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Artist: Genesis
Title: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Deluxe Edition)
Year Of Release: 1974
Label: Rhino Atlantic
Genre: Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 03:41:37
Total Size: 1.36 GB
Tracklist:
CD1
1. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (2025 Remaster) (4:51)
2. Fly on a Windshield (2025 Remaster) (2:44)
3. Broadway Melody of 1974 (2025 Remaster) (2:11)
4. Cuckoo Cocoon (2025 Remaster) (2:12)
5. In the Cage (2025 Remaster) (8:15)
6. The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging (2025 Remaster) (2:46)
7. Back in N.Y.C. (2025 Remaster) (5:39)
8. Hairless Heart (2025 Remaster) (2:19)
9. Counting Out Time (2025 Remaster) (3:42)
10. The Carpet Crawlers (2025 Remaster) (5:16)
11. The Chamber of 32 Doors (2025 Remaster) (5:45)
CD2
1. Lilywhite Lilith (2025 Remaster) (2:40)
2. The Waiting Room (2025 Remaster) (5:27)
3. Anyway (2025 Remaster) (3:09)
4. Here Comes the Supernatural Aneasthetist (2025 Remaster) (2:5
5. The Lamia (2025 Remaster) (6:56)
6. Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats (2025 Remaster) (3:13)
7. The Colony of Slippermen (The Arrival / A Visit to the Doktor / Raven) (2025 Remaster) (8:13)
8. Ravine (2025 Remaster) (2:05)
9. The Light Dies Down on Broadway (2025 Remaster) (3:33)
10. Riding the Scree (2025 Remaster) (3:57)
11. In the Rapids (2025 Remaster) (2:23)
12. It. (2025 Remaster) (4:21)
CD3
1. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (6:41)
2. Fly on a Windshield (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (4:37)
3. Broadway Melody of 1974 (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (0:35)
4. Cuckoo Cocoon (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (2:16)
5. In the Cage (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (7:57)
6. The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (6:10)
7. Back in N.Y.C. (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (4:25)
8. Hairless Heart (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (2:30)
9. Counting Out Time (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (3:57)
10. The Carpet Crawlers (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (5:47)
11. The Chamber of 32 Doors (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (9:40)
CD4
1. Lilywhite Lilith (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (3:00)
2. The Waiting Room (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (6:15)
3. Anyway (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (3:29)
4. Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (3:57)
5. The Lamia (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (7:19)
6. Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (3:09)
7. The Colony of Slippermen (The Arrival / A Visit to the Doktor / Raven) [Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75] (2025 Remaster) (8:50)
8. Ravine (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (1:37)
9. The Light Dies Down on Broadway (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (3:37)
10. Riding the Scree (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (4:30)
11. In the Rapids (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (2:25)
12. It. (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (4:17)
13. Watcher of the Skies (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (8:10)
14. The Musical Box (Live at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 1/24/75) (2025 Remaster) (12:13)
Arriving closer to its actual 51st anniversary, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is celebrated in Super Deluxe style: newly remastered tapes, the full January 24, 1975 Shrine Auditorium show, and several raw, early session outtakes—all in hi-res. New mastering gives fans much to compare/contrast with the album's previous seven masters, including 20th and 40th anniversary editions and a 2008 remix. This new version acquits itself well, bringing additional degrees of clarity and scope to the (essentially unproblematic) muzzy qualities of the original mix, without fundamentally altering its all-important chemistry.
With The Lamb, Genesis turned the page on their first phase, a heady combo of pastoral folk music, historical/literary allusion and prog rock tactics brought together in ambitious theatrical compositions. They'd had great success with it, but by 1974, frontman Peter Gabriel believed that "prancing around in fairyland was rapidly becoming obsolete," conceiving instead of an "extrovert and violent" delinquent caught up in a sequence of hallucinatory encounters on New York City's mean streets. Placing Genesis' "pansy claptrap" (again, Gabriel's words) out of context in this setting was inspired; with apologies to Foxtrot-or-die Gen-heads, it made for their most powerful album to date.
Conceptually, the opus resembles The Who's Tommy, the tale of a dead-end kid whose spiritual enlightenment is triggered by a series of traumatic/transformative incidents. The impressionistic story allows for passing commentary on class, religion, sexuality and the media. Like Tommy, The Lamb's narrative details are its weakness, but this barely mitigates against the band's highly energized tumult, Gabriel's vocals and the unfettered creativity of his vision.
The widely circulated Shrine performance finds Genesis a month into The Lamb's support tour, their (at the time unannounced) final hurdle with Peter Gabriel. Their engaged full album performance provides good fun for fans, though many of them will no doubt have previously heard most of it elsewhere. Other impassioned punters may curse the small sample of The Lamb's extensively bootlegged recording sessions here. Perhaps the rough quality of these tapes weighed against a more comprehensive inclusion. The few tracks in evidence do effectively convey the uncompromising aggression fueling this epic enterprise. © Rian Murphy/Qobuz |
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