The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

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: