Turn It On Again -reduxe

 Returns with a twist might of been an expression for what had we'd of been publishing at the time comes back now.

Way back around the mid ninties there were a series of catch all compilations for projects that came from the rock group Genesis, such as Mike & The Mechanics and Phil Collins all of which were issued on cd, the dominant format of the time, cassette and the new fangled for those outside of Japan, Mini Disc.

A MiniDisc itself looks rather like this literally a miniature disc in a protective plastic caddy that you insert into your player or recorder and reads offering similar sound to cd (Mr. Hifi Bore would get into a rant all about the evils of data compression, I'd say I'd struggle to hear it on decent equipment) and pre-recorded ones came in plastic boxes with notes and the like.

Genesis had been going for a long time, the late 1960's as a progressive rock group but by 1998 it was felt a compilation of their songs from 1973 to 1997 was needed for the casual fans who don't want to plow just under two hours of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway just to hear The Carpet Crawlers and those who liked the singles of the era where Phil Collins took on lead vocal duties such as Misunderstanding and Invisible Touch.

Given by the point I'd got a home recorder and portable player for on the bus listening to over three hundred discs by 1998 I bought that the rather clumsy Turn It On Again-The Hits straight on MiniDisc as that point Emi/Virgin were issuing titles over here.

The world turns in realms of music reproduction as the lp record, very much on life support by the mid nineties is now selling more than the cd, the MiniDisc lives in semi retirement despite calls to bring it back since Sony discontinued selling discs and equipment.

This on May 3rd this year we for the first time get that album on double lp on something that there's no shortage of equipment that works to play it on sounding pretty good with the singles edits and the odd remix that were made back in 1999 so I have now that edition to enjoy just for the hits as much as I have many of their albums on cd.