The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts
| The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts | ||||
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| Live album by Genesis | ||||
| Released | 9 November 1992 | |||
| Recorded | 1992, except "Mama" and "That's All": 1987, and "In Too Deep": 1986 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 63:05 | |||
| Label | Virgin, Atlantic | |||
| Producer | Nick Davis, Robert Colby and Genesis | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B[2] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [3] |
The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts is the fourth live album by British band Genesis. Eight songs were recorded live on the 1992 We Can't Dance tour, with the remaining three recorded on the 1986–87 Invisible Touch tour.
While the album centres on Genesis' shorter and commercial songs, a companion piece, The Way We Walk, Volume Two: The Longs focuses on their lengthier material. The shared title of the two releases refers to the phrase "the way I walk," which appears in the lyrics to two different songs, "I Can't Dance" on Volume One, and "I Know What I Like" on Volume Two. To reflect the live nature of the album, the cover not only features the three main members of the group (Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford), but also Chester Thompson and Daryl Stuermer, who played on every Genesis tour from 1977 until 1992.
The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts reached No.3 in the UK where it remained in the charts for 18 weeks, and No.35 in the US, going gold.
Track listing
All songs by Tony Banks/Phil Collins/Mike Rutherford and recorded in 1992 except where noted.[4]
- "Land of Confusion" – 5:16 §
- 11 July 1992 Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
- "No Son of Mine" – 7:06
- 13 July 1992 Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
- "Jesus He Knows Me" – 5:24
- 11 July 1992 Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
- "Throwing It All Away" – 6:02 §
- 2 August 1992 Knebworth Park, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England
- "I Can't Dance" – 6:54 §
- 13 July 1992 Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
- "Mama" – 6:50
- 4 July 1987 Wembley Stadium, London, England
- "Hold on My Heart" – 5:41
- 10 July 1992 Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
- "That's All" – 4:59
- 4 July 1987 Wembley Stadium, London, England
- "In Too Deep" – 5:36
- October 1986 L.A. Forum, Inglewood, California, United States
- "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" – 3:36 §
- 13 July 1992 Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
- "Invisible Touch" – 5:41 §
- 13 July 1992 Niedersachsenstadion, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
§ – performed in a lower key to compensate for the deepening of Phil Collins's voice.
Personnel
- Phil Collins – lead vocals, percussion, drums
- Tony Banks – keyboards, backing vocals
- Mike Rutherford – guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
Additional musicians
- Daryl Stuermer – bass guitar, guitar, backing vocals
- Chester Thompson – percussion, drums
Footnotes
- ↑ Thompson, Dave (2011 [last update]). "Genesis Live: The Way We Walk, Vol. 1 (The Shorts) – Genesis | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 25 July 2011. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ Altman, Billy (4 December 1992). "Live: The Way We Walk Volume One: The Shorts Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 9 June 2012.
- ↑ Nathan Brackett; Christian David Hoard (2004). The new Rolling Stone album guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 327–328. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8.
- ↑ Recording dates from official Genesis site at http://www.genesis-music.com/members/community/mboard/index.php?topic=27317.msg716952#msg716952
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