Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Lyrics

wow man this is fabulous! I'm 18 so ive never heard this before, 10/10

you can make a judgment of where we are as a spieces by what music is being written at that time. What are we now?

This is a great mastering. Better than the original.

this is album simply a miracle....... a secret world only these genius' could share.............. . incredibly great sound, semvai! cheers

Even Rick Wakeman is on record as saying that this is the finest concept album ever made. High praise from a master of his art.

The only trouble is, I got so used to hearing this on my 8-track copy back in the 70s that now I prefer the different song order on it. It's actually better in my opinion, especially the great way "Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging" leads into "Lilywhite Lilith."

...ambiance..depth..room sound...all gone...sorry..this mix is SHIT..

Amazing drumming. Most people listen to the vocals ,keyboards and bass when listening to Genesis( unfortunately Steve has always been mixed out) but I like to listen to Phil's great drumming,..and I'm a keyboardist...

Llevo 40 años con este disco y no me canso de oír a genecis

On hour 12 of return to my youth....bought the album at the market cheap, because I remember the music press didn't rate it......I did.....loved it.....vinyl died.. bought cassette cassette died .bought CD.....CD died spotify gives me shingles so currently on you tube.......still want to hear it... and every wrong decision in my life, I hear chamber of 32 doors

Wow! Just as good as I remembered in my teenage years; in the 80s! There will never be music like this again! That is for sure! Majestic Is Right!

I have 6% battery and I'm listening to Lamb lies down on Broadway.

I've studied and played music from the Renaissance to current,
1965-1975 is the high water mark for great music.

That's so true, I concur!

OUTSTANDING. THIS WAS THE ONLY TOUR I EVER SAW GENESIS PERFORM. PRETTY MUCH AFTER THIS IT BECAME "PHIL COLLINS AND THE BUDWEISER PLAYERS".

Pretty much not. I saw the wind and weathering tour in New Orleans. They opened with dance on a volcano and the rest of the concert was fantastic.

The wheels loosened with... Then there were three---then pretty much fell off at Duke.

"Trick of the Tail" and "Wind and Wuthering" are two of the very best Genesis albums.

Majestic, Supreme, Eternal, INVIGORATING...! No wonder such generation, we came so firedup, dreamers of english tales in progressive rock. Still Bitchen !

The very last true Genesis album but time for change was more than required as the commercial generation was ready and waiting. I remember the “new” Genesis in November 1975 in Paris for the first Gab-less show.... well even a Gab fan like me liked was i saw with Phil. Yeah I missed Gab but the Genesis commercialization had stated..,we know the rest...

btw I saw the Lamb concert a year earlier in Paris as well... yeah was totally blown away by Gabriel’s incredible but last show with Genesis

my ma got me this for x-mas the year it came out. went to my room, did not come out till it was over. my ma passed 11 days ago.

Who else here loves a great lyricist? Absolutely spectacular. Jon Anderson of Yes is another favorite of mine. Thank you to those who helped shape this progressive rock era. You're the best! And no need to thank my generation for the music we have today. Please, DON'T!

Hahaha. So true.

I saw this concert at the Philadelphia Spectrum 1974 (?). Top 3. The Wall at Nassau Colisseum1980, first US performance. The Grateful Dead at Englishtown 1977. A toss up....

We dont need to see all the tech crap about licensing and who produced wgat n when all that tech stuff! Enough! Lets just Enjoy The Music!!

In the rapids, it.... and earlier the grand parade where you can hear peter stepping in to the factory floor!!!!unequaled.

Got the cd before I had a player for it. A masterpiece. Side 4....the scree, etc. great climax to an epic film of an album

Peter Gabriel in his most amazing form and inspiration. Ever.

Man, I LOVE that little piano “pleeng; at the very end of “Chamber Of 32 Doors”! 45:23

The Colony of Slippermen ❤️

Simplesmente fenomenal !!!!
O melhor

Foi este álbum que eles tocaram em CASCAIS. Ainda hoje sonho com aquele concerto.

eines meiner top100 Alben, ich denke, dies ist die Geburt von Genesis als Prog Rock

The best set of Musiks ever. Extraodinary work of genesis

The best

Being the asshole that I am at times my good friend joe heart suggested I listen to this he was a very good judge of music,I said I wanted to hear something else he had( don’t even remember) and it took me a year to get it?thank -you joe heart Pgh.pa. Cindy ,very far away.🥰

In the late 1970s and early 1980s I played This Record a kazillion times

masterpiece!! in the rapids.....fantastic

You listen to this a few times and then, Collins' modern stuff and wonder what the heck happened!!

Well Gabriel left, thats what happened.

Después esto , correcto y justo es dejar la música igual que un campeón al ápice decida dejar .Cierto es que la nostalgia te mataría por el resto de tu vida.

As you listen to what is the best Genesis album, you hear bits of Selling England, Foxtrot and Nursery Crymes....brilliant! It makes you wonder what would have come if Peter Gabriel stayed....

We still got some good albums like wind and wuthering after he left. And he made some great albums too but yes... If only he stayed.

At least we have the lamb :)

This album is like Dr Seuss meets the Adrian Lyne film Jacob's Ladder.

This album was the trigger for the departure of the band's vocalist. Tony Banks considered it a record "too long and dense", although time has proved right to Peter Gabriel. Between the two there was a lot of rivalry and it is a pity that a work, now considered masterful and original, has had that consequence for the group. (I can visualize how Peter wrote the lyrics and Tony struggled to adapt it musically along with the tension of the environment that this caused).

It is here, it is now

Thank you for this upload. Made my day.

great for relaxed overcast/rainy afternoons at home...

I only listen to it when it's dark outside, especially when I'm walking the street. Best feeling I've got was when I listened to it at night time when walking down the real Broadway in NYC... Such a shame I don't live there.

most of genesis sound is because of steve hackett. if you look at his solo work it is the most genesis-like.

Un album di altissimo livello.

Brill album, but listen to the vynal. so much more to hear quality and depth of the instruments being played is amazing

Thumbs down to the thumb downers!

Hats off, great, immortal

I don't hear any difference compared to the original, listening from a phone.

Who cares!! Just crank it up, and enjoy it!!!!

cool,,,,,,,,,,

Well that was incredible. Going to listen to that again. . . .

I love it on vinyl, but you REALLY get the power of Collins' drumming on this mix.

Phil Collins!!!! One of THEE premier drummers, EVER!!!!!

Charles Hoppner yes

@Jerry Vivanco Indeed Mr. Jerry. Indeed!

+SevmaiLaif: Why use "Helium Audio Joiner" to make this video? Was it to join the two discs into one recording? I'd prefer to have each track as individual videos, then make all those videos part of a full album playlist.

un opera d'arte

Son merdique

Remarkable how much better this mix sounds than the mix on the cd I own. Thanks for sharing this.

Very good mix for this album

It's honestly punchier and clearer than my vinyl - although could be my player.

Rael was according to the band / Gabriel the most common name for a boy, taking the first two and last two letters of any name.

Thank you for uploading, sounds superb. Saw the lads perform it live at Manchester free trade hall. Must of been about 15 .

Thanks for making this available. This is the only place I could find the original "Carpet Crawlers" with all the verses intact. The re-recording from the 1990s with Phil Collins on some verses omits some of the original verses.

Masterpiece

Japanese cut?

Back in the NYC is so powerfull! Gabriel’s vocals on it is absolutely brilliant!

How It is done? Taking previously weekendly large amounts of Whisky, smoking pipes ful of most different vegetables, screaming out loud. Who takes this, Him, Rael, or, someone called GABrael.More, I'M NOT FULL OF SHIT .

КЛАССИКА.............................

Hard to find a favorite part but Fly On A Windshield into Broadway Melody is up there. Also, Lilywhite Lilith. God damn.

Great call on both tunes. I concur.......

I was 12 when I got this off my brother for Xmas/birthday? present. Pre-recorded cassettes. Use to listen to it on my little cassette player/recorder that was next to my bed. This band.

You have a cool brother, never forget that.

this concert was my introduction to genesis/peter gabriel. had not even heard of them. life changing nite. followed PG ever since.

Genesis formed something in my 14 year old brain., back in the 70's, that never changed
And here I am, still listening to it.
It wasn't Banks favorite and he criticized Gabriel's concept . Perhaps the time wasn't good for him, what with band problems and touring stresses.
The time was good for me in my teens, and I know every lyric verbatim, so it sticks with me as a wonderful album.

Banks is a lightweight idiot. All comments here prove it. Imagine if Genesis had Rick Wright instead....

With all due respect to Tony Banks, who is 1 of my ALL-TIME favorite keyboardists and composers, EVERY documentary I have ever seen on the recording of all their albums, he is nothing but bitter. Always criticizing and sniping. He always complains about EVERYTHING!!!

@Jerry Vivanco I am pretty certain it would have been Banks who blocked everything Hackett brought in. 'Please dont touch' was a rejected Genesis track.

I agree.

I wish William Friedkin had made the film with Gabriel as Rael. The British film industry was on its knees,.

I'm 48.When I heard this at the age of 16 it completely blew my mind. I went from Invisible Touch to Trespass and The Lamb. I still adore those early classics. There's Howard Hughes in blue suede shoes smiling at the majorette's

Smoking Winston cigarettes.

And as the song and dance begins

At that age I didn't think anyone else was into that kind of music. Prog was a dirty word. I always liked Monty Python and saw a lot of similar aspects.

@TREVOR LACK Well I guess prog was never really fashionable. It's true art, but unknown to most people

This version sounds so very different from the other re-issues/remasters. Personally, I'll take the remixed, box-set CD version by Nick Davis, though I will always keep the John Burns/David Hentschel CD mixes forever. I also have to consider that this is the remastered vinyl version, which typically sounds far superior to remastered CD's. I got rid of all of my vinyl albums and my turntables years ago. I don't want to shell out thousands to rebuild a vinyl library again, even if they do sound superior (?) to CD's.

This is what happens when 5 musical geniuses write and record a double album

And 5 *kids* to boot. All in their young to mid 20s at the time. Remarkable.

robk236 You stole my thunder. They were 23 years young when they recorded this masterpiece. What’s even more mind-blowing is they were 21 when they wrote and recorded Supper’s Ready.

Excellent

No words... masterpiece... just listen...

Fly On A Windshield is a powerhouse.

Best genesis album of all time. so sad when Peter left the band. I was 15 when this was released and it changed all my views on music and life in general. nothing compares to the performance writing and music this band put out... Phil was an apt replacement as the frontman but not what Peter brought to the band.. Love it. Thankyou, thankyou..

Get what you are saying, but it was for the best. Peter got to follow his road, Genesis got to follow theirs. Both roads leading to critical acclaim and success.

Un álbum, magnífico 👌😘

I hate the cover art, looks rushed, unoriginal, doesn't match the music at all.. this is probably the most energetic and experimental side of classic Genesis and it doesn't make it justice, it could've had a classic album cover like pink floyd or king ctrimson

The art is classic

@A Banana 2 It's only Classic thanks to the music of Genesis. It's not up to par with the content.

Absolutely the best music EVER... yet, never again...

Evvvvvverrrr😢

Some parts sound very fresh to my ears with the shift in the mix. Always a little surprise to discover a new overdub!

Took until 1:09:53 to finally get to my favorite track. A masterpiece. LOVE it reversed. Best song of this album for sure.

The best of the best. They played for music not for money. I love them....

at the beginning, yes. But then it was a money generating machine and each component sought its way in other groups for money. I would highlight them as an example of adaptation, and a band full of musical talents.

@Vinçent Fernando Sad fact: If you don't eat, you die.

dariusz m got and understand !

dariusz m $150,000,000 in 2007. Not too shabby! One of my favorite bands.

Not entirely. They were committed to making serious music, but none of them wanted to be poor. Phil Collins thought of himself as just a jobbing drummer at the start. Ironically, he was the one who went on to make crazy money as a solo artist. ;)

Supimpa..!!

1979,Melilla beach,smoking hash

Oh, I have spent decades, hitting the like button till its touchdown at the middle of the earth. I can still sing every nuance of the melodies ...

Many to many

While I never got to see this with Peter Gabriel, over the years I got to hear all the songs of this album live through many concerts I attended in the 70's. This still remains as the best of the 'rock opera' style concept albums ever made.

Dirk Hermance I know Gabriel only ever played The Lamb Lies Down and Back in NYC live, and to my knowledge Genesis played The Lamb, In The Cage, Carpet Crawlers, Lilywhite Lilith, It, And parts of Slippermen with Phil Collins, just curious where you saw the rest of the album played.

Uma verdadeira superprodução, acho que eles deveriam fazer um novo d. v d deste disco.

O Genesis deveria ter explorado mais essa obra com shows e d v ds, eu não me canso de ouvir essa maravilha.

Eu acredito que eles deveriam fazer uma reunião da banda, regravar ,editar,começar uma tournée mundial dessa obra não há quem não gostaria de ver e ouvir novamente.

We're only as strong
As the weakest link in the chain

I think it's sad that the members of Genesis, except Steve Hackett, abandoned this part of their musical legacy. Especially Tony, Mike and Phil have never shown this level of exceptional devotion and artistry in their careers over time. I know people will disagree but that's my point of view. I shouldn't be so hard on those guys especially when this was really a Peter Gabriel project. I wound up being more of a PG fan eventually if that's means anything and mow Steve Hackeett keeps me believing, what an enduring artist he is, just saw him at the Beacon Theater, amazing and devoted to keeping Genesis Classics relevant.

@David Yep, i do get my back up a bit when the core of Genesis get's a perceived slight so away I go on a rant. As for your question, I really do move around quite a bit with all of the Genesis' albums. Some days my fav is Lamb, then off I go to Duke. Did a revisit through all of Nursery Cryme the other day and I thought to myself "this is really good!' I really have always found something interesting and good in all the albums. So the short answer is (if I am ever short winded) is I have never admitted to a fav (though i spent a ton of time as a 15 year old blasting Genesis Live on repeat). Any favourites for you?

@SkinyVinny i do 100% agree with your comment BTW. Tony Banks shines on the lamb especially the second half.

For me its also the lamb. I feel it just has such a longevity to it. I've probably listened to that album 80 times this year since discovering it late last year. I mostly listen to the live version on Genesis Archive 1967-1975 (its on Spotify and google play) i think its superior especially to hear Phil's drumming.

Genesis will always have a special place in my heart. Im so glad I've found progressive rock in general. Its what i always wanted to listen to for like 6 years since i discovered pink Floyd when i was 14 but i never knew what that sort of music was called. I just knew what i wanted.

Im not a huge fan of modern prog bands. I think its a bit like modern hard rock bands, its kind of been mostly done to death (not totally, and maybe more subgenres could emerge). I think there are other areas music is moving forward in now. Kids See Ghosts (self titled debut album by kanye west and kid cudi) and Igor by Tyler the Creator (very influenced by the 70s but still modern) being examples of rap/Rnb having what i would call progressive music. Although dont expect any 25 minute epics haha. Hopefully my rant made sense. Prog exists, but prog rock has already peaked. Perhaps now prog lives on in other genres and keeps on actually progressing with new sounds.

Its very easy to become dismissive of new music, i used to be. But when you give stuff time (like the two albums quoted) it really grows on you. It took me ages to love the lamb. Ages to love Jethro Tull and Yes and all these bands because it was new to me.

Ive had a bit to drink so hopefully my grammar is somewhat legible

When i say prog lives on, i mean the idea of making progressive music. The same idea inspiriring certain classical composers, miles Davis, King Crimson in 1969 etc.

@David, great stuff and I agree new music needs a chance just like this "old new music" from the past needs a few listens to catch on. I'll try your suggestions from above and also leave you a little old gem of an album adventure that shouldn't be forgotten and would be a great music intro to your future children on a long summer road trip: "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds" Spotify has it...enjoy!

@SkinyVinny i will listen right now!

Not completely sold on some of the mixes, drums have lost their presence in some of the tracks as a result of "cleaning up" the ambience. They were after a big, broad, drum sound with big-ass Tom's when they first produced it, please don't undo what was intended. Also in many of the tracks, Hackett's edgy, jagged guitar work is totally smothered in layers of moogs, mellotrons, hammond organ, piano, Taurus bass pedals, etc. Poor Steve Hackett,... someone should have removed some of Tony's limbs so he would stop taking up all the chordal and tonal space. Lol...(kidding)

I can understand what you're saying. On the other hand, I hear notes and words on this I don't have on the most recent remaster.

Back in the 70's I decided I needed a DBX on my stereo so I got a DBX-3. This recording sort of sounds like music run through that without the wawa it seemed to add. That wawa on the DBX made me return it and get a 10" reel to reel, but other than the wawa edge it put on music, I really thought the DBX added nice spectrum and enhancements to the sound. I think the same with this. It is a bit muddy in some channels(?) like it was recorded on 64 track and 16 of them are getting a little muddy in parts but the other 48 are enhanced and vibrant as hell.

tony banks is god

He is NOT God!! He's one of my ALL-TIME favorite keyboardists and composers, though. He is a bit of a whiny arrogant bitch on interviews recalling recording their albums.

Musically,the best double concept album ever. Lyrically, The Wall by Floyd. Both genius

Αnother boring Genesis album lacking musicianship , Gabriel babbling as usual . . .

Hey now different strokes for different folks huh? Some are Dirckheads, some are Smartarses. Shows by what is coming out of our mouths.

usually coming from someone im guessing who cant play a musical intrument , or , um , write a song , or even record thier 7th studio album in thier early 20's , i cant imagine any musicians this age producing a double album of this complexity these days .. and if you find it boring ? moterhead is better for you ..... as a musician i can play most moterhead songs ... simple crap powerchords , with simple 4/4 time .... and you want to talk about boring ......... orgasmatron ,, really ??? your not serious...lacking musicianship ?... you know nothing about music except how it makes you feel ... thats it . i appreciate that ... but genesis is not lacking anything when it comes to detail and musicianship ....

Babbling voice really?

Wish id babble that way well guess what ur missing is how hard it is to play this as a musician c it live I did its not babbling

Conceptual prog rock music where Peter Gabriel preanounces punk with Rael character and his voice inflections. Total masterpiece.

Masterpiece for future generations.

female and LOVE Genesis

All lyrics penned by Gabriel and would also make a great short novel. But without the brilliant musicianship & arrangements of Phil Collins, Michael Rutherford, Steve Hackett and Tony Banks, this record would not have been possible.

Really, without druns of Colins, guitars Hacket and Rutherford and keyboards of Banks, i think it very hard ;)

It was EVERY band member!!!

@Jerry Vivanco, yes. Every band member recorded it. It was produced just as I said.

Actually, Tony Banks helped out on some of the lyrics due to a deadline that had to be met.

@ronspop01 , actually, you know that isn't true. I understand you want to be an expert, but try something else. "Tony helped, due to a deadline". Lol

The Ultimate progressive album of all time...it's just amazing!!😁💕

Pernah punya kasetnya😣

Whatever audio quality you upload, the download quality will be 128kb or less.

OK, but what if you record the stream in 320? Wouldn't THAT be in HD, at least?

@Dhalgren TV : No difference; checked w Audacity.

Agree skinny vinny, Collins sang much on the lamb, and you're right many can't tell the difference of him and Gabriel in some songs. I personally didn't like the direction the band went after Gabriel left, kinda pop. But they made a much better living after doing so.

To be fair they couldn't keep producing the same stuff - Genesis would have been consigned to the prog rock history books. There's still, imo, a long list of great Genesis tunes after Gabriel and the live versions on Three Sides Live with Phil singing are (imo!) better than Peter sang.