Genesis: Calling All Stations

A friend recommended this album to me recently, but this thread's Not About Us, it's about Genesis' much-derided Calling All Stations album, featuring Scottish singer Ray Wilson. I know There Must Be Some Other Way of saying this, but I'm actually beginning to like the album. I know the album's as dodgy as sailing down the Congo in a leaky boat during Uncertain Weather on an Alien Afternoon, but it's one of those strange albums that's on The Dividing Line between being good and bad, If That's What You Need to Hear. Call me an old fool, but One Man's Fool is another man's saviour, or so they say. Anyway, that's enough Small Talk for now, because it's time to feature my favourite track from the album, which is: Shipwrecked!  

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - December 08 2020 at 10:15

Mirakaze wrote: Oh no no no; some albums by prog bands straying into a genre they can't tackle convincingly at least have an unintentional comedic element to them, but to see one of the greatest prog bands humiliating themselves by playing this primitive, colourless and utterly lifeless watered-down grunge crap is depressing to the point where I’ve never been able to get through this album in one sitting. To put this out under the Genesis moniker should be a crime; avoid unless you’re a big Nickelback fan.

Mirakaze wrote: Oh no no no; some albums by prog bands straying into a genre they can't tackle convincingly at least have an unintentional comedic element to them, but to see one of the greatest prog bands humiliating themselves by playing this primitive, colourless and utterly lifeless watered-down grunge crap is depressing to the point where I’ve never been able to get through this album in one sitting. To put this out under the Genesis moniker should be a crime; avoid unless you’re a big Nickelback fan.

Cristi wrote: SteveG wrote: Peter Gabriel = David Lee Roth.   Phil Collins = Sammy Hagar.   Ray Wilson = Gary Cherone. I disagree

That figures.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Cristi wrote: Both Wilson and Cherone are both great singers, and it's not their fault the albums they were on flopped.  I might agree with you if I knew who Gary Cherone is.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Cristi wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Cristi wrote: Both Wilson and Cherone are both great singers, and it's not their fault the albums they were on flopped.  I might agree with you if I knew who Gary Cherone is.  Gary Cherone was the singer of Extreme and the third Van Halen singer, on the album strangely called Van Halen III in 1998. A rather weak album and poor Gary got the blame.  ...In just the same way as poor Ray Wilson got the blame for the Calling All Stations album.

I noticed in the credits for Calling All Stations that Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford were named as Anthony Banks and Michael Rutherford. It's almost as if they didn't want to be associated with the album, in the same way as Mike Oldfield distanced himself from his inferior Heaven's Open album by naming himself Michael Oldfield on the album cover. 

Cristi wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: I noticed in the credits for Calling All Stations that Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford were named as Anthony Banks and Michael Rutherford. It's almost as if they didn't want to be associated with the album, in the same way as Mike Oldfield distanced himself from his inferior Heaven's Open album by naming himself Michael Oldfield on the album cover.  just checked the CD and it says Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks. I don't know what you mean.

I only know the title track because I borrowed a Genesis triple CD from the library years ago and it was on it.  I enjoy select post 1980 songs by Genesis and Calling all Stations is one of those

chopper wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: I noticed in the credits for Calling All Stations that Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford were named as Anthony Banks and Michael Rutherford. It's almost as if they didn't want to be associated with the album, in the same way as Mike Oldfield distanced himself from his inferior Heaven's Open album by naming himself Michael Oldfield on the album cover.  I don't suppose too many people are going to be fooled by that. As others have said, if they hadn't brought it out under the Genesis name it would have had a better reaction. It's an ok album but it's not really Genesis.