Genesis – Seconds Out

Fantastic sounding album and I'm happy it comes with the same picture labels as the Japanese pressing.

Strange woosh on intro side one and two. Horrible Press.

46 years between purchases, but this is a superb mastering and pressing. The quieter ages especially are a vast improvement on my original copy which is definitely showing its age.

The first disc is warped but it does not negatively affect the playback quality. Like others have said, side 3 has a skip right in the middle of Supper's Ready. Overall, the quality is less than I would have liked, but the album still sounds good.

Not sure what magic miles and abbey rd. sprinkled on this 1 but its stellar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At the outset, it needs to be understood that not only was I at this concert, I was in the middle of like the 3rd row. It's hard to convey how extraordinary the Showco lighting was together with the sound set up that Genesis were using, which truly was exceptional. So for those of us who were giant fans, the evening was quite literally spiritual in character, I've never ever gotten over the experience of that evening, to the contrary, it's a great part of the reason why I became the kind of audiophile I did, the kind who had quite high end kit, precisely to place Genesis in the living room whilst enjoying Seconds Out almost as much as I did that evening in 1977. I have multiple versions of it actually, I have this LP, which I consider outstanding; a very original US LP pressing that I also think is very good and pure analog of course, and an earlier reissue that's not so great really. But it's fair to say that this LP which I bought as soon as it released literally changed my life and in a wonderful way. When I crank this up, it's basically time travel, it's magical, religious even. When Musical Box ends, I feel the way the audience sounds when they just explode as the song ends, and I recall that I was lucky enough to witness that very same reaction from the audience in my live venue, I was certainly on my feet going a little bonkers, this is, after all, one of the truly great songs in rock full stop. But I want in conclusion to emphasize that I consider this particular pressing pressed at Optimal to be profoundly musical and dimensional and full of body, I love this pressing and recommend it highly. I have a recollection of the concert that allows me to say that I feel that this pressing is quite faithful to the live concert. You can't go wrong with it, really.

A steal at $17 from Walmart! Worth twice as much!

Digital Album, Digital Reissue, Digital Remastered, Digital Remixed, Half-speed mastered.

Great record.

Each sound is very well seperated and it sounds really clean, there is no surface noise.

The only downside is that in some vocals of the songs on the 2nd side of 1st LP there is slight distortion when PC sings. I think I just got bad luck but it's not that really noticeable.

In conclusion, I'd recommend this release to every Seconds Out enjoyer. You get a fresh record that's very well made, there is nothing missing from it.

The front cover on our copy has been signed by Phil Collins, himself. However, the inner sleeves are just plain with no photos on them.