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[jervo]

1.  My aunt Hope (my stepfather's sister) passed away on Sunday morning at the age of 63.   She was in great health, great spirits, and then suddenly she was in the hospital with pneumonia and meningitis; she spent 5 weeks in a medicated coma, and slowly fell apart.  Her death is as tragic as it is horrifying.  The family is in a great deal of pain

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[jervo]

My Genesis obsession has been with everything up to and including Invisible Touch (which has not aged well at all), but primarily with Selling England, Foxtrot, Trick of the Tail, and Abacab. The new remasters/remixes are out-fucking-standing - the drums in particular sound brand-new, but everything just sounds crystal clear and there's lots of stuff in the mix that I never heard before. Even the extra tracks got the remix treatment - "Happy the Man" in particular sounds fucking incredible.

[jervo]

Dude. Let me be the first to stand up for Phil Collins before he was taken over by pod people. Peter Gabriel is an impossible act to follow but Phil did it as well as anybody could, and the post-PG years aren't nearly as bleak as they're made out to be. Lamb and Selling England are classics, but Abacab, Duke and Trick of the Tail are pretty great as well. If you want to blame anybody for the direction that Genesis took, blame Tony Banks.

But above all else, Phil could play the shit out of the drums, and the remasters basically put his drums front and center, and we are all better people for it. The remastered CDs also contain DVDs that sometimes feature live footage - there's some great stuff on the Trick of the Tail DVD from the first tour after PG left (it's probably on the same tour that Seconds Out is from) and there's a fucking FANTASTIC drum duel between Phil and Bill Bruford during "I Know What I Like".

[jervo]

Well, trading street cred for millions and millions of dollars when you're old and bald is a pretty even trade, I'm guessing.