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: #1199 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-29
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

Gems in not exactly mud
This collection is well put together and well packaged and it does all the right things. The only thing it does wrong is try to please all the people all the time.
Let's face it Genesis have been at least three different bands. It argueable that there have been more incarnations but let's agree on three for the sake of simplicity. The early work with Gabriel and Hackett that is an was of its time Trespass, Foxtrot et al up to Lamb Lies down. The early Collins singing days of Rutherford and Banks 'Then there were three' Wind & Wuthering when I think they did some excellent work. And then the Pop Band.
Perhaps I am simplyfying too much. The odd gem appears out of context of course, 'Duke' or parts of same I can cite as an obvious example. But, this is my theory, (which is mine Chris) you cannot place all three such radically different musical styles in one package and expect it to have some cohesion. Each generation will like different parts. Yes I prefer CD's three then two others do not. Could we not have a platinum collection for each era? There is certainly enough material. Or is that what our MP3 players are for?

My Discovery
I was never really a fan of Genesis until I bought this album for my Dad, and then stole it from him one night because I was bored. He highly recommended that I particularly listen to disc 3 because he thought that I would get on with that Genesis style best - and did I ever! This platinum collection must be one of the best around. The carefully chosen combination of songs work so well and in a way different to nearly every other band's "greatest hits" this travels backwards. Disc 1 being the most recent, and 3 being the earlier work featuring Peter Gabriel. This is a stunning collection of songs for any fan of Genesis and I'd highly recommend it to anyone looking to find out more about the band, as it converted me!

Turns out that Phil Collins is not the anti-Christ of music (At least when he was with Genesis)!
I had always been told that Phil Collins was the anti-Christ of music.

So it was more than a little surprising that this was so good. I might have to go into hiding for admitting this, but I prefer the Collins era to the Gabriel era.

The best of starts great and gets especially good around the middle of disc 2 (Keep It Dark and Duchess are amazing songs), then goes a bit so-so at the end of disc 2.

Unfortunately throughout the first two discs there are two or three strangely bland MOR tracks.

The Gabriel stuff on disc 3 was alright, just not my cup of tea, though The Knife sounds excellent. It seems to suggest some sort of futuristic WW1 trench war with Gabriel's distorted voice giving a speech to his troops. If you don't think that's first rate subject matter for a song, then you must be an Oasis fan.

I had tried some of the Gabriel fronted albums (Trespass and Foxtrot) before this, but I hadn't enjoyed them. I loved this best of so much I bought the Collins fronted Trick of the Tail. Again, didn't much like it. Their albums don't seem to do it for me.

Side note: I have since bought some solo stuff. Collins' music is rancid in its quest to be as boring as possible. Gabriel's music was okay, but left me completely underwhelmed. I think that personally I just don't connect with Gabriel.