Genesis - Seconds Out FLAC peaSoup

Year - 1977

Country - UK

Genre - Progressive Rock

Type - FLAC

Level - 5

Length - 95:31

Source - Retail CD

Seconds Out is a live double album by Genesis, released in October 1977. It reached No.4 in the UK, remaining in the charts for 17 weeks.[1] The performances were recorded in Paris in 1976 and 1977 on their tours in support of A Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering. At the end of several songs the crowd can be heard encouraging the band to play another song by chanting "Une autre!" which literally means "another one".

History

Seconds Out is the band's second live album following 1973's Genesis Live. While the earlier live set had been released to mark time while they recorded Selling England by the Pound, Seconds Out was planned as a major release, an authoritative document of Genesis' sound with Phil Collins as frontman and lead vocalist. The recording includes former Weather Report/Frank Zappa drummer Chester Thompson at the start of his long tenure as concert drummer for the band. Former Yes and King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford, the first drummer to take over for Collins on the stage, played drums on the band's 1976 tour, from which the recording of "The Cinema Show" was taken. Thompson replaced Bruford on the band's 1977 tour, which was the source of all other songs on the album. Guitarist Steve Hackett left the band during mid-1977 as Seconds Out was being mixed. A critical and commercial success, the album hit No.4 in the UK and No.47 in the US, where their popularity was still gaining steam.

Until Genesis Archive 1967-75 (1998), Seconds Out contained the only official live recording of Genesis concert staple "Supper's Ready".

On the Genesis – A History video (1990), Banks jokes that, after Hackett announced his departure from the band, "we just mixed him out of the rest of the album and that was it, really". During a radio interview right after the album release, Phil Collins stated that most of the 1977 sections were taken from the third of the five-night run at the Palais des Sports in Paris from 13th June 1977, which was also recorded and broadcast in part by French radio RTL.

The album's credits include details of which drummer(s) are playing on each song. Mixed in with these credits are the notes "Robbery Assault & Battery - keyboard solo Phil" and "Cinema Show - Bill Bruford, Phil keyboard solo". This should be read to mean that Collins played the drum kit (along with Thompson or Bruford) during that solo, not that Collins played keyboards.



Side one

"Squonk" (Banks/Rutherford) – 6:39


"The Carpet Crawlers" – 5:27


"Robbery, Assault and Battery" (Banks/Collins) – 6:02


"Afterglow" (Banks) – 4:29

Side two

"Firth of Fifth" – 8:56


"I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" – 8:45


"The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" – 4:59


"The Musical Box (Closing Section)" – 3:18

Side three

"Supper's Ready" – 24:33

I. "Lover's Leap"


II. "The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man"


III. "Ikhnaton and Itsacon and Their Band of Merry Men"


IV. "How Dare I Be So Beautiful?"


V. "Willow Farm"


VI. "Apocalypse in 9/8 (Co-Starring the Delicious Talents of Gabble Ratchet)"


VII. "As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs (Aching Men's Feet)

Side four

"The Cinema Show" – 10:58


Pavillion de Paris – 23 June 1976


"Dance on a Volcano" (Banks/Collins/Hackett/Rutherford) – 5:09


"Los Endos" (Banks/Collins/Hackett/Rutherford) – 6:20