Their signature song is Gorecki, from their eponymous debut album and it was inspired by Henryk Górecki's Third Symphony, the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Other essential songs are Cotton Wool, God Bless, B Line, Gabriel, Sweet, and Wonder.
To date, the band has released six studio albums: Lamb (1996), Fear of Fours (1999), What Sound (2001), Between Darkness And Wonder (2003), 5 (2011) and Backspace Unwind (2014). In 2003 they also issued a compilation entitled Best Kept Secrets.
In February 2005, Lamb announced that they would pursue their own solo projects, ending their collaboration for now. Their last concerts were in Paradiso, Amsterdam, and these shows appear in the DVD 'Lamb Live at the Paradiso' which was released in 2011.
Lou Rhodes released her first solo album Beloved One (2006) which received a Mercury nomination. This was followed by Bloom (2007), and One Good Thing (2010). Lou also branched out and became an author, with children's books The Phlunk (2013) and The Phlunk's Worldwide Symphony (2014 Strata Books).
Producer Andy Barlow focused on his band Hoof and a project called Luna Seeds with vocalist–songwriter Carrie Tree, and produced the Fink album Distance and Time. In 2013 Barlow's debut solo album as LOWB, Leap and the Net Will Appear was re-released on a new label, Distiller Records. Andy continued to work as a producer, working with Bristol band The Ramona Flowers on their album Dismantle and Rebuild (2014) which he also co-wrote. Most recently, he produced and mixed David Gray's new album Mutineers (2014).
The hiatus ended in 2009 when Lamb reunited and started performing again. Lamb returned to the studio the following year to record their fifth studio album 5 which was released in 2011. They also released their first live album in 2011 Live at Koko and the long-awaited DVD Lamb Lamb Live at the Paradiso.
In October 2014, the band released a new album Backspace Unwind, followed by a single 'We Fall in Love' (subsequently voted "Best Chillout/Lounge Track" at the International Dance Music Awards 2015). They began a tour in 2014 which included the UK and Europe. The tour continued into 2015 with shows and festivals in Australia, New Zealand and Europe.
There are other artists with the same name:
(2) A group formed by Barbara Mauritz and Bob Swanson in San Francisco in the late 1960s. This group disbanded in 1972. The minor San Francisco group Lamb tend to be remembered only for their appearance on the Fillmore: The Last Days concert album, where they were one of several non-star artists on a set dominated by bigger names like the Grateful Dead, Santana, and Boz Scaggs. The band did actually put out three albums in the early '70s, however, and were quite an interesting group. Not only were they not readily comparable to other acts on the San Francisco rock circuit, but it's debatable whether they could be fairly categorized as a rock band at all. Their music blended jazz, folk, singer/songwriter pop, gospel, and even some classical and avant-garde influences. Certainly the dominant figure was singer Barbara Mauritz, whose bluesy and earthy vocals had considerable resonance, but which could also traverse the band's frequently mystical, poetic lyrics with much delicacy and nuance. Reminiscent in spots of such varied artists as Tim Buckley, Judy Collins (in her art-song phase), David Ackles, and Savage Rose (in that band's most gospel-soaked period), their records were ultimately idiosyncratic enough to defy ready comparison to anyone. And they were, too, ultimately too inaccessible to make much commercial impact, despite plenty of tracks of considerable power, beauty, and enigma.
Lamb were formed by the duo of Texan singer Mauritz and multi-instrumentalist (though primarily guitarist) Bob Swanson. The two (writing both separately and together) was responsible for the band's material. They attracted attention in San Francisco when they opened for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young for a few nights at Winterland in November 1969. Impresario Bill Graham became their manager, and producer David Rubinson, who had worked with notable groups such as Santana and Moby Grape, acted in that capacity for their first record. Their debut album on the Fillmore label, A Sign of Change, was perhaps their most uncompromising and experimental, relying largely on jazz-folk acoustic arrangements and spotlighting Mauritz's impressive voice on impressionistic, dream-like lyrics. They moved over to Warner Bros (while retaining Rubinson as executive producer) for the follow-up, Cross Between, which moved toward slightly more mainstream rock arrangements and a more pronounced gospel feel on several tracks. Yet others were throwbacks to the first album in their obscure but enchanting poesy, sometimes owing more to a classical-influenced art song tradition than conventional pop music.
Lamb went yet further toward gospel-rockish material on their third and final album, Bring Out the Sun, which was their most mainstream outing, though hardly mainstream overall, with a couple of tracks again giving vent to their more experimental jazz-folk-classical side. The LP was co-billed to Lamb and Barbara Mauritz, though Swanson was still involved as a composer and instrumentalist on much of the material. Whether or not this co-billing was intended as a transition from Lamb to a solo career, Mauritz was soon recording as a solo, putting out Music Box for Columbia. Her solo career didn't take off, however, although she continued to perform and write (composing the music for many commercials). In the mid-'80s, Bob Swanson returned full-time to photography. The Lamb founded by Swanson and Mauritz, incidentally, had no relation to either the Christian rock band Lamb that began to record later in the '70s, or the drum'n'bass duo Lamb that began recording in the late '90s.
(3) A demoscene musician, active from early 1990s till early 2000s, known for composing many chiptunes, as well as themed collection-album called Autumn Leaf.
(4) A messianic Jewish pop music group formed in 1972 by Joel Chernoff and Rick "Levi" Coghill. This group has recorded as recently as 2005 (with Ted Pearce replacing Rick Coghill).
(5) A Japanese duo from Tokyo, formed in 1999. Kudo sings, Nakamura does everything else. They make pretty, light-hearted, chilled-out pop.
(6) A Japanese rockband who regularly do shows in Tokyo, Japan. They're known for their melodic, emotional, and exciting sound with twin guitars, and bass and drums. Lamb's music has taken on elements from post-rock, math-rock, and pop.
Their first EP, MEME, was released in April of 2020.
The Spectacle
Lamb Lyrics
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And all of the people they gathered to try
To catch it, all that they wanted
Forgetting they put it there
In their millions they traveled
And hope they might see
The more distant they'd be
To hold it, all that they wanted
Getting they pulled it there
And so into the darkness, they buried their lives
And gave it away to the stars and the sky
To catch it, all that they wanted
Forgetting they put it there
To hold it all that they wanted
Forgetting it was theirs
The Lamb's song "The Spectacle" has a deep meaning and can be interpreted in different ways. The lyrics speak about something that fell from the sky and the people's reaction to it. They all gathered to see and catch it, but the more they try to get close to it, the more distant it becomes. The people forget that they put it there and in their desire to hold it, they buried their lives and gave it away to the stars and the sky. The repetition of "all that they wanted" emphasizes the importance of human desire and how it can cloud judgment and lead to self-destruction.
The magical object that fell from the sky could represent an extraordinary opportunity or an impossible dream. It could be anything that people would chase after and sacrifice everything for. It's interesting how the people forget that they are the ones who put it there, meaning that they are the creators of their own dreams and opportunities. However, their desire to possess it overshadows this fact and leads them to lose sight of what really matters.
In conclusion, "The Spectacle" is a cautionary tale of the dangers of human desire and the importance of being aware of our own creations. We should not let our desires consume us and lose sight of what is truly valuable in life.
Line by Line Meaning
One day something so magical fell from the sky
One extraordinary day, an exceptional thing that's impossible happened and it fell from the heavens.
And all of the people they gathered to try
Everyone congregated and tried their hardest to seize the thing that fell from the sky.
To catch it, all that they wanted
They yearned to get a hold of it at all costs.
Forgetting they put it there
They lost sight of the fact that they were the ones who placed it there to begin with.
In their millions they traveled
Tens of thousands of people went for miles and miles to see it.
And hope they might see
They hoped to catch a glimpse of the object that they had been searching for.
The closer they got
As they drew closer to the object, they started realizing it wasn't as close as they expected it to be.
The more distant they'd be
They'd be even further away from the target the more they tried to make progress towards it.
Getting they pulled it there
They grappled with their desire to catch it and they were ready to go to all lengths to get it.
And so into the darkness, they buried their lives
They abandoned everything they had in their lives before and became fixated on the object.
And gave it away to the stars and the sky
They offered it up to the universe and became willing to relinquish anything and everything for the object.
To hold it all that they wanted
Their sole desire was to grasp the object in their hands.
Forgetting it was theirs
They forgot that they were the owners of the very same object for which they were so impatient to obtain.
Contributed by Liliana D. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@CHRDBR
Είναι πάρα πολύ ωραίο Νίκο! Η φωτο καταπληκτική!
@elmarko52
Beautiful
@misteriomendes
awesome !
@nikgml
@CHRDBR Ευχαριστώ πολύ Χρύσα! Οι πολυαγαπημένοι μου Lou και Andy σε μια μεγάλη στιγμή! Ακόμη μία, στην υπέροχη καριέρα τους!..
@nikgml
@wagnercite2012 So kind of you Wagner! I hapilly return the Season's Greetings to you and your loved ones:o)
@marlinegousse6999
What doe's that song mean please?