Platinum Collection (Genesis album)

Platinum Collection
Box set by Genesis
Released	29 November 2004 (UK) 13 September 2005 (US)
Recorded	1970–1997
Genre	Progressive rock, pop rock, art rock
Length	3:54:29
Label	Virgin (UK) Atlantic/Rhino (US)
Producer	Genesis, Nick Davis, Hugh Padgham, David Hentschel, John Burns, David Hitchcock, John Anthony
Genesis chronology
Genesis Archive 2: 1976–1992 (2000)Genesis Archive 2: 1976–19922000 Platinum Collection (2004) Genesis 1976–1982 (2007)Genesis 1976–19822007

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Platinum Collection is a career-spanning box set by British veteran progressive rock/pop rock band Genesis. It was released in 2004 in the UK and one year later in North America.

The set consists of three CDs that serve as an overview of Genesis' career from their formative period with Peter Gabriel and Anthony Phillips, continuing through their period with Phil Collins as lead singer, to their most recent recordings with Ray Wilson as frontman. As with 1998's Genesis Archive 1967–75, this collection is mostly sequenced in reverse chronological order (apart from the fact that ...Calling All Stations...' title track is at the end of the first disc) for the purpose of providing precedence to the newer material. The majority of the tracks were also remixed by studio collaborator Nick Davis.

Featuring songs from every studio album (with the exception of their 1969 debut From Genesis to Revelation) from 1970's Trespass to 1997's ...Calling All Stations..., Platinum Collection stands as the most comprehensive Genesis retrospective available. Upon its release, it reached #21 in the UK and #100 in the US.

From left to right, the cover features pictures used on the albums We Can't Dance (1991), Nursery Cryme (1971), A Trick of the Tail (1976), Foxtrot (1972), Duke (1980), and Invisible Touch (1986).

Track listing

Personnel

• Tony Banks – keyboards, background vocals
• Mike Rutherford – guitars, bass, background vocals
• Phil Collins – drums, percussion, and backing vocals on all tracks except disc 1 track 16 and disc 3 track 9; lead vocals on disc 1 tracks 1–15 and all of disc 2
• Steve Hackett – guitars on disc 2 tracks 10–15; disc 3 tracks 1–8
• Peter Gabriel – lead vocals, flute on disc 3
• Anthony Phillips – guitars on disc 3 track 9
• John Mayhew – drums on disc 3 track 9
• Ray Wilson – vocals on disc 1 track 16

Additional personnel

• Nir Zidkyahu – drums on disc 1 track 16
• Brian Eno – Enossifications on disc 3 track 2

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