History YMMV / TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway

* BrokenBase: Phil's tendencies to repeat the phrase "down, down, down" during his renditions of the album's TitleTrack is pretty divisive. Many fans think it's ridiculous {{narm}} that ruins the song and others love Phil adding his own flair to the song.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Very much the case; the album's narrative is incredibly surreal and abstract and is downright impossible to make any sense of, to the point where it's often compared to ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}'', yet the album's considered one of the greatest of the ProgressiveRock genre.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Both the album itself and the surreal, fantastical stage show that resulted. Genesis, as (mostly) former boarding school students, were in fact one of rock's ''least'' intoxicated bands of their time, and were not normally followers of the rock and roll lifestyle (though they were possibly not entirely untouched by drugs or alcohol in their lives). Music/PeterGabriel often jokes of the band rebelling by "removing the paper covers of the soap at the hotel" in the middle of the night.
** Phil claims that as the Lamb tour dragged on and on, he eventually took to getting stoned backstage before going on -- he specifically chose to smoke grass because, unlike booze, it had no noticeable effect on his drumming.
*** Phil helped write and arrange some of the music for ''The Lamb'' along with the other Genesis members, but Music/PeterGabriel, by his insistence of wanting a necessary story, wrote all of the lyrics and concept (whilst tending to his troubled marriage and his incubated newborn daughter), save for "The Light Dies Down On Broadway", which Tony and [[Music/MikeAndTheMechanics Mike]] wrote the words for when Peter got writer's block (though Peter did compose some of the music for that song). Gabriel was, for the most part, drug-free.

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* NightmareFuel: The Lamia, The Slippermen, and Doktor Dyper.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: In an interview, Collins mentioned the various technical and costume failures in an era before digital show control technology made the show unintentionally hilarious and the reason the Broadway show had a short run time. He also expressed irritation that half the time, Gabriel's costumes interfered with his singing.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Both the album itself and the surreal, fantastical stage show that resulted. Genesis, as (mostly) former boarding school students, were in fact one of rock's ''least'' intoxicated bands of their time, and were not normally followers of the rock and roll lifestyle (though they were possibly not entirely untouched by drugs or alcohol in their lives). Gabriel often jokes of the band rebelling by "removing the paper covers of the soap at the hotel" in the middle of the night.

*** Phil helped write and arrange some of the music for ''The Lamb'' along with the other Genesis members, but Music/PeterGabriel, by his insistence of wanting a necessary story, wrote all of the lyrics and concept (whilst tending to his troubled marriage and his incubated newborn daughter), save for "The Light Dies Down On Broadway", which Tony and Mike wrote the words for when Peter got writer's block (though Peter did compose some of the music for that song). Gabriel was, for the most part, drug-free.

* VindicatedByHistory: It wasn't reviewed well at the time, as it tanked on the charts and savaged by practically everybody, [[OldShame including the band]], but it eventually went gold and became a CultClassic. The album is now regarded as one of the masterpieces of ProgressiveRock and one of the band's best recordings. Allmusic even gave it their highest rating of five stars.

* HardToAdaptWork: The story is pretty much unfilmable. ''The New Yorker'' [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-ulysses-of-concept-albums called it]] "the ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}'' of concept albums" for this reason.

* HardToAdaptWorks: The story is pretty much unfilmable. ''The New Yorker'' [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-ulysses-of-concept-albums called it]] "the ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}'' of concept albums" for this reason.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: The story is pretty much unfilmable. ''The New Yorker'' [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-ulysses-of-concept-albums called it]] "the ''Literature/{{Ulysses}}'' of concept albums" for this reason.