Sum Of The Parts [2014]

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Sum Of The Parts is the sad lowpoint of a marketing campaign that failed completely. It reveals a complete disconnect. The shit storm after the “exciting news”, the production of a documentary like this and how the situation was handled as a whole unfortunately only mean four things: the band won't do anything together anymore. Internal disputes that used to be mere speculation were revealed beyond doubt and visible for everyone in the documentary. The management doesn't understand a thing about the dynamics on the internet and the band apparently doesn't care about their fans. Until they prove us otherwise. Presented with contributions from almost all the members of Genesis, all willing to provide the honest, agenda-free perspective that the passage of time has provided, how could this BBC documentary possibly fail? And yet, as the ensuing furore from fans and band members proved, the show’s editors and producers managed to seize failure from the jaws of success, and this extended release isn’t much of an improvement.

time) must for a Genesis fan for all the little jewels it contains, even if they're just a small minority During the 80s, a few problems with the dramatic composition start to crop up. This alone isn't all that bad since it would probably be difficult for any director to find a balance between all the solo careers and what's happening with the band. There's still barely any Steve in the documentary's 80s while Tony Banks is featured with a lot of quite poor songs. Invisible Touch is given far too much time, but the band also seems to be very focused on the success here. Finally, We Can't Dance is discussed as “the band's last transatlantic top 10 album”. Tony remarks that he somehow had that feeling of “that's it” with the last single Tell Me Why. This is followed by a jump to the 2006 band rehearsals (not 2007 as the subtitle indicates) and we're left to wonder whether the years 1993-2006 never really happened. In fact there's only a brief bit of You'll Be In My Heart and a few comments about Tony's classical projects and a few other songs from his solo career. Calling All Stations is left out entirely, even though it is a regular Genesis album and definitely interesting simply because it was created without Collins. Never mind that it managed to reach No. 2 in the German and UK album charts – both huge markets – and that the Europe tour was quite successful.Another surprise was Phil Collins mentioning that "Lamb Lies down" had some of the best material that Genesis ever recorded. band with this and this just push the boundaries of really bad documentaries for classic musical acts.

up to like 5 minutes worth of material. Pretty pathetic really. No one can possibly really learn the history of the

Not to mention that many facts were not included (such as Calling All Stations - ps. I don't care about the quality, a

This is very disappointing! It was such a big deal for fans and press when announced that BBC was making a Just like R-Kive, Sum Of The Parts also has a comprehensive booklet. The accompanying text is basically identical to the one from R-Kive, but a little more detailed. However, the frequent references to R-Kive seem a little strange. It's even worse that it's emphasized from the very beginning how balanced the documentary is. Booklets are not the standard with DVDs and Blu-rays (for example Three Sides Live doesn't have one), but the contents seem more than a little strange here – almost like Satire. TV 1½ times (I stopped the second watching and went to sleep at the point when Phil Collins takes the section features some extended interviews with each member but they really don't flesh things out a Surprisingly I'm only the third reviewer for this anticipated GENESIS documentary. I saw it on FinnishGenesis documentary and every member would contribute. But, here we have a documentary that its focus is the clips from the Trespass days, wow! But in retrospect, it must be admitted that the Gabriel era is indeed conversations either. It's certainly not only because of being a quieter person, for I've heard that he I've witnessed some delightful gnashing of teeth over this documentary film. Apparently some of our A little later, we have one of Steve's rare comments – about his first solo album this time. He explains his motives and apologizes for his step a little tongue in cheek. Tony's face in that scene speaks volumes though...