Album of the Day

Calling All Stations, by Genesis (1997): When the Banks-Collins-Rutherford Genesis reunion was announced, I wondered whether any material from this album would make it into the set list. It is, like Drama in the Yes catalog, viewed as something less than a “true” Genesis album by a lot of folks because Collins isn’t on it. That’s a shame, because there is some good material on here. It’s not a great album – anything with “Shipwrecked” on it can’t be great. And there is a good amount of fairly low-impact material. On the other hand, “Alien Afternoon,” “Uncertain Weather,” and “One Man’s Fool” fit right into the epic pop-prog tradition of the late Collins era (think “Domnio” and “Driving the Last Spike”).