Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
2. Fly on a Windshield
3. Broadway Melody of 1974
4. Cuckoo Cocoon
5. In the Cage
6. Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging - Brian Eno, Genesis
7. Back in N.Y.C.
8. Hairless Heart
9. Counting out Time
10. Carpet Crawlers
11. Chamber of 32 Doors

Disc 2:

1. Lilywhite Lilith
2. Waiting Room
3. Anyway
4. Supernatural Anaesthetist
5. Lamia
6. Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats
7. Colony of Slippermen: The Arrival/A Visit to the Doktor/The Raven
8. Ravine
9. Light Dies Down on Broadway
10. Riding the Scree
11. In the Rapids
12. It

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49122 in Music
• Released on: 1994-09-20
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Import

From Amazon.com
When it comes to making albums of epic proportions, few rival this magnificent production that a trip the band took to New York City inspired in 1973. The underlying story is of a street kid named Rael who, thanks in part to the realities of big city life, undergoes a weird and mystical transformation. Containing extended instrumental sections showcasing the extraordinary talents of Tony Banks, Steve Hackett, and Phil Collins, as well as the expressive vocals and often disturbing lyrics of Peter Gabriel, this is the album that located Genesis truly on the map. --Paul Clark

Customer Reviews

The album of my youth
Worth buying just to read the story of Rael. Saddo that I was in my teens, I must have read it a hundred times while listening to this epic album. The music is just as gripping, with Gabriel living every tortured moment. Yes it's over the top and self indulgent but gloriously so. Hard to pick out highlights as there's never a dull moment but here goes: 'Fly on a Windshield'; the lyrics to 'Broadway Melody'; the soft beauty of 'Carpet Crawlers' and 'Silent Sorrow'; the truly scary Slippermen; the giddiness of 'Riding the Scree'. It's mad but just pretend you're 15 again and go with the flow; you won't hear anything quite like it and I promise you won't be disappointed.

Absolutely mind blowing stuff
Ok this genre is alot less known in these modern days than it used to be in the 1970s but it has not yet died out (im 14 years old). This album is stunning and has some perfect examples of classic prog rock: weird and wonderful melodies and delicatley enticing harmonys all swirling around in perfect musical fusion. To put it bluntly this album deserves a medal!!!

Nothing else is quite like this
The often overlooked apotheosis of their career. On this album there's absolutely everything, melodies that are maddengly catchy, lyrics that are at times almost unberarably profound and songs that just make you feel glad to be alive. Unlike other double concept albums of the time, there isn't a single item of filler - a policy that some current prog artists would do well to observe. Genesis weren't above flaunting their technical virtuosity but on this album the musicianship always serves the music. It's 90+ minutes of perfection given an otherworldly gloss by Brian Eno's production. 25 years after I first bought it I still know every word off by heart and 'It' still makes me smile while it raises the gooseflesh on my arms.