Genesis-Calling All Stations.

When Calling All Stations was released in 1997,i was mightily worried that Genesis had made the wrong call,and should have called it a day when Phil Collins left the band.On first listenings my fears were confirmed,and i put the album away,and didn't listen to it for years.I returned to it last year after hearing Small Talk on the radio.You know what I really enjoy it now.Alien Afternoon,Not About Us,The Dividing Line,One Man's Fool are all very good with that traditional G sound.Ray Wilson did a decent vocal on this,and its a pity Banks and Rutherford didn't give the band one more album with Wilson on board.I actually now prefer CAS to We Can't Dance,which had some good tracks,but had plenty of filler too! Are they're any other supporters of CAS? Or should Genesis have ended when PC left the band?

I like the title track and Congo, and I thought the rest was sub-par.

I stopped buying after Wind and Wuthering....though GKR makes a decent point about stopping after PG left.

dr wu23 wrote: I stopped buying after Wind and Wuthering....though GKR makes a decent point about stopping after PG left.

But Trick of the Tail is my favorite!

I like the title track and "Uncertain Weather". 

I remember liking 'One Man's Fool', although that may have been because it is the last track! I'll have to listen again, although I'm not even sure I still have the CD.

the lighthouse keepe wrote: When Calling All Stations was released in 1997,i was mightily worried that Genesis had made the wrong call,and should have called it a day when Phil Collins left the band.On first listenings my fears were confirmed,and i put the album away,and didn't listen to it for years.I returned to it last year after hearing Small Talk on the radio.You know what I really enjoy it now.Alien Afternoon,Not About Us,The Dividing Line,One Man's Fool are all very good with that traditional G sound.Ray Wilson did a decent vocal on this,and its a pity Banks and Rutherford didn't give the band one more album with Wilson on board.I actually now prefer CAS to We Can't Dance,which had some good tracks,but had plenty of filler too! Are they're any other supporters of CAS? Or should Genesis have ended when PC left the band?

I was very happy when Banks and Rutherford decided to pursue and carry on with CAS - It's a shame that it wasn't well received; I just wonder was it just because Collins wasn't there anymore? A new lead singer? Genesis has always been a band in transition, musically and personnel-wise - When Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, and eventually Phil Collins all departed, it became more clear that Banks & Rutherford were always the nucleus, the core writing team in Genesis. Always a band that never looked back and always surged forward its a shame they eventually did call it a day after CAS - I wish they had not -

Like any album CAS certainly had its highs and lows - Alien Afternoon and If That's What You Need were some of the highs for me - I don't think CAS comes anywhere near the brilliant We Can't Dance; and if it had plenty of "filler" it certainly filled up all the sold-out venues on their world tour! Maybe it wasn't by accident or chance that the last track on We Can't Dance was Fading Lights

 

After all the bad remarks I've heard from others about CAS, I've never been even the slightest bit tempted to see if they were true.

[/QUOTE] Whoa .... OK , to be clear, I have pretty much everything Genesis have done from Trespass on , hell I've even got a copy of Spot the Pigeon and most of their solo efforts. They are for me my all time favourite band and my favourite Genesis albums range from Selling England to Duke, but We Can't Dance brilliant ? Not in my book. It's even less appealing than Invisible Touch and going by my recent listen I'm thinking CAS is better than either of its predecessors. Indeed CAS is probably better than Genesis the album. "Better" in this context means of course only that my ears think so but to me those albums simply lack depth.
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Well I suppose it can be said that 'music is in the ear of the beholder (or listener). So I stand my ground with We Can't Dance because I still heard all the classic Genesis elements in this album; "Fading Lights," "Spike," or "Living Forever." But that's my ear, as we all have them to enjoy this great historical parade of music from a 'brilliant' band.

I like CAS and IMO this is a "Underrated" Album. There are some weak point in it but CAS better than "Dance" of Genesis specially Bank Dance!