The Best of Genesis

Ok, basically the same premise as The Best of Yes.  You are approached by a record company who wants to release a 2 CD (160 minutes) Best of Genesis album.    What do you program??

Edited by ghost_of_morphy - November 11 2007 at 19:10

ghost_of_morphy wrote: Ok, basically the same premise as The Best of Yes.  You are approached by a record company who wants to release a 2 CD (160 minutes) Best of Genesis album.    What do you program??   The Peter Gabriel Rule:  No more than 80 minutes can be devoted to albums before A Trick of the Tale.   The record company wants a product that spans all of Genesis's history.  No more than two Gabriel era songs off live albums that post date it, and only one if you choose Supper's Ready off Seconds Out.

ahhhh .this record company has at least one brain in it ...unlike the idiot in charge of the The Best of Yes... 

Disk 1:
1.The Serpent (4:38)
2.The Knife (8:56)
3.The Musical Box (10:24)
4.Watcher Of The Skies (7:19)
5.Supper's Ready (22:58)
6.Dancing With The Moonlit Knight (8:01)
7.The Cinema Show (11:06)
8.Squonk (6:27)

Total Time: 79:49

Disk 2

1. No Son of Mine (6:35)
2. I Can't Dance (4:00)
3. Jesus He Knows Me (4:17)
4. Hold on My Heart (4:37)
5. Invisible Touch (3:28)
6. Throwing It All Away (3:50)
7. Tonight Tonight Tonight [Edit] (4:29)
8. Land of Confusion (4:46)
9. In Too Deep (4:56)
10. Mama (6:48)
11. That's All (4:25)
12. Home by the Sea (5:07)
13. Second Home by the Sea (6:06)
14. Illegal Alien (5:17)
15. Paperlate (3:23)
16. Calling All Stations (5:45)

Total Time 78:49

Disc 1:

Attack of the giant hogweed
The Knife
Fountain of Salmacis
Can Utility & the Coastliners
Suppers Ready
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
Firth of Fifth
In the cage

Disc 2:

Dance on a volcano
Ripples
Blood on the Rooftops
Unquiet Slumbers../In that Quiet Earth/Afterglow
Burning Rope
Undertow
Turn it on again
Dukes Travels
Me & Sarah Jane
Silver Rainbow
No son of Mine
Fading Lights

Yay.

Disc One:

1. White Mountain (Trespass)
2. Looking for Someone (Trespass)
3. The Fountain of Salmacis (Nursery Cryme)
4. The Musical Box (Nursery Cryme)
5. Supper's Ready (Foxtrot)
6. Can-Utility and the Coastliners (Foxtrot)
7. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight (Selling England by the Pound)
8. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) (Selling England by the Pound)
9. In the Rapids (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
10. The Chamber of 32 Doors (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)

Disc Two:

11. Squonk (A Trick of the Tail)
12. Dance on a Volcano (A Trick of the Tail)
13. Eleventh Earl of Mar (Wind & Wuthering)
14. Your Own Special Way (Wind & Wuthering)
15. Follow You Follow Me (...And Then There Were Three...)
16. Down and Out (...And Then There Were Three...)
17. Behind the Lines (Duke)
18. Man of Our Times (Duke)
19. Keep it Dark (Abacab)
20. Illegal Alien (Genesis)


Had to cut the compilation short to keep it in order.....but if you order off of iTunes you can get bonus tracks:

21. Home by the Sea (Genesis)
22. Land of Confusion (Invisible Touch)
23. Domino (Invisible Touch)
24. Never a Time (We Can't Dance)
25. Dreaming While You Sleep (We Can't Dance)


Or I'd release a second CD entitled "More of the Best of Genesis!" with these tracks.



Edited by Teh_Slippermenz - November 18 2007 at 19:02

CD1

 

1. Fireside Song (4:18)
2. Looking For Someone (7:06)
3. The Knife (8:55)
4. The Musical Box (10:30)
5. Seven Stones (5:10)
6. Can-Utility & The Coastliners (5:45)
7. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight (8:04)
8. Firth Of Fifth (9:37)
9. After The Ordeal (4:16)
10. The Cinema Show (11:06)
11. Aisle Of Plenty (1:32)
12. Anyway (3:07)

Time: 79:26

 

CD2

 

13. One For The Vine (10:00)
14. Wot Gorilla (3:19)
15. Blood On The Rooftops (5:27)
16. A Trick Of The Tail (4:35)
17. White Mountain (Live From Broadway Melody 1976) (6:06)
18. Down & Out (5:24)
19. Invisible Touch (3:25)
20. Land Of Confusion (4:43)
21. The Brazilian (4:47)
22. No Son Of Mine (6:35)
23. Driving On The Last Spike (10:06)
24. Calling All Stations (5:40)
25. Shipwrecked (4:21)
26. Not About Us (4:35)

 

Time 79:03

 

It will surely go triple platinum .

I personally don't like the record co. decision and the PG rule, Best means Best and that's with Gabriel but I'll play by the rules anyway.

I think i could make an album that have aaaall the PG discography but if i have to select..


1- Watcher of the Skies (live)
2- Can-Utility and the Coastliners
3- Get'em Out by Friday
4- Dancing With the Moonlit Knight
5- Firth of Fifth
6- Cinema Show (continued with Aisle of Plenty)
7- Stagnation
8- White Mountain
9- The Musical Box
10- Seven Stones
11- Happy the Man
12- Supper's Ready (I think this is a last-album song specially in concert)

and i wont put phil collins era.. after 80's. is completly lost

I find this too impossible to do really.

I havn't added up the minutes here but hopefully they will all fit on  :-