Create Genesis best of album (75 min. )

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   Here's my attempt:

I started off taking one track from each album

The Knife (because it's the only track from Trespass that I know)

The Musical Box (I don't have Nursery Cryme either )

Supper's Ready (on a best of Genesis, you cannot leave this one out)

Dancing With the Moonlit Knight (mainly because it wasn't on The Platinum Collection)

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (I've only heard the Lamb a few times, and this was the first song that came to mind)

Squonk (for the same reason as Dancing...)

Afterglow (yet another Genesis album I need to get)

Undertow (ditto)

That left me with 5 minutes and 14 seconds, so as a final song I chose
"The Carpet Crawlers" (it takes the total length to 75:01, but I'm sure
that would be OK).

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Citanul Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 14 2005 Location: South Africa Status: Offline Points: 430	Posted: October 14 2005 at 04:52
	Here's my attempt: I started off taking one track from each album The Knife (because it's the only track from Trespass that I know) The Musical Box (I don't have Nursery Cryme either ) Supper's Ready (on a best of Genesis, you cannot leave this one out) Dancing With the Moonlit Knight (mainly because it wasn't on The Platinum Collection) The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (I've only heard the Lamb a few times, and this was the first song that came to mind) Squonk (for the same reason as Dancing...) Afterglow (yet another Genesis album I need to get) Undertow (ditto) That left me with 5 minutes and 14 seconds, so as a final song I chose "The Carpet Crawlers" (it takes the total length to 75:01, but I'm sure that would be OK).
	Be or be not. There is no question. - Yoda, Prince of Denmark

Phil Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 17 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1881	Posted: October 14 2005 at 04:41
	OK then so as Genesis' commercial mangler(sic) I'd look to cover the spread of albums and a selection of the best known tracks - not necessarily 75 minutes of my favourite music (otherwise you'd end up with mostly SEBTP and a bit) The decision is No, I wouldn't devote 23+ minutes to Supper's Ready, also because if I'm trying to flog the album to non-Genesis types, that length of track may put them off. However, although I am a money grabbing so and so, I decide to stop short of just chucking in all the shorter, better known (to the general public) tracks like "I Know What I Like" and "Trick of the Tail". I try to give a spread of what Genesis is - or were - about. So here we go: Musical Box - 10.24 Watcher of the Skies - 7.20 Dancing with the Moonlight Knight - 8.01 Firth of Fifth - 9.34 Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - 4.50 The Carpet Crawlers - 5.15 Mad Man Moon - 7.35 Dance/Los Endos ("Seconds Out") - 11.39 Blood on the Rooftops - 5.27 Deep in the Motherlode - 5.20 Which comes in at around the 75 minute mark. I might re-order tracks to make say, Dance/Los Endos the last track as a suitable finale, and balance ballads between other tracks. Nice cover with artwork that harks back to their glory days. Booklet which gives interviews with band members, photo's, and has some critical praise for what they did, bit like the Rhino re-releases of "Yes" albums. Sit back and wait for the royalties to roll in...............

PROGMAN Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: February 03 2004 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 2664	Posted: October 14 2005 at 04:39
	A cheap Compilation: Genesis Greatest Hits 1970-78 1. I know what I like 2. Suppers Ready 3. Watchers of the Skies 4. The Knife 5. Follow You Follow Me 6. In Your own special way um thats it cheap cd
	CYMRU AM BYTH

Under Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 02 2005 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 389	Posted: October 14 2005 at 04:13
	Here is the challenge. Get your calculators, open your XL worksheets. You are the commercial manager of Genesis and you are about to create a best of the 70s from Genesis, but your record company only want 1 cd of maximum 75 minutes. Do you include Suppers- Ready and spent 23 minutes of valuable time? Or don't you and skip one of the beauties from the 70s from Genesis? Which songs do you take? Note: From Trespass to And Then There Were Three.