Fly On A Windshield (track)
by Genesis
Year: 1974
From the album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (track #2)
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Fly On A Windshield appears on the following album(s) by Genesis:
- The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (track #2) (this album) (1974)
- 1970-1975 (Box Set) (track #29) (compilation) (2008)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 11/06/2025 09:31 |  Liedzeit | 9,406 | 77/100 |
| ! | 10/01/2025 07:59 |  Norshammar | 810 | 92/100 |
| ! | 09/19/2025 12:35 | steve397 | 4,959 | 73/100 |
| ! | 08/26/2025 12:02 |  ExTeaSea | 12,082 | 86/100 |
| ! | 01/04/2025 15:27 | sunnydhamm | 18,302 | 56/100 |
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Squonk007 05/03/2021 11:41 | #269304
What a sound, one of my all time favourite tracks. It bursts with explosive energy.
This song might deserve 95 points alone for that explosion of sound halfway in. That might be the single best moment on the album. The rest of the song great too, though: Gabriel's whispering vocals as Rael is sucked into the "wall of death," Rutherford's 12-string acoustic introduction, and of course Hackett's worldly electric guitar in the second half. We're only two songs in and it's getting deep.
In my opinion this is by far the best song of the album. The intro with the particularly beautiful melody lines, originating from the mellotron and acoustic guitar, determine the mysterious atmosphere. The lyrics here also contain a number of clues that help to correctly interpret the big story: the main subject "Rael" gets stuck in a crust of dust. Magical how the song erupts at a certain moment in an orgy of hard rock.
paladisiac 01/05/2012 21:15 | #34569
the mood quickly goes dim as "there's something solid formin in the air, / and the wall of death is lowered in times square." i love the slam of moog after the line "i'm hovering like a fly waiting for the windshield on the freeway" -- it's very eerie yet comforting. Phil begins to show off why he was the best drummer of all-time. (i've always equated rush's drummer as the best technical drummer and phil the best "poetic" or "interpretive" drummer, but he's a fair technician as well.)
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