We’re gonna go ahead and follow-up our disproportionate excitement about Phil, Mike, and Tony’s reGenesis with some news about a slew of re-releases and a tidy boxed set ’cause one of us (Lapatine) is a huge Genesis dork. So you’ll just have to deal.
This year, camp Genesis are reissuing 14 of the band’s studio albums on CD/SACD and DVD double disc (for bonus vid features) over three stages. 1976-1982 (A Trick Of The Tail, Wind & Wuthering, …And Then There Were Three…, Duke, and Abacab) is a weird choice for a first batch, but then again this is the band (minus Phil) that thought Calling All Stations was a good idea. And it’s nothing you haven’t heard if you got the Archives boxed sets, but hey, 5.1 Surround Sound and random bootleg Japanese videos ain’t bad! The individual albums are out on 4/2, on which day the band will also release ‘em as a boxed set collection with a fancy case-bound 48-page book and a bonus CD/SACD and DVD. No idea what’s on that one, but let’s hope it has lots of video of them wearing sunglasses.
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I prefer Genesis during Peter Gabriel’s reign but there are definitely some keepers in this set. Speaking of Gabriel & Genesis, there is a Canadian band, Musical Box, that recreates concerts from Genesis’ first three albums in all their theatrical glory. Highly recommended for any early Genesis nerd. Their site says it all: http://www.themusicalbox.net/.
I will now refrain from any further Genesis remarks.
Soon Peter Gabriel will no longer need the “old man” mask he would don during early “Musical Box” performances.
The U.S. discs aren’t SACDs; only the DVDs will be 5.1. Better hold onto the 1993-94 remasters, just in case.
To see what’s on all the releases and on the box, there’s this flashy website http://www.genesis-box.com
If you like.
“Soon Peter Gabriel will no longer need the ‘old man’ mask he would don during the early ‘Musical Box’ performances.”
And soon we will ALL be dust…
Take Scott W’s advice and hang on to your older Genesis CD’s. Ugh. Very disappointed in these new editions, especially Trick Of The Tail and Wind and Wuthering, where the mastering engineers whacked the compression up to levels more appropriate to a System Of A Down CD.