Tonight The Musical Box in Milano playing the entire show: see you there!
 

This album has much filler in between the gems.  Basically the concept was sloppy but the band was busting apart but it represents then at their best and worst.  That said, "The Lamb" is still a wonderful album with so many great moments such as this iconic song

No real comparison between the Gabriel and Collins versions of Genesis.

PG Genesis was a progressive rock cornerstone that blended both audio and visual performances into a full scale theatrical production. They reached their peak with LLDOB - considered by many to be one of the finest "concept" albums of all time.

PC Genesis started out as a washed-out version of the original, coming up with 2 tolerable albums (Trick & Wind) before plummeting into pop hell.

Baltimore Opera House:  1975:  mesmerizing performance of Lamb:  little did we know that the end was near.  Humbly, I must say that I reviewed "Selling England by the Pound" for the Indiana (Pa) Penn in 1973.  I gave it the great review it deserved and promptly went to the IUP theatre department, dressed up as a wizard and went to the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh to be mesmerized.  Only the Beatles had as much of an effect on me as did early Genesis

There are only 2 bands that make me want to smash things up - Genesis and The Who. Overrated twaddle with singers who can't sing or write . Shocking

I like old Genesis, but I'm hearing Phil Collins and sadly...not impressed. 

Palace Theater, Albany NY Window Pane. Most outstanding concert ever lived

I can still taste the excitement when I drove to town to the "record shop" to buy this album shortly after it's release. And then Glynis... where are you Glynis? Wow, we had fun listening to Lamb Lies Down 

A really good one !

 romeotuma wrote: 
I can't say that I ever heard that before, but I was indeed tripping when I saw this performed live in a small hall here in Cleveland back in the day.

This album has one of my favorite closers of all time, the Rapids / It.  Always makes me smile ... it is only rock n roll but I like it.

New York is the 70's was a gritty,nasty brutish, filthy and awesome place, and somehow this song always brings it all back for me.

Genesis's peak. 

 romeotuma wrote: 
Where did you read/hear that?

 Phlegmaticman wrote: 
They have CDs nowadays!   Plus, at the Wolfgang's Vault website, you can listen to the 1975 L.A. Shrine Theater performance of The Lamb uncut!

Oh, for the early days of Genesis, the period after the misguided "From Genesis to to Revelation" on Decca (Moody Blues sound-alike anyone?) through the final performances Peter Gabriel made performing "Lamb Lies Down" as he separate from the group. I enjoyed the seeing Peter's performance in Lamb after enjoying prior years of over-the-top music/stagecraft from Charisma: "Trespass," "Nursery Crymes," "Foxtrot," and Selling England by the Pound." Ah, the early seventies were fun for pretentious rock: I miss 'em. (Yeah Bill, I know I have to upload some of this dated vinyl.)

This is a beautiful and poignant song about hallucinations on an acid trip...


 

My cassette copy of this album: toast.
My vinyl copy: extremely well worn. 

 KevinM wrote: 
... if they were in the Miami Vice soundtracks.

Unfortunately a not-so-good last album of a once great band
(as long as PG was part of it, of course)

 lemmoth wrote: 

Though, Trick of the Tail, and Wind and Wuthering weren't bad albums...

The old Genesis stuff always makes me perk my ears up and head for the rating page.
A solid 9.

 1wolfy wrote: 
Neither of these songs is curently in the library, so Bill & Rebecca can not play them.

But you can help: follow the guidelines for how to rip a track in the quality Bill needs it to be in, upload it, then participate in the LRC so you can vote for it when it comes up.

 Dalebarely wrote: 
However, I think that the PG era - and up to Trick of the Tail and Wind and the Withering WILL stand up to the test of time, but the later arena filling mass appeal work will just seem silly.

 MiracleDrug wrote: 

As the other fellow said, "obscurity" is so the wrong word.  "pure pop pablum" would be an appropriate substiitute.

LSD flashback!  What a classic!  Love it!

 

RAEL imperial aerosol kid!!!!

I'll dance to this...

 

Maybe I'd like to hear both!

 Dalebarely wrote: 

 MiracleDrug wrote: 
1967-1974 (7-Years) Genesis w/ Gabriel

1975-1996 (21-Years) Genesis w/ Collins

I'm not sure what your definition of obscurity is