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, pop rock, art 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
Genesis chronology
Genesis Archive 2: 1976–1992 (2000) Platinum Collection (2004) Genesis 1976–1982 (2007)

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Allmusic	[1]

Platinum Collection is a career-spanning box set by British veteran progressive rock/pop rock band Genesis. It was released in 2004 in the UK and one year later in North America.

The set consists of three CDs that serve as an overview Genesis' career from their formative period with Peter Gabriel and Anthony Phillips, continuing through their period with Phil Collins as lead singer, to their most recent recordings with Ray Wilson as frontman. As with 1998's Genesis Archive 1967–75, this collection is mostly sequenced in reverse chronological order (apart from the fact that ...Calling All Stations...' title track is at the end of the first disc) for the purpose of providing precedence to the newer material. The majority of the tracks were also remixed by studio collaborator Nick Davis.

Featuring songs from every studio album (with the exception of their 1969 debut From Genesis to Revelation) from 1970's 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.

From left to right, the cover features pictures used on the albums We Can't Dance (1991), Nursery Cryme (1971), A Trick of the Tail (1976), Foxtrot (1972), Duke (1980), and Invisible Touch (1986).

Track listing

Disc one

All songs written by Tony Banks/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
5. "Invisible Touch" – 3:28
6. "Throwing It All Away" – 3:50
7. "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" (Turn It On Again: The Hits version) – 4:30
8. "Land of Confusion" – 4:46
9. "In Too Deep" – 4:57
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
15. "Paperlate" – 3:24
16. "Calling All Stations" (Banks/Rutherford) – 5:45

• Track 16 originally issued on 1997's Calling All Stations
• Tracks 1–4 originally issued on 1991's We Can't Dance
• Tracks 5–9 originally issued on 1986's Invisible Touch
• Tracks 10–14 originally issued on 1983's Genesis
• Track 15 originally issued on the UK 3X3 EP and the deleted North American edition of Three Sides Live in 1982
• Tracks 14–15 remixed by Nick Davis

Disc two

All songs written by Banks/Collins/Rutherford, except where noted.

1. "Abacab" – 6:55
2. "Keep It Dark" – 4:35
3. "Turn It On Again" – 3:51
4. "Behind the Lines" – 5:43
5. "Duchess" – 6:07
6. "Misunderstanding" (Collins) – 3:14
7. "Many Too Many" (Banks) – 3:35
8. "Follow You Follow Me" – 4:09
9. "Undertow" (Banks) – 4:47
10. "...In That Quiet Earth" (Banks/Collins/Steve Hackett/Rutherford) – 4:56
11. "Afterglow" (Banks) – 4:09
12. "Your Own Special Way" (Rutherford) – 6:19
13. "A Trick of the Tail" (Banks) – 4:36
14. "Ripples" (Banks/Rutherford) – 8:08
15. "Los Endos" (Banks/Collins/Hackett/Rutherford) – 5:47

• Tracks 1–2 originally issued on 1981's Abacab
• Tracks 3–6 originally issued on 1980's Duke
• Tracks 7–9 originally issued on 1978's ...And Then There Were Three...
• Tracks 10–12 originally issued on 1976's Wind & Wuthering
• 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 Banks/Collins/Peter Gabriel/Hackett/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
4. "Firth of Fifth" – 9:29
5. "The Cinema Show" – 10:49
6. "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" – 3:54
7. "Supper's Ready" – 22:52
8. "The Musical Box" – 10:24
9. "The Knife" (Banks/Gabriel/Anthony Phillips/Rutherford) – 8:53

• Tracks 1–3 originally issued on 1974's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
• Tracks 4–6 originally issued on 1973's Selling England by the Pound
• Track 7 originally issued on 1972's Foxtrot
• Track 8 originally issued on 1971's Nursery Cryme
• Track 9 originally issued on 1970's Trespass
• Tracks 1–6 & 8–9 remixed by Nick Davis

Personnel

• Tony Banks – keyboards, background vocals
• Mike Rutherford – guitars, bass, 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
• Steve Hackett – guitars on disc 2 tracks 10–15; disc 3 tracks 1–8
• Peter Gabriel – lead vocals, flute on disc 3
• Anthony Phillips – guitars on disc 3 track 9
• John Mayhew – drums on disc 3 track 9
• Ray Wilson – vocals on disc 1 track 16

Additional personnel

• Nir Zidkyahu – drums on disc 1 track 16
• Brian Eno – Enossifications on disc 3 track 2

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2004	UK Album Chart	21[2]

References

1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2011). "Platinum Collection - Genesis | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
2. David Roberts British Hit Singles and Albums, Guinness World Records Limited