LIVE - THE WAY WE WALK VOLUME ONE - THE SHORTS

Finally back! While I already reviewed this one on my YouTube channel, I was surprised to learn that I didn't do it here first, so here we go.

I found this disc for very cheap, its an interesting relic of a different time, as it has a promotion for The Longs, coming the year after this one. Besides that, the packaging is pretty standard and I struggle a bit to understand the reasoning behind them dividing the tour album release into two, besides just padding out their album releases.

The track listing is not very special, mainly because of how little of Genesis discography it actually covers, only 3 albums: Genesis, Invisible Touch and the sake of the tour in question, I believe that the hits are fine, is just that an album with similar sounding songs can be kind of boring, all 3 albums are different, but some songs feel like they fulfill a similar purpose, such as Hold On My Heart and In Too Deep for example, they are both soft and slow songs with weird Tony Banks chord progressions.

Add to everything that this release was not taken just from The Way We Walk tour, but also from the Invisible Touch tour, with songs like Mama, That's All and In Too Deep, seemingly taken from the Invisible Touch tour video, so not much special there, except for the later that sounds a bit special, and speaking of an special sound, I really enjoy how Tonight, Tonight, Tonight sounds in this version, sadly, its from the We Can't Dance tour, so its only the part of the song before the solo.

All in all, as a cheap release to keep you waiting its fine, in the physical department it could've been better though, with pictures from the Invisible Touch tour, making it more obvious what songs are from what venue, or tour and whatever, I know that they started sounding very similar in different venues, is just that this release doesn't hide how cheap it is when what I'm mentioning could've take just a little bit more effort, I'm not even asking to change the song selection, which is probably the thing that shows even more how cheap this release is, as you need to copyright only 3 albums with only 3 members.

So, if you find this for cheap, I think that its worth it to add into a Genesis collection, it just works and looks fine on the shelf but other than that, is just a cheap old live hits collection, just being official, working as intended with good live sound and from 30 years ago makes it an step above every recent official or bootleg hits compilation.

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