Genesis on Calling All Stations

Genesis comments on their fifteenth album Calling All Stations.
Genesis 1983-1998 Box
Calling All Stations
Shipwrecked
Congo
Link For Trespass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BErcue-cdkU

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[utcan1]

Ray: you are great," they " made a mistake...that´s the real truth, for you to know CAS is one of my favorites...god bless u.

[laughingpines]

This Genesis album stands along side of any other Genesis album.

Nothing wrong with it - quite the opposite, a damn good album.

[smurfblood]

Two problems: 1. The ballads stank. It's like they were trying to compete with Bryan Adams. 2. Ray's good, but it's hard to make Tony's lyrics sound natural. It seems that Peter, Phil, Tony himself and, maybe, Nik Kershaw, were the only guys who could pull it off.

[melomane2010]

@squonkynut I think most of the serious fans of Genesis, from both the Gabriel and Collins (pre-Face Value) eras, had high hopes for a dark, moody no-Phil Genesis. I certainly did, and the clips I had heard of CAS were quite intriguing - the album itself is quite good - some of the ballads weren't up to snuff ("Shipwrecked" is both musically and lyrically monotonous) but I love tracks like "Calling All Stations" and "Uncertain Weather".

Unfortunately, Tony and Mike took the coward's way out.

[melomane2010]

The album was actually quite good - the critics and their knee-jerk lambasting of the record was quite predictable. The fact that a Genesis without Phil Collins would no longer be able to sell millions of records and fill stadiums in the musical landscape of 1998 should have been inescapably clear to Banks and Rutherford.

But obviously it wasn't inescapably clear to them, based on their explanation for cancelling the U.S. phase of the tour for CAS.

And thus a great band ended, shamefully so.

[squonkynut]

very dark and atmospheric album - I do think its very intense. Genesis wouldn't have lasted much longer anyway because of the emphasis on bland inoffensive manufactured rubbish being released. I love Ray's voice and I think he did a fine job. I feel alot of fans weren't prepared to give them a chance. Alot like some Gabriel fans not prepared to give Collins a chance when he took over - sound familiar?

[isitrealgood]

To say "Calling All Stations" is nothing but "pop songs" is false. There are some of the same epic, atmospheric songs that you heard on "Genesis" or "We Can't Dance". You might want to go listen to the album again. I'd be curious to see what would have happened had Banks and Rutherford had worked with Wilson and Nir Zidkyahu from the beginning, also.

[999cjg]

4am and ive just finished watching them. great stuff. BEST BAND EVER

[SlitMouthWoman]

Favorite Genesis album.

[marmas58ink]

4:56 "My favorite's Shipwrecked, I think" Mike says. Mine too, from the start.

W/in a mth I'd written my own version, due mostly to the lines "Why do you say you want to be with me,but the next day say you don't" They bothered me coz they move the song from the existential-universal expression it otherwise readily inhabits (like Robinson Crusoe his island).

This song should NOT be (as wikpedia calls it) a 'break up song', teenage angst is IMO an unworthy sentiment for the feelings in the music.

[roccotool]

Yes, it was time to give it up, with or without Phil. All they were doing was churning out pop songs, one after another, at that point. But what a long, great trip they took us on, all those years. Thanks for letting me go back to those days, Wann.