Disc 11. Turn It on Again 2. No Son of Mine 3. I Can't Dance 4. Hold on My Heart 5. Jesus He Knows Me 6. Tell Me Why 7. Invisible Touch 8. Land of Confusion 9. Tonight Tonight Tonight 10. In Too Deep 11. Throwing It All Away 12. Mama 13. That's All 14. Illegal Alien 15. Abacab 16. No Reply at All 17. Carpet Crawlers 1999, The Disc 21. Paperlate 2. Keep It Dark 3. Man on the Corner 4. Duchess 5. Misunderstanding 6. Follow You Follow Me 7. Many Too Many 8. Your Own Special Way 9. Afterglow 10. Pigeons 11. Inside and Out 12. Trick of the Tail, A 13. Counting Out Time 14. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) 15. Happy the Man 16. Knife Pt.1, The 17. Congo
Label: Rhino Records (USA)
Release Date: 09/11/2007
Original Release Date: 1999
Recording Mode: Stereo
Recording Type: Studio
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)
Genesis: Peter Gabriel (vocals, flute); Phil Collins (vocals, drums); Ray Wilson (vocals); Mike Rutherford (guitar, bass); Steve Hackett (guitar); Tony Banks (keyboards); Nir Zidkyahu (drums).
Additional personnel: Andy Richard, Gerry Hughes, Jamie Muhoberac.
Producers include: Trevor Horn, David Hentschel, Genesis, Hugh Padgham, Nick Davis.
Engineers include: David Hentschel, Hugh Padgham, Nick Davis.
Genesis: Tony Banks (keyboards); Mike Rutherford (bass guitar); Phil Collins (drums).
Additional personnel: Peter Gabriel (vocals); Steve Hackett (guitars); Anthony Phillips.
Recording information: 1978 - 1999.
This 2007 limited edition release expands the original 1999 greatest-hits compilation into a two-disc, 34-track, digitally remastered extravaganza. Bonus tracks include "Counting Out Time," from the Peter Gabriel era, and "Pigeons" from the rare-ish SPOT THE PIGEON EP.
Being a hits collection, it makes sense that TURN IT ON consists mostly of post-Peter Gabriel tunes. Phil Collins' more pop-friendly leadership brought Genesis its greatest commercial success. Despite the radio-readiness of such tunes as "Invisible Touch" and "In Too Deep," many of the Collins-led albums contain compositions that would have done Gabriel proud, like the odd-metered song that gives this collection its title (and wouldn't have seemed out of place on the brash LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY), or the creepy, eccentric "Mama."
In any event, there's no denying the innate catchiness of Collins' winning pop conventions when they're deployed in the service of such infectious compositions as the pretty "Follow You, Follow Me" or the McCartneyish "That's All." To balance things out, a couple of the original lineup's more accessible moments are included, most notably the quirky-but-catchy "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)." TURN IT ON AGAIN doesn't show the prog-rock side of Genesis, but it makes an inarguable case for them as aesthetically conscious hit-makers.
Q (11/99, p.154) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...proves that behind the musical grandiloquence there were often great tunes....Collins remains the linchpin throughout....it's hard not to admire the singing drummer and wonder how he ever turned this ship around."
Mojo (Publisher) (11/99, p.129) - "...efficient pop-rock on which a thousand AOR radio stations built market share since 1981....[Genesis] do mid-tempo ballads, mid-tempo rockers....They do white funk, scary...and lighter in the air...all in the same closely defined soundworld....never [repeating] themselves..."
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