The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway [Vinyl]

Genesis | Format: Vinyl

Product Details

• Vinyl (December 17, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Classics France
• ASIN: B00007KS9A
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #985,333 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

2. Fly on a Windshield

3. Broadway Melody of 1974

4. Cuckoo Cocoon

5. In the Cage

6. The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging

7. Back in N.Y.C.

8. Hairless Heart

9. Counting out Time

10. The Carpet Crawlers

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Lilywhite Lilith

2. The Waiting Room

3. Anyway

4. The Supernatural Anaesthetist

5. The Lamia

6. Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats

7. The Colony of Slippermen: The Arrival/A Visit to the Doktor/The Raven

8. Ravine

9. The Light Dies Down on Broadway

10. Riding the Scree

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered two CD edition of this classic 1974 album from one of Rock's most successful bands featuring new stereo mixes of all tracks. From their Progressive Rock beginnings to their commercial superstardom, Genesis created some of the most challenging, creative and rewarding albums of their generation. This edition allows the listener to experience the album as never before! 23 tracks including 'Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats', 'Fly On A Windshield', 'Counting Out Time' and 'Broadway Melody Of 1974' . EMI. 2009. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genesis' masterpiece with Gabriel gets a sonic makeover!, April 29, 2009

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Terrence J. Reardon "Classic rock and old sch... (Lake Worth (a west Palm Beach suburb), FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Audio CD)

English art rockers Genesis released their seventh (and lone double studio) album entitled The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway in November of 1974.
The album was created at a time where tensions in the band were astronomically high. Lead singer Peter Gabriel was going through some personal and professional problems while this album was being created (his daughter was born prematurely and uncertainty if his daughter would live (luckily she survived), his failed attempt at a filmscript and his bandmates were angered that Peter was more concerned about his family than the band (in later years, all the members would become parents)).
Despite the on-going tensions in the group, Gabriel created one final masterpiece with Genesis before he left the band in May of 1975 after the tour in support of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway where the band did the WHOLE DOUBLE ALBUM live start to finish (only The Who and Pink Floyd were other bands of the era that played whole albums start to finish in their set, let's see Britney Spears or any pop fool try it).
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was a concept album about a Puerto Rican kid named Rael whom falls into a netherworld known as New York and struggles to find himself throughout the course of the album. Some of the many standouts on this album are the title cut, "In the Cage" (arguably the best song on the album and was resurrected for the 2007 tour), "Back in NYC", "Counting Out Time" (released as a single but flopped), "The Carpet Crawlers" (a concert staple for many years and resurrected for the 2007 reunion tour), "The Chamber of 32 Doors", "The Lamia", "The Colony of Slippermen" and the closing track "It".
The album's other tracks "Fly On a Windshield", "Broadway Melody of 1974", "Cuckoo Cocoon", "The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging", "Hairless Heart", "Lilywhite Lilith", "The Waiting Room" (a great instrumental from the same band who would later write "I Can't Dance" and "Hold On My Heart"), "Anyway" (whose roots go back to pre-Hackett and Collins era Genesis musically), "Here Come the Supernatural Anaesthetist", "Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats", "Ravine", "The Light Dies Down On Broadway", "Riding The Scree" and "In The Rapids" are no filler as well and are great songs though some fairweather Genesis fans may think these tracks stink.
I first discovered this album in early September of 1997, when I picked up a used cassette copy (would buy the remastered CD two months later), and I was shocked on how excellent it really is and is today one of my Top 20 favorite rock albums of all time.
Unfortunately Peter Gabriel left after the tour in support of this album and eventually guitarist Steve Hackett would quit as well in late 1977.
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway peaked at #41 in early 1975 and would eventually go Gold in the US over time proving that people were willing to give pre-1980s Genesis a chance after discovering the band in the 1980s.
In November of 2008, Rhino/Atlantic re-released the album as a 2-CD/1-DVD set. The album was painstakingly remixed by engineer Nick Davis in stereo for excellent sound (kind of like what was done to The Who catalog in the 1990s). The new mixes are AMAZING and I hear things in the new mixes that I have not ever heard before. The DVD was in 5.1 and had an excellent slide show with the album and interviews with band members and an appearance on French television in 1974. In March, 2009, Virgin/EMI re-released the 2008 mix of the album as a 2-CD set. Those who have the box and get annoyed with sliding the CDs in and out of sleeves should get a backup copy in case the discs were badly destroyed from sliding in and out of sleeves.
This new mix of Lamb is recommended!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just Fantastic, July 7, 2011

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Gerardo Martinez Casas "Gary" (Charlotte, North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Audio CD)

For all of us Lamb fans. The band The Musical Box is playing The Lamb in the Usa and Canada this year with Genesis and Gabriel's blessing. DO NOT MISS IT. Pass the word. I already got my tickets for San Francisco. We saw the original in '74 and want to experience it again. They will be playing the East/South East early next year...

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genesis at the Peak, October 3, 2010

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Morten Vindberg (Denmark) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Audio CD)

"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" is probably Genesis's most exciting release. The long list of numbers of varying length and style makes it an album that you do not easily get an overview of. The story itself (yes, it is a concept album) is not very easy to catch, and personally I was never really caught by it. It's the music, which for me makes thi a special album. Some of the group's most beautiful compositions can be found on this album. As goes for the previous three albums (Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot and Selling England) a lot of experimenting goes one; especially concerning rock song structures. These breaks from predictability make Genesis (with P. Gabriel) one of their era's most interesting bands.

Of course there are also many songs where the melodic and more traditional songwriting is predominant and it is among these the key tracks of the album are to be found. The songs "The Carpet Crawlers," "Cuckoo Cocoon", "The Light Dies Down on Broadway" and "The Lamia" are all well written and performed that they still give a chill down my spine.

The short instrumental "Hair Restless Heart" is a number that contradicts that instrumental tracks are always a little boring. "Lily White Lillith" is arguably some of the best rock the band ever recorded.

Among the more complex numbers "Anyway" and "In the Rapids" are among the favorites. And we must not forget the title-track and the single "Counting Out Time"

Part of music is strongly linked to the context of the album and may hardly work very well outside that context - this applies in particular for some instrumental passages.

Unfortunately, Peter Gabriel left the group after this album, and although ithe commercial success continued, much of the magic disappeared with him.

Here, several decades after, the Genesis' albums with Gabriel still appear relevant and exciting, while most subsequent albums seem time-typical and less interesting than they seemed in their time.