The Australian band's debut is punk rock at its most melodic, determined, and fundamentally pure; it's presented here remastered with loads of bonus tracks.
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, released 50 years ago today, contains both Genesis' most immediate music to date and its most elliptical. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine