Three Sides Live Meridian MS

Three Sides Live

Genesis

Atlantic, 1982

http://www.genesis-music.com

REVIEW BY: Benjamin Ray

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 05/23/2005

[Author's Note: This review refers to the reissue ofthis CD, which has two CD's of live material. The original Americanalbum with three live sides and one side of studio material is notpresent in this review.]

In my last review of a Genesis livealbum, I implied the band put out less-than-stellar livealbums. Both Seconds Out and Live had their moments, but were mostly just louder versionsof studio songs with very minimal changes.

But Three Sides Live expands on the studio versions of the songsit represents, which is mostly from 1978's …and then there were three to 1981's excellent Abacab. And let me say this up front -- I used to be a haterof Genesis after Peter Gabriel left, but after hearing this album,I became a true Genesis fan, purchasing the rest of their albumsand seeing the artistic merit present in each.

The title of this comes from the original album release -- someof the albums had a fourth side of live material, the same as theAtlantic reissue, and some had five unreleased pop songs. Thosesongs are nothing special.