Platinum Collection (Genesis album)
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 2005 in North America.
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| 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 | |||
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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 No. 21 in the UK and No. 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
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original record | Length |
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| 1. | "No Son of Mine" | Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford | We Can't Dance (1991) | 6:36 |
| 2. | "I Can't Dance" | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | We Can't Dance (1991) | 4:01 |
| 3. | "Jesus He Knows Me" | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | We Can't Dance (1991) | 4:18 |
| 4. | "Hold on My Heart" | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | We Can't Dance (1991) | 4:38 |
| 5. | "Invisible Touch" | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Invisible Touch (1986) | 3:28 |
| 6. | "Throwing It All Away" | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Invisible Touch (1986) | 3:50 |
| 7. | "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Invisible Touch (1986) (edited version first released on Turn It On Again: The Hits) | 4:30 |
| 8. | "Land of Confusion" | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Invisible Touch (1986) | 4:46 |
| 9. | "In Too Deep" | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Invisible Touch (1986) | 4:57 |
| 10. | "Mama" | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Genesis (1983) | 6:49 |
| 11. | "That's All" | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Genesis (1983) | 4:25 |
| 12. | "Home by the Sea" | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Genesis (1983) | 5:08 |
| 13. | "Second Home by the Sea" | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Genesis (1983) | 6:06 |
| 14. | "Illegal Alien" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Genesis (1983) | 5:17 |
| 15. | "Paperlate" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | 3×3 (1982) | 3:24 |
| 16. | "Calling All Stations" | Banks/Rutherford | Calling All Stations (1997) | 5:45 |
| Total length: | 79:16 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original record | Length |
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| 1. | "Abacab" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Abacab (1981) | 6:55 |
| 2. | "Keep It Dark" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Abacab (1981) | 4:35 |
| 3. | "Turn It On Again" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Duke (1980) | 3:51 |
| 4. | "Behind the Lines" | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Duke (1980) | 5:43 |
| 5. | "Duchess" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | Duke (1980) | 6:07 |
| 6. | "Misunderstanding" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Collins | Duke (1980) | 3:14 |
| 7. | "Many Too Many" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks | ...And Then There Were Three... (1978) | 3:35 |
| 8. | "Follow You Follow Me" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Rutherford | ...And Then There Were Three... (1978) | 4:09 |
| 9. | "Undertow" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks | ...And Then There Were Three... (1978) | 4:47 |
| 10. | "...In That Quiet Earth" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Steve Hackett/Rutherford | Wind & Wuthering (1976) | 4:56 |
| 11. | "Afterglow" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks | Wind & Wuthering (1976) | 4:09 |
| 12. | "Your Own Special Way" | Rutherford | Wind & Wuthering (1976) | 6:19 |
| 13. | "A Trick of the Tail" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks | A Trick of the Tail (1976) | 4:36 |
| 14. | "Ripples" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Rutherford | A Trick of the Tail (1976) | 8:08 |
| 15. | "Los Endos" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Hackett/Rutherford | A Trick of the Tail (1976) | 5:47 |
| Total length: | 74:11 | |||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Original record | Length |
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| 1. | "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Peter Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford | The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) | 4:50 |
| 2. | "Counting Out Time" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford | The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) | 3:36 |
| 3. | "The Carpet Crawlers" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford | The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974) | 5:01 |
| 4. | "Firth of Fifth" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford | Selling England by the Pound (1973) | 9:29 |
| 5. | "The Cinema Show" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford | Selling England by the Pound (1973) | 10:49 |
| 6. | "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford | Selling England by the Pound (1973) | 3:54 |
| 7. | "Supper's Ready" | Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford | Foxtrot (1972) | 22:52 |
| 8. | "The Musical Box" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Collins/Gabriel/Hackett/Rutherford | Nursery Cryme (1971) | 10:24 |
| 9. | "The Knife" (remixed by Nick Davis) | Banks/Gabriel/Anthony Phillips/Rutherford | Trespass (1970) | 8:53 |
| Total length: | 77:48 | |||
- Phil Collins - drums on all discs except disc 1 track 16 and disc 3 track 9, vocals on disc 1 (except on track 16) and on disc 2, backing vocals on disc 3 (except on track 9)
- Peter Gabriel – lead vocals, flute on disc 3
- Anthony Phillips – guitars on disc 3 track 9
- Steve Hackett – guitars on disc 2 from track 9 and on disc 3 (except on track 9)
- Ray Wilson – vocals on disc 1 track 16
- Additional personnel
- John Mayew - drums on disc 3 track 9
- Nir Zidkyahu – drums on disc 1 track 16
- Brian Eno – Enossifications on disc 3 track 2
References
- Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2011). "Platinum Collection - Genesis | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
- David Roberts British Hit Singles and Albums, Guinness World Records Limited
