Platinum Collection - Genesis

Description: Genre: Rock - Progressive Rock / Artist: Genesis / Box set / Audio CD released 2004-11-29 at EMI / Disc #1 ... more

Platinum Collection - Genesis ... Tracklisting
1 No Son Of Mine
2 I Can't Dance
3 Jesus He Knows Me
4 Hold On My Heart
5 Invisible Touch
6 Throwing It All Away
7 Tonight Tonight Tonight (Edit)
8 Land Of Confusion
9 In Too Deep
10 Mama
11 That's All
12 Home By The Sea
13 Second Home By The Sea
14 Illegal Alien
15 Paperlate
16 Calling All Stations

Disc #2 Tracklisting
1 Abacab
2 Keep It Dark
3 Turn It On Again
4 Behind The Lines
5 Duchess
6 Misunderstanding
7 Many Too Many
8 Follow You Follow Me
9 Undertow
10 In That Quiet Earth
11 Afterglow
12 Your Own Special Way
13 A Trick Of The Tail
14 Ripples
15 Los Endos

Disc #3 Tracklisting
1 The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
2 Counting Out Time
3 Carpet Crawlers
4 Firth Of Fifth
5 Cinema Show
6 I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)
7 Supper's Ready
8 The Musical Box
9 The Knife

Newest Review: ... they're all lengthy musical showcases. In the 70's rock songs were L O N G. They had a beginning, a ten to fifteen minute ... more

... crescendo with a long instrumental interlude and then a gradual descent to the end. All the tracks on this CD are characterised by long musical sections, the vocals tell some kind of bizarre story, they move into a long instrumental crescendo and then fade away. Some of the sounds are experimental, and take a bit of getting into. In this era Genesis were known for their elaborate stage shows and costumes (hence Peter Gabriel's odd appearance as a flower on many a stage). Many of their best known tunes from the 70's like...more

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Platinum Collection - Genesis: In the Beginning....... (2601 words)
by - written on 10/07/06 (Very useful, 894 readings)
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The Platinum Collection from Genesis is a three CD boxed set of all their best songs. It's really the story of Genesis told backwards. The third CD ends with their first ever release and the first CD begins with their last hit before they stopped recording. It's really quite hard to review this CD, as its 40 odd songs long and takes about 4 hours to listen to properly, and a track by track analysis would take forever to write and be extremely tedious to read. So what I thought I'd do is tell you the short version of the story of Genesis and throw in a bit of commentary on the best tracks as I go along…otherwise this review will end up being longer than the original Book ... Read the complete review