Platinum Collection (Genesis album)

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 overlook 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 (not including 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.

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

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
   • Radio edit
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 3X3 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

1. "Abacab" (Banks/Collins/Rutherford) – 6:55
2. "Keep It Dark" (Banks/Collins/Rutherford) – 4:35
   • Tracks 1 - 2 originally issued on 1981's Abacab
3. "Turn It on Again" (Banks/Collins/Rutherford) – 3:51
4. "Behind the Lines" (Banks/Collins/Rutherford) – 5:43
5. "Duchess" (Banks/Collins/Rutherford) – 6:07
6. "Misunderstanding" (Phil Collins) – 3:14
   • Tracks 3 - 6 originally issued on 1980's Duke
7. "Many Too Many" (Tony Banks) – 3:35
8. "Follow You Follow Me" (Banks/Collins/Rutherford) – 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 1976'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/Anthony Phillips/Mike Rutherford) – 8:53
   • Originally issued on 1970's 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

Charts

Album

References