Seconds Out

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Seconds Out
Seconds Out cover
Live album by Genesis
Released 21 October 1977
Recorded 1976-1977
Genre Progressive rock
Length 1:35:31
Label Charisma/Virgin (UK)
Atlantic (US)
Producer(s) David Hentschel and Genesis
Professional reviews
Genesis chronology
Wind & Wuthering
(1977)		 Seconds Out
(1977)		 ...And Then There Were Three...
(1978)


Seconds Out is a live double album by Genesis recorded in Paris 1976 and 1977 in support of A Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering and was released in October 1977.

Seconds Out is the band's second live album following Genesis Live in 1973. While the earlier live set had been released by the band's label to mark time while they recorded Selling England by the Pound, Seconds Out was planned as a major release, an authoritative document of Genesis' sound with Phil Collins as frontman and lead vocalist. The recording includes former Weather Report drummer Chester Thompson at the start of his long tenure as concert drummer for the band. Former Yes and King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford, the first drummer to take over for Collins on the stage after Gabriel's departure, is featured on "The Cinema Show". It is also the last Genesis album to include guitarist Steve Hackett, who left the band during mid-1977 as Seconds Out was being mixed. A critical and commercial success, the album hit #4 in the UK and #47 in the US, where their popularity was still gaining steam.

Seconds Out is commonly regarded as the end of Genesis' progressive rock era, as they would begin exploring shorter and more direct song formats beginning with their next studio release, ...And Then There Were Three..., which would prove to be their American breakthrough album. To many fans, this live set is notable for its combination of classic Gabriel-era songs redone by the musical virtuosity of the later Genesis, mixed with favorites from the first two post-Gabriel releases.

Until Genesis Archive 1967-75 (1998), Seconds Out contained the only live recording of Genesis concert staple "Supper's Ready", a 23 minute long opus which many have considered the band's signature piece. As the band would slowly phase out this intricate quasi-orchestral piece, and lose Hackett while this album was being mixed, this album marks the end of the 'classic' Genesis lineup. Perhaps ironically, this album also prominently features Steve Hackett's live guitar work in a manner that overshadows his recorded solos (see for example, the live version of "Firth of Fifth").

A digitally remastered version was released on CD in 1994 on Virgin in Europe and on Atlantic in the US and Canada.

Contents

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

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Squonk" (Banks/Rutherford) – 6:39
  2. "The Carpet Crawlers" – 5:27
  3. "Robbery, Assault and Battery" (Banks/Collins) – 6:02
  4. "Afterglow" (Banks) – 4:29
  5. "Firth of Fifth" – 8:56
  6. "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" – 8:45
  7. "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" – 4:59
  8. "The Musical Box (Closing Section)" – 3:18

[edit] Disc two

  1. "Supper's Ready" – 24:33
  2. "The Cinema Show" – 10:58
  3. "Dance on a Volcano" (Banks/Collins/Hackett/Rutherford) – 4:24
  4. "Los Endos" (Banks/Collins/Hackett/Rutherford) – 7:14

Note: On some editions, tracks 3 and 4 of disc 2 may have a running time of 8:24 and 3:13, respectively. This is because the first four minutes of "Los Endos" are attached to the end of "Dance on a Volcano." The real point where "Los Endos" begins can be easily distinguished; it starts with Chester Thompson and Phil Collins' drum duet.

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[edit] Miscellanea

This album's version of "I Know What I Like" includes an extended instrumental section which makes more or less subtle references to "Stagnation" and "Visions Of Angels" (Trespass), "Dancing With The Moonlit Knight" (Selling England by the Pound) and "Blood On The Rooftops" (Wind & Wuthering).

Like many of the band's studio albums, this live album also features a "book-end" effect where musical themes and ideas used in the beginning are reused at the end of the album (such as on "Selling England By The Pound", "A Trick Of The Tail", "Wind & Wuthering" and "Duke" for example). The ending of "Los Endos" features themes from the live album's opening track "Squonk".

On the Genesis – A History video (1990), Banks dryly jokes that, after Hackett announced his departure from the band, "we just mixed him out of the rest of the album and carried on!" Thanks to this quip, it has been rumored among Genesis fans that Hackett was, in fact, "mixed out" of Seconds Out, although, by listening to the album it is possible to hear Hackett’s guitar along with the other instruments. Hackett later said that Banks' remark was simply "British humor". As Banks' joke was made in the context of a longer, more serious discussion about Hackett's departure, that would seem to be the case. However, Hackett has been quoted as saying he wasn’t happy with the sound on the album, but, having already decided to quit the band, didn’t want to fight to have input during the mixing sessions.

Genesis
Tony Banks | Phil Collins | Mike Rutherford
Peter Gabriel | Steve Hackett | Anthony Phillips | John Mayhew | John Silver | Chris Stewart | Bill Bruford | Daryl Stuermer | Chester Thompson | Ray Wilson
Discography
Studio albums: From Genesis to Revelation | Trespass | Nursery Cryme | Foxtrot | Selling England by the Pound | The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway | A Trick of the Tail | Wind & Wuthering | ...And Then There Were Three... | Duke | Abacab | Genesis | Invisible Touch | We Can't Dance | Calling All Stations
Live Albums: Genesis Live | Seconds Out | Three Sides Live | Live/The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts | Live/The Way We Walk, Volume Two: The Longs
Compilations: Turn It On Again: The Hits | Platinum Collection
Box sets: Genesis Archive 1967-75 | Genesis Archive 2: 1976-1992 | Genesis 1976 -1982
EPs: Spot the Pigeon | 3 X 3
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