Create Genesis best of album (75 min. )
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Topic: Create Genesis best of album (75 min. )
Posted By: Under
Subject: Create Genesis best of album (75 min. )
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 04:13
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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? Which songs do you take? Note: From Trespass to And Then There Were Three.
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Posted By: PROGMAN
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 04:39
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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
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Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 04:41
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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............... |
Posted By: Citanul
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 04:52
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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). ------------- Be or be not. There is no question. - Yoda, Prince of Denmark |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 04:59
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White Mountain 6:42 Summa Summarum: 77:21 I wanted the core studio albums covered with one track each and one live track included. Just fits on one CD. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 05:17
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White Mountain 77.29 minutes. I'm sure it could be squeezed onto one CD.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Matti
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 05:23
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Looking For Someone ... does that make around 75-78 minutes? If there's room left, I give away to populism and include 'I Know What I Like'... Or I would change some titles in order to get a right length. |
Posted By: Under
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 05:25
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Hmmm, this is more difficult then I sought. I would prefer to have a song form every album, but that is not possible if you include Suppers Ready. So no And Then There were Three. That album fits better in the best of the 80s. The Knife
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Posted By: Under
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 05:33
No, Phil just fired you.
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Blacksword wrote:Posted By: goose
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 07:56
80:04 is about average, I think. But the guidlines did say 75  
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 07:59
Bollox to the guidelines. I'm a tough and uncompromising band manager. The music industry shudders at the mere mention of my name...
------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 08:17
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Lots of songs ... but just fits I think ... picked a few "short faves" from the Gabriel era like Anyway, Time Table and Seven Stones ... here goes 1. Dancing With The Moonlight Knight I actually did this once for a friend (well, Gabriel-era tracks on a 90 minute tape, with Supper's Ready though) ... I remember I used three songs from the first album phase (Am I Very Wrong, The Conqueror and That's Me) to kick things off ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: Under
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 09:08
Phil C. just called Tony B. to discuss your severant payment. Judging the type of negligence I think it will be about the amount of royalties Genesis earned from the single The Waiting Room from The Lamb. BTW shuddering is bad for the acoustics. So the music industry does not like shuddering. Good list, despite the somewhat Collings-era song Burning Rope.
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Posted By: Under
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 09:28
EEEENNGGG! O dear, there goes the buzzer. Sorry, Trotsky, you have overrun the 75 minutes. Without Anyway and The Lady Lies (I couldn't find so fast their lenght) you are exactly at 75 minutes, so with them ....
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Posted By: Fishy
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 10:04
This is the first time I see someone mention Can utility and the coastliners ! This track is way underrated ; why that one hasn't become a concert classic I wouldn't know ! |
Posted By: pepolo
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 10:26
72 minutes, 6 seconds |
Posted By: Under
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 11:15
You have cheated a bit with the Conqueror (being the 60s), but you suprised me with Stagnation and After the Ordeal. I can't remember what Stagnation is like. Must listen to Trespass more.
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Posted By: Under
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 11:20
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OK, after some good atempts to make a song list, this is the summary/ the most chosen songs:
Al together that is about 68 minutes. So there is room for one song more.
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 11:24
Burning Rope! Classic song! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
The royalties from the Waiting Room should keep me in Cider for 10 minutes!Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 14:50
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Impossible I say! ------------- 
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Posted By: Chris_Kemp
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 14:59
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I think "Duke" should be included if "Then There Were Three" is. Not that I'll be choosing from either. ------------- "That's not your face...it's mine! IT'S MINE!! |
Posted By: Fearless
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 16:56
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I usually don't like compiliations, but this looks like fun...
Hidden Track - , Los Endos...hehe, the time doesn't count coz it's a hidden track. Afterall, what would a Genesis compilation be without Los Endos closing it out. Total Time: 78.46 Darn, I went over 75 minutes...and still so many were left out. (not necessarily my favorites, but a good representation of the band with soft, dark, and upbeat numbers) ------------- If you don't stand up You don't stand a chance! |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 17:08
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The Knife The Fountain Of Salmacis Suppers Ready Firth Of Fifth Carpet Crawlers One For The Vine Deep In The Motherlode |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 17:15
Total: 75:30 Title: The Introduction to Genesis 1970-1977
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