The Waiting Room - the band were never so exploratory, and it works.
The Waiting Room - the band were never so exploratory, and it works.
Last edited by mozo-pg; 04-15-2013 at 08:09 PM.
What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)
not my favorite Genesis album but songs i like..
Anyway
Back in NYC
Fly On A Windshield
Colony of Slippermen
also like Hacketts part at the beginning of Chamber
oops.. forgot Hairless Heart
Last edited by UnephenStephen; 04-17-2013 at 06:48 AM.
"She said you are the air I breathe
The life I love, the dream I weave."
Unevensong - Camel
Definitely The Lamia. Brought me to tears when I saw the Musical Box show in NYC in 2004.
Agree, side three always got the most air play in my house.. loved the whole side.Originally Posted by DGuitarist
Me two.
Steve's solo at the end of The Lamia really sends me man! (ref Things People Used to Say)
Greetings,
I've always enjoyed the title track--and, over the past decade or so, have also grown particularly fond of "The Lamia" as well.
Cheers,
Alan
I'll wager my Moog that it's a synth - probably the ARP that Tony's playing throughout the track.
Never heard that tone or level of sustain from a bass guitar.
You and me both... We probably were at the same show.
Be a loyal plastic robot for a world that doesn't care... Frank Zappa
Boy did this song sound spectacular live during the European leg of this tour. Groningen, Liverpool (Definitive version), London, Munich, Portugal, Turino (Shame this was the only Italian date).
Be a loyal plastic robot for a world that doesn't care... Frank Zappa
Definitely a synth, and as others have said, almost certainly an ARP model, or maybe possibly Eno's EMS Synthi A. I'm not sure the bass pedals Mike was using at this point had a glide/portamento option.
Good point.
Back in NYC
The Lamia
Stand out but I also enjoy
Fly On A Windshield
Carpet Crawlers
Hell, the whole album is brilliant
My least favourite is IT I just think it is a weak closing to a magnificent album. This album needed to finish on something majestic and mindblowing like the finale of 'Suppers Ready' IMO.
Probably the title track.
My favorites would probably be "tlldob,""counting out time,""grand parade of lifeless packaging,""lilywhite lilith,""in the cage,""colony of slippermen," the list goes on and on. I like "fly on the windshield" and "hairless heart" a lot too. I really enjoy about 3/4 of this album. I even like "it." However, I can do without "carpet crawlers," "back in NYC" and "chamber of 32 doors." Other than those I really like almost everything else.
Anyone of these really!!!
2. Fly on a Windshield (4:23)
6. The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging (2:45)
9. Counting Out Time (3:42)
10. The Carpet Crawlers (5:15)
11. The Chamber of 32 Doors (5:40)
3. Anyway (3:07)
5. The Lamia (6:57)
7. Colony of Slippermen (8:13)
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
I always really like the title track and onwards up to and including Broadway Melody of 1974 (Broadway Melody is one of my favorite Genesis moments and Gabriel's voice is especially enjoyable).
The whole piece takes a downward trend for me then, mitigated only by Back in NYC, Colony of Slippermen (after the awful "eastern" jam that precedes it) and finally, Riding the Scree, which has always had a place in my heart for the killer funky drum groove that isn't all that common for them.
I think if you took side one and side four and made it one album it might be the best thing the band ever did.
Totally disagree... side 4 of Lamb is the weakest thing Genesis did in the Gabriel era...
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Totally agree !!!
I love the entire album. I cannot listen to any one song without thinking about the other two that bracketed it.
Anyway, if forced to chose... it would have to "It." After being pummeled mentally & emotionally "It" makes me feel that the entire experience was worthwhile & rewarding. Kind of like being shot out of a volcano.
I always kind of felt sides one and two were the weakest thing Genesis did in the Gabriel era, excluding 'Genesis to Revelation', but then, as much as I like the Lamb, I like the previous 4 albums even more. I guess I think that there is really nothing at all weak in the Trespass thru Lamb run.
Last edited by bill g; 04-19-2013 at 12:43 PM.
I bought the album when it first came out and my initial impression was that it took a while to simmer and then it fizzled out a little towards the end. I still kind of feel the same, but I grew to love the whole thing in spite of it's shortcomings and I wouldn't change a thing. Well... I might've left "Grand Parade" off of it.Still, I think the strongest material happens on side 3.
That first disc is nearly flawless, if it wasn't for the title track and Lilywhite Lillyth... replace those two with Lamia and Slipperman, and you've got something equal to their previous four albums, while the rest (most of the second disc and the two tracks mentionned above would rank just before Duke and ATTWT
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
For me it's always been "In The Cage"...that middle section...just fantastic.
"The Bill of Rights says nothing about the freedom of hearing. This, of course, takes a lot of the fun out of the freedom of speech." - Pat Paulsen
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It's my second favorite G-tune, so me too! (Yeah, I know, but #1 here is "Squonk").
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
Between Lamia, Silent Sorrow and the title track.
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