I love the album more than Banks or pretty much anyone. But never got a rhythmic or melodic satisfaction from this song, parts would have been cool in grandeur compositions though.

Absolutely true..

Maybe this Is not one of the finest song. But maybe this album Is their best since 1977...

I always think Mike looks uncomfortable when playing lead guitar 🎸 4,some reason is that why when it's Phil s stuff Daryl is always on 🎸​@@sandrobollea707

Don't u think Mike always looks uncomfortable when playing lead 🎸 is that why Daryl usually played lead 🎸in the phil collins era ​@@sandrobollea707

I love it, this album made me look into stiltskin and I have been buying everything Ray does since.

These comments are everywhere! What is going on ??

This is the one song on the album I really liked.

_Calling All Stations_ would benefit from a new mix with attention paid to dynamics. There's so much Loudness Wars compression going on that listening to it for more than a couple of minutes turns becomes a real chore. Some of the fault lies in the arrangements themselves. Consider the title track: Ray Wilson and Mike Rutherford sound as if they were tasked with imposing a dramatic arc on a largely amorphous blob consisting of not much more than Banks' monotonous string pad drone and a drummer who has been told to keep it loud and simple and doesn't sound like he/she wants to be there. Rutherford adds some variety with dramatic rock and roll flourishes that aren't obviously connected to the material. Wilson sounds like he's the only one who's even trying, but it's all for naught because the mix is so muddy and the Loudness Wars compression pushes everything up to 11. The blame for the commercial and artistic failure of _Calling All Stations_ falls squarely on Rutherford and Banks. There is some good material in there, but Rutherford and Banks demonstrated that they lack the production and arrangement chops to cultivate it, so we're left with Ray Wilson singing karaoke within a half-baked, over-compressed mass of musical sludge. Why _Calling All Stations_ was remastered in 2007 remains a mystery. It's not as if the 1997 master didn't already have all of the characteristics that contemporary Loudness Wars "remasters" aim for. Anyway, there are plenty of flaws in _Calling All Stations_ that can't be fixed by mastering. Some could be fixed by a new mix that would take some creative liberties and maybe add some new parts and remove others. However, there's no reason to believe that Rutherford and Banks could improve on what's there already, considering how short of the mark they fell in 1997.

Come on. This is not just a bang average album overall but a pale imitation of what Genesis were. There are some good moments, like this song, but overall compared to every other Genesis record other than the first, it's pretty shit.

I do agree!!

YES!

Really love this song...it burrows into me and echoes for days; it's great how the intensity just keeps building and building

They are so proud that when there is a documentary about genesis you rarely see the C.A.S period... A shame! Ray wilson deserve the second album with genesis... Cas album is surely the one I listened to the most... I saw Ray last year in France... What a great moment... And how good nut was to live those genesis tracks again in concert...(with his solo career titles) Thanks to Ray to keep genesis alive during the old member are in their cave lol

Really? Carpet crawlers... Wow! Guess it take all kinds.

Please...There's no comparison between both...

Please. Of course there is a comparison. And listen to Carpet Crawl from Globen in Stockholm, Sweden. Ray Wilson OWNS that song.

@@bfdmudk There must be something wrong with your ears. Wilson no way sounds like Gabriel.

@@bellyofanarchitect My hearing is fine; your reading is off:-) I didn't say they sounded the same. I just said that Wilson's version of Carpet Crawl is fantastic. The official version with Steve Hackett on "Genesis Revisited 2½" is amazing too.

Lucy0809- Oh WOW! I guess that Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks ARE STILL with Genesis and Mike Rutherford is a very good guitarist and Tony Banks is a very good keyboardist too!

agree

he's always been totally underrated. check out Smallcreep's day, the whole album!

Both playing guitar or bass, IMHO.

Denis Morissette And he is a monster in the bass

He's dark and strange here. Absolutely Superb!!!! It's what I like most about this song.

Yes, great tune. This album was underrated because Phi Collins was not in....the music press is often stupid

Nothing fancy but very effective.

Never got to see this Genesis incarnation live, and until just viewing this I'd never seen footage of them either. But I'm impressed. Been a huge Genesis fan since 1973. Recently revisited the CAS album and it's much much better than I first thought. And whilst I've never regarded Mike Rutherford as in the same class of guitarist as Steve Hackett, I have to say for him to put down his 4 string bass and pick up a 6 string lead and do THIS rendition of CAS so well ... then fair play Mr Rutherford. I've heard others say this ... perhaps rather than sticking with the Genesis name, this incarnation of the band perhaps should have called themselves Banks/Rutherford or Bankford or even BRW. There might have not been such negativity towards this lineup if they'd had a name change.

Studio is standard tuning , that’s the reason

0:51 the song start

They were, and then cancelled it.

Should have carried on.........

Clive Pattison I wasn't fortunate enough. Thankfully we can all enjoy The Musical Box, which does a superb job in recreating those glorious shows of yesteryear.

Admiro mucho a Phil Collins, pero este trabajo me parece que es más para la voz de Peter, es más oscuro y se necesita a mi entender un tono más rockero y fuerte.

Mucho material hecho para Peter lo cantó PC poco tiempo después y le dió su impronta, PC a esta versión le hubiera dado una melodía que con éste no tiene.

No Banks or Rutherford No Collins No genesis!

The setlists showed that they weren't really willing to fully return to prog, sadly.

No it is not. Half the album are love songs. 🙄

@@joeblow2069 Nope, I stand by my assessment.

@@joeblow2069 And that's a problem how? IT was an awful disgrace. After ABACAB, the band lost its way. They may have sold millions, but they sold out.

@@ScottatHouseonaHill Love songs? Pop songs? Fans bashed Phil for making the band too commercial. Then they make an album totally without Phil that is just as commercial. CAS is a good album but it is not English prog. As for Mama-Invisible touch-I can't dance they are excellent albums with many great songs. No son of mine and Dream while you sleep are among their best songs. In any event we can disagree and still be friends. This is a band we both love. I just think Phil takes too much blame.

Anch'io li vidi al Palasport. Era il 1982. Allora erano i Genesis. Questi non so chi siano. Anche se questo pezzo non è malaccio, in fondo. Phil Collins ci chiamava "integralisti", cioè coloro che non hanno accettato il cambio musicale da Abacab in poi. Diceva: "vorrei dire a queste persone se hanno le stesse scarpe di venti anni fa, o portano gli stessi pantaloni". Purtroppo non ho avuto la possibilità di replicare una cosa altrettanto efficace: "Anche Beethoven presumo che abbia cambiato scarpe e pantaloni in 20 anni, ma non ha creato la "sonata al chiaro di luna" per poi decidere di suonare "tanti auguri a te" al pianoforte. Forse tra amici, ma non su un disco. Inaccetabile" Sia chiaro, non è una critica a te che hai scritto questo commento. E' solo una riflessione, per me che sono cresciuto coi Genesis, ascoltare questa roba è peggio di uno shock anafilattico.

i'm starting to wonder if Phil had anything to do with it.

Sorry, no, the album was garbage. No Collins, no Genesis. End of story.

@@dexterdog62 Thats Bullshit.

@@LaurinaHawks what’s bullshit is Banks and Rutherford thinking that the post Collins era of Genesis would have any appeal at all. Without Phil’s distinctive voice it’s a no win proposition. They wouldn’t even allow Chester Thompson to be a full time member of the band! Calling All Stations may have been looked upon as a decent effort if it wasn’t called a Genesis album. It’s obvious without Phil the allure and drawing power of the band diminished to embarrassingly low numbers.

@@dexterdog62 I don't know where you get this disgusting Phil Collins addiction from, but I can tell you that there are a lot of fans who can imagine Genesis without Collins very well. After all, the best albums were made without him - without him as a singer. Back then it was a certain Peter Gabriel, if you can remember that. Even then it was said that without Gabriel the band would no longer be Genesis, which was true to some extent, but at least Steve Hackett was still there, still keeping the prog flame high. But with Collins, Genesis became a mainstream band - without him and his influence, they would have had a chance at greatness again, they just had to hang in there. The album is musically far better than the last albums before. And anyone who says otherwise doesn't understand music.