The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

I’m already not a huge fan of genesis. This concept album was a lot to sit through.

This is fine. Weirdly sexual in places.

It's probably because this was not the sort of thing I was interested in listening to at the time, but I found this to be annoyingly bloated and pretentious, even for progressive rock. I couldn't really follow the story in the lyrics, so it just went on and on and on for hours. Not one song seemed to stand out from the others. None of it was terrible to listen to, but boredom became annoyance before it was done.

Parts of it are ok, parts are particularly unpleasant. Not for me. Another one for the middle aged white men. Two stars.

Meh...I like Phil Collins

2 Have you ever asked yourself “What if someone made an album in the spirit of Tommy by The Who but dialed the fun and epic factor down by like three notches?” Well, luckily for you, that album exists in the form of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis. This isn’t an outright bad album by any means, but the fact that it’s 94 minutes long and never once had a moment I would consider “exciting” has me chalking this one up as a miss. Like, all I could think about afterwards was what better things I could have done in that 94 minutes - you could watch the entirety of Toy Story and still have enough time to run to the bathroom and get snacks. Musically, it’s pretty mid prog rock across the board - no particular highs that stood out to me, but fortunately there weren’t any noticeable lows either. Storywise… I had no idea what the fuck was going on here. I wasn’t sure if the randomly horny track Counting Out Time fit appropriately into the story or not, but it certainly didn’t feel like it while I was listening (it’s no Young Lust). Still, I didn’t want to dock the album for what may have been my own ignorance, so I gave a second listen and tried to keep up with some synopses online. Yes, I listened to this thing twice. Holy cow, this story is the dumbest shit I’ve ever read. I recommend giving the plot summary a read on Wikipedia, but basically, the album follows a Puerto Rican New York gang member named Rael who is randomly warped into a prison-like cave while walking down Broadway. He escapes to find a factory that packages human beings and then runs away from that to find a chamber with 32 doors in it. After guidance from a random blind woman, he goes through a door leading him to a group of seductive creatures known as The Lamia, with whom he has sex with, but it turns him into a hideous creature that is subsequently castrated by The Slippermen. A raven then flies away with his penis, but in chasing after it, he sees his brother drowning in a river and attempts to save him. However, in a plot twist, it actually turns out to be himself he just saved, ultimately resulting in him becoming “It”. What “It” is is supposed to be interpretive to the listener, but frankly, I have no idea what the hell you’re supposed to infer based on whatever the fuck it is I just described. In my head canon he becomes the creature from the Stephen King novel. Once again, not bad musically, but way too mid to be this long, and the story doesn’t make anywhere near a comprehensible amount of sense to be engaging. A 1 feels a little too low, but I don’t see myself re-visiting. Maybe if I ever find myself on the same drugs Peter Gabriel was on when he wrote this.

Génesis definitivamente no es lo mío, se me hace un embole eterno. Es buscar complicarla, por complicarla nomás. Igualmente se tiene en consideración su calidad.

Another double album? It is 94 minutes long. It is entirely unnecessary. It is eccentric but not in a good way. I do not know how people would enjoy this. It is better than a 1 but not really a two. I will round up.

I already have a strong distaste for Phil Collins (love Peter Gabriel, though) and this rambling 70s clusterfuck did nothing to change that distaste for Phil Collins and Genesis.

This is yet another band on the list of those that on paper it seems I'd surely like their music but I don't. I don't actively dislike it; I'm just not interested. I've tried, including this album when it came up in the rotation just now, but, nope, not there for me.

WAYYYYY Too long

J’adore le prog rock, mais maudit que j’ai d’la misère avec Genesis

Eh

It's weirdo prog rock Genesis. I don't care for it. The Peter Gabriel era is interesting & I prefer Nursery Crime over this album.

4/25, 16%

There was this one track I listened to, I don’t know, a few hours ago, with Phil Collins on vocals that was pretty good but I couldn’t tell you what or when - this seemed to go on forever. More patience required for this than I am prepared to give but I admire the scope and the self expression.

Wow, I did not expect so much classic 70's hippie from Genesis. I guess I think about Genesis from the 80's more than their roots.

My lord this is loooooonng. It’s a strange album to booth so it needs patience to even tolerate it. At first I completely dismissed it - but there is some interest hidden just below the surface. There isn’t much pop to sink one’s teeth into and when there is - the lyrics are all over the place. But there are interesting and sometimes memorable moments on this record. It could have done with some self editing - or someone should have told them that half this album could have been cut or released as a separate one. So unfortunately this gets a low rating because as an entire record it doesn’t work even though there are interesting bits.

Je moet wel van dit genre houden om van dit album te kunnen genieten. ik vind het niet zo bijster bijzonder

prog is shit

I do not care for Genesis

Einde niet gehaald want ik haat dubbel CDs, maar die 2 hele sterren hebben ze dubbel en dwars verdiend, want ik heb weinig gehoord wat me bijbleef.

Bleegh.

Just not in the mood

Ik dacht altijd dat ik een Genesis fan was. Maar na het luisteren van dit album ben ik misschien toch meer Phil Collins fan. Ik vind dit album namelijk erg vaag. Tegenvallend als je je er op verheugd. Het bevat ook voor mij geen van de bekende liedjes. **

Not sure what to make of this, maybe I need to listen to it more?

None of this grabbed my attention, pretty forgettable for me

Not the Genesis I thought i knew from the 80s. This album doesn’t do much for me. Pink Floyd meets musical theater meets sleep depravation. Amazing musicianship for sure though.

Perplexing album to listen to. Some of the songs are extremely slow. Some of the songs are far more upbeat. It feels like a different album maybe halfway through.

This was hard to follow along with. Kazoos and mouth noises, very weird story, and the end of Gabriel in Genesis. Not for me.

Med mycket möda och stort besvär tog jag mig äntligen igenom 1,5h Genesis, något jag inte såg speciellt mycket fram emot på förhand. I efterhand var den känslan befogad. Vissa låtar har bra partier, men de dränks bort i de omgivande proggigt fjantiga synthtonerna. För spretigt helt enkelt. Även de spår som har ambitionen att vara ännu mer art-rockiga vågar inte löpa hela linan ut. Det blir mellanmjölkigt; varken full on art rock eller melodiös prog. Papparock av den sämre sorten. Plus för vackert omslag. Bästa låt: Ingen stod ut, men gillade den kortare, instrumentella Hairless Heart. Den var åtminstone stringent, och höll sig till ett sound (även om det är mer av ett mellanspår).

Not so much fun as it was in high school.

Just not getting into this early Genesis stuff, isn't for me.

Hmmm... so there have been a lot of albums on here that are dated and feel cheesy because of that, which is forgivable. This is not one of those albums. It feels so forced, trying to be as epic as The Who but with really clunky lyrics. Maybe I'm just not in the mood for it right now, but its just not doing it for me. :/

fuck... 70s prog rock, double disc, concept album... why? None of these songs are even a Genesis hit. They have good songs. Why this album? To be fair, I only made it about 6 songs and switched back to listening to Visigoth. But fuck this shit.

Nada especial

when you paint with all the colours, all the time, on top of each other, for and hour and a half, then there is no suprise when it comes out as an indistinguishable brown mess

No

Genesis doing prog rock is not good. Their later stuff is legitimately great, this is exhausting.

I just wanted it to end

This was a tough listen. Not feeling it at all!

Wow, this really just kept on going.

I don’t like this, is so equal between all songs, the same melody and the same rhythm

This came up and I made the sound Sideshow Bob makes when he steps on the rake(s). Then I made it AGAIN when I realized this is a double album. Terrible album. So tedious.

This was a bit of a long slog to get through without anything I would return to. Not a huge prog rock fan and it felt like a lot of filler. Best track for me was the first “lamb lies down on broadway”

I'll have what they're having

Weird

Rubbish

Not it

Phil Collins desperately needed cocaine in his life or to get rid of the other members of Genesis.

My Dad has always been a big fan of Peter Gabriel era Genesis, for reasons which remain very unclear

This was a tough listen

Hell no.

Unfeasibly worse even than LZ IV…blimey RGP you’re hitting some one star lows this week… “Lenny Bruce declares a truce…” FFS!!!!!!! Having somehow finally got through the full 90 minutes I can confirm it’s a very weird listening experience as there are slightly more than a few interesting moments, which are considerably outweighed by the incredibly low quality of everything else. I know nothing of Genesis but can only assume Collins used a veto… Tom.

Painful

Just doesn't sound like much more than prog rock. I normally like prog rock but it doesn't stand out as an album to me.

Their sixth album. Prog Rock. This kind of double concept, keyboard noodly doodly, flute playing, over complicated, whimsical album is exactly why music needed and got the reset that was Punk. Some Prog on this list so far has been surprisingly enjoyable. This! This is the most self indulgent wank on the list so far and I'm around four hundred albums in.

Prog…………… sorry, dropped off there. It may be because of Phil Collins, but it’s just dull, and to pick this double album of over an hour and a half is just cruel. BTW Phil Collins et al are Charterhouse School alumni, with privilege preference and profit for wrath, who moved to Switzerland to avoid paying his share of tax. Noel Gallagher joked in 2005 to "Vote Labour" to prevent Collins from returning to the UK.

Not keen on prog rock and concept albums. A long listen as a double album which I couldnt understand …a weird story. The sound was weary amd dreary and dragged on. Some of the lyrics were pleasantly poetic.

Hate everything about this.

It says a lot that an album with 17 songs has not one worth listening to twice

This is interesting. It's soo old, but there's some modern sounds there that makes me think it's from 80s. Idk this was super weird to listen to tho

all due respect to Phil and stuff, but what the fuck is this

Amazing. It’s like someone specifically tailored an album to be maximally insufferable to me: “rock opera” compete with wacky characters and scenarios; cheesy lyrics/rhymes; overly theatrical; way, way too long; and just the entirety of whatever “The Grand Parade Of Lifeless Packaging” was. I can respect the originality and the effort this took to make, but man, I hated listening to it. Well, actually, I kind of enjoyed having an album that I completely disliked, since it’s so rare. I'm sure I'm an outlier here, and I'm open to the possibility that I'm completely misjudging it, but at least for today, I'm going with my gut. 1.5

Why does prog rock just take itself way way way too seriously

Uma das coisas mais chatas que ouvi na vida

This hurt me. 97 minutes of wandering bullshit. It’s so important to me that the whole album is listened to, like I think you need to listen all the way through to have an informed opinion on an album even if you don’t like it. This was almost impossible. I hated this. Genesis sure are great musicians and for that they likely deserve a high rating here but oh my god. If I was into prog i could get it, I like rush!!! But truly what a boring album. I’m sure this is someone’s abbey road but not me.

This is dreadful, bloated and a bit too pleased with itself. I’m sure there’s something good in there somewhere but it’s obscured by the pretentiousness.

Not my cup of coffee

This was really not good and then I got to The Colony of Slippermen This is abysmal.

Awful, I can’t listen to Genesis

I went into this with a bias against Genesis and this album has done nothing but deepen that sentiment. The concept is pretentious and the whole album smacks of a group of men who think they’re far more intelligent than they actually are. This album for me is the absolute worst of Prog Rock and the reason it gets such a bad name. Even at their most self indulgent conceptually bands like Pink Floyd and The Who can fall back on the quality of their playing and instrumentation. The same cannot be said for Genesis. None of the band are talented enough musicians to carry the songs should you find yourself fortunate enough to tune out the at times painful lyrics. By the end of this I found myself genuinely irritated by what I was listening to. I defy anybody who thinks I am being harsh to read through the “plot” of this album (which was included in the liner notes at Peter Gabriel’s insistence) without rolling your eyes or audibly laughing at how up itself it is.

Tried listening to this three times, couldn't push it through.

It's long and (to me) boring. There are parts of some songs that are interesting, but then Peter Gabriel starts singing, and it throws me off again.

not my tempo

This album definitely enjoys the smell of its own farts. A few interesting instrumental arrangements aside, it's all pomp and no soul. Not for me

This lasted forever and provided me with nothing.

Terrible. If I could give it zero I would.

Not really a fan of this album

Couldn't make it past side 2, I'm a prog rock apologist but this was practically unlistenable

so ridiculously long i could t get through it, maybe you had to have been there but i just didn’t get this

prog rock is already generally too winky and proud of itself to possibly sustain the swagless smugness of phil collins, and the audacity for it to be a double album. no thanks.

This prog rock album is trying to tell a story that seems to be a Dickens novel, and with occasional exception, the music just doesn't support an effort to follow the story itself.

Si vous êtes en train de lire ceci, c'est soit que vous avez survécu à l'écoute de "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway". Et je ne peux que vous féliciter, vous méritez une médaille ou une thérapie ou les deux. Soit vous souhaitez l'écouter et donc vous faire une première idée avant de passer à l'acte. Personnellement, on m'a demandé de réécouter ce truc, pardon on a exigé que je réécoute ce truc. On m'a collé ce double vinyle entre les mains en me disant : "Allez, c'est culte, c'est un opéra-rock, c'est l'histoire de Rael à New York". Bon, remettons les pendules à l'heure. On est en 74, le Punk n'est pas encore là pour nettoyer la merde. Du coup, les dinosaures comme Genesis se sentent tout permis et ils se disent : "Tiens, si on faisait un album conceptuel qui dure aussi longtemps qu'un vol transatlantique, avec des paroles incompréhensibles sur des colonies d'hommes-pantoufles (les Slippermen, je ne déconne même pas) et des castrats ?" C'est ça, ce disque, c'est l'apogée de la boursouflure. C'est du rock qui a trop mangé, qui a la goutte, et qui se regarde le nombril en se trouvant génial. C'est l'anti-sexe absolu, tu mets ça en soirée pour pécho, tu finis moine trappiste avant la fin de la face A. J'ai lancé le disque "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". Et là, le morceau titre, bon ok, le piano galope, Gabriel fait son show. Ça passe, c'est prétentieux, mais ça passe. Et puis... le néant. Pendant une heure et demie, mes oreilles ont été agressées par des nappes de synthétiseurs qui dégoulinent comme du fromage fondu bon marché. Tony Banks, le claviériste, il doit être payé à la note, c'est pas possible autrement. Il en met partout. Il bouche les trous. Il n'y a pas un millimètre carré de silence, pas une seconde pour respirer. C'est de la claustrophobie musicale. Et Steve Hackett à la guitare ? Le pauvre, il essaie d'exister, mais il est noyé sous des tonnes d'arrangements pompeux. C'est de la technique pure, froide, clinique. On dirait des étudiants en math sup qui essaient de résoudre une équation différentielle avec des instruments de musique. Où est l'âme ? Où est la sueur ? Où est le sang ? Pas ici. Car ici, tout est propre, tout est calculé, tout est chiant à mourir. De quoi ça parle ? Alors là, accrochez-vous, parce que c'est du grand n'importe quoi sous acide frelaté. C'est un "opéra rock" (rien que ces deux mots accolés me donnent de l'urticaire) conceptuel racontant l'histoire de Rael, un jeune portoricain de New York, mi-graffeur, mi-voyou, qui se fait aspirer dans un monde souterrain surréaliste pour sauver son frère John, ou son âme, ou je ne sais quelle connerie métaphysique pondue par un Peter Gabriel en plein délire mystico-théâtral. Il y a des passages narratifs, des interludes bizarres, des bruits de fond... C'est un bordel sans nom qui se veut "arty" et "profond". Spoiler alert : c'est juste confus et soporifique. Je me souviens, quand je bossais chez le disquaire indé dans les années 90, on avait parfois des clients égarés qui venaient nous demander du Genesis période Gabriel. Ils avaient des queues de cheval grisonnantes, des vestes en velours et ils me disaient : "Ah, le progressif, ça c'était de la vraie recherche musicale, pas comme ta musique de sauvage". Je leur rendais leur monnaie avec un sourire crispé, en me retenant de leur dire que leur "recherche musicale" avait la même valeur artistique qu'un napperon en macramé. 1/5, pourquoi j'ai mis 1/5 ? Parce que je suis un seigneur, qui sait reconnaitre qu'ils savent jouer. Techniquement, ce sont des brutes, mais bordel, à quoi ça sert d'avoir une Ferrari si c'est pour rouler à 20 km/h dans un parking souterrain en écoutant France Culture ? Il y a un morceau, UN SEUL, qui sauve le naufrage : "The Carpet Crawlers". Là, pendant 5 minutes, il se passe un truc. Une mélodie, une émotion, quelque chose d'humain qui émerge de la mélasse. C'est beau, c'est hypnotique. Et puis bam, c'est fini, et on repart pour 45 minutes de délire onaniste sur des claviers Yamaha. Conclusion, ce disque est une insulte à la concision, c'est une insulte à l'énergie du rock. C'est le symbole de tout ce qu'il fallait détruire pour que la musique avance. Heureusement que les Ramones répétaient déjà dans un garage crasseux pendant que Genesis enregistrait cette torture. Heureusement que Joy Division allait bientôt arriver pour nous rappeler que la beauté peut être froide et minimale, pas juste une accumulation de couches de chantilly périmée. Si vous aimez les solos de 12 minutes, les histoires de nains surnaturels et les chanteurs déguisés en fleur géante, foncez. C'est votre Graal. Pour les autres, les gens normaux, les gens qui ont une vie, les gens qui aiment quand ça vibre dans le bide : FUYEZ. Brûlez ce disque ou utilisez le comme frisbee. Mais ne l'écoutez pas.

Found it boring while also being too much... Didn't finish (have decided that's allowed lol)

I wasn't a fan

Não gostei

Having to listen to a concept album is bad. Having to listen to a concept album from Genesis is fucking tortuous.

Sorry...not for me...just too much

I made the mistake of clicking on the new 4 cd, 4 hour deluxe edition. It just went on. If I knew it was supposed to be a rock opera from the beginning that may have changed my mindset. Never listening to this again.

whats the point of this music all over the place

Half of the songs were barely audible.

Long & Boring 1001 album worthy: no - 107/201

I’m not into this. It doesn’t help there are so many songs too.

while i can appreciate some songs and the overarching theme of the album, i just cannot believe that every song needed to be so over the top discordant. i KNOW this man can sing, so why did he sing like that :( still, while i can def appreciate so much of what this album was doing (IN 1974!!!!) i gotta rate it based on personal preference. i would not listen to this album on purpose. but i am glad i listened.

# Album Name: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway # Artist: Genesis # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Wheres the good genesis at?! Hell no. Who commissioned an album like this?! This is my 2nd genesis album, and i have to say, the PG line up is just not my thing. The album is just way too long. # Top Tunes: None # Would I listen to it again? No

No. Just no. Are these people sadistic?

'Rael Imperial Aerosol Kid.' Rael apparently means 'God's friend' or 'to be exalted,' but only a friend of the pretentious and extremely boring could manufacture a record like this. The storytelling is tacky and uninteresting while the music matches the lyrics by being an utterly soulless + orchestral mess. 'But I know it's me that's hitting out / And I'm, I'm not full of shit.' Allow me to violently dissent, for this is nothing if not full of it, and finally manifests one of its neologisms: 'Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging.' That's right. So lifeless death'd be more substantial, this album certainly doesn't have 'It,' that universal thing that Rael ultimately becomes one w/. I struggle to know what contextual nightmare could've prompted this drivel.

I've never heard of this Genesis album, and given the fact not a single song on this record has considerable streaming numbers, neither has anyone else. And for good reason, Good God. I'm not sure why I was expecting the cool 80's sound that I usually expect from Genesis, this album came out in 1974 lmao, but I wasn't expecting THIS. Unfortunately, this piece of shit is genuinely almost unlistenable. It changes direction almost every second song, not even the FOUR FUCKING SIDES of this trash is thematic. They tried WAY too hard to be experimental on this thing. Here are some lowlights: Whatever the fuck that horrible dumb fucking record scratch sounding guitar solo dogshit was on Counting Out Time. The Waiting Room (possibly the worst song on this album after Count Out Time), pretending to be Frank Zappa, but what I imagine Zappa would sound like if he was on drugs and also retarded, then finishing it with an absolutely pitiful attempt at imitating Pink Floyd The blatant overuse of keyboards on The Colony of Slippermen, I didn't realise I was listening to a fucking Britpop record by The Charlatans. I'm not sure what else was after that, because I gave up. This album was fucking torturous. I'd rather listen to Throbbing Gristle. At least THEY were interesting. I hate this album. Fuck this shit. I thought I'd like it because Phil Collins and 80's Genesis is awesome. I wish I'd never heard this, it genuinely took years off my life in the amount of cortisol that flooded through my body.

A concept album that I just didn't expect, not for me

Thought I liked Genesis, but 'Genesis the musical' is not my thing

Couldn’t finish this whole album. Just really not good. Sounded the same, and the lyrics are awkward and weird. Lots of effects that are just really poorly done.

Too alternative for me

I didn't really enjoy this one at all.

Utterly devoid of soul.

I didn’t realise until now that it is possible to be even more underwhelmed by a Genesis album than I previously imagined.

Three times too long and five times too uninteresting

Too long and too indulgent.

aka The Hobbit soundtrack.

Another one I'm dreading. Yep, justified terror. Abysmal drivel. A bad idea executed badly. This list is ruining my love of music. I'll tolerate any pain or hardship, I listened to this to the end! And the cover is shit too.

I did not want to listen to this album, but I did anyway. I did not appreciate needing to hear about erogenous zones so much; the whole album was really horny. Glad I never need to listen to this again.

Art Rock, Rock Opera mix…I‘m too young for this kind of music. 2/10

Snooze fest

This album was a little dull for me. I kept waiting for something more exciting to happen, but it didn’t. It was long and all kind of blended together, so nothing was memorable. I like some of Genesis’s other albums so this was a bit disappointing for me.

A back-to-back-to-back-to-back of Dexy’s, Style Council, Rush and Genesis. Absolutely brutal run of albums generated. Maybe the one or two songs I didn’t hate on this album could bring it up to a 2, but I’m in a bad mood from a second prog rock album in a row, and a double album at that. Yuck. 1 star.

Schlicht nicht meins …

Genesis attempt at a rock opera. Good band, but not their best work. Lots of other albums out there, that are better.

He didn't lie down. He splattered all over Broadway after shooting himself in the head after Genesis tricked him into listening to this pretentious shit

This is a truly ridiculous album, but I didn't hate it. I was close to hating it, but I think it's ridiculous and dramatic enough that I could understand the appeal. Unfortunately none of that appeal resonates with me. 90 minutes of the most insufferable, theatrical and ridiculous music I've ever heard. I am genuinely annoyed that a group of people would have spent been a considerable amount of time creating something so heinously serious yet theatrical and ridiculous and just plain annoying. What's more annoying is that there a few songs which have some genuinely lovely and left-field passages, teasing you into thinking you might actually enjoy the album. 1.5/5

Nah come on. Soon as I put this on I was pissed off and didn't give it another chance. I hate this kind of media. It's like the very worst kind of nerd as an album. I don't wanna yuck anyone's yums but nothing makes me more frustrated than twiddly synths and big rock guitars and a man singing about an alien race he invented. Maybe I fear what I don't understand. Fave track: The Lamia

Peter Gabriel leaving Genesis was best for everybody, him, Genesis, and listeners. This album almost put me into a coma.

Nope

Wow...I don't hate prog, but this was a slog. It went way to long, and I didn't love the songs. Was thankful when it was done and I am rating this a one. 1/5

Erg rommelig vond er niks aan

1. the lamb liez douun on broaduuay - 1 2. fly on a uuindzhield - 1 3. melody of 1974 - 1.5 4. cuckoo cocoon - 0 5. in the cage - 1 6. the grand parade - 0 7. back in nyc - 1 8. hairlezz heart - 1.5 9. counting out time - 1 10. carpet crauulerz - 1 11. chamber of 32 doorz - 1 12. lilyuuhite lilith - 0 13. the uuaitiing room - 1 14. anyuuay - 1 15. here comez - 1 16. the lamia - 1 17. zilent zorrouu - 1.5 18. the colony - 0 19. ravine - 1.5 20. the light diez douun - 1.5 21. riding the zcree - 0 22. in the rapidz - 1 23. it - 0

Oh my god, thought Genesis was bad with Phil, did not enjoy this

Peak Gabriel-Genesis, and despite its nostalgic charm it's all a bit too prog for me. And a double album was waaaay too much.

Just not my cup of tea

My god they think they are so smart, but its way to theatrical and annoying, so it all just feels like one big pretentious blur. Anti Prog Aktion is back everybody.

If you told me this was a parody album of 70s rock I would have believed you. Remarkably bad lyrics, weird production, questionable arrangements. Nothing really of value here.

The decade of the 1970s was a wonderland of concept albums. The problem with the concept album is singular: if you don’t enjoy the concept, then you’re not going to enjoy the album. It’s hard to fault the musicianship here, but reading about this album, it seems that this album was purely Peter Gabriel’s vision and not the rest of Genesis. And then Peter Gabriel was out. That says something, I think. I found this tripping too close to the annoying prog rock territory of Yes. And I loathe prog rock Yes.

eh

I was super-bummed there wasn't something, anything.. that I could pull out of this album and like. It was boring and uninspired. I get that this is before Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel hit their stride and you've gotta produce some failures before you can succeed, but there's no rule about putting the failures on 1001. You gotta rip in your couch. Go wash your butt.

This is so head-scratchingly bad. So many wtf vocal, lyrical, and sound moments. And there’s an hour and a half of it! As with the other Genesis album, I wonder why the more popular 80s Genesis isn’t on the list instead of this weird and lame 70s prog.

What did I just listen to? We were doing OK until I got the fart-like noises on Counting Out Time (2:30 mark). The Waiting Room sounds like it would be the lobby to the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks. After this song, I had a persistent feeling of hoping each song was the last and this bizzarro journey would be over. Alas, I have up after track 17. Conclusion: this has to be the best ⭐️ album I’ve heard yet.

I gave this one an honest chance despite absolutely not wanting to listen to it because of the genre and run time. It really wasn't as horrible as I thought, but it did last forever and this kind of music just isn't for me. Somewhere in the beginning there were some songs that sounded alright, I guess. Also, I don't know if this says more about the album or myself, but at some point the album ended and spotify kept autoplaying music and I honestly didn't even notice a change or that the album was over.

I'll start off with the 2 best things about this album. 1st the kid is from Puerto Rico. Me encanta Puerto Rico! 2nd, there's a song called Waiting Room. Unfortunately for me these guys song was not good. I'll need Fugazi to get me back in the right frame of mind. This entire album was not good. And then they went and made it over 90 minutes. Ugh. I try and give most albums a 2nd, even 3rd listen but I'm very confident there is nothing here for me or anything I may have missed. Yea, I'm moving on to next album. 1

Aburrimiento total. Nunca entendí estos discos iniciales de Genesis. Lo voy a poner como malo directamente.

This was not made for me.

Sério? Disco duplo do Genesis? Deixei tocando e tentei não me irritar profundamente.

a prog double album by a bunch of English dudes about a Puerto Rican teen from NYC? no fucking thanks!

It's just too long

Did not like the sound at all.

Not a big Philadelphia Collins guy, I see the appeal but not with this album, every song dragged on too much for me it was hard to make it through

I love Peter Gabriel. I love post-Gabriel Genesis. I like prog-rock. This album, to me, just sounded like outtakes and what would be the inspiration for early Spinal Tap. Thank heaven that Peter Gabriel split from Banks, Rutherford, and Collins, and they all stopped getting in each other's way.

Far too indulgent and proggy. Every now and then it threatens to have a nice melody, but soon turns back into egocentric dirge that probably seemed like a good idea at the time. And then Phil Collins starts singing about erogenous zones 🤢

Pretentious nonsense.

I respect an ambitious concept album and this reminds me a lot of The Who in rock opera mode. But even those Who albums I tend to enjoy at an arm’s distance. The style can feel pretentious which is definitely the case here. The explicit reference to Broadway is fitting - it sounds like a Broadway show and annoys me the same way a lot of musical soundtracks do. How about this line from “Counting Out Time”: “Erogenous zones, I love you / Without you what would a poor boy do?” Jeez 🤦🏻‍♂️ Also, wow - I read the plot summary on Wikipedia. Truly bonkers. Shame that the final product isn’t more fun considering the story is so trippy and ridiculous.

So it's a concept album. You know what else is a concept album? "Music From The Elder" by Kiss. That thing isn't anywhere near this list. I wish one could say the same about this album. Maybe I just prefer my Genesis to have the drummer singing lead vocals.

Meh

Highlights: Fly On A Windshield Broadway Melody of 1974 Artwork: 5 / 10 Rating: