1. Looking for Someone [5.1 Surround Sound] 2. White Mountain [5.1 Surround Sound] 3. Visions of Angels [5.1 Surround Sound] 4. Stagnation [5.1 Surround Sound] 5. Dusk [5.1 Surround Sound] 6. Knife [5.1 Surround Sound]

#There is a god! (2008-11-21) After the 2 previous excellent boxsets covering the later years of Genesis, the 1970-1975 boxset has finally arrived and is the ultimate proof that there is a god! What a magnificient job Rhino has done with the remastering and packaging of these essential albums from Genesis. The sound is majestic and powerful on all albums. It doesn t matter if you listen to the 5. 1 Audio dvd or the remastered cd version of any album in this boxset, you ll be knocked off your shoes!As for the many audio and visual extras, what a treat this is to watch old footages of t...

#Excellent collection but....... (2008-11-13) . . . . where s Genesis Live? If I can get the full concert recorded for that album as a 2 CD bootleg with very good sound quality why isn t it here?Otherwise well worth the wait!

#The best of GENESIS best!!! (2008-11-12) Some times the band GENESIS , doesn t get the credit that they truly deserve. It should be a no brainer? Right , ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE? Any band that once contained PETER GABRIEL , PHIL COLLINS , TONY BANKS , STEVE HACKETT and MIKE RUTHERFORD , should be in any one s , ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME. Not only has the band GENESIS itself sold millions of albums but we also have to look at the band member s solo careers. The numbers and awards are simply outstanding by any measure. O. K. , it then could be argued by some that record sales mean very...

1. Angel Came Down 2. O Come All Ye Faithful/O Holy Night 3. Star to Follow 4. First Snow 5. Silent Nutcracker 6. Mad Russian s Christmas 7. Prince of Peace 8. Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 9. Good King Joy 10. Ornament 11. First Noel 12. Old City Bar 13. Promises to Keep 14. This Christmas Day 15. Angel Returned 16. O Holy Night 17. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Is the Trans-Siberian Orchestra s Christmas Eve and Other Stories a holiday rock opera? Or perhaps just a holiday prog-rock disc? Or maybe it s New Age? Whatever the case may be, this isn t your typical Christmas album. Filled with electric guitar solos, plenty of synthesized keyboards, a children s choir, and lively drumming, Christmas Eve can only be compared to one other record, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra s other holiday disc, The Christmas Attic. On this CD, angelic vocal solos (on numbers such as The Prince of Peace) are interspersed with driving instrumentals. Sentimental, occasionally bombastic, but as high-concept as holiday albums can be. --Jason Verlinde

#It rocks! (2004-02-18) This is one of my favorite CD s, and you don t have to listen to it just at Christmas. I especially like the instrumental songs, some of the vocals aren t my favorite, but it s still great!

#The Spirit of Christmas Renewed! (2004-01-24) I really thought that Mannheim Steamroller was fantastic, until I heard TransSiberian Orchestra. A great deal of the music played around the holiday season that I had attributed to MS was actually TSO! I bought all the MS CD s, but could not find the music that prompted me to make the purchase (how embarrassing!). Now with two holiday CD s, and a new Rock Opera (",Beethoven s Last Night",) they cannot be beat! They are even better if you can get a chance to see them, they break into to touring groups, East and West. You never kn...

#Do not be deceived, this CD is a Classic. (2004-01-14) Unlike all of the other Christmas artist who try to copy classic Christmas songs the Trans-Siberian Orchestra completely reinvents them. Traditional songs on this CD are out into music unlike any other. The best songs are. . . . wait all of them are good. This is a classic that will be cherished for years. I saw them in concert on December 27, 2003 and was completely blown away by their wonderful performance. Don t be fooled by these bad reviews that say that they are a washed out 80 s rocked band. These guys are for re...

#Just Amazing (2004-01-04) Well all I can say is that this is the best Xmas album I ever heard. The music is increidble and the story is stunning, they have classic songs and also some original songs, and all of them are great. I would like to give all of you a very little summary of this album. In the first two pages lies the story, you should read it first to understand better the whole album. After you read the first two pages, you can play the music and read carefully every lyric, and the reason of this is that every song in this album is a part of the story. In the booklet you ...

#A great CD... (2003-12-28) . . . for the microwave, or under the short leg of your table, or as a shooting target. Tooth-rottingly sugary, pretentious, overblown, commercialized crap from a half-a$$ed sell-out 80 s band.

1. Faith Noel 2. The Lost Christmas Eve 3. Christmas Derams 4. Wizard in Winter 5. Remember 6. Anno Domini 7. Christmas Concerto 8. Queen of the Winter Night 9. Christmas NIghts in Blue 10. Christmas Jazz 11. Christmas Jam 12. Siberian Sleigh Ride 13. What is Christmas? 14. For the Sake of Our Brother 15. The Wisdom of Snow 16. Wish Liszt (Toy Shop Madness) 17. Back to a Reason (Part II) 18. Christmas Bells, Carousels and Time 19. What Child is This? 20. O Come All Ye Faithful 21. Christmas Canon Rock 22. Different Wings 23. Midnight Clear

If you re looking for something out of the ordinary for the season, The Lost Christmas Eve is for you. This final entry in the Trans-Siberian Orchestra s rock opera trilogy is perhaps their most ambitious and complex in the series. Like its predecessors, The Lost Christmas Eve tells the story of heaven s youngest angel called back to earth to continue Jesus unfinished work. This time he lands in New York City to help redeem not only Christmas, but the soul of humankind itself with a story line that rivals anything Frank Capra ever dreamt up for the big screen. Conceived and composed by Aerosmith and Savatage producer Paul O Neill, most of the song were penned O Neill, Robert Kinkle, and Savatage founder and keyboardist Jon Oliva, and features the rest of the seminal Florida metal band on the record. While not as bombastic as Savatage s fourteen rock epics which touch on topics as diverse as the Russian Revolution, the 15th century explorer Ferdinand Magellan s descendants, and Beethov...

#Finally, a different spin on Christmas music. (2004-12-29) It seems that every radio station in December has a mandate to play all the known possible re-sung versions of traditional Christmas music. It gets so pervasive that I constantly flip channels trying to find something that does not spoil the mood by over use of sappiness or blind repetition. At last, here is something different. From Trans Siberian Orchestra, this album puts a new, complex and unique spin on both old standards and new original Christmas Music. I listened to this album by chance and was pleasantly surpris...

#Inconsistent Effort (2004-12-23) I really enjoyed moments of this CD, which brought great rock sounds to some traditional Christmas music. There are some other good moments with choral voices. However, I hesitate to play the CD, because I don t want to sit throught some painfully monotonous and predictable songs, and some with horrible voice parts (who told that guy he could sing???)to get to the few good ones. Still, there are 23 songs on the CD, so you may feel there are enough of merit to make it a worthwhile purchase. I would estimate one-third of the songs are good, and ...

#Stories of Christmas (2004-12-07) Trans-Siberian Orchestra is not Christmas music for mall-shoppers -- it s richly symphonic Christmas music. And The Lost Christmas Eve is a rock opera of epic proportions, giving a new edge to Christmas music while telling a story about love, magic and beauty. It s Christmas music for classical fans, rock fans. . . or anyone who appreciates a new spin on the old. It opens with a bang in the guitar-driven fervor of Faith Noel, a sweeping rock reinterpretation of O Come All Ye Faithful and The First Noel. Following it up is the eerie title track, a...

#once again very moving (2004-10-14) I absolutely love the fact that these hard rock/metalmusicians can take something as done and overdone as christmas music and put such an interesting spin on it!!!Its unique,refreshing,its what the hard rock/metalfan who love christmas music is looking for,They fufilled my need to try and fuse my two favorite types of music. This cd, their 3rd christmas effort has its own story to tell,made my wife cry its kinda sad but with a message,if you like the first two,this will not disapointalso see them live!!! I am gonna for the 3rd year straight,you wont ...

1. Overture 2. Midnight 3. Fate 4. What Good This Deafness 5. Mephistopheles 6. What Is Eternal 7. Moment 8. Vienna 9. Mozart 10. Dreams of Candlelight 11. Requiem (The Filth) 12. I ll Keep Your Secrets 13. Dark 14. Für Elise 15. After the Fall 16. Last Illusion 17. This Is Who You Are 18. Beethovan 19. Mephistopheles Return 20. Misery 21. Who Is This Child 22. Final Dream

Trans-Siberian Orchestra s first two recordings, a pair of late- 90s Christmas albums, hinted that some day TSO might evolve into a latter-day ELO or even an ELP. Instead, this overwrought concept album shares more common ground with ALW (Andrew Lloyd Webber) or Meat Loaf. TSO, in fact, aims to retrace a path once traveled by producer Jim Steinman, the mastermind behind the theatrical, over-the-top rock opuses that briefly transformed Mr. Loaf and Bonnie Tyler (Total Eclipse of the Heart) into mass-audience favorites. TSO ringmaster Paul O Neill (once a guitarist in Broadway productions of Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair) here ditches the holiday themes and instead scores a simple-minded fairy tale (whose text spans a 32-page CD booklet) that involves Beethoven s soul, the devil, and an imaginary Symphony No. 10. Too often, the music is the servant of the project s thin plot, and the rock-classical instrumental bravura that initially attracted public attention to TSO (at times, the gro...

#Astonishing, Outstanding, Excellent (2005-10-16) Let me start off by saying that this album blew me away from just the first listen. I have two other TSO albums, ",The Christmas Attic", and ",The Lost Christmas Eve",, as well as one Savatage album, ",Streets: A Rock Opera",. I didn t know what to expect of this album. Since it s by TSO, I knew that it would be good, but I didn t know that it would be this good. If you are a fan of TSO, this album is a must have. Also, it doesn t revolve around Christmas which is nice.

#Mind-blowingly Good (2004-05-18) If I had to pick any one musical recording to take with me to isolation (on an island or such) this would be the one! Even better than Christmas Eve & Other Stories, this album is musical perfection! The song What Is Eternal is one of the best songs ever recorded, but the whole album is fantastic. I have long been a fan of symphonic/orchestral/progressive rock (The Moody Blues is a longtime fave) and this album is absolute symphonic rock perfection! The only thing I need now is more music like it!

#Fantastic!!! (2004-01-25) This CD is fantastic!!! It is very entertaining. I just can t say enough about it. . . . BUY IT!! You ll love it! This is great for at home listening but also great for highway/interstate travel.

#Nothing Out There Like It (2004-01-10) About 4-5 cuts into this CD, I was wondering if I had made a mistake. By the time the end had come, I was completely hooked. Great story and terrific music. Make sure you read the notes before listening to the CD so you can follow the storyline through the songs. I especially like the instrumentals. No one does this kind of thing better than TSO.

#Beethoven s Last Night~TSO (2004-01-07) I am a long time listener of classical music. What TSO has done with the music of Beethoven is outstanding. This is a masterpiece ! If you enjoyed Emerson, Lake, & Palmer s Pictures at an Exhibition then you ll like this. We enjoyed their Christmas concert a year ago. This one is a keeper.