R-KIVE

If you are a Genesis fan with decent audio equipment, you should get this high-value compilation for the remastered tracks alone (even if you have them on other CDs). The digital dust-off of some of these audio files is quite astounding in some cases, not the least of which is the opening track, The Knife - one of my all-time favourites. Don't expect to make too much sense of the track list, which includes a smattering of tracks from the solo projects of Genesis members. I don't think that this is meant to be a "best of" type of compilation, but the disk does seem to follow a chronological order of original release dates. I had not previously heard a number of these solo efforts, so their inclusion was interesting to me, if not provoking me into getting more of (for example) Mike Rutherford's output.

However, I certainly cannot complain about the classic Genesis tracks on disk 1 (eg. The Musical Box, Supper's Ready, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway) and I would have paid the price for this disk alone. The other standout remastered tracks I can point out are Ripples, Afterglow, I can't dance and No Son of Mine.