Audio CD review:
Genesis - 1983-1998 Box Set 5CD/5DVD

Genesis - 1983-1998 Box Set 5CD/5DVD

Band: Genesis Title: 1983-1998 Box Set 5CD/5DVD Rating: Release Date: 20 November, 2007 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Mama 2: That's All 3: Home By the Sea 4: Second Home By the Sea 5: Illegal Alien 6: Taking It All Too Hard 7: Just a Job To Do 8: Silver Rainbow 9: It's Gonna Get Better 10: Invisible Touch 11: Tonight Tonight Tonight 12: Land Of Confusion 13: In Too Deep 14: Anything She Does 15: Medley: Domino: Pt.1: In the Glow Of the Night/Pt.2: The Last Domino 16: Throwing It All Away 17: The Brazilian 18: No Son Of Mine 19: Jesus He Knows Me 20: Driving the Last Spike 21: I Can't Dance 22: Never a Time 23: Dreaming While You Sleep 24: Tell Me Why 25: Living Forever 26: Hold On My Heart 27: Way Of the World 28: Since I Lost You 29: Fading Lights 30: Calling All Stations 31: Congo 32: Shipwrecked 33: Alien Afternoon 34: Not About Us 35: If That's What You Need 36: The Dividing Line 37: Uncertain Weather 38: Small Talk 39: There Must Be Some Other Way 40: One Man's Fool 41: On the Shoreline 42: Hearts On Fire 43: Do the Neurotic 44: Feeding the Fire 45: I'd Rather Be You 46: Anything Now 47: Sign Your Life Away 48: Run Out Of Time

Customer Reviews This hurts to review Many other people here have already written some excellent and detailed reviews here so there is no sense in repeating the specifics. Genesis is one of my favorite bands and I also like Calling All Stations more than most of the other Genesis material so this is hard for me to give only 3 stars to. However, I think it is worth repeating that there is NO excuse to leave off the B-sides from Calling All Stations. If those 4 extra tracks had been on this release (and there is room on the extras disk), this would be a 5 star review easy. I have the 4 tracks in question but most people don't so it makes buying this all the more painful. However, I still suggest buying it for the video extras only. The reissues interviews alone are worth the price of admission. I have all the music videos already so don't have much use for those but the other features are very welcome indeed. I would suggest evaluating why you would buy this box set before taking the plunge. Personally, I feel like I spent $60 on a music DVD that might as well have been priced at $30 or even $20 (but as stated above, that is not such a bad thing given the quality). Another box of ear fatigue... Nick Davis used to do such amazing recordings. I don't understand how these remixes are getting such good reviews. What happened? When did he become such a fan of over EQing everything? Can't everyone hear how overly EQ'd these mixes are? They simply aren't enjoyable to listen to. They're harsh and thin with a boomy low end and hollowed out midrange and clearly have inferior musical balances than the originals. I guess it's a case where people buy into believing remastered always means better even without volume matched comparisons. Remember, louder doesn't mean better. I can take about ten minutes of these discs before my ears just start ringing and I have to shut it off. They've lost a lot of the punch and power the original mixes had. The sound of the SSL console EQ Nick used has a distinct tone. They will ring when overused. You can hear it all over this set. It should be annoying even to those whose ears haven't been trained. There's a lot of poorly chosen EQ that adds a nasal quality to the instruments. The cymbals are harsh and Phil's vocals are nasally and sound like a they're coming through a megaphone. Things sound small and jammed together. I won't even go into detail about how much better Hugh Padgham's mixes are. Hugh is obviously a better engineer as he made Genesis sound powerful and important. Nick Davis has made them sound like a small transistor radio, albeit a very loud transistor radio. And what's with all the compression? These heavy mixes are ridiculously inappropriate for this beautiful, emotionally dynamic music. These songs used to have dynamics, loud and soft orchestrations that built the music. Now everything is LOUD! The LOUD! parts are LOUD! and the soft parts are LOUD! That's not detail you're hearing, it's just compression. It makes me sick to my stomach that these loud, overly EQd, overly compressed remixes are going to replace the dynamic, fuller and more artful original mixes. Welcome to the MP3 generation where sound quality just doesn't matter as long as it's loud. I guess I should get a cheap stereo that makes everything sound bad. That way these Genesis remixes won't upset me so much. Genesis. . . the George Lucas of the music world. ICK!. A Visible Touch:Genesis's Biggest Era Gets Royal Treatment It also features the album after Phil briefly split from the group and singer Ray Wilson joined for,the commercially unsuccessful 1997 effort "Calling All Stations". The second CD+DVD Genesis box set-released just after [[ASIN:B000P46P82 Genesis 1976-1982]]-"1983-1998" chronicles the time when the power trio, fronted by Phil Collins, became the biggest bands of the 80's and early 90's thanks to the self-titled 1983 album,1986's "Invisible Touch" and 1991's "We Can't Dance" which were powered by a endless supply of hits like "That's All","Mama","Land Of Confusion","In Too Deep","Throwing It All Away","Invisible Touch","Tonight,Tonight,Tonight","No Son Of Mine","I Can't Dance","Hold On My Heart" and "Jesus He Knows Me",as well as the stylish videos that accompanied those with heavy rotation on MTV. Like [[ASIN:B000P46P82 Genesis 1976-1982]],all these albums have been remixed and remastered( by Grammy-winning engineer Nick Davis) for CD,SACD(not included here),DVD Dolby Digital and DTS 5. 1,and they sound amazing-punchy,bassy,crystal-clear,much better than their older,sonically aging counterparts. And like that box,their DVDs contains music videos(in 5. 1 sound),rare concert footage,doctumentaries,tour program stills galleries and informative,insightful 2007 interviews with the band,as well as a colorful 48-page booklet containing a CD+DVD of rare bonus tracks,B-sides and live performances not found anywhere else. For any Genesis fan,this is a no-brainer. (Look out for the "1970-1975" box set, covering the Peter Gabriel years,sometime in 2008;"Supper's Ready" indeed!) . . You can see a complete list of all Genesis discography, or go back to the Genesis tabs