Ravine (track)
by Genesis
Year: 1974
From the album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (track #19)
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Ravine appears on the following album(s) by Genesis:
- The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (track #19) (this album) (1974)
- 1970-1975 (Box Set) (track #46) (compilation) (2008)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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| ! | 01/19/2026 00:54 | kinginsomniac12 | 5,498 | 100/100 |
| ! | 12/13/2025 06:28 | Agent007 | 1 | 65/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2025 17:20 | Exist-en-ciel | 77,959 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/19/2025 13:01 | steve397 | 4,998 | 73/100 |
| ! | 08/26/2025 12:03 |  ExTeaSea | 12,449 | 85/100 |
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This track has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 72.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 16.5.
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Whereas The Waiting Room tries something interesting and eventually became quite good in the second half, Ravine, the other of the "experimental" tracks, is mostly just noise. You can make a melody out of it, with little flourishes of Fly on a Windshield's first half scattered throughout, but only if you have a keen ear. It's definitely got a mysterious feel to it and would be great for a movie's ambience, but as a track on album, it doesn't serve much purpose for musical pleasure. On top of that, it's completely unnecessary for telling the story of the album. I think this gets my vote for The Lamb's weakest tune.
Of all the instrumentals on the album, this is the strongest, most mysterious track. You can easily empathize as a listener and generate some clear images of the landscape described.
paladisiac 01/05/2012 21:31 | #34588
Eerie instrumental pulling away the magical haze returning Rael to reality. If i have any beefs with the album, it's with "ravine" and "in the rapids" sounding a little too much like incidental passages not fully-flushed out.
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