After their first major successes Genesis produced an album in 1973 that is generally considered one of the best they ever recorded. Steve Hackett describes it as his favourite Genesis album, and some songs from it were still played on the 2007 tour.
The Abacab tour of 1981 and 1982 was documented as another double live album. Three Sides Live actually does contain only three LP sides of live material
In the early 90s Genesis reached the commercial peak of their career. We Can’t Dance produced no less than six singles. It also turned out to be the last one with Phil Collins.
The 1983-1998 boxset covers the band’s most successful period plus the post-Collins album Calling All Stations. Unfortunately not all the bonus tracks were included from this period. Find out why.
September 2007 saw the re-release of the Genesis back catalogue in general and Genesis, also known as Shapes or the Mama album in a SACD-hybrid/DVD double disc set. All about the content and the music can be found here.
The self-titled album from 1983 was the record that made Genesis a real stadium band. They moved further away from progressive pieces without abandoning them totally. As a result of this messieurs Banks, Rutherford and Collins seemed to get ever better at writing shorter pieces.
Come Rain Or Shine is actually “just” a bonus DVD for the When In Rome 2007 3DVD set. But 105 minutes’ worth of bonus were not only worth being shown in a number of cinemas, they were also worth an attentive review by Martin Klinkhardt.
Genesis live 2007 – the band’s first tour in ten years spawned the live album Live Over Europe, and now they have published the long-awaited DVD set When In Rome with the complete Rome show plus lots of extras plus a 105 minute tour documentary Come Rain Or Shine on a bonus DVD.We took a good look.