TS: Tommy vs. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway vs. The Wall

i like a lot of things about this record. i like peter gabriel pretending to be a nuyorican street punk while randomly playing bad flute. i like eno's castration sound effect. i like how they left the guitar player off the record entirely, except for side three, which is wall-to-wall guitar solos. i like tony banks and his "hey, check out my arpeggios!" approach to playing. and yeah, i like the production- i mean, hi-fi it's not, but man, if you think the production on the lamb is bad, do yourself a favor and don't listen to nursery cryme!

The 2009 remixes got a lot of hate, but for me the Lamb was the best of the bunch.

I just bought The Lamb. I like it but geez, it sounds like garbage, production-wise.

Is this ever OTM. Always thought the production on Quadrophenia sucked too.

I like parts of Lamb and The Wall, but sitting down and listening to either feels like I'm about to go on a very slow, mostly boring boat ride.

Tommy has a few sloggy moments -- "Underture" and "Welcome" -- but the highs are so much higher than those on Lamb or The Wall.

Also, it's funny. The other two are so crushingly po-faced (Lamb less so than The Wall, tbf).

You don't find the Wall funny? "Day after day, love turns grey, like the skin of a dying man." Come on!

I don't even like "Tommy" that much but the other two are oppressive slogs to get through, and as Tarfumes notes at least "Tommy" has some energetic high points and levity plus a hilarious film adaptation

Come on, "Counting Out Time" is hilarious. xp

look, come on. peter gabriel, nuyorican street punk. i can think of few things funnier than that.

I am finally FINALLY listening to "Lamb" in its entirety as an adult, without outside enhancements - last time must have been around 30 years ago in a friend's dorm room, floored on bong hits - and it is marvellous. Almost doesn't sound like Genesis to my ears.

I can't imagine ever listening to the Wall or Tommy again. But I listen to Lamb all the time. Well, at least the first half.

I think I'll go with "none of them but would be quite willing to listen to a different album by either Pink Floyd, The Who or Genesis"

That's sorted, then!

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...are very good. Love their track 'Cotton Wool'...

It's a shame nothing ever came of the Jodorowsky collaboration. It seems like he was set to assemble a team similar to the one he pulled together for the defunct Dune adaptation (which was going to have a soundtrack by Pink Floyd).