GENESIS "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" UK 1st PRESS

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	$		69

GENESIS "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" UK 1st PRESS
A2/B2/A2/B2, B & C Label Credit, OUTSTANDING Audio!!
GENESIS
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

HERE WE HAVE A VERY NICE, UK CHARISMA (CGS 101) FIRST PRESSING!!! (November 1974) OF GENESIS' CLASSIC DOUBLE LP SET, "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" IN EXCELLENT CONDITION AND DELIVERING OUTSTANDING AUDIO!!!!
IT IS BECOMING EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO FIND AN ORIGINAL UK FIRST PRESS COPY OF THIS LP with the A-2U/B-2U & A-2U/B-2U MATRICES AND "PORKY + JOHNNIE" & "PECKO" (record 1) and "PORKY" & "PECKO" (record 2) RUN OFF ETCHINGS -- VERY SCARCE!!!
THIS COPY ALSO HAS THE VERY EARLY MOTHERS/STAMPERS: 2/RM, 1/M and 2/AL, 1/T
THE CHARISMA 'MAD HATTER' LABELS ALSO CARRY THE FIRST 'MARKETED BY B&C RECORDS' CREDIT ON BOTH RECORDS CONFIRMING THIS AS A FIRST PRESSING (this text was later changed to 'MANUFACTURED AND DISTRIBUTED BY B&C RECORDS LTD' and later still to: 'MARKETED AND DISTRIBUTED BY PHONOGRAM RECORDS LTD')
THE LPs ARE HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FIRST ISSUE BLACK & WHITE MATTE, GATEFOLD SLEEVE AND COME COMPLETE WITH THE TWO ORIGINAL LYRIC INNER SLEEVES
NOTE: WHEN THIS LP WAS ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN NOVEMBER 1974 WITH THE A-1U MATRIX IT WAS FOUND TO HAVE A PRESSING FAULT WHICH RESULTED IN SKIPPING AT THE BEGINNING OF SIDE TWO (on Back in the NYC). THESE COPIES WERE QUICKLY RECALLED AND THE LP REDISTRIBUTED WITH THE FAULT-FREE A-2U MATRIX!!!!!!

Given all the overt literary references of Selling England by the Pound, along with their taste for epic suites such as "Supper's Ready," it was only a matter of time before Genesis attempted a full-fledged concept album, and 1974's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was a massive rock opera: the winding, wielding story of a Puerto Rican hustler name Rael making his way in New York City. Peter Gabriel made some tentative moves toward developing this story into a movie with William Friedkin but it never took off, perhaps it's just as well; even with the lengthy libretto included with the album, the story never makes sense. But just because the story is rather impenetrable doesn't mean that the album is as well, because it is a forceful, imaginative piece of work that showcases the original Genesis lineup at a peak. Even if the story is rather hard to piece together, the album is set up in a remarkable fashion, with the first LP being devoted to pop-oriented rock songs and the second being largely devoted to instrumentals. This means that The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway contains both Genesis' most immediate music to date and its most elliptical. Depending on a listener's taste, they may gravitate toward the first LP with its tight collection of ten rock songs, or the nightmarish landscapes of the second, where Rael descends into darkness and ultimately redemption (or so it would seem), but there's little question that the first album is far more direct than the second and it contains a number of masterpieces, from the opening fanfare of the title song, to the surging "In the Cage," from the frightening "Back in NYC" to the soothing conclusion "The Carpet Crawlers." In retrospect, this first LP plays a bit more like the first Gabriel solo album than the final Genesis album, but there's also little question that the band helps form and shape this music (with Brian Eno adding extra coloring on occasion), while Genesis shines as a group shines on the impressionistic second half. In every way, it's a considerable, lasting achievement and it's little wonder that Peter Gabriel had to leave the band after this record: they had gone as far as they could go together, and could never top this extraordinary album.

SIDE 1: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway; Fly on a Windshield; Broadway Melody of 1974; Cuckoo Cocoon; In the Cage; The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
SIDE 2: Back in the NYC; Hairless Heart; Counting Out Time; Carpet Crawl; The Chamber of 32 Doors
SIDE 3: Lilywhite Lilith; The Waiting Room; Anyway; Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist; The Lamia; Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats
SIDE 4: The Colony of Slippermen; Ravine; The Light Dies Down on Broadway; Riding the Scree; In the Rapids; IT


LABELS: The labels are in SUPERB condition - CLEAN, BRIGHT and UNMARKED with just some light spindle traces evident when angled under a bright light!!!!
VINYL Visual: Both records lie perfectly flat on the turntable and all surfaces have their original DEEP, GLOSSY SHEEN. There are a couple of light superficial surface marks but NOTHING of any MAJOR audio consequence!!!
VINYL Audio: The audio is absolutely OUTSTANDING!! - CRYSTAL CLEAR, VERY STRONG and VIBRANT!! Fantastic strong bass on these first pressings!! There are NO scratches, NO sticks/jumps and just some light touches of surface noise/clicks (a few occasional ones - nothing continuous - and nothing I found too intrusive at all!!). There is NO groove-wear and NO distortion and I don't think the LPs have been played that much!!!! This must be graded EXCELLENT for audio!!!! SOUNDS FANTASTIC!! and NOT over-graded in ANY way as I use STRICT RECORD COLLECTOR grading standards!!!
SLEEVE: The matte gatefold cover is in VERY NICE condition!! with very little of the grubbiness so often found on this white sleeve!!! There is some slight 'knocking' damage to the top corner (see pics) but it's not too bad!!! VERY NICE SLEEVE!!
INNERS: The 2 lyric inner sleeves are NICE and CLEAN with NO splits (which is very rare for these inners!!!!!) The LPs are now housed - and will be posted in - 2 new inner sleeves (along with the originals, of course!!!) as I believe inner sleeves should be used as inserts ONLY as they nearly always cause damage to the LPs over time or are split by the LPs themselves!!!

PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT MY PICTURES - I USUALLY TAKE QUITE A FEW SO YOU CAN GET A CLEAR INDICATION OF EVERY DETAIL OF THE ITEM
THIS REALLY IS AN EXCELLENT ORIGINAL UK 1974 FIRST PRESS COPY!!!!
YOU WOULD BE HARD PRESSED TO FIND ONE VERY MUCH BETTER!!! SO DON'T MISS OUT!!
AS WITH ALL MY RECORDS THIS HAS A LOW START PRICE AND NO HIDDEN RESERVE
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