Product Description
Chronologically ordered, R-Kive features Genesis's biggest hits including "Invisible Touch, " "Turn It On Again, " "Land of Confusion, " and "I Can't Dance. " Along the way it also visits Mike + The Mechanics' classics "The Living Years" and "Over My Shoulder, " Collins' "In The Air Tonight" and his Philip Bailey duet "Easy Lover, " and Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill. "

R-Kive opens with "The Knife"- a nine-minute proto-punk number which became a favorite closing set during the band s early shows, and was written before either Hackett or Collins had joined the band. In addition to 22 Genesis songs, each member's work outside of the band is represented democratically with three songs each.

CD1
1. ‘The Knife’ – from ‘Trepass’ (1970)
2. ‘The Musical Box’ – from ‘Nursery Cryme’ (1971)
3. ‘Supper’s Ready’ – from ‘Foxtrot’ (1972)
4. ‘The Cinema Show’ – from ‘Selling England By The Pound’ (1973)
5. ‘I Know What I Like’ – from ‘Selling England By The Pound’ (1973)
6. ‘The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway’ – from ‘The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway’ (1974)
7. ‘Back In N.Y.C.’ – from ‘The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway’ (1974)
8. ‘The Carpet Crawlers’ – from ‘The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway’ (1974)
9. ‘Ace of Wands’ – from Steve Hackett’s ‘Voyage of the Acolyte’ (1975)

CD2
1. ‘Ripples’ – from ‘A Trick of the Tail’ (1976)
2. ‘Afterglow’ – from ‘Wind & Wuthering’ (1976)
3. ‘Solsbury Hill’ – from Peter Gabriel’s first self-titled album (1977)
4. ‘Follow You Follow Me’ – from ‘And Then There Were Three’ (1978)
5. ‘For A While’ – from Tony Banks’s ‘A Curious Feeling’ (1979)
6. ‘Every Day’ – from Steve Hackett’s ‘Spectral Mornings’ (1979)
7. ‘Biko’ – from Peter Gabriel’s third self-titled album (1980)
8. ‘Turn It On Again’ – from ‘Duke’ (1980)
9. ‘In The Air Tonight’ – from Phil Collins’s ‘Face Value’ (1981)
10. ‘Abacab’ – from ‘Abacab’ (1981)
11. ‘Mama’ – from ‘Genesis’ (1983)
12. ‘That’s All’ – from ‘Genesis’ (1983)
13. ‘Easy Lover’ – Phil Collins & Philip Bailey (Originally released in 1984)
14. ‘Silent Running’ – from Mike + The Mechanics’s self-titled album (1985)

CD3
1. ‘Invisible Touch’ – from ‘Invisible Touch’ (1986)
2. ‘Land of Confusion’ – from ‘Invisible Touch’ (1986)
3. ‘Tonight Tonight Tonight’ – from ‘Invisible Touch’ (1986)
4. ‘The Living Years’ – from Mike + The Mechanic’s ‘Living Years’ (1989)
5. ‘Red Day on Blue Street’ – from Tony Banks’s ‘Still’ (1991)
6. ‘I Can’t Dance’ – from ‘We Can’t Dance’ (1991)
7. ‘No Son of Mine’ – from ‘We Can’t Dance’ (1991)
8. ‘Hold On My Heart’ – from ‘We Can’t Dance’ (1991)
9. ‘Over My Shoulder’ – from Mike + The Mechanics’s ‘Beggar On A Beach Of Gold’ (1995)
10. ‘Calling All Stations’ – from ‘Calling All Stations’ (1997)
11. ‘Signal To Noise’ – from Peter Gabriel’s ‘Up’ (2002)
12. ‘Wake Up Call’ – from Phil Collins’s ‘Testify’ (2002)
13. ‘Nomads’ – from Steve Hackett’s ‘Out Of The Tunnel’s Mouth’ (2009)
14. ‘Siren’ – from Tony Banks’s ‘Six: Pieces of Orchestra’ (2012)

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You can't possibly do a proper comp of all these artists in one setting.

And they didn't.

Yep. And they didn't even include anything from Anthony Phillips or Ray Wilson. As you pointed out on Facebook, Pete, perhaps they should have just included a Wilson Phillips song instead.

I'm a huge Genesis fan and this is nothing but a cash grab. Real fans own everything anyway. Casual fans won't buy this because there's too many unknown tunes.

Seriously, Genesis really needs to dig into its live archive and start putting out that stuff. Rumor is that there's tons of stuff.

+1

Rick A.

It's way past time for Phil Collins to get his own 2-CD anthology with all his hits on it.

For whatever reason, when I first saw the title "R-Kive" the first thing that popped into my mind was "K-Tel." An immediate turnoff.

The comp probably works better if they would have limited the non-Genesis tracks to one title per artist, and then include "Easy Lover" as the song that many Genesis fans may not currently have in their collection. This is a Genesis comp, and there is too much solo material on here which really waters it down.

I came up with the following...went safe (mostly made the obvious choices) with the track selection and it is certainly not perfect but I think it would work pretty well for a commercially-released compilation.

Disc One (Time = 78:36)
1. The Knife
2. The Musical Box
3. The Return of the Giant Hogweed
4. Watcher of the Skies
5. Supper's Ready
6. The Cinema Show
7. Firth of Fifth

Disc Two (Time = 76:30)
1. In the Cage
2. The Carpet Crawlers
3. Dance on a Volcano
4. Squonk
5. Eleventh Earl of Mar
6. Afterglow
7. Solsbury Hill (Gabriel)
8. Follow You Follow Me
9. Every Day (Hackett)
10. Turn it on Again
11. Misunderstanding
12. In the Air Tonight (Collins)
13. No Reply at All
14. Abacab

Disc Three (Time = 72:26)
1. Mama
2. That's All
3. Easy Lover (Bailey/Collins)
4. Invisible Touch
5. Land of Confusion
6. Tonight. Tonight, Tonight
7. The Living Years (Mike + the Mechanics)
8. No Son of Mine
9. I Can't Dance
10. An Island in the Darkness (Banks)
11. Calling All Stations

I would rather buy yours JosephC instead of what is being planned.

Rick A.

Bump: This is going to be released domestically via Rhino. The USA pre-order link has been added to the first post.

a friend of mine worked for showco in dallas and he did sound for
several genesis tours up to and including the lamb. when gabriel
left genesis he went with him. i've heard soundboard cassettes from
toronto shows and others that are incredibly good.

Man, does the design of that album cover stink.

The 3 CD Platinum Collection from 2004 was just fine.

This is beyond stupid and useless and "Easy Lover" and "Wake Up Call" from Phil's career?

Who in the hell put this together-a muppet?

The only cool thing for me is it has "Ace Of Wands", "Every Day" from Steve and "For Awhile" from Tony. Love those songs but I wouldn't put on a Genesis collection to hear them.

It's marketed towards new fans, kids and completists only. I'm not interested. Some archive 1970s concerts would be far more appropriate

Heck, any live stuff would be cool. I would love a complete Mama tour show. I have yet to hear a boot that does that tour any justice.

This is a joke (a bad one at that).

Who on earth did they get to come up with this concept, track listing and cover - a chimpanzee? My cat could do better than that.

I agree that live archive material would be infinitely better. I remember years ago seeing a website where they said Genesis were going through their live archives to organize and catalog everything, and I remember seeing pictures of all the organized tapes in these big cabinets. I swear I did!

So why bother going to all that trouble if they weren't planning on releasing it?

I thought this was a joke when I saw the artwork. Then I saw the track listing, and I was POSITIVE it was a joke.

But what about that amazing album title? Oh yeah, that sucks too. They should call this Abacrap.

Or Three Sides Why?

What he said!


Rick A.