Product Description

The Platinum Collection features 3CDs worth of hits by the seventies prog-rockers cum adult pop band, Genesis. Includes "I Can’t Dance", "Invisible Touch", "Turn it on Again" and "Your Own Special Way".

Track Listing

Disc 1:

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:

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:

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1367 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-29
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set

CD Description
Definitive collection from one of the most successful rock bands of the last three decades. Formed in 1967, Genesis notched up an incredible twenty Top 30 singles in the UK and achieved album sales of over 100 million worldwide. Favouritesincluding 'No Son Of Mine', 'I Can't Dance' and 'Invisible Touch' all feature. Many songs on this release have been exclusively remixed by Nick Davis.

Customer Reviews

Great value - not always the right songs
For anyone wanting a great value album covering all of the career of one of the most successful bands of all time this is a great place to start. There are some excellent tracks on the 3 albums but too often the selection appears to be the ones which are verging on commercial rather than the best songs from the various albums. This is particularly true on CD's 1 and 2 where the epics such as 'Dreaming While you Sleep' and 'Living Forever' from 'We Can't Dance' are left off for more commercial songs such as 'Hold on My Heart'. It is not until you get to CD3 that the real power and beauty of Genesis shows through with some excellent tracks from their earlier albums - unfortunately there are not enough of them and the album would have benefited from more tracks from 'Trespass' and 'Nursery Cryme'. This would have allowed the casual listener to hear something more interesting which may have helped give them greater insight on what Genesis were like 30+ years ago.
However, as I said above this is fantastic value and worth a buy.

Diverse collection from prog rock to pure pop
Three very different CD's make up this impressive collection. The first - covering most of the 80s and 90s - is Genesis of the top 20: a mix of well crafted, pop songs. Many mistakenly assume that Phil Collins - the band's drummer and singer - was responsible for this poppier sound, but the other two surviving members of this time, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford (of Mike and the Mechanics)were in on the act. Tonight Tonight Tonight, No Son of Mine, That's All and Mama are the highlights.
Most of disc 2 features the band in the late 70s - the sort of adult, lush, tuneful rock that Radiohead, Coldplay, Keane and others have rediscovered. This is a world away from the Genesis most people know from their 80 radio play and there are real gems here - such as Afterglow, Ripples, Undertow and Duchess.
Finally, and for me the best, is the very different Disc 3 covering the era when Peter Gabriel was lead singer. Experimental, long tracks, but not always accessible on first hearing, these are some of the best crafted songs of their time. The epic 20 minutes of Supper's Ready, the menance of The Knife and the stunning Cinema Show are mindblowing. Phil Collins proves here that he was one of the best drummers of the era.
Over the three discs, all tastes are catered for and the new stereo mixes are an improvement on the originals. Essential stuff and don't let Phil Collin's involvement put you off.

GREAT ALBUM
What can i say. I am 16 and i'm supposed to like the R and B rubbish but this album is brilliant.I listend to tracks of my dads old lp's when i was much younger and i loved them so i decided to buy this album. It has songs that are very hard to find and great instrumental tracks e.g. Behind the lines. The album also features tracks that are from the very early period like the knife taken from the album trespass which was there first album. The album also has a book which has a kind of story of genesis, telling you how they started and what happend when Phil Collins started to be a singer. in the whole A GREAT ALBUM FULL OF BRILLIANT SONGS.