I noticed this too, I was actually wondering if something is wrong with my sound card when I was listening from my PC or if those are MP3 artifacts? Strange thing.
That aside, I can live with non-perfect sound quality since these are radio broadcasts. The '78 recording has a strange stereophony, the audience appears to be phase-shifted. I am curiuos which way this was recorded.
It is good, particularly good as an album opener, but it is not my favorite on this album.
You can see that when they had the HOF induction with Steve there.
Really? That event felt like the suppressed tension of a divorced couple being forced to make small talk on a family meeting.
Been listening to it all the last weeks, it is actually running right now in my CD player.
I spent nearly an hour last night reading through reviews, in the end I found myself trying to find any positive reviews at all. This box set got an overwhelming number of negative reviews, the common complaint is "why didn't they release the full shows". Nearly every reviewer moans about what this release is not instead of enjoying it for what it is. On the other hand, wasn't this on #1 in the German album charts? I wonder if this is because people actually had to buy it to have a listen to it since it was never released on any streaming service. A 5-CD box set with unreleased material is definitely not what any "casual" fans would purchase in 2023.
Anyways, I enjoy this a lot.
Tony Banks at his very best. A masterpiece, clearly showing his real talent.
a series of dull, unimaginative and sometimes cringeworthy meanderings which Ray was called in late to improvise some vocals over. If he was actually at the table as a proper writer and arranger, in there at the very beginning, Calling All Stations could have sent the band in an interesting new direction.
There's only four songs that credit Ray as a co-writer. I wonder if 'Not About Us' is the only one out of these which he wasn't just responsible for the lyrics but for the music as well? That song always stood out for me, it shows what Ray might have added as a song writer, had he only had more chances.
This one never did much for me. I prefer 'The Light' by miles.
^ I agree with all of this and I couldn't put it any better.
I made a few efforts to check out Wilson's solo work and side projects, however in my book I found him to be a solid to good song writer and singer, yet it never went beyond the "yea, nice stuff" point. The special something just wasn't there. I haven't seem him live though, I think I should take that chance for once.
Wasn't Peter talking in some interviews in the early 2000s about ideas concerning the Lamb story? A musical, a film, something had to be done with it. My guess was too that recording the vocals for Archive 1 plus Carpet Crawlers '99 must have set him on this track. Who knows, maybe he realised the most obvious path would be a Lamb reunion tour with his old band mates.
Maybe he means the "hasn't it"?
Tony and Mike both repeatedly answered to questions on a 5-man lineup reunion: "People seem to forget we could only play songs from the Gabriel era."
How could we all miss this point - who would want to see a Genesis concert without I Can't Dance, Throwing It All Away, Hold On My Heart, etc.?
There's some interviews with Tony Banks where he was asked if a quartet reunion was a possibility, each time he clearly denied: Steve is part of the quintet, he is only in if Peter is in too.
Banks and Rutherford could both do a great lyric as well as ones that were awkwardly clunky (Banks) or maudlin (Rutherford). Collins sometimes could write a good lyric (e.g., Take Me Home), but I find many of his phrases kinda trite and obvious (e.g., Another Day in Paradise).
Me being a non-native speaker, I had to look up the words "clunky", "maudlin" and "trite" as I wasn't familiar with any of them. I get what you mean - thing is, my mind just works this way, I don't know why - I was thinking right away that "Clunky, Maudlin & Trite" would be a cool name for a funny cartoon show about three dorks who try to be superheroes! 
Other presenters on the same channel have played DWTMK and FoF.
Lucky you! That would be a dream come true.
At least we have a station here (SWR 1) that plays classic rock bands' longtracks in an evening show. They played Supper's Ready in full length.
I am not either a regular radio listener, I hear radio mostly in other people's cars or homes. No surprises when it comes to Genesis songs: Follow You Follow Me, Land of Confusion, actually I can hardly recall any other Genesis song coming up more than once except these two. For Peter Gabriel it's Solsbury Hill or Sledgehammer, other Gabriel songs don't exist; Phil Collins gets still most airplay of all Genesis men. I can't even count how many times I've heard Another Day in Paradise. For Mike & The Mechanics it's Another Cup of Coffee or Over My Shoulder, sometimes Word of Mouth.
11 for a good track. The live version is even better. Again and again we had these, well, interesting observations of how different us fans perceive songs. I can only speak for myself but I just can't get into the mindset of you guys who speak of too much musicianship in regards of this song. I respect your views but it is completely alien to me.
It was even better live on the two tours it was played on with Phil's fun hero/villain intro, Mike's sterling bass work and Daryl's fast outro guitar.
If I'm not wrong this was the only track off ATTW3 in which Daryl played guitar and Mike was on bass. I noticed this again when I was listening through the BBC box. It shows very clearly Daryl was a much better lead guitarist and Mike a much better bassist, a pity they would switch roles for most other new songs then.
I have never heard Abacab on the radio but I noticed an inofficial edit of Land of Confusion I heard in the radio a few years ago. The entire mellow middle part plus the keyboard solo and the following third verse and chorus were cut out. The second chorus led right into the outro.
You just reminded me I completely forgot to mention this: in the days after Christmas I was visiting my dad and his wife; when we were having breakfast my step-mom had the radio playing, it was an internet radio station I wasn't familiar with ("Schwarzwaldradio") which caught my attention because they played those kinds of hits from the 60s to the 2000s that all other mainstream radio stations ignore. Right in the middle of some 70s/80s songs, lo and behold, a Genesis song came up. Guess which one? It was Calling All Stations. First time I ever heard that one on the radio.
This sounds like no time has passed since the classic 70s/80s Billy Joel era. His voice has hardly aged and the song is so much his signature style. Just the drums are strange, I would like a version of this song without these drums.
The recent discussion about Burning Rope and Phil's comments on that song has got me thinking how vastly different the Genesis members' styles are in terms of lyric writing.
Who would you pick as your top 3 of best Genesis lyricists? I allowed 3 votes because I don't want one person to win with flying colours, I am really curious who will make it as #2 and #3. You can count in lyrics from solo work too, imho this makes sense since some Genesis members have left quite few lyrics within Genesis work.
I read the Foxtrot book in German and it is incredible, I was overwhelmed by all the detailed work that went into it. The only little thing that bothered me slightly was some awkward wordings that I believed to be coming through translation from English - due to the author's name I had believed him to be British, it took me a little time to realize he is German. Anyways, the book was worth every word, it is really a unique insight into the band and everything around them at this specific time.
