When it comes to classic rock today, it really has made a great comeback to the stage. With great and well-dedicated reunions from British Rock dominating this past year, like The Police, many have really been welcomed to a whole new audience. That also has been the same with the surprise reunion of Genesis, who earlier this year performed during VH1's Rock Honors benefit. Undoubtingly, for Genesis who just saw the success of their Phil Collins' era re-released from Rhino, a celebration of songs came around, with another greatest hits album. This time, its definitely worth turning onto the songs again, with a great reunion tour, and a chance to re-introduce the songs that made them legends.

The 2007 Genesis Turn It On Again The Hits: The Tour Edition expands and improves well from what was left put from the 1999 single disc edition of Turn It On Again. The double album contain 34 great Genesis tracks, spanning the groups three decades of Rock & Pop music. When you hear this collection, you're really reminded of how well Genesis crafted their sounds brilliantly. The collection has been remastered very well, and improves from what was mostly left out from the groups two previous hits records, 1999 Turn It On Again, and the 2005 Platinum Collection. The collection includes all of the tracks from the original Turn It On Again like Invisble Touch, Abacab, Hold On My Heart, and Throwing It All Away. Also, it expands nicely by bringing in a lot of the overlooked songs from before during the groups 70's era like Trick Of The Tail, Your Own Special Way, Counting On Time, and Many Too Many, as well as some of the 80's tracks that were left out before like the haunting Duchess, the upbeat Paperlate, the somber Man On The Corner and No Reply At All. While not every hit was highlighted on the album though. The collection does overlook a few songs like The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Ripples and the dark and haunting Home By The Sea, in favor of lesser-known tracks like Tell Me Why from We Can't Dance and Piegons.

Still, Turn It On Again The Hits: The Tour Edition from Genesis is a much better hits record than the previous two because it is well-dedicated to more of the major hits that were overlooked before at a well-affordable price. If you're a die hard fan of Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford & Tony Banks, and all those great songs, or if you haven't even yet heard the Genesis experience, than I really recommend you buy this album. You can definitely say I Can Dance to this great album.

Album Cover: B+

Songs: B+

Price: B+

Remastering: A-

Overall: B+

Track List Disc 1: Turn It On Again, No Son Of Mine, I Can't Dance, Hold On My Heart, Jesus He Knows Me, Tell Me Why, Invisible Touch, Land Of Confusion, Tonight, Tonight, Tonight, In Too Deep, Throwing It All Away, That's All, Mama, Illegal Alien, Abacab, No Reply At All, The Carpet Crawlers (1999 recording)

Disc 2: Paperlate, Keep It Dark, Man On The Corner, Duchess, Misunderstanding, Follow You Follow Me, Many Too Many, Your Own Special Way, Afterglow, Piegons, Inside & Out, Trick Of the Tail, Counting On Time, I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe), Happy the Man, The Knife Part 1, Congo (from the groups 1997 final studio album Calling All Stations).

Great remastering though. I would say it's a big improvement over both the original "Turn It On Again: The Hits" collection, and the triple "Platinum Collection". If anything, the only glaring ommissions are 1983's #50 charting "Taking It All Too Hard" from the "Shapes" album and the final single from 1991's "We Can't Dance" called "Never A Time", a #21 charter. Sure, it doesn't have the title track from "Lamb" or "Home By The Sea" or "Supper's Ready" or "Behind The Lines", but those are not as glaring as the tunes missing from "The Platinum Collection".

This Tour Edition is a very good hits collection...it has the single versions as well, so it works as a companion piece to the albums and doesn't have too many duplicate versions. PLUS, being it has rare singles and EP tracks like "Paperlate" and "Pigeons" as well, people who don't have the "1976-1982" box, just the deluxe reissues of the 5 albums included, need this too, and won't have to shell out the buckos for that box for those songs.

I also like the fact it finishes with "Congo", their lone hit from their final album, 1997's "Calling All Stations"...if people find that album unnecessary to own (no Phil, instead then-new replacement singer Ray Wilson) and just want that song, there ya go, problem solved...I might be in the minority, but I LOVE "Congo"...it's got a GREAT chorus, cool atmospherics and 3rd world touches...doesn't really sound like GENESIS per se, but I love that new sound they were trying to achieve 10 years ago...Ray sounds like the late great Paul Young (from Mike's sideband Mike & The Mechanics), and the song is sorta Peter Gabriel-ish...so in a way, it does, just in a long-way-around way...

Anyhoo, I'm babbling...this is a great collection, so is that "1976-1982" box (it's really necessary if you're a Genesis fan), and I'm waiting for the next 3 boxes ("1983-1998" and "1968(7)-1975" and "Live 1967-2007").

After having just seen Genesis for the last World Tour, I couldn't resist buying this CD and I was not disappointed. It is a nice compilation of the songs that they did in concert although it is not a "live" version of the concert. But as far as I can remember, they did all these songs at the concert...

So, if you want to have a good selection of Genesis hits (and some songs that never made it to the Top of the Charts...) this two-disc collection is a good choice. You get a really nice selection of songs... well worth having in your collection of Genesis CD's...

I know what I like... and I like this set!!!!

When it came to great classic music from last year, there were a few delightful acts that reunited for the first time in years. While some feel like it was a real waste of time like Foreigner without Lou Grant as the lead, others like The Police returning fo the fiorst time in years, felt like it really was worth the ticket. That also can really be said as well with Genesis. For Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks, the trio returning again really proved to be well worth its while not just on stage, but their catalog got a whole new makeover, as their albums from the Mid 70's, all the way to 1997's final album Calling All Stations were re-issued in Dolby Digital sound, and feel better than ever. That also can be said in stone with a more-rounded greatest hits album as well.

The 2007 Turn It On Again: The Hits (The Tour Edition), takes what was left from Genesis and their single disc 1999 edition of Turn It On Again, and expands it into a better hits album. Unlike their other hits record, the 2005 Platinum Collection, this one appeals mostly all the way through, by focusing in on the main tracks as hits, and not going into the lesser-known ones. The collection includes a lot of classics including all the original tracks that were released from the original Turn It On Again like their classic dance tunes like I Can't Dance and their only #1 smash Invisible Touch, to somber ballads like In Too Deep and Throwing It All Away, to innovative beats like the heart-pounding Mama and Land Of Confusion. The collection also works well by bringing in a lot of the hits that were overlooked from the previous hits collections, especially the tracks overlooked from the Platinum Collection like No Reply At All and Man On the Corner from Abacab, as well as classic gems like Illegal Alien and the somber Afterglow. Still, there is one disadvantage to this album, the collection does overshadow tracks from the Peter Gabriel era, when he was the lead of Genesis in the late 60's and 70's, as tracks like The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway weren't highlighted as well as other greats like Home By The Sea and Anything She Does, in favor of lesser-known singles like Tell Me Why from We Can't Dance.

Overall, there really have been many different Genesis hits' collections. But when it comes down to it, Turn It On Again: The Hits (Tour Edition) is about as close as possible to being the most definitive reflection of what Genesis brought to the table in way of great pop music for nearly 5 decades, and taking what was a fair single disc collection from 1999, and expanding it so well to appeal to anyone who hasn't heard a Genesis album before. I absolutely recommend the 2007 Turn It On Again: The Hits (Tour Edition) as a must have for your MP3 library.

Songs: B+

Price: A-

Remastering: A

Overall: B+

Genesis' October, 1999 release Turn it On Again - The Hits was re-released in time for the band's 2007 reunion tour in September of 2007.
The two discs in the set contains 34 songs and all but one of the tracks (the 1999 re-do of Carpet Crawlers) are freshly remixed by Genesis engineer Nick Davis, and features close to two and a half hours of music.
It also contains a 16-page booklet with a cool looking collage as well as the song titles and writing credits, what songs came from which albums, pictures of the album covers and thank you's.
Disc 1 is their most recent stuff from 1980 to 1991. We start with the 1980 album Duke's most famous track and this compilation's title cut "Turn It On Again". then we have five tracks from the 1991 US Top 5 album We Can't Dance (No Son of Mine (edited), I Can't Dance, Jesus He Knows Me, Hold on My Heart which were all the big hits from the album and the album cut "Tell Me Why"). Then we have five tracks from 1986's Top 3 album Invisible Touch (the album's chart-topping title cut, Throwing It All Away, Tonight Tonight Tonight(edited), Land of Confusion and In Too Deep all of which were singles). Then there are three tracks from the 1983 Top 10 self-titled effort a/k/a The Shapes Album (the atmospheric "Mama" (here in edited single form with some bits I don't think I ever heard on any version prior to this), the US Top 10 hit "That's All" and Illegal Alien (remixed for this collection)). Then we have two tracks from the first Genesis album to reach the US Top 10 called Abacab (first is the album's title cut (here in single edit form) and then "No Reply at All"). The first disc ends with the 1999 re-recording of the 1974 album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway's classic cut "The Carpet Crawlers" dubbed "Carpet Crawlers 99" and is a nice, unique re-recording of the classic Lamb Lies Down album track (this is the only piece on this compilation which was NOT remixed).
Disc two covers 1970-97. We start with "Paperlate" from the UK 3 X 3 EP and the original US edition of the Top 10 album Three Sides Live. Then we pick up with two more tracks from 1981's Abacab ("Keep it Dark" and "Man On the Corner"). Then we have two more tracks from 1980's Duke ("Duchess" and the US Top 20 hit "Misunderstanding"). The band's first US Gold selling Top 20 album, 1978's And Then There Were Three is represented by two tracks ("Many Too Many" and the US Top 30 hit "Follow You Follow Me"). 1977's Top 30 charting Wind and Wuthering is represented by "Afterglow" and "Your Own Special Way". Next is two tracks from the 1977 UK released EP called Spot the Pigeons. First is "Pigeons" and then "Inside and Out" (the only other way to get these tracks is to buy either the Genesis 1976-82 6-CD/6-DVD box set OR buy the Genesis Archives 2 1976-1992 box set). The band's first US Top 40 album A Trick of the Tail is represented by the album's title cut. Then 1974's The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is represented by the full version of "Counting Out Time" (the remixed version on Platinum Collection was edited by 10 seconds). 1973's Selling England by the Pound is represented by "I Know What I Like". Next is the single track "Happy the Man" (which was not on an album and is only available on the Genesis archives 1967-75 box set so this is a nice taster of the rarities on the Gabriel years box set). The 1970 album Trespass is represented by the first half of the centerpiece "The Knife". We close things with the track "Congo" from the band's poorly received 1997 album Calling All Stations (which featured Ray wilson in Phil Collins' microphone stand).
This is another great start point for those who want to either discover Genesis or rediscover them in a new light. Or if one chooses, start with The Platinum Collection (which is now out of print in the US so try and find it). Turn it On Again The Hits (2007 Tour Edition) trumps the 1999 single disc dreked version and, like The Platinum Collection, is a stellar look back on one of rock's best bands.
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