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    Posted: April 12 2008 at 06:51
My apologies, it was the first link I quickly found about the album and wasn't aware of it's nature.
 
(So I am referring to "Genesis - The Peter Gabriel Years [2007]", some information about it might be found in a net... but little).
 
So, it was just an exploitation of copyrights. I haven't actually heard FFtR yet so it was somewhat tempting. I'm not that great fan of Trespass so I have never tried to find this even earlier album. But of course I should get the original album first.
 
I saw a few more records in a stack like "Yes and friends" or something like that... contains few Yes songs, Journey from Wakeman and of course Heat of the moment by Asia...
 
Concerning Yes, I bought a cheap Yes compilation album called Astral Traveller a few years ago. It was good but the sound quality was horrible at times. So part of my original question concerned the audio quality of that Genesis album.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 15:57
Originally posted by Valmento Valmento wrote:

Hello, I accidently saw this album in a store this morning:
 
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At the first glance this is almost identical to "From Genesis to Revelation". But the last song seems to be missing. What gives? Is this album a marketing ploy to gather more attention by using Gabriel's name at the cover?
 
I haven't found any info about this release. Is it any good? It would be a cheapo substitute for the original album minus the last song. Please compare here...
 
 
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Hi, interesting first contrib, but next time please don't post links to illegal downloads.
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Points: 0 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 12:16
its just another shameful repackaging of Genesis' first album, with misspellings and missing tracks, marketed to make it look like one of the reissues that Genesis is putting out (there will really be a "Gabriel Years" boxset covering up through 1975 released in September with all the albums remixed etc. The reason this first album keeps getting rereleased in so many ways and on so many labels is because Jonathan "I discovered and named Genesis" King, the guy who produced the first album before they kicked his sorry arse aside, held on to the rights to the album and never gave them back to Genesis. So he controls all the rights to release this album, and has done so shamelessly hundreds of times on various fly by night labels in order to live off the Genesis legacy. The band virtually has disowned the codger. He tried to push Genesis in a BeeGees "pastiche" direction, and thank god they ignored that advice and went on to become the world's greatest progressive rock band. No thanks to Jonathan King.
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Points: 398 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 08:22
Well I've never heard "The Silent Run" before
Some swear they see me weeping in the poppy fields of France
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 07:44
That is the original FGTR though it is missing A Place To Call My Own (a grave omission), I have a version called And The Word Was which has all of those plus APTCMO and three that didn't appear on FGTR: That's Me, A Winter's Tale, and One Eyed Hound.  I just looked it up and those bonus tracks are available on a Japanese and UK version (the only FGTRs currently available in the US as imports).  I'd go for the Japanese version which has the most bonus tracks.  The ones on that one I haven't heard:

18.Image Blown Out - (studio)


19.She Is Beautiful - (studio)


20.Try A Little Sadness - (studio)


21.Patricia - (studio)
This album doesn't get a lot of respect, but as a huge fan I quite like it, in fact better than their more commercial studio albums of the '80's.


Edited by Slartibartfast - April 11 2008 at 07:45
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

I'm a true fan, and I haven't bothered with FGTR yet. Never saw the point.


It's not that bad. Ok, it aint brilliant either, it's just...interesting, shall we say...

I think it's worth having to appreciate the artistic leap between 'FGTR' and 'Trespass'
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I'm a true fan, and I haven't bothered with FGTR yet. Never saw the point.
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 11 2008 at 05:31
Hi Valmento

Welcome to Prog Archives!

I've never seen this before. It looks like a fairly pointless release to me. True fans and collectors, who will already have at least one copy of this album, are unlikely to want a version of 'FGTR' without the last track.    
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Hello, I accidently saw this album in a store this morning:
 
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At the first glance this is almost identical to "From Genesis to Revelation". But the last song seems to be missing. What gives? Is this album a marketing ploy to gather more attention by using Gabriel's name at the cover?
 
I haven't found any info about this release. Is it any good? It would be a cheapo substitute for the original album minus the last song. Please compare here...
 
 
And yep... my fist contribution, hello Smile


Edited by darqDean - April 11 2008 at 15:56
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