r/Genesis

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This review is primarily focused on the new stereo remix by Stephen W. Tayler. Everything except what I mention below is vastly better than the original mix. So overall it is absolutely superior and what I will listen to from now on. But my honest criticisms are noted here anyway:

Where The Sour Turns To Sweet - strings buried a little too much during the chorus

In The Beginning - opening reverb sound and all other electric guitar effects are muffled too much, not as powerful

Fireside Song - backing vocals are buried too much during the chorus

The Serpent - organ is buried too much throughout

Am I Very Wrong? - vocals are buried way too much during the chorus when Peter Gabriel isn't singing

In The Wilderness - strings buried a little too much during the chorus

The Conqueror - as good as it can be - it's a shame the electric guitar was buried so low in the original mix, it's obvious Stephen W. Tayler brought it as far forward as he could

In Hiding - everything is just right

One Day - horns and backing vocals are buried too much during the chorus

Window - everything is just right

In Limbo - horns and strings are buried a little too much

Silent Sun - everything is just right

A Place To Call My Own - everything is just right

A Winter's Tale - everything is just right

One Eyed Hound - everything is just right

Image Blown Out - everything is just right

The rest of these comments are my thoughts about the bonus materials:

Visions Of Angels (1968 Regent Sound Studios Version) - This is the first time we have heard this version. It is truly wonderful to hear it, but the Trespass album version is superior. Many of the lyrics are different.

That's Me - a great song that sounds better than previously issued versions

All the various previously released demo versions are louder and probably more compressed than before, but it is easier to hear the details. In my opinion, the best of those tracks are Build Me A Mountain, The Magic Of Time, and The Mystery Of The Flannan Isle Lighthouse.

Epic (A Place To Call My Own) (Regent Sound Studios Demo August 1968) - This is another track we have never heard before, except for the parts that were used on the album in A Place To Call My Own. So great! Thank you to Genesis for sharing it with us after all this time. Makes me think of Pet Sounds.

Am I Very Wrong?, In Limbo, and The Conqueror (Regent Sound Studios Demos August 1968) - All are versions we have never heard before. And they are all excellent. And they all show a very different probably superior way the first album could have sounded.

I have not yet listened to the Atmos BluRay mix.

Considering how there seems to be a gulf of sorts between the prog and pop fans, I have always wondered what the thought was actually hearing them on mainstream radio or picking up those albums (and then there were three and Duke) and hearing those songs and realizing these weren't 10 minute sonnets or stories.

For me, Follow you Follow me is a true gem.

I absolutely love this track so much! The ghost of Steve is on that solo :)

Phil is doing the rounds. Great to see.

In the Cage is an awesome song, and my favourite moment has to be the synth solo, including the little lead in to it around 3:10 that has one of Mike Rutherford’s best bass parts. My question is that the bass sounds very weird for the few seconds of solo it gets - almost like a synth is doubling it, or it’s put through some electronic processor. Does anyone know what the deal with this part is? Not knowing the answer to this has my stomach churning…