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Poll Question: What's your favorite live Genesis disc?
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Points: 906 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2006 at 01:50
For me it would be in this order,

1 Live
2 Seconds Out
3 Three Sides Live

The first time I ever heard Watcher Of The Skies was on live and Tony's Mellotron intro would give me goose bumps, it was so beautiful. Also The Knife is pretty smoking.
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None of them, but I go for Live. At least there's no Collins covering Peter.
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Seconds Out - More songs, Bruford, Thompson... need I say more?
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Live!
Thought it would have been alot better with "Suppers Ready".
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"Seconds Out" is very good live album one of the best i have ever heard, Live is i dont realy know why but its preety boring i think, but still very good but the winner is easely Seconds out simply fantastic and as other have said collins realy out do himself on this one simply brilliant it realy sound like hes having a great time. Thumbs Up
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Originally posted by E-Dub E-Dub wrote:

I still have to go with Three Sides Live. Listened to it today and the sound still floors me. Of course, I haven't heard Genesis Live yet; however, everything on here sounds superb. Seconds Out is second.

I'll be surprised if The Way We Walk series gets a vote, but thought I'd put them on for giggles.

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Well then you must listen to the other "live" ones. 
 
My favorite is still Genesis Live. It's sort of has a grungy, raw feel and sound to it which is what I like about it. Or as Peter Gabriel once mentioned in an interview, "hastily miked."
The rest are all great, of course, but too slick and mixed. Each to his own...
 
 
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Points: 7910 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2006 at 12:17
I've got Seconds Out on iTunes right now and this is a great live disc. Collins does a great job covering Gabriel. And Banks' keys are absolutely beautiful.

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Points: 5109 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2006 at 12:51
Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:


Originally posted by bhikkhu bhikkhu wrote:

Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:



Originally posted by Solids2k Solids2k wrote:

Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

I don't really like Genesis playing live. Their live sets offer no improvisations or real changes in their songs. The only live experience we get is when Peter talks between the numbers.

 

Are you serious? I mean... I never saw them live personally, but the recorded stuff I've heard shows lots of interesting changes to old songs. Medleys as on Three Sides or the Duke Suite from the respective tour, the improved jam on 'The Waiting Room' from the Archives volume 1, dueling drum solos on 'Dance on a Volcano', and I feel that certain solos such as the keyboard solo in the Apocolypse section of Supper's Ready on Second's Out are much better than on the album. I love live Genesis!
I'm not kidding. I'm aware of these changes but I prefer my live albums to be totally different from the studio albums. Genesis' live medleys could be cool but I just don't like 'em. I usually prefer the whole songs. Plus, they seem to make medleys out of some of their best songs. I agree on the duelling drum solos on Los Endos though. That is pretty cool. Otherwise, other major prog bands leaves Genesis in the dust in the Live department IMO.Don't get me wrong though. Genesis is one of my favorite bands.


I have to agree about the medleys. Not a big fan of them. They can be interesting, but I prefer the whole songs. The last time I saw them, they only played the classic stuff in medley form. Needless to say, I was very disappointed.

I like "Genesis Live," but the sound is a bit muted, and it leaves you with a feeling of being unfinished. "Seconds Out" is a much more comprehensive album, and the performances are very good. You also get the bonus of Bill Bruford.

By the way, is there a remaster of "Live" available?
    
    
    
Only the 1994 Definitive Edition, I believe.


Cool. For some reason, I thought they had only remastered the studio albums. Thanks Arsillus.

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I believe he only plays the drums in The Cinema Show so that isn't much of a bonus


It's better than nothing. I'll take what I can get.

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Points: 974 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2006 at 17:11
Of those listed, I voted for Genesis Live. It has more energy and clarity than Seconds Out, even though that was my favourite when it came out.
However, I think the best live Genesis material of all is found on the 4 disc Live Archive '67 - '75.
When you consider that two discs are taken up with a live rendition of The Lamb ( all except the last track 'It' which is a studio re-recording as the tape ran out!) with Gabriel singing, and that another disc has a live version of Supper's Ready, again with Gabriel, plus other outstanding live tracks, such as Firth Of Fifth and I Know What I Like, this has to be the desert island disc for all Genesis fans, including me.Clap
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Points: 7910 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2006 at 20:04
I can understand about Live and Seconds Out; but, how in the world can 3 Sides Live get as many votes as the lame Long & Shorts? Absolute madness.

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Originally posted by Kleynan Kleynan wrote:

Seconds Out for me. Collins does a very good job in singing the classic Genesis.



I agree.  I also thing Dance on a Volcano/Los Endos on Seconds out is absolutely amazing.


I also have The Lamb Live which I very much enjoy.
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Points: 7910 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 22 2006 at 20:53
Hey, when did Collins change from his more streamlined drum kit to the kit we all know today (4 toms, etc.)?

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Genesis Live or Archive Vol. 1.
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