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The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Tracks

CD disc one

Vinyl/Cassette side one

  1. “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” – 4:55
  2. “Fly on a Windshield” – 2:47
  3. “Broadway Melody of 1974” – 2:11
  4. “Cuckoo Cocoon” – 2:14
  5. “In the Cage” – 8:15
  6. “The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging” – 2:45

Vinyl/Cassette side two

  1. “Back in N.Y.C.” – 5:49
  2. “Hairless Heart” – 2:13
  3. “Counting Out Time” – 3:45
  4. “The Carpet Crawlers” – 5:16
  5. “The Chamber of 32 Doors” – 5:44

CD disc two

Vinyl/Cassette side three
  1. “Lilywhite Lilith” – 2:40
  2. “The Waiting Room” – 5:28
  3. “Anyway” – 3:18
  4. “Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist” – 2:50
  5. “The Lamia” – 6:57
  6. “Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats” – 3:06
Vinyl/Cassette side four
  1. “The Colony of Slippermen” – 8:14
    1. The Arrival
    2. A Visit to the Doktor
    3. Raven
  2. “Ravine” – 2:05
  3. “The Light Dies Down on Broadway” – 3:32
  4. “Riding the Scree” – 3:56
  5. “In the Rapids” – 2:24
  6. “It.” – 4:58

Credits

GENESIS:
Michael Rutherford: Bass and Twelve String Guitar.
Phil Collins: Percussion, Vibing and Voicing.
Steve Hackett: Guitars.
Tony Banks: Keyboards.
Peter Gabriel: Voices and Flute. With variations on the above and Experiments with Foreign Sounds.

Enossification; Eno courtesy of Island Records.

All songs published by © Genesis Music Ltd/Hit & Run Music (Publishing) Ltd.
Recorded at Glossplant, Wales with the Island Mobile Studio and Mixed at Island Studios, August thru’ October 1974
Released November 1974

Production; John Burns and Genesis.
Engineer; David Hutchins.
Thanks to Nick Blyth, Smith and Alex of Mole Valley, Graham Bell for Choral Contribution, Peter the Beard, John the Drum, Ray the Truck, Philostratus and Keats.
Sleeve Design and All Photography by Hipgnosis.
Thanks to Omar for playing Rael.
Retouching by Richard Manning.
Picture of Vaults taken at the Roundhouse.
Graphics by George Hardie N.T.A.
Remastered at The Farm and Abbey Road by Nick Davis, Geoff Callingham and Chris Blair.

History

Album:
Released November 1974
Re-issue September 1983
CD issue February 1986
Re-mastered edition August 1994
Re-mastered into 5.1 SACD 2008

Top chart position:
UK – No. 10
USA – No. 41

Singles:
Nov 74 – Counting out time/Riding the scree (UK)
Dec 74 – Counting out time/The lamb lies down on Broadway (USA)
Apr 75 – Carpet crawlers/The waiting room (live)

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