember was a pass. I liked disc 1 and could do without disc 2. I'd probably need at least another listen to have a really proper opinion. Will it happen. Maybe.
As progrock albums go, this one is mostly tolerable but, like so many others, is overlong.
Wasn't a fan of the instrumental tracks. The other songs were okay as background music. 3/5
just pure sound. i mean really a good hour and a half of audio playing in my ears
Couple memorable songs but expected more.
Some good jams but too many wizard fantasy songs.
I'm not especially a fan of concept albums. This one made for a pleasant enough listen but not so pleasant that it made much of an impression on me or would inspire me to want to seek it out again.
Not Genesis at their best but definitely making some interesting musical decisions
Very pleased to seecthis here, it's an album with a massive reputation though I'd never heard it. Genesis started out as a Prog band and this definitely bears that out. Now the what do I think of it? Hmm. Well, it was OK. The stand out track being 'The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging'. For me it would need a further listen or two. But for now on 1 listen it's got to be worth a score of 3.
Album 534 of 1001 Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974) Rating : 3.5 / 5 There was a time I would have probably enjoyed this more. Still, a fine album. May be better with a closer, uninterrupted listen.
This album is wild. It's just like a wild progressive rock opera. It's so so long. I can't imagine anyone being super stoked on this and thinking that putting the whole thing on to listen to on a regular basis was a great idea. What a world.
i really enjoyed quite a few songs on this, but a 3 feels appropriate as i don’t see myself returning to this album in full anytime soon
I don’t understand Genesis. And I’m ok with that.
This concept album is clearly the Genesis that people had in mind when calling them an influence on Fish era Marillion - I was only familiar with their earlier albums and with late Phil Collins era. Enjoyed the music but the concept was kind of naff.
I'm what the hardcore Genesis fans would call a poser (probably). I know Genesis' eighties music very well, and I know a smattering of their seventies sound. I definitely prefer their pop, mass-produced music over their long, overzealous jam sessions. They never strayed away from their progressive roots though, but I suspect they learned to tighten up the songs that last more than eight minutes. Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway was a hallmark of progressive and art rock for the weird and other worldly sounds. These long songs definitely aren't for everyone but are soaring, satisfying epics. While this album was an exercise in patience, I only heard amazing music.
This project has taught me that I am not the most patient when it comes to true progressive rock. A lot of it draws on too much for my liking and ends up sounding like glorified jam sessions. I know some of the more mainstream hits by Genesis, and enjoy those quite a bit. I also enjoy Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins individually as artists. Therefore, I expected to enjoy this a bit more. But in the end, my impatience for prog rock won out. I ultimately found this album to be okay, but pretty difficult to get into. I guess just leave me with the mainstream Genesis stuff that the "not so hardcore" fans listen to.
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is the sixth studio album by Genesis, originally released in 1974. I was always familiar with Genesis' later work, which I didn't dig much. This list has opened my eyes to how good their earlier 70s work was. This one was on the weirder side. It was their last record with Peter Gabriel who insisted on having pretty much full creative control for the record. He wrote the whole thing and came up with the concept. While the band worked on new material at Headley Grange for three months, they decided to produce a concept album with a story devised by Gabriel about Rael, a Puerto Rican youth from New York City who is suddenly taken on a journey of self-discovery and encounters bizarre incidents and characters along the way. This double album clocks in at over an hour and 20 minutes long. It feels bloated at times. You can also tell that prog rock was started to get a bit wankery at this time as well. Some of the solos and time signature changes are a bit much and just barely veer into masturbatory territory. However, one thing I loved was the use of electronics. There are a few instrumental tracks that evoke a really psychedelic feeling/atmosphere, not unlike Pink Floyd. I'll give this another listen in the near future but for now it's a solid 3.
liked the storytelling vibe overall, but felt that it is a tad too long. Also the flute and synthesizer use sounds great in this. favorite track: fly on a windshield other picks: lamb lies down, carpet crawlers, counting out time, anyway
5.5/10
Might be doing this in the wrong frame of mind but this was a bit of an ordeal. About an album too long!
This was cool, I’d probably give it a 3.5.
3.2 I distinctly remember one time I was in a cab and the driver was going on and on about how great the band Genesis was. He gave deep descriptions of each album, their concepts, and their themes. I swore on that day I would check Genesis out. That was 18 years ago, and today is finally the day I sat down and listened to a full album. That cab driver is exactly the kind of person who would love this.
Kinda mid album, some bangers bring it up to 3/5
Of it’s time so nostalgic. High 3*
This is just a weird album.
I prefer Exodus! Hahahaha bible joke...
Some great sone not so much but I always loved the band
It was great musically very inventive, but I would never listen to this whole thing again.
what's up with all the peter gabriel this week?
Genesis was never my thing. There’s skill, and a melody. But it’s boring. Shrug, move on.
This was a really challenging listen, since it's such a long album. It was helpful to listen in parts (the sides from Wikipedia). There's a lot of material I liked and a lot that felt uninteresting but necessary to the concept. Overall, pretty ambitious, very bloated, mostly good!
It is OK, not the music I know from them but I enjoyed it. Nothing is going on repeat but it is good.
Bastante rollo ... Mejor la segunda parte.
Will need to listen to this one again. Wasn't super impressed, but there's an unease and sense of danger there that I would like to explore again.
Very pretty prog album. In the vein of the best of them (King Crimson, Yes and Pink Floyd). This is a behemoth of a record though. Hard to digest it all but definitely impressive/well produced bare minimum (the first 4/5 tracks, the waiting room, all really impressive). Counting Out Time has a really annoying....something synth line in the middle. This album is overall good but it drags a little. The instrumentation tends to be beautiful at times but other times grating. The lyrics can be a little overly ridiculous. Curse errogenous zones? It is definitely an ambitious epic bar none.
Good
Está bien pero no me vuelve loco.
enjoyed a lot more than i thought i would, long as hell but probably wouldn't be that bad if i wasnt sober
I have now and then listened to some of the 70s Genesis albums. The music is very good and sometimes quite complex, which are normally things I like in music. But still I never really became a fan. For me something is missing.
I will say that out of most of the classic rock albums I've heard here, this one definitely held my interest the most, and that's even including the long hour and a half runtime. There were a lot of really interesting musical ideas here and despite that not all of it was great, I'll probably return to some of the tracks on here
Liked this way more than I expected. Not at all like the songs that I've heard by this band before.
It's got some good moments but found it too long and overblown by the end
There’s something about the production that makes this really hard to listen to. I dig some of what’s going on musically but have trouble paying attention. I’d like to give it another listen to get more of the story but dunno of I can bring myself to go through the whole 90 minutes again. Once was hard enough.
good album overall 6/10
This album was pretty cool. A bit weird at times, but you get the feeling that’s what they were going for. “The Waiting Room” was a bit disturbing, but again, I think that was the point. I kept thinking, “That sounds just like Phil Collins,” and sure enough, he was involved in Genesis before his solo career. So now I know.
Oh hey, another 70s album. I'm shocked - SHOCKED, I tell you. I feel like this entire project is sponsored by the 1970s. Out of 145 albums so far, 40 of them have been from the 70s. Since my overall ranking is around 2.6 for the decade, you can imagine my excitement in seeing this album pop up. That said, I'm pretty sure I've heard of Genesis. I *think* Phil Collins was the drummer or something? It's not like I'm a huge Collins fan, (but I also don't have Arseblog-levels of hate for him), so I'm not sure how much that's gonna swing this album to the positive, but here goes nothing. Verdict: It's fine. Whatever. 2.5 stars.
I should give it a chance listening all the way through and stoned off my ass, but I couldn’t do either of those things and listened to chunks throughout the day. Didn’t enjoy it in that context.
Crazy how different these old Genesis albums sound compared to their 80's stuff with Phil Collins singing. This album was decent; some cool musical ideas at times, other times it kind of lost me. I might try it again sometime.
Good album brought down by excessive length. I like a lot of the songs individually, but it's too damn long. 2.75/5
Iconic, still i don't dig this at all
Took me a few goes. So much going on that it became like white noise at some point. I also struggle with prog concept albums, at some point the lyrical flow just dies as they try and fit the story in.
I think if I liked this band I would've thought this was one of their best albums because there was lots of different stuff on it. But I was mostly just a bit bored
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is the sixth album by the English progressive rock band Genesis, and the last with Peter Gabriel as the lead. This double album is their longest to date and it received mixed reviews at release, although it was still commercially successful. The production was phenomenal and it can be argued as the best Genesis album. It has been certified gold in Canada, France, the UK, and the US. I enjoyed the progressive rock on this album. The music tells a story as well as being something you can feel and dance to. Pretty much a superb album all around. Give this a listen if classic rock music is your thing!
The piano at the start of the album gives me slightly cringey over dramatic vibes. But then I kinda just love Peter Gabriel's voice - the way he sings "on broadway" is tasty. This prog feels particularly nerdy. I think the proggier aspects don't really add that much, and the best music here is just the pop songs hiding underneath, like the choruses of Counting out Time and The Carpet Crawlers. Perhaps this is why I generally just prefer Peter Gabriel's solo stuff to Genesis overall. Maybe it was also just a deluxe version or something, but the album is bloated for sure. Fave Tracks: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Broadway Melody of 1974, Counting out Time, Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist, The Light Dies Down on Broadway, It 3.1/5
Kuuntelin molemmat levyt kokonaan, nehän vetivät mukanaan! Saavutus puolitoistatuntiselle levylle. Lienee sen ansiota, että samoja teemoja ja melodioita ja siis biisejäkin toistettiin sopivasti varioiden. Homma ei kasvanut loppua kohden vaan pysyi koko ajan isona. Pidin selkeästä laulusta. Setäinen mutta kivoja setiä.
Hard to judge a concept, story album like this on one listen. I like the Genesis sound in general and both Collins and Gabriel have great voices. Still, pretty meh.
Helt OK
Hmmm... way too long... but had a few good tracks.
Te lang, en te wazig
Hadn't heard this one. Genesis has never been a band I've cared for - but I only really know their lame radio friendly 80s stuff - Invisible Touch etc. This was better than I was expecting - a bit AmDram but the music is always changing , I didn't bother with the lyrics.
Ok
I grew up listening to the 80s version of Genesis so it's always weird to hear this version. Prog rock really isn't for me for the most part, but this was very good if you like that sort of thing. Just not for me. 3.5 stars
This one is overly long and self-induglent. It simply has no business being a double album; there is too much filler, and the really good material would fit on a regular LP easily. It's a well known prog rock epic (Carpet Crawlers is among the higher quality tracks), but it's often lacking in the hook and melody department. As such, it isn't bad, but a little tedious to get through. 3/5
There's a lot of interesting music in here, but holy cow is this album bloated. This is my first taste of Genesis in album form, and I'm definitely intrigued, but this project isn't anything special as far as I could tell. Very little about this sticks out. I wasn't a fan of some of the vocals in the middle of the album - hard to tell where. I can't tell what the goal is thematically here. 6/10. Favorite Songs: Hairless Heart, The Carpet Crawlers, Anyway Least Favorite Songs: The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging, The Colony of Slippermen,
Struggled with this. Feels like it needs more than a day to get fully into it. Good sound but unsettling melody/rhythm that warrants more effort than a single run through…
This was ok, but felt they were trying too hard to be Trippy and Psychadelic. Like they listened to I Am the Walrus and went oh lets write some nonsense lyrics and we'll have all kinds of hits! Instrumentals were mostly good, aside from the weak psychadelic wobbly sounds they'd throw in.
Good progressive album, though I did not particularly click with it. Has some bangers, certainly.
Creative and epic. A bit too epic at times.
There were a couple of ok songs
I feel like I should like prog rock more than I do. I don't dislike it, and there are some prog rock albums that I really like. Most of them leave me feeling a little flat, and here we are again. I like Peter Gabriel's solo stuff more than his stuff with Genesis, and frankly I feel the same way about Phil Collins. There's a lot of cool stuff going on here, it just doesn't feel like it comes together in a way that interests me 3/5
I like Genesis, and this album is interesting. The instrumentation is first rate, but I think they may have tried too hard to be creative and different. Maybe drugs played a part. That said, I still enjoyed many of the songs, particularly on the second half of this double album.
I have to admit I stopped at colony of slippermen, I’d heard enough. I liked how unpredictable the album was but 90mins is a joke.
Way too theatric and dark.
lol
Some awesome stuff, some cheesy stuff. Not a fan of the vocal style. Loved some of the cool guitar effects.
Interesting compositions but I didn’t have enough time to listen to the whole album properly.
I can respect it but I dont really like it compared to the others
Needs more time
The album has a great flow from song to song. The overall sound is definitely early 70's synthesizer.
I must admit, this is a disappointment, and a huge step down from their previous album, Selling England by the Pound. Its heavy use of synths lead to an album that hardly feels like it means any of the music its producing, and while there are certainly cool and good uses of the synths, it isn't anything that artists like Brian Eno weren't already nailing. I will say that the album does get close a lot to grabbing my attention, with many tracks catching my attention at first, and I must give it credit for that. It just fails to prove itself minutes into each song, and even the best tracks have nothing on its sibling that I once again can't help but compare it to. Cool concept, middling execution.
This is good and has cool variety, but I’ve just never been much of a Peter Gabriel guy.
Pretty long winded, even for a Genesis fan. This era always reminds me of Gabriel as an elvish priest in Middle earth. The prog brings it back for me but his voice and overall lyrics push the vibe. 3/5
J'aime bien entendu plus le son de Genesis avec Peter Gabriel, mais cet album est un tantinet long et considérant la longueur de l'album, j'aurais pensé que l'aspect concept allait être un peu plus présent que ça. Ça reste un bon album de prog rock. 7/10
Genesis' massive epic, but before they went more pop, which is what I prefer.
I like it, I don't love it. It's very long. A bit like Chole's review, my Dad loves this album. And I get it. It fells like a lot of effort to get to some really cool bits.
Long
Ikkje dumt, men for langt
I didn't really have patience for 90 minutes of prog, so I half listened whilst I made mince pies. It was ok, the pies weren't much better. Less noodling than I was expecting. I grew up loving Fish-era Marillion who shaped themselves on Gabriel-era Genesis, but I'm not really feeling this one. I blame The Who’s Tommy for all this impenetrable weirdness. Even The Small Faces went in for it on Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake!
Early Genesis.... This was good but seems to be trying to hard to be 'significent'. Better said, a bit artsy fartsy.
Through my parents I grew up listening to Phil Collins Genesis, which made me dislike their pop rock style. However, I find their earlier prog rock albums more interesting, and I am a big fan of Peter Gabriel’s solo work. His latest album i/o was finally released yesterday, id highly recommend it to anyone who likes his music, hopefully makes futures cuts of the 1001 list. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is one of Peter Gabriel’s last albums with Genesis, and it is a very ambitious and creative project, in my opinion his best with the group. It is a double album that tells the story of Rael, a young man who goes on a surreal adventure in New York City, facing various challenges and temptations. The album explores themes such as identity, sexuality, religion, and society, using a variety of musical genres and styles. However, I have some issues with the album that prevent it from being a favoruite. First of all, I think the album is too long and repetitive, and it could have been edited down to a single album or a shorter double album. Some of the songs are filler and do not add much to the story or the music. For example, songs like The Waiting Room, The Light Dies Down on Broadway, and The Colony of Slippermen are boring and unnecessary, and they drag the album down. Secondly, I think the album is too typical and clichéd of the prog rock genre. The album relies heavily on the keyboards, which sound dated and cheesy, and create a bland and monotonous atmosphere. The album also uses a lot of common tropes and devices of the genre, such as complex and obscure lyrics, long and indulgent instrumental sections, and obscure and pretentious references. I feel this sort of album just gives fans of Star Trek a big hard on. Therefore, I would give the album a solid 3 stars out of 5, and I would say that it is an album that you should listen to before you die, but will only really enjoy if you are interested in the history and evolution of Genesis and Peter Gabriel, or if you are a fan of prog rock and concept albums. However, I prefer Peter Gabriel’s solo work.
An okay album, few good songs and a lot of average/concept songs which are just instrumental fillers.
Very long album.
Definitely good. But it just made me want to listen to other classic rock bands of the era. I’ve never been a Genesis guy, but I’m glad I gave it a listen.
Bastante rollo ... Mejor la segunda parte.
I don remember this but i think i hated it
A good prog rock album. "Selling England By the Pound" from the year prior is better and shorter. Probably only need 1 Genesis mid 70s prog-rock album and this ain't it.
Even though this was waaaaay too long, I was still pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I know about Genesis through cultural osmosis but never really listened to much of their music despite hearing a lot of peter gabriel growing up. I knew it was prog rock but I wasn't expecting it to be as bombastic and eclectic as it was. Every track felt like a showstopper with entire orchestras (or whatever other random instruments) going all out at almost every moment which unfortunately still got a little stale at points throughout a 90 minute run time. It reminded me a lot of moving pictures by Rush but was much better than that album IMO. The gold standards of long albums remain the nitty gritty dirt band and aphex twin so far and am still dreading 69 love songs
6 tracks in and I was concerned I wouldn't make it through the record but it gets better... the first Genesis album I've listened to in the streaming era.
Counting out time is utterly ridiculous. Wippeeee
I struggled with how to feel about this album. I enjoy Peter Gabriel, I enjoy Phil Collins, I even enjoy Genesis. But I didn’t enjoy THIS Genesis. I DID enjoy the fact that this album felt like a coherent body of work, I think it was created with the notion that the listener bears it from start to finish, not single tracks. The songs felt large, like they contained entire movements in some of them. You could hear the impact Gabriel had on the band even though he was not a member any more. Some of Collins’s iconic drumming was very present here. On the other hand, the lyrics were far too abstract for me to enjoy. Too many of them felt like the result of a “bad lip reading” segment. I probably won’t spend a lot more time with this album though I continue to enjoy the journey of listening.
A pretty fun and interesting album that is dragged down by being as a long as a damn movie. I'll call it a 3.5.
The cover art, as we say in New England, is wicked smaht. In one of the songs, it sounds like Peter Gabriel is saying "get me out of the keeee itcch in"
not actual music but a statement
First of all, no album needs to be this long. Having said that it's quite ambitious and not terrible. It was just far too much.
Didn’t listen, it’s genesis however probably pretty banging. 6.5/10
Far too long, some weird bits.
Not sure I've ever heard any non Phil Collins Genesis. Very Prog but not unenjoyable
This might be the first Genesis album I’ve heard that I like. Interesting concept, I like the composition, Gabriel’s singing is fantastic
Overall overblown and overstuffed concept album, but an interesting listen (I didn't really follow the story that well, but read the summary on Wikipedia...it's a lot). The music is pretty tight and varied, but there is just so much of it on this double album.
Idk man de e fö långt o goofy för något högt betyg men musiken är i regel trevlig att höra på
I do like some Genesis, but this album is a bit of a marathon to get through.
This one went from interesting to weird.
Interesting concept and not adverse to this type of album but not quite my cup of tea
I expected to hate this, but I ended up *quite* liking it. It's intricate and detailed and an ambitious idea, if nothing else. Of course it disappears up its own behind at various points, but overall it's an enjoyable listen the first time through. I would imagine more of it unlocks and it improves with repeat listens, but that's not something I'll be doing the work to confirm. Rating: 3/5 Playlist track: Hairless Heart Date listened: 04/09/23
This album grew on me as I kept listening. Some definitely catchy songs, but also a couple of duds. Glad I finally listened to a whole album though!
I like Gabriel so I wanted to like this more than I did no real stand out tracks for me.
There were some good songs but it is really long. Highlights were Counting on Time and Carpet Crawlers
So much better than the last genesis album
The good parts are really good, but it is sooooooo long. Way too long. They could have made a 5 star single album instead. Favorite song: Back in NYC
Prefer my prog-rock to have more wizards, capes and tales from Viking mythology tbh.
Ambitious. Long. Pretty interesting. 7/10
Not the biggest fan of Genesis. 2nd part of the album much more enjoyable for me.
I must admit, I haven't finished the album. Not that it would make much of a difference if I wrote this afterwards, though. I just can't focus or pick up on the plot at all. Ninety-four minutes of Genesis is too much fucking Genesis, no matter how good it is. I capitulate. Just make a film, lads. A film-length 3/5.
If we weren’t hearing this a couple of days after Dark Side of the Moon, it might warrant another star. Still, a strong outing from G.’s prog rock years.
I don’t know. I didn’t like it and an hour and a half is a lot of this. I guess it’s musically good in the way a broadway show is good. Begrudging 3 stars?
I think this wax too weird for me, future me reading this comment, check out the wiki story for this album, it's wild
Another middle of the road album by a great band. Whatever. 3 for proggy shenanigans.
I don’t like this. It lacks the catchiness I want out of Genesis. That thing that makes Phil Collins tolerable. It’s musically speaking a phenomenal piece the whole band seems in stride and Collins’ drumming is in pocket throughout.
Bastante rollo ... Mejor la segunda parte.
Way too long, but to their credit it seems that they never run out of things to say in 90 minutes. Some really compelling tracks here and there that would be more impactful, in my opinion, in the context of a more condensed 40 minute album.
Yeah, has the hallmark of overindulgence that turns me off from prog-rock. Genesis' vocals always seemed cheesy and well, sorta bad. I can't say I enjoyed any of it really, not enough to listen to again. That said, respect to the ideas.
The story is either inscrutable or overly simplistic, like most other prog concept records of that era, but unlike your Floyds or Who, there's no higher ascension or twee mysticism here -- just a character toughing it out on the streets of New York. At times that rings a little hollow coming from a bunch of pastoral schoolboys like Genesis; at others, the music is breathtaking.
Very dramatic and intricate songwriting with the lyricism to boot. Does sound and feel very similar to exploring New York. It's a bit long winded, but a feat of musicality undoubtedly
Muy entretenido
This is my least favorite Peter Gabriel-Genesis lp This is one of those double albums that should’ve been single Still don’t get the ‘concept album’ story either
So musically, this is epic. I love the sounds, the orchestrations, everything. Lyrically, however, and the "story"? What the heck is happening here?
Rock progresivo. Disco larguísimo. Ni fu ni fa.
This album was Genesis’s last with Peter Gabriel, and he certainly took over with the writing and production. It’s a sprawling proggy concept album that features some truly beautiful moments and lyrics. However, it collapses under its own weight at parts and unfortunately becomes a slog. Nevertheless, the music is outstanding and often sounds like fusion with certain chord changes and melodic lines.
Edellisen kerran kuunnellut joskus yli 10 vuotta sitten ja täähän oli yllättävän jees. Vaikka välillä hieman liian pilipalia, niin silti progeksi hyvin kestänyt aikaa ja jokin selkeä tunnetila välittyy kaikesta. Täpärästi jää nelosesta.
Well that was weird.
3.5/5
I like all the ingredients, I like some of the results, but too much of this album is, honestly, ponderous. Love the beautiful Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats but Ravine is nothing but tedious; this dynamic plays out through the whole thing. I can't rate it 1 star and 5 stars at the same time, so.
I enjoyed this, but I'm not listening to all of it
I think this might be my first time listening to Peter Gabriel's Genesis, and if this album's any indication, I think I prefer the Phil Collins version of the group. This was all a bit overdone for my taste; even the album's title feels like it's trying too hard. There were some poetic lyrics and such, but it was all just a bit much. Rounding up from 2.5 out of respect for Gabriel and Collins.
Enjoyable for my taste but not standout to me
Un disco aue sorprende en la primera escucha. Mucha data qje me irrita. Imobjetivamente el didco es una genialidad porque lo melodico es excelente el problema es el ya mencionado. Para mi 5/10 para mi e.
Double albums don't really work, and this true here
Not the biggest fan of Genesis, but decent album
There's an enjoyable ebb and flow of emotions throughout. A lot of the lyrics feel a bit forced in to complete the story though. Some really cool sounds and effects created.
Musically it has a great vibe all the way through, and with a lot of catchy parts. All in all it is getting too long, as with a lot of progressive 70s stuff. So, kind of ok, but there are better Genesis albums, both with Peter Gabriel and without him
It was okay.
Soooo long
I was much more interesting than I initially thought when I received the album. It's not the best psychedelic, and it's not the best psychedelic rock, but it was not a pain.
a strange and theatrical prog/glam record with a few noticeably good tunes. 3.5/5
Visai buvo idomiu vietu. Bet kitos annoying
So apparently this was a concept album, but I was too busy vibing with the music to discern any semblance of a story. I like progressive rock a lot, so I don't have a problem with overblown lyrics, but I was getting pretty tired of everything after the first disc. If they ended the album then and there, this could have been a 5/5, but they just kept going. You could probably get married and have three children during this album's runtime. Basically the same issue that I have with Pink Floyd's "The Wall". Prog rock works best when it's on an album with like five 10-minute songs. You can't do these gigantic lyrics and crazy instrumentation that well when your average song length is 2 minutes. So in summary, my thoughts on this album are that The Wall is easily the worst 70s Pink Floyd album, including Atom Heart Mother.
I didn't dislike it, but I didn't love it either. So very proggy! 😅
The right side of psychedelic acid. Some great songs 2nd listen required. Lovely weird
I love the concept, but in actuality this is long, repetitive and very weird
I like Peter Gaberiel, Phil Collins, Prog, yet never got into early Genesis. This was an enjoyable listen, though it felt bloated at moments. More of a 3.5 for me.
I was waiting for a time to come back to this album because I felt like it really needed my undivided attention to give it a fair evaluation. After listening to the prog rock masters Pink Floyd, this seemed like the right time to come back to this. I've always politely enjoyed the title track but never knew its context or link to a whole concept album. It's got some good proggy instrumentation, though a lot more keyboard and synth then the rest, I think. Some good guitar work that is at times great. Some songs that caught my attention were the sequence from Broadway Melody of 1974 (all the real people callouts? heavy guitar riffs?) to Cuckoo Cocoon to In the Cage (the latter two meshed nicely together and had some great energy and deft instrumentation). And then I pricked up my ears on every listen for Counting Out Time - erogenous zones, what can I say? Some nice rocking guitar and interesting lyrics - reminded me this was all about a young man finding himself in NYC. Peter Gabriel really has a perfect voice for prog rock and he was great on disc one. Another song that really caught my attention was Lilywhite Lilith - great energetic start to side three. But then the transition into The Waiting Room was painful and the rest of side three is mostly a snoozefest. Things finally started to pick up again on the second act of Slipperman (A Visit from the Doktor) but that was fleeting too. As a closer, It wasn't too shabby. So where does that leave me? Very good disc one, though not perfect, and a largely forgettable & average disc two. Feels like 3.5 at best, if I see disc one as a 5, which I don't (not quite). So gotta round down.
Very 70’s Prog Rock style
Never been that conviced about this concept album from Genesis. Much preferred most other Genesis albums from the '70s, both before and after this one.
If you don't like Prog you won't like this. I like Prog but prefer Selling England and Foxtrot to this. This was Gabriel at his most controlling but since it appears that the rest of the band wrote the music in a series of jams and Peter waltzed off to write the lyrics. The music is the main reason for listening to this. I love Trick of the Tail which came after this and after Gabriel left so that says a lot. This is like a self indulgent trip (a 'concept' album) but the music is the redeeming feature.
This lamb is bland. I ordered spicy.
certainly had me crawling the carpet
Appreciate it but not for me
Genesis' magnum opus, with all the pros and cons that sentence conjures to the imagination
A genesis album. High production and unique
I grew up with 80's Genesis. 70's Genesis is a slightly different animal. I imagine my dad probably put this on with his mate Richard, smoked a spliff and thought it was awesome. I'm listening, sitting on a train on the way to work and it's pretty heavy going in places tbh.
Some good old school progressive rock.
Thought this was a little full of itself but not really all that coherent. The lyrics often get bogged down in conveying the story, yet I didn’t find the story particularly compelling or indeed comprehensible. Add in being very long and having some irritating noise intervals and I don’t think I’ll bother listening to this again.
Proggier and more intricate than I expected. Really well recorded, great flow. Songs didn’t really jump out individually but definitely changed my scope of what I thought this band was.
Teilweise sehr abgedreht. Ich mag Phil Collins, bin aber nicht so ganz von dem Album überzeugt.
Best Song: The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging. Equal parts futuristic and theatrical. Very cool. Worst Song: Hairless Heart. I'm here for the vocals, plain and simple. This sounds like the music that plays over the credits of an awful coming-of-age film. Overall: The whole album feels indulgent, from its production to its unnecessary length. That saccharine luxury surely overstays its welcome, and you end up wishing for some kind of raw emotion halfway through this monster album.
Te lang, maar er zit toch echt heel wat moois tussen. De zang van Gabriel tilt dit naar een hoger niveau. Als de heren eerder een punt hadden durven zetten zou dit een nog beter album zijn geweest.
3.5/5. Prog rock albums are really damn long.
I actually prefer 80s Genesis
For a hot minute, I thought this might be a hard 4-star or maybe even a 5-star review. It started out so strong. But then it devolved into self-indulgent chaos and I stopped caring before moving into active annoyance. That's not what you want, guys. You don't want your audience to be actively annoyed at you for wanking around on your instruments. Just keep laying down monster prog tracks and everyone will be happy. As it is, I can't bring myself to give this any more than 3 stars. Sorry, Mr. Collins.
whatever. got bored it’s not my vibe. not bad though
Felt like hard work at times but I mostly liked.
Chyba pierwszy odsluch Genesisa jaki pamietam, nie kojarze bandy, a z czlonkow jedynie nazwisko Phila Collinsa obilo mi sie o uszy, the lamb lies on broadway jest ambitnym i poteznym podwojnym albumem z longplejem ponad 94 minutowym, stara sie opowiedziec historie mlodego czleka imieniem Rael i jego bizzarnych przygodach, ktorych tlem jest fantastyczna hameryka i tytulowy broadway, chwala panu Peterowi Gabrielowi, autorowi liryki, konceptu i wokaliscie bandy za to ze wraz z plyta umiescil sciage fabularna co i jak sie dzieje w ktorym traku,Peter Gabriel bo z samego sluchania nie polaczylbym kolejnych utworow w sensowna calosc, chociaz o sensie nie ma tutaj co mowic, bo jest tu masa absurdu symboliki i teraz juz troche dziwnie brzmiacej walki z systemem, dziwnie bo juz dawno przegranej, ciekawy jest fakt, ze byl to ostatni projekt pana Gabriela z Genesisem, wiec az sama nasuwa sie interpretacja pozbawienia zludzen o tym jaki jest swiat i szolbizens Raela jako osobiste odczucia pana spiewajacego, a sam spiew nie wiem czemu kojarzyl mi sie mocno z panem Bowiem z okresu stardustowania, chociaz calosc muzyczna nasuwala bardziej skojarzenia z starszym bratem brytyjskiej progresowej sceny, czyli the who i ich Tommym, do ktorego najbardziej porownuje dziesiejszy krazek, bo rownie ambitny i dlugosciowo podobny, tutaj jednak nie moglem sie jakosc odnalesc i utozsamic w swiecie postaci, ale w tak dlugim materiale jest naprawde kilka swietnych utworow, hajlajtami byly dla mnie openingowy baranek na deskach szerokiej drogi, cuckoo cocoon i carpet crawlers, robote robia takze instrumentale ktorych jest rowniez kilka na plycie lub plytach, bo przez podwojny album, album solidny, ale nie mial w sobie tego czegos co sprawia, ze banda gra w idealnej chemii miedzy soba, tak jakby jedna osoba starala sie narzucic koncept jak ma wygladac calosc
haven't listened rip
This band is weird and this album is so fucking long! It was a bit of a slog to get thru but there is some cool stuff in the weirdness, it’s just not for me. Felt a bit like a fever dream at times. Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel are still cool
Meh. A very long album where everything kind of bleeds together and sound the same.
First Genesis album. I am familiar with a few of their singles, but I can't really say had much expectations. I felt like the first half of the album was very slow. I questioned the quality of the production, maybe the mixing, idk but it sounded pretty rough. The second half of the album is a different story, especially the final 6 songs, all of which were great imo. Very long album, but the ending was nice.
Rock progresivo.
There was some bangers on this... I didnt listen to them all, however its like musical style? idk. I'll have to listen to it more
Quel plaisir de voir Tarzan se déplacer de liane en liane au sein de cette jungle africaine. L'album perd en saveur avec l'arrivée de Clayton et ses terribles intentions.
Le générique de Tarzan pourquoi pas, le générique de Tarzan sur 1h30 c'est non en revanche.
An early genesis album before I feel they reached their peak. This album is a bit lengthy. The synths that make genesis great are very raw on this album and at times are just bad. Collins does a good job as always but I felt like less calming instrumentals could’ve made this album a little more concise. 6.0/10
I started out liking it, and are bored with the repetition of synth and Gabriels voice. I think Gabriel's solo stuff is great but I found his range on this one too narrow. The instrumentals were great.
Heard this a few times previously, and I really like Genesis. 3/5
Good album interesting sound, does drag on towards the end a bit too long.
Good progressive rock
More prog than I expected. Not bad not great.
Interesting concept album, but a tad long and synthy
Good but too long
Not as bad as I had feared!
J'aime beaucoup cet album aujourd'hui, peut-être parce que je l'ai moins écouté. C'est le dernier avec Peter Gabriel à la voix. J'adore le Mellotron et l'orgue sur cet album, tout comme le jeu de batterie de Phil Collins. C'est fou comme l'utilisation bien dosée d'un bass synth donne de l'ampleur à certains passages. Peter Gabriel étant très théâtrale, on a un tout qui s'enchaîne super bien et qui n'est pas ennuyant pour le premier disque (si on aime Peter Gabriel bien sûr, si on accepte de plonger dans l'aventure et si on fait abstraction de Counting Out Time). Je dois admettre que le deuxième disque s'essouffle un peu. La pochette est superbe. En vinyle, c'est sublime (et on peut omettre à l'occasion le 2e disque). Pièces préférées: In the Cage, Broadway Melody of 1974, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, The Carpet Crawlers, Back in N.Y.C.
WAY too long an album. Nice but I lost interest. Liked the mix of Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins tho. 6/10
massa o progressivo e pa
Whoa...wasn't expecting this. I know the 4 album run from Trespass to Selling England. Never explored this... Ok half way in.... thing is I like i like prog and I find it a bit of a featureless landscape. I really think it needs several listens.. also those old sounding keyboard solos are becoming a bit wearing...on the positive note its good that they lost their lyrical whimsy. 2.75
Interesting mix of songs, nothing particularly stood out though. Could be worth another listen.
Seems a bit redundant to complain about this being self-indulgent. They tell you upfront what they are, so if you hit play, you accept their terms. It's still all a bit much. Whoever invented the phrase "Less is more" was talking to Genesis, and of course they didn't listen. Best track: In the Cage
Of the two albums I got this week with Peter Gabriel on them, this one is certainly umm… the longer one? There is a world of difference between this and what he was doing later in his career and thank god he changed
Not my vibe.
interesting but not for me
I was intrigued at first. I like prog, I like concept albums, and the whole idea of Peter Gabriel building this bizarre story around Rael wandering through New York sounded like it could be interesting. Then I saw the runtime. Holy crap, 90 minutes of Genesis is more than I’ll ever need. There are some good musical ideas buried in here, and I can appreciate how ambitious the whole thing is. The problem is that it just keeps going. Songs bleed into more songs, instrumental passages wander around, the story gets increasingly strange, and eventually I stopped caring where Rael was or what the hell was happening to him. Prog already asks for some patience, but this felt like an endurance test. I’m sure there are Genesis fans who can explain every character, recurring theme, and musical callback, but I’m not going that deep. I liked the idea of this album a lot more than I liked actually listening to it. By the second half, I was mostly checking how much time was left.
Background radiation music of the universe pulling aliens closer to Earth and yet alienating me further from being awake or even caring. :( 1 or 2
Achttien albums geleden had ik ook Genesis en nu krijg ik dus een rockopera van anderhalf uur. Uiteraard heb ik de tijd noch de zin om het hele verhaal aandachtig te gaan zitten volgen en daardoor mis ik waarschijnlijk de genialiteit van dit werk. Het zij zo. Ik onderga wel gewoon het album en de muziek natuurlijk, zonder precies te volgen wat Rael allemaal overkomt. Als ik m'n rating van het andere album teruglees heb ik hier ongeveer hetzelfde. Mooie stukken, matige stukken, af en toe zin om te skippen. Anderhalf uur is heel lang. In anderhalf uur kun je ook de film The Pick of Destiny kijken, dat heeft dan toch m'n voorkeur. Dit album is niet zo geweldig als de band zelf lijkt te denken. Het is teveel. En de 2e helft is ook niet de sterkste helft. Als het korter was kreeg het drie sterren van me, maar ik moet er nu één op zak houden.
I'm simply not a prog rock person, I fear. Every track was too rambly and unfocused to me, not helped at all by the album's length. No standout tracks. Rating: 2