Another tour, another compilation album. It\u2019s old hat by now, and yet Genesis keeps doing it, hoping people will pay yet again for the same songs they already own.<\/p>\n
A brief reminder: The first Genesis compilation was a 1999 one-disc affair, Turn It On Again<\/i>, that covered all their pop hits and basically ignored the Gabriel art-rock years. The second comp, 2004\u2019s Platinum Collection<\/i>, was a three-disc overview of the band\u2019s entire run and remains the gold standard, giving equal weight to all eras of the band. If you\u2019re not one to delve into the individual albums, this is the best place to start.<\/p>\n
But then, 2007\u2019s Turn It On Again (Tour Edition) <\/i>revamped the original disc with a ton of album tracks seemingly picked at random from the Collins years (seriously, \u201cPigeons,\u201d \u201cMany Too Many,\u201d and \u201cHappy The Man,\u201d a Gabriel single?), and the affair was trotted out just to have merch to go along with the world tour (a live album also followed, of course). Then, in 2014, R-Kive <\/i>came out, another three-disc affair that mixed in solo tracks from all five band members with the expected tracks. It was a clever idea, even if it repeated most of Platinum<\/i>, because it showcased how good the individual members were as well as the chemistry when they played together. Either one is good.<\/p>\n
But then news broke that Genesis would be touring in 2021\/22, ostensibly a farewell tour, with Collins\u2019 son Nic playing drums and Collins singing from a chair. Obviously, no Gabriel or Hackett. Obviously, no reason except to make some retirement money, since the tracklist will likely be the same as 2007 and the same from show to show. And, as expected, there are no surprises in this compilation, and no real reason to own it.<\/p>\n
Sure, there are plenty of photos of the band, if that\u2019s your thing. But that doesn\u2019t justify purchase. The tracklist is 98% songs that have already been on the previous four compilations and that get played at your local dentist\u2019s office regularly: \u201cInvisible Touch,\u201d \u201cMama,\u201d \u201cNo Son Of Mine,\u201d \u201cI Can\u2019t Dance,\u201d \u201cAfterglow,\u201d Jesus He Knows Me,\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s All,\u201d \u201cIn Too Deep,\u201d \u201cFollow You Follow Me,\u201d and so forth. Nothing is here that hasn\u2019t already been released elsewhere, long ago. <\/p>\n
As for the Gabriel years, nothing from Trespass, Foxtrot <\/i>or Nursery Cryme <\/i>shows up. The usual suspects \u201cCinema Show,\u201d the superb \u201cFirth Of Fifth,\u201d \u201cI Know What I Like,\u201d \u201cThe Lamb Lies Down On Broadway,\u201d and \u201cCarpet Crawlers\u201d are here (but they were on the other comp as well), and nothing from A Trick Of The Tail <\/i>is present. The only mild surprise is the Gabriel tune \u201cDancing With The Moonlit Knight,\u201d a fine prog tune, but not one that the Genesis trio really performed live in the \u201880s and \u201890s (or 2007, as far as I know). Still, not worth the purchase.<\/p>\n
So what you end with is two discs of great songs that have been released multiple times in multiple permutations. If you have no physical Genesis and don\u2019t want to pay for a triple-CD comp (even though you should), I suppose this will do. But it\u2019s little more than a cash grab to get people excited about a tour that shouldn\u2019t be happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":34394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5883],"rating":[11204],"class_list":["post-46232","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-genesis","rating-rating-c-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46232"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}