40 YEARS AGO . . . PETER GABRIELS GREAT SWAN SONG WAS RELEASED (11/18/1974) Its hard to define The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, what category of art its included, so many angles to be seen and listened still nowadays, After all, is a most than album masterpiece or just a bricollage collection of bizarre songs? I do confess that it took some time to digest the album as a whole, despite the evident awesomeness of particular songs like the title song TLLDOB, Carpet Crawlers, The Lamia and Back to NYC, but one day, during an one more distracted and with no expectations at all audition of the mysterious doubled piece, I saw the light! Ive suddenly understood the whole of the album concept, as a magically soundscaped epic poetry, as the New Yorkers journalist Jon Michaud has put, it is the Ulysses of the concept album, an authentic piece of strange musical and literary beauty. Tony Banks has declared that its the Genesis album he dislikes more, but, sorry mr. Banks, I could not agree more. Maybe his dislike is a bitter fruit to be chewed because it was composed and crafted during the internal crisis between Peter Gabriel and the former band founders and long way friends Banks and Rutherford. I dont know, what I know is that Ive learned to enjoy and appreciate every moment, word and note of this wondrous piece of artcratf. Thanks the Muses they went for it till the very end, despite the subsequent departure of the ingenious PG and the subsequent survival of a great band with Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering, a band, btw, which has become a source of amazing solo flights of Hackett, Collins, Rutherford, Banks and Gabriel himself. After 40 years of been released, at least for me, its still sounds fresh, strange and melancholicaly beautiful. its a truly and endurable swans song of an ingenious creative line up. Ro Favilla https://youtube/watch?v=srJqb2RHFq0
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:05:11 +0000
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