Artist: Genesis
Title: 1970-1975
Year Of Release: 2008
Label: Atlantic/Rhino [R2 513942]
Genre: Art Rock, Progressive Rock
Quality:  FLAC (tracks+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 5:28:03
Total Size:  2.04 gb


The last of the three matching box sets of Genesis' back catalog, Genesis 1970-1975 offers expanded reissues of every Peter Gabriel era album outside of the earliest, From Genesis to Revelation, which has essentially been reduced to a footnote to their catalog (as much due to licensing reasons as musical). So, 1970-1975 offers remastered reissues of 1970's Trespass, 1971's Nursery Cryme, 1972's Foxtrot, 1973's Selling England by the Pound, and 1974's double-album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, each presented as a double-disc set containing a remastered CD and DVD-Audio with 5.1 surround sound (in the U.K., these were released as hybrid SACDs instead of standard CDs). All the remastering is exceptional but what makes this set necessary for the devoted is the bonus material -- the video added to the DVDs and the whole disc of stray tracks. This supplemental disc has the exceptional B-side "Twilight Alehouse," the single-only "Happy the Man," the demo of the terrific "Going Out to Get You," and the BBC session that produced "Shepherd," "Pacidy," and "Let Us Now Make Love" -- all tracks that showed up on the 1998 box set Genesis Archives, Vol. 1: 1967-1975, but the real treat is the first official release of the four songs that comprise Genesis Plays Jackson, the band's soundtrack to a show by artist Michael Jackson. Add to this the video material -- limited to interviews on Trespass and Nursery Cryme, but containing full performances on Foxtrot and Selling England, plus the original slide shows used for the stage show of Lamb -- and this box turns into something extraordinary: a nearly complete portrait of a restlessly creative band at their peak, whose output only sounds more distinctive with each passing year.

::TRACKLIST::

CD I - Trespass (1970)
1. “Looking for Someone” - 7:02
2. “White Mountain” - 6:44
3. “Visions of Angels” - 6:51
4. “Stagnation” - 8:46
5. “Dusk” - 4:11
6. “The Knife” - 8:53

CD II - Nursery Cryme (1971)
1. “The Musical Box” - 10:31
2. “For Absent Friends” - 1:48
3. “The Return of the Giant Hogweed” - 8:09
4. “Seven Stones” - 5:09
5. “Harold the Barrel” - 3:00
6. “Harlequin” - 2:56
7. “The Fountain of Salmacis” - 8:00

CD III - Foxtrot (1972)
1. “Watcher of the Skies” - 7:22
2. “Time Table” - 4:46
3. “Get ‘Em Out by Friday” - 8:36
4. “Can-Utility and the Coastliners” - 5:45
5. “Horizons” - 1:41
6. “Supper’s Ready” - 23:04
* “Lover’s Leap”
* “The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man”
* “Ikhnaton and Itsacon and Their Band of Merry Men”
* “How Dare I Be So Beautiful?”
* “Willow Farm”
* “Apocalypse in 9/8 (Co-Starring the Delicious Talents of Gabble Ratchet)”
* “As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs (Aching Men’s Feet)”

CD IV - Selling England by the Pound (1973)
1. “Dancing with the Moonlit Knight” - 8:02
2. “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)” - 4:10
3. “Firth of Fifth” - 9:35
4. “More Fool Me” - 3:10
5. “The Battle of Epping Forest” - 11:44
6. “After the Ordeal” - 4:15
7. “The Cinema Show” - 10:41
8. “Aisle Of Plenty” - 1:56

CD V-VI - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (1974)

CD 1:
1. “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” - 4:51
2. “Fly on a Windshield” - 2:44
3. “Broadway Melody of 1974? - 2:11
4. “Cuckoo Cocoon” - 2:13
5. “In the Cage” - 8:09
6. “The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging” - 2:44
7. “Back in N.Y.C.” - 5:36
8. “Hairless Heart” - 2:06
9. “Counting Out Time” - 4:12
10. “The Carpet Crawlers” - 5:11
11. “The Chamber of 32 Doors” - 5:40

CD 2:
1. “Lilywhite Lilith” - 2:48
2. “The Waiting Room” - 5:15
3. “Anyway” - 3:08
4. “Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist” - 2:56
5. “The Lamia” - 6:56
6. “Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats” - 2:58
7. “The Colony of Slippermen” - 8:11
* “The Arrival”
* “A Visit to the Doktor”
* “The Raven”
8. “Ravine” - 2:06
9. “The Light Dies Down on Broadway” - 3:32
10. “Riding the Scree” - 4:06
11. “In the Rapids” - 2:18
12. “It” - 4:17

CD VII - Extras Tracks (1970 - 1975)
1. “Happy the Man” - 3:10
2. “Twilight Alehouse” - 7:48
3. “Going Out to Get You” - 4:55
4. “Shepherd” - 4:04
5. “Pacidy” - 5:44
6. “Let Us Now Make Love” - 6:16

Genesis Plays Jackson (Demo 1969)
7. “Provocation” - 4:10
8. “Frustration” - 3:42
9. “Manipulation” - 3:49
10. “Resignation” - 3:01

On all tracks:

Tony Banks – keyboards, guitar, background vocals, second lead vocal on "Shepherd"
Mike Rutherford – guitars, bass, bass pedals, cello, background vocals
Peter Gabriel – lead vocals, flute, bass drum, oboe, tambourine

On Trespass, and tracks 3–10 of Extra Tracks:

Anthony Phillips – guitar, backing vocals, second lead vocal on "Let Us Now Make Love"
John Mayhew – drums, percussion, backing vocals

On Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, and tracks 1–2 of Extra Tracks:

Steve Hackett – guitars
Phil Collins – drums, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocals on "For Absent Friends" and "More Fool Me," second lead vocal on "Harlequin" and "The Colony of Slippermen"