TotW 03/11/2024 - 03/17/2024: GENESIS - Calling All Stations

14!

Probably the strongest track on the record (along with "The Dividing Line")...

Great rocky statement track for the album that the remainder (a few aside like Dividing Line and There Must be Some Other Away) fail to live up to. 13.

A favorite of mine. I love the forlorn, brooding atmosphere and heavy sound. Ray gives it his all, reminding me of Phil singing Mama. 15.

Best track on the album, but like the Rover SD1 was the best car in British Leyland range, it wouldn't persuade me that the Allegro was a head turner or that buying British Leyland would be a good idea. One would rather quietly enjoy the SD1 for the occasional guilty pleasure. If you get my drift.

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Best track on the album, but like the Rover SD1 was the best car in British Leyland range, it wouldn't persuade me that the Allegro was a head turner or that buying British Leyland would be a good idea. One would rather quietly enjoy the SD1 for the occasional guilty pleasure. If you get my drift.

Drifting in an SD1? Certainly easier than drifting an Allegro!

As for this, best track Genesis had done since Mama, not potentially much of a compliment, but it is, cos it's a great song. I quite like most of the album as it happens, the best since Duke IMO. 14.

While I generally like the album overall, this track is far from being one of my favourites. In fact, I've always found it quite curious reading the contrasting views of other fans regarding this song.

It has a jarring start, continues with this despondent tone, completely lacking of any melodious hook throughout its course and never rewarding the patient listener with anything I would describe as instrumentally adventurous or interesting.

I find it underwhelming but not unlistenable which is why it gets a 7 from me.

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Drifting in an SD1? Certainly easier than drifting an Allegro!

As for this, best track Genesis had done since Mama, not potentially much of a compliment, but it is, cos it's a great song. I quite like most of the album as it happens, the best since Duke IMO. 14.

I think I can continue my metaphor here.

190HP out of a v8, what a joke. It still had something but wasn't patch on what could have been. Rather like Calling All Stations. Mama in contrast saw them in a V8 with buckets of power and tons of class to boot, more of an Aston Martin.

It's OK. I quite like the dark tone and harder edge. It reminds me how frustrating I found it that they didn't go further down that road on another album and explore a potentially more gritty Genesis.

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While I generally like the album overall, this track is far from being one of my favourites. In fact, I've always found it quite curious reading the contrasting views of other fans regarding this song.

It has a jarring start, continues with this despondent tone, completely lacking of any melodious hook throughout its course and never rewarding the patient listener with anything I would describe as instrumentally adventurous or interesting.

I find it underwhelming but not unlistenable which is why it gets a 7 from me.

This basically describes my own opinion on the track. As I may have mentioned before, hearing part of this track kept me from checking out the album any further for some time.

It is good, particularly good as an album opener, but it is not my favorite on this album.

14 - very good, dark & brooding.

13/15 - one of their better tracks from their last three albums.

It's dark and very strong despite the "fucking" abrupt fade-out. I have some reserve about the bridge in the middle (i'm not convinced with Bank's effects on keyboards). A solid 14.

I gave this 9. It’s ok. I remember the first time I heard it and being impressed with the first minute or so and liking the darker sound and Ray’s voice. But there is something missing and that was the feeling I got from the whole album. It just lacks a bit of personality or soul, which Phil’s drumming and vocals gave them in abundance. Once I realised that if it wasn’t Genesis I’d probably never bother to play it again I never really returned to it much. (I have the same feeling about most of Mike’s stuff and some of Steve’s recent albums.)

As always - one of the strongest tracks on the album to open with but lacking something for me. If I’d heard it from a new band on the radio I’d have thought of was a good solid first record but I wouldn’t have bothered to pursue it. Great title though.

I gave it a 13. Shows the potential of what could have been if they continued

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I gave it a 13. Shows the potential of what could have been if they continued

agreed!

Although 14 points from me

13, that's a cracker, love it!

I like this album, but this is only ok for me.

It's a bit plodding for my liking. It doesn't feel like there's a lot going on with it.

However, if we ever discuss One Man's Fool...that's a different story.