Genesis "BBC Broadcasts" 5CD box set (3/3/2023-Atlantic)

[starless and bible black]

[CD1]
1. Shepherd (Live On Night Ride, BBC Radio Two, 1970)
2. Pacidy (Live On Night Ride, BBC Radio Two, 1970)
3. Let Us Now Make Love (Live On Night Ride, BBC Radio Two, 1970)
4. The Fountain Of Salmacis (Live At Paris Studios, London, UK, 1972)
5. The Musical Box (Live At Paris Studios, London, UK, 1972)
6. Stagnation (Live On Sounds Of The 70S, BBC Radio One, 1971)
7. Harlequin (Live On BBC Radio One John Peel Session, 1972)
8. Get 'Em Out By Friday (Live On BBC Radio One John Peel Session, 1972)
9. Harold The Barrel (Live On BBC Radio One John Peel Session, 1972)
10. Twilight Alehouse (Live On BBC Radio One John Peel Session, 1972)
11. Watcher Of The Skies (Live On BBC Radio One In Concert, 1975)

[CD2]
1. Squonk (Live At Knebworth Festival, UK, 1978)
2. Burning Rope (Live At Knebworth Festival, UK, 1978)
3. Dance On A Volcano (Live At Knebworth Festival, UK, 1978)
4. Drum Duet (Live At Knebworth Festival, UK, 1978)
5. Los Endos (Live At Knebworth Festival, UK, 1978)
6. Deep In The Motherlode (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
7. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
8. The Carpet Crawlers (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
9. One For The Vine (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
10. Behind The Lines (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
11. Duchess (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
12. Guide Vocal (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
13. Turn It On Again (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
14. Duke's Travels (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
15. Duke's End (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)

[CD3]
1. Say It's Alright Joe (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
2. The Lady Lies (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
3. Ripples (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
4. In The Cage (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
5. The Raven (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
6. Afterglow (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
7. Follow You Follow Me (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
8. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) [Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980]
9. The Knife (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
10. Mama (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
11. Domino (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)

[CD4]
1. That's All (Live At Wembley Stadium, London, UK, 1987)
2. The Brazilian (Live At Wembley Stadium, London, UK, 1987)
3. Throwing It All Away (Live At Wembley Stadium, London, UK, 1987)
4. Home By The Sea (Live At Wembley Stadium, London, UK, 1987)
5. Second Home By The Sea (Live At Wembley Stadium, London, UK, 1987)
6. Invisible Touch (Live At Wembley Stadium, London, UK, 1987)
7. Drum Duet (Live At Wembley Stadium, London, UK, 1987)
8. Los Endos (Live At Wembley Stadium, London, UK, 1987)
9. Not About Us (Live At Birmingham N.E.C., UK, 1998)
10. The Dividing Line (Live At Birmingham N.E.C., UK, 1998)

[CD5]
1. No Son Of Mine (Live At Knebworth Festival, UK, 1992)
2. Driving The Last Spike (Live At Knebworth Festival, UK, 1992)
3. Old Medley (Live At Knebworth Festival, UK, 1992)
4. Fading Lights (Live At Knebworth Festival, UK, 1992)
5. Hold On My Heart (Live At Knebworth Festival, UK, 1992)
6. I Can't Dance (Live At Knebworth Festival, UK, 1992)

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[JJ88]

My initial feeling is that it's better than I feared it would be. Most of the songs played at the Lyceum are there for instance.

It all depends on the price and quality of the source material used.

[smcfee]

Interesting. Anyone know why the full Lyceum concert wouldn't be here? I wouldn't mind being an honest buyer of it after enjoying the boot for many years, just seems a shame.

[MudShark22]

Interesting. Anyone know why the full Lyceum concert wouldn't be here? I wouldn't mind being an honest buyer of it after enjoying the boot for many years, just seems a shame.

Exactly.

I see it has one Ray Wilson track too.

[JJ88]

The missing tracks are included via earlier versions from Knebworth. I would guess that Collins' between song comments are greatly edited. Which I don't mind...the 'Albert' stuff does go on a bit.

I see it has one Ray Wilson track too.

Actually two tracks- maybe the biggest surprise. I was alerted to 'The Dividing Line' having a different, better ending live on another forum.

[Beebfader]

They really don't get who they're pitching this at do they ? We want everything or nothing. I'll stick with the boots !

[MudShark22]

If modern Phil overdubbed these vox - gonna be pissed.....

[Dave (in MA)]

2 penalty discs.

[smcfee]

I assume Mama / Domino are mislabeled and from '87 :-D.

[soundsweird]

Disappointed that there's only 1 Gabriel-era disc. On the Hoffman forum, some are suggesting that the '75 Wembley is being held back for a big Lamb box (which was mentioned right when the pandemic hit, then shelved per a Hackett comment). Probably next year, the 50th anniversary (Gabriel's probably re-recording the vocals as we speak ). Most of the Collins stuff has been "represented" already in previous live releases, with a few exceptions. Can't imagine the versions being that different.

[mozo-pg]

Cha Ching

[Tangram]

The '87 songs from Wembley have already been officially released. I wish they would go thru each tour and give us the best show, or do like the Live Over Europe with the best songs from a tour. The Lyceum show is well known, I wonder if it can be cleaned up any more. Wouldn't have minded more of the Wilson led Genesis live also.

[PotatoSolution]

I wonder if those tracks on Disc One are the same ones released on the Archive sets from the 90s?

[Progatron]

I wonder if those tracks on Disc One are the same ones released on the Archive sets from the 90s?

If you mean Shepherd, Pacidy, and Let Us Now Make Love, yes they are. They also made the 'green' box from 2008, so this is the third time they've seen an official release.

Stagnation '71 was also on the first Archive box.

[wilcox660]

Amazon pre-orders are $59+change

[arturs]

They really don't get who they're pitching this at do they ? We want everything or nothing. I'll stick with the boots !

Amen! Had they put out a full Knebworth 78 and Lyceum 80 I would buy this in a heartbeat, even with the substantial penalty disc surcharge. I still might buy this just out of a sense of guilt for enjoying the boots for so many years but I doubt it will ever see the inside of my CD players.

EDIT: I just noticed one good thing about the truncated shows. They cut the "Turn it on Again medley" from Wembley 87. That has gotta be the worst piece of music by any major prog band that you would care to name...

[wilcox660]

Amen! Had they put out a full Knebworth 78 and Lyceum 80 I would buy this in a heartbeat, even with the substantial penalty disc surcharge. I still might buy this just out of a sense of guilt for enjoying the boots for so many years but I doubt it will ever see the inside of my CD players.

EDIT: I just noticed one good thing about the truncated shows. They cut the "Turn it on Again medley" from Wembley 87. That has gotta be the worst piece of music by any major prog band that you would care to name...

Worse than Yes' Barry Manilow medley?

[Quantum Cat]

Worse than Mahavishnu Orchestra’s Kenny G medley??

[LeFrog]

Interesting. Anyone know why the full Lyceum concert wouldn't be here? I wouldn't mind being an honest buyer of it after enjoying the boot for many years, just seems a shame.

It looks like the Lyceum gig is almost complete with only the songs that are repeated from Knebworth edited out.
As much as I'm excited to see some archival material finally released, this looks like yet another missed opportunity to do things right.
I'll still be all over this, for sure.

[Trane]

TBH, only the first disc really interests me (though I've already got some of it), but if it came out as a double disc affair with the first two discs (maybe even the third), it would be a no-brainer. yeah, some of these Lyceum versions would be interesting to hear at least once.

10. Mama (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)
11. Domino (Live At The Lyceum Theatre, London, UK, 1980)

how is that possible??

[Progatron]

It will be nice to have officially released versions of the early stuff, I wish they had included all of it though. There's the May '71 work in progress version of The Musical Box which ran 12 minutes given the longer arrangement, but then they didn't want too many repeat songs, so they went with the finished rendition. But why exclude Hogweed?

I'll get this, and the price seems quite reasonable, but it would have been nice to be able to toss the bootleg version in the trash.

BTW there is a 3-LP vinyl version of this set as well, though only about half the tracks or so.

[Progatron]

how is that possible??

An obvious typo that was copied and pasted from the Amazon track listing. Those two tracks are from Wembley '87.

Speaking of that era, it had occurred to me (and I mentioned over on Hoffman forums) that Abacab is strangely absent from the Wembley '87 show. That version is actually of minor historical significance as it was the last time it was ever played live. Surprising as it may seem, the band axed Abacab (the song and everything else from the album) after that '87 tour and it was never played live again. That's 35 years ago now! Might be a 'who cares' moment to some people, but I found that a strange and interesting realization. It only ever lasted six years in their set.

[mozo-pg]

An obvious typo that was copied and pasted from the Amazon track listing. Those two tracks are from Wembley '87.

Speaking of that era, it had occurred to me (and I mentioned over on Hoffman forums) that Abacab is strangely absent from the Wembley '87 show. That version is actually of minor historical significance as it was the last time it was ever played live. Surprising as it may seem, the band axed Abacab (the song and everything else from the album) after that '87 tour and it was never played live again. That's 35 years ago now! Might be a 'who cares' moment to some people, but I found that a strange and interesting realization. It only ever lasted six years in their set.

Six years too many! Honestly, just joking.

[LeFrog]

An obvious typo that was copied and pasted from the Amazon track listing. Those two tracks are from Wembley '87.

Speaking of that era, it had occurred to me (and I mentioned over on Hoffman forums) that Abacab is strangely absent from the Wembley '87 show. That version is actually of minor historical significance as it was the last time it was ever played live. Surprising as it may seem, the band axed Abacab (the song and everything else from the album) after that '87 tour and it was never played live again. That's 35 years ago now! Might be a 'who cares' moment to some people, but I found that a strange and interesting realization. It only ever lasted six years in their set.

It's true. However this particular version of Abacab did see an official release on CD as a B side in 1992 (on a single from The Way We Walk vol 1). Other tracks from the 87 Wembley gig also appeared as B sides around that time (Invisible Touch and The Brazilian come to mind) which doesn't prevent them from being reissued here. The Brazilian had actually also been on the Archive 1976-2000 box so it's the third official release for this one.

[JKL2000]

It's true. However this particular version of Abacab did see an official release on CD as a B side in 1992 (on a single from The Way We Walk vol 1).

Man, you deserve to win a year's worth of Turtle Wax or something for knowing that!