Platinum Collection (Genesis album)

Platinum Collection
Box set by Genesis
Released	29 November 2004 (UK) 13 September 2005 (US)
Recorded	1970 - 1997
Genre	Progressive rock Soft rock Pop rock
Length	3:54:29
Label	Virgin (UK) Atlantic/Rhino (US)
Producer	Genesis, Nick Davis, Hugh Padgham, David Hentschel, John Burns, David Hitchcock, John Anthony
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Genesis chronology
Genesis Archive 2: 1976-1992 (2000) Platinum Collection (2004) Genesis 1976-1982 (2007)

Platinum Collection is a career-spanning box set by British band Genesis and was released in 2004 in the UK and year later in North America. The set consists of three CDs that overlook Genesis' career from their formative period with Peter Gabriel, Anthony Phillips and Steve Hackett, continuing through their peak with Phil Collins as lead singer to their most recent recordings with Ray Wilson as frontman. Alike 1998's Genesis Archive 1967-75, this collection is mostly sequenced in reverse chronological order for the purpose of providing precedence to the newer material. The majority of the tracks were also remixed by studio collaborator Nick Davis. Davis did a bit of a rush job on these mixes, so some of them are slightly different than what is available on the reissued catalog SACD's. Going from 1970s Trespass to 1997's Calling All Stations, Platinum Collection stands as the most comprehensive Genesis retrospective available. Upon its release, it reached #21 in the UK and #100 in the US. With the reissue of Turn It On Again: The Hits as a 2 disc edition on September 11, 2007. Rhino Records/Atlantic has deleted the set in North America, though it is still available as an import from EMI.

Track listing

Disc one

All songs by Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford, except where noted.

1. "No Son of Mine" – 6:36
2. "I Can't Dance" – 4:01
3. "Jesus He Knows Me" – 4:18
4. "Hold on My Heart" – 4:38
   • Tracks 1 - 4 originally issued on 1991's We Can't Dance
5. "Invisible Touch" – 3:28
6. "Throwing It All Away" – 3:50
7. "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" – 4:30
   • Edited version
8. "Land of Confusion" – 4:46
9. "In Too Deep" – 4:57
   • Tracks 5 - 9 originally issued on 1986's Invisible Touch
10. "Mama" – 6:49
11. "That's All" – 4:25
12. "Home by the Sea" – 5:08
13. "Second Home By The Sea" – 6:06
14. "Illegal Alien" – 5:17
    • Tracks 10 - 14 originally issued on 1983's Genesis
15. "Paperlate" – 3:24
    • Originally issued on the UK 3 X 3 EP and the deleted North American edition of Three Sides Live in 1982
    • Tracks 14 - 15 remixed by Nick Davis
16. "Calling All Stations" (Tony Banks/Mike Rutherford) – 5:45
    • Originally issued on 1997's Calling All Stations

Disc two

All songs by Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford, except where noted.

1. "Abacab" – 6:55
2. "Keep It Dark" – 4:35
   • Tracks 1 - 2 originally issued on 1981's Abacab
3. "Turn it on Again" – 3:51
4. "Behind the Lines" – 5:43
5. "Duchess" – 6:07
6. "Misunderstanding" (Phil Collins) – 3:14
   • Tracks 3 - 6 originally issued on 1980s Duke
7. "Many Too Many" (Tony Banks) – 3:35
8. "Follow You, Follow Me" – 4:09
9. "Undertow" (Tony Banks) – 4:47
   • Tracks 7 - 9 originally issued on 1978's ...And Then There Were Three...
10. "...In That Quiet Earth'" (Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford) – 4:56
11. "Afterglow" (Tony Banks) – 4:09
12. "Your Own Special Way" (Mike Rutherford) – 6:19
    • Tracks 10 - 12 originally issued on 1977's Wind & Wuthering
13. "A Trick of the Tail" (Tony Banks) – 4:36
14. "Ripples" (Tony Banks/Mike Rutherford) – 8:08
15. "Los Endos" (Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford) – 5:47
    • Tracks 13 - 15 originally issued on 1976's A Trick of the Tail
    • Tracks 1 - 3, 5 - 11, 13 - 15 remixed by Nick Davis

Disc three

All songs by Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Peter Gabriel/Steve Hackett/Mike Rutherford, except where noted.

1. "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" – 4:50
2. "Counting Out Time" – 3:36
3. "The Carpet Crawlers" – 5:01
   • Tracks 1 - 3 originally issued on 1974's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
4. "Firth of Fifth" – 9:29
5. "The Cinema Show" – 10:49
6. "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" – 3:54
   • Tracks 4 - 6 originally issued on 1973's Selling England by the Pound
7. "Supper's Ready" – 22:52
   • Originally issued on 1972's Foxtrot
8. "The Musical Box" – 10:24
   • Originally issued on 1971's Nursery Cryme
9. "The Knife" (Tony Banks/Peter Gabriel) – 8:53
   • Originally issued on 1970s Trespass
   • Tracks 1 - 6, 8 - 9 remixed by Nick Davis

Personnel

• Tony Banks – keyboards, background vocals
• Phil Collins – drums, percussion, and backing vocals on all tracks except Disc 1, Track 16 and Disc 3, Track 9; lead vocals on Disc 1, Tracks 1 - 15 and all of Disc 2
• Mike Rutherford – guitars, bass, background vocals
• Peter Gabriel – lead vocals, flute on Disc 3
• Steve Hackett – guitars on Disc 2, Tracks 10 - 15; Disc 3, Tracks 1 - 8
• Anthony Phillips – guitars on Disc 3, Track 9
• Ray Wilson – vocals on Disc 1; Track 16
• John Mayhew – drums on Disc 3, Track 9

with

• Nir Zidkyahu – drums on Disc 1, Track 16
• Brian Eno – Enossifications on Disc 3, Track 2