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Boxset/Compilation, released in 1991 Songs / Tracks Listing i. Mama (vi:03) 2. Home Past The Ocean (4:45) 3. That's All (4:21) 4. Illegal Alien (4:33) 5. Paperlate (3:14) 6. No Reply At All (4:34) seven. Taking It All Too Hard (three:56) 8. Human being On The Corner (four:xv) ix. Misunderstanding (Live) (iii:57) x. Follow You, Follow Me (Live)* (4:39) 11. Abacab (Live)* (8:35) 12. Turn It On Again (Live) (ix:03) 13. Firth Of 5th (Live) (9:22) Total Fourth dimension 68:77 Line-upwards / Musicians - Tony Banks / keyboards, backing vocals - Phil Collins / drums, percussion, lead vocals - Mike Rutherford / guitars, bass, backing vocals with : - Daryl Stuermer / guitar, bass (tracks 9-13) - Chester Thompson / drums (tracks ix-13) Releases information Characterization: Vertigo Catalog#: 848 854-2 Format: CD Land: Germany Credits: Engineer - Hugh Padgham (tracks: 1, 4, 5, half-dozen, 8,) Producer - Genesis , Hugh Padgham (tracks: ane, 2, iii, 4, vii, 12) * Engineer - Geoff Callingham Notes: Track 12 featuring extracts from: A "Everybody Needs Somebody To Dear" (Berns / Burke / Wexler) B "Satisfaction / The Latin Time" (Jagger / Richard) C "All Mean solar day And All Of The Night" (Davies) D "In The Midnight Hour" (Pickett / Crooper) Thanks to Guest for the add-on and to Guillermo for the final updates Edit this entry

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2.37
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Essential: a masterpiece of progressive stone music(eleven%)

Splendid addition to whatever prog rock music drove(23%)

Skillful, but non-essential (29%)

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Poor. Simply for completionists (eleven%)

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Review by Tarcisio Moura
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Interesting compilation of Genesis fourscore�s output. Hardly their best, of grade. Recording companies always seem to make this kind of misleading packages, labeling their greatest hits equally their best (well, on a second thought, for the recording companies their greatest hits ARE the all-time, at least for their pockets). Anyhow, many key songs, or more prog songs, of that era are missing from this collection. On the other hand, they at to the lowest degree were sensitve enough to include two of Genesis nearly beautiful songs at that time: Human On The Corner and the great Dwelling By The Sea (a song that actually shows they still could produce a truly prog gem even at their popiest period).

If you like good pop music, with some stiff progressive influences, and yet have none of Genesis fourscore�s albums, this might be a skillful starting point to get to know their work at the time. Other than that I tin�t recommend this album to anyone else. At that place is goose egg new hither and the live tracks don�t add annihilation that you lot oasis�t heard before (and, in the case of Firth of fifth, ameliorate). 2 stars.

Review by Guillermo
PROG REVIEWER

I have to say that in the eighties it was much better for me to listen to the Pop Rock music that some Prog Stone bands like GENESIS and YES were recording and releasing and then than to most of the music that was played in the radio. Then, while some GENESIS`s albums from that decade really were not very interesting and good in comparing to some of their other albums from the seventies, I still liked some songs from those albums.

This compilation, which I never bought despite seeing it in some record shops in my urban center (but I listened to it a few times thanks to a friend who had it) has some songs taken from the albums that the band released between 1981 and 1983, plus ii live tracks which were previously available only as B-sides of some singles. Some of them were and all the same are among my favourite songs from those mostly Pop Rock albums, but for me some of them are still not amidst the best that the band released during that period.

So, this compilation has the side by side songs:

- From the album "Abacab" (1981): "No Reply At All", "Man On The Corner". I still like both songs.

- From the "3X3" (1982) EP and too released in the US and German versions (and in other countries too, like Mexico, but except in the U.G.) of the "Three Sides Live" (1982) album: "Paperlate". A skillful song with the EWF horns. As well released equally a single in the U.S.

- From the "Three Sides Live" (1982) anthology: "Misunderstanding", "Follow You lot, Follow Me", and "Abacab". Three good songs from that album.

- From the album "Genesis" (1983): "Mama", "Dwelling By The Bounding main", "That's All", "Illegal Alien", "Taking It All Too Difficult": Five songs taken from their self-titled album from 1983, which I still think that it is their worst album ever. Simply I but similar from all these songs "That`south All" and ""Taking All Too Hard". This version of "Home past the Body of water" is edited a bit at the cease using a fade-out. I however consider "Illegal Alien" as their worst song always. Besides much songs taken from this album.

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- "Plow Information technology On Again Medley (Live)": recorded at the Spectrum, Philadelphia, 27-November-83. Too released as the B-side of the "Illegal Alien" single. "Plow It On Again" is followed by a Medley with several songs (covers) from other bands and singers of the sixties. It really was non played very well in this instance, as other performances of similar Medleys are improve, in my stance. This kind of Medleys were played as encores by the band in their 1983-84 and 1986-87 tours and besides at the Knebworth Festival in 1990, but with some changes in content. Some of the songs covered by GENESIS in these Medleys were from THE ROLLING STONES, THE WHO, WILSON PICKETT, THE KINKS, and fifty-fifty from THE POLICE and CULTURE CLUB (!!!???) in 1984.

-" Firth Of Fifth (Alive)": recorded at the Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, 29-November-81. From i of the shows from which several songs were too recorded and included in the "Three Sides Alive" album. This version was also included in a Fexidisc (for which I likewise wrote a review in Prog Archives). It also was released as the B-side of the "That`south All" 12" single. Information technology is maybe the just officially released complete live version of this song with Daryl Stuermer on lead guitar. This alive version besides lacks the piano introduction from the original studio version (like the alive version from their live anthology "Seconds Out"), but it is nigh complete in comparison to later versions of this song with Stuermer which were played as part of Medleys of old songs from the band in their 1992 and 2007 tours.

Well. This compilation has some good songs, but maybe it could be more interesting for the fans of the well-nigh Pop Rock music that the ring released in the eighties. Maybe the inclusion of the live version of "Firth of Fifth" and of the "Turn It On Once again Alive Medley" makes it more interesting for the most defended collectors and fans of the band.

Review past AtomicCrimsonRush
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Symphonic Team

Another Genesis compilation in the Collins era and notable really for having some live tracks rarely seen on a compilation.

From the album "Abacab" (1981) is No Reply At All and Homo On The Corner that are fairly decent songs. Also from the "Iii Sides Live" (1982) album is Paperlate, Misunderstanding, Follow You, Follow Me and Abacab that are good examples of the quality on this double LP.

From the album "Genesis" (1983) are well known tracks Mama, Home By The Bounding main, That's All, and these are first-class but nosotros could have been spared the poppy kitsch stench of Illegal Conflicting. Also Taking It All Too Hard is not much better but they were hits somewhere in the world of popular.

The tracks that held my interest were the other live cuts including Turn It On Again Medley which was recorded at the Spectrum, Philadelphia, in late 1983. It is an intriguing mixture of songs and used as an encore in their 80s live shows.

Firth Of 5th was recorded at the Nassau Coliseum, Long Isle, in late 1981 and is always a nifty musical experience featuring Daryl Stuermer on atomic number 82 guitar, a terrific version of dandy quality well worth checking out.

So this album is a curio collectors slice for Genesis freaks like me and very hard to find these days so keep an center out for information technology.

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