CALLING ALL STATIONS

Well - listened to it, beeing sometimes surprised, sometimes disappointed, sometimes bored...understand this as a missunderstanding of what a band as genesis can be - or better said shouldn´t be: back to the roots without motherearth under the feets cannot be done! I like the old stuff, especially foxtrot, in second place trespass and selling england, in third the lamb lies down on broadway, and i hoped to find some of theese her on this album. Yes, I was searching for musical essentials of peter gabriel or some of the lyricals of rutherford or collins - uh collins, like him or not, he´s a grat musician, even though he is more and more the buisenessman, and also boring in musical manners today. I searched and I found: A playground of typical passages from the middle of all, drums played nearly as they´ve been played by collins, banks arrangements and ruttherfords styles from duke and abacab, only a idea of what they did during the seventies, but all this doesn´t fix together. As long as we forget this is genesis, it is a nice little record (just as the record, marillion did after fish was gone) nothing more, nothing less...but don´t look on the cover, this is GENESIS. GENESIS? ...from Genesis to retaliation...

Maybe, after a little while, after hearing it again, after understanding the meaning and the essentials, I will like it - but in fact this never will be one of my favorites...