No matter our stripe, no matter which era, no matter which album, all Genesis fans can agree:
"Calling All Stations" sucks
You know how DIFFICULT it is to get Genesis fans to agree on anything?! We're like the "Star Wars" fandom of music!
Wait, that was mean...
Anyway, I went back to it recently to see if it still sucked, if time would be kinder...
Nope! Still fucking sucks!
Imagine you're known as the most experimental, unique, wild band whose footprint and influence is on par with Run DMC in your field; and when one of your key members, who has guided you into superstardom and the most divisive era (even GIVING you a set of distinct eras in the first place, whilst keeping your sound: kudos!), leaves at long last: you decide to keep it going.
And what you make sounds like the first record deal given to a pretentious beat poet who later got done for sniffing bike seats and stealing a dog, and who LOVES to talk about the book "No Logo" and loves to corner people at parties to talk about how that thing they love is bad, and how much better vinyl is than CD.
It's the album equivalent of a Che Guevara shirt worn by an aging hippie twat who sneers at people who don't ride bikes, and thinks that Ricky Gervais is "just pushing the boundaries of comedy".
Time has only been unkind to this album, which sucks like a bukkake orgy in a wind tunnel.
And the wind tunnel is made of cum.
It's still bad, is what I am trying to say, and I cannot wait for the "Trainwreckords" on it.