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Turn It on Again: Tour Edition | 
 enlarge | Artist: Genesis
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 12079
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 281852
UPC: 081227996888
EAN: 0081227996888
ASIN: B000UYX5E4
Release Date: September 11, 2007
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| Tracks:
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 | | • | Mama | | • | That's All | | • | Illegal Alien | | • | Abacab | | • | No Reply At All | | • | The Carpet Crawlers 1999 |
Disc 2
| • | Paperlate | | • | Keep It Dark | | • | Man On the Corner | | • | Duchess | | • | Misunderstanding | | • | Follow You Follow Me | | • | Many Too Many | | • | Your Own Special Way | | • | Afterglow | | • | Pigeons | | • | Inside And Out | | • | A Trick Of the Tail | | • | Counting Out Time | | • | I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) | | • | Happy the Man | | • | The Knife Pt.1 | | • | Congo |
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Album Description
The 18 songs collected here were some of the biggest smashes to hit radio and the growing world of music videos in the eighties and beyond. Songs like Land Of Confusion, Invisible Touch, and I Can't Dance made Genesis one of the biggest touring arena bands and made members Tony Banks, Phil Collins, and Mike Rutherford household names.
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 Should not be called remaster August 18, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have other Gensis CD's and bought this because it was remastered and I was looking for improved sound quality, this really falls short in that area. I really don't think much effort went into the remastering. It has a good song selection but the sound is not that great.
 Genesis' 1999 limp collection gets a superb makeover July 27, 2008
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.
RECOMMENDED!
Good Introduction or Summary June 27, 2008
I've been a Genesis fan since I first heard "Mama" way back when. I retroactively collected the entire discography, and fell in love with the progressive rock era Genesis, and was a fan through high school and college. Eventually, I branched out into enough other music that Genesis took a back seat. I recently started reviving these old interests (along with Rush and They Might Be Giants -- two other teenage favorites), and saw this album while looking around for current information online.
I actually bought it because I thought it was a live album of their recent tour. That was my mistake, but I'm still not clear as to why it's called "Tour Edition." So if you're suffering the same misconception, let me clear it up with the statement that this is a greatest hits package.
That being said, I sure do enjoy having an album in rotation that "summarizes" Genesis without dedicating 12 hours or more to the entire catalog.
I found the song selection somewhat peculiar, as well as the sequencing. The sequence is such that songs are presented newest first, with the exception being that the first song is from Abacab, an album squarely in the middle of their discogrpahy, and the last song if from Calling All Stations, their most recent studio album (the one without Phil Collins, which to be honest I was never interested in for that reason). I get that you'd want to start things off with the album's namesake song, but why end with the most recent song in an otherwise reversed chronology? I don't get it. It feels really out of place, as the regression through time has a nice pace to it, then after you get to the one song from the earliest album (interestingly, the other album without Collins), you jump some 30 years in songwriting, production technique, and style to "Congo."
The song selection itself is generally good, and for the most part probably represents what I would pick if I were putting together my own 2.5 hour playlist of Genesis songs, although i'd go lighter on the newer hits and heavier on the older "art pieces." It's weird to me, though, that of the 34 songs on the collection, 4 of then (Paperlate, Pigeons, Inside And Out, and Happy The Man) are B-Sides...not exactly hits, that I know of. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to have some rarer material in my collection, I'd just love to have sat in on the meeting where they decided which songs get on this release.
All in all, I enjoy having this album as it's a good summary. I suspect if someone were interested in Genesis but didn't know where to start, this would also serve as a good introduction.
Genesis best greatest hits cd May 25, 2008
This is has to be the best Genesis greatest hits cd period , to tell the truth this tour edition is a whole lot better than the original , this has a whole lot more hit songs than the other one. highly recommended.
No live tracks, but cut clean good stuff inside! April 18, 2008
I bought this album almost 2 years after I bought "Turn it on again" in anticipation of this album having live content I was disappointed to listen to tracks I already had, but never the less, I was impressed, and It's a must have for any serous Genesis fan, young and old. It's well worth the 16 bucks I paid, since it's a double disk, and well, the music is jsut as fine as they where in the 80's and 90's. I give it a high 5!
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