Good album, but I don't like the fact it's two shows intertwined with eachother. It would be better if this was a double album, with one show per disk.
Favourite track : Right And Wrong
In my opinion, one of the weakest Genesis albums. Only select tracks are actually worth the time, and the story is unnecessarily complicated. I really tried to like this album but I just can't sit through some tracks. This album pretty much personifies all of the features I hate in my beloved genre, and is the only Genesis album I'd call pretentious.
In The Cage, The Lamia, Carpet Crawlers and It were definitely the musical high points, but as you can see by the tracklist, those high ... read more
Decent show, but not the best.
The remaster itself is really bad and uses an inferior source to the commonly circulating bootleg.
A quite sad quality-wise AM radio recording. This show features the live debut of Childhood's End and one of the best ever performances of Echoes
The final '74 night. Very good show.
This recording is a mystery. A very poor recording of YGBC only confirmed to be from this show has been circulating on the Pink Floyd torrent site ravinganddrooling. This recording does not match it, which means the full length recording posted on streaming services was mislabeled and is in fact from a different date. I haven't yet found a match for this recording and quite frankly, I have no idea what I'm looking at here.
For the purposes of this review, I'll only grade the ... read more
A very decent show plagued by quality issues (as is true for quite a lot of the '74 shows).
The weakest '74 night, and the main source for the god awful "Dark Side Of The Moon Live at Wembley 1974" live album. Many mistakes during DSOTM and quite low energy performances of YGBC and Raving and Drooling.
One of the two best nights from the '74 Winter Tour. This is one of Rick's best ever nights
3 shows edited together with the weakest one used as the main base. One of the worst live DSOTMs ever
I really do not understand how do people enjoy this.
It just sounded like distorted screaming or barely comprehensible rapping on top of chaotic vaguely music-adjacent sound.
Lasted 10 minutes. Never again.
Very solid album. I'm quite ashamed to say that hearing the final track "Big Log" on the radio in GTA 5 was the thing that pushed me to buy a cassette copy of the album and listen to it critically, but I was not disappointed.
1
Create an account to rate and review albums.
Recent Review Comments
On SqueethanFez's review of Genesis - ...Calling All Stations...
"The problem with CAS is that the album is full of ideas that just don't go anywhere. Sure, some songs are cool, and some melodies are nice, but the entire album just gets boring and stale after 20 minutes. When Phil was in the band, he was a big part of the writing and he gave the music more decisiveness (his own words btw)
Mike and Tony just don't have that on their own. Mike can write a good concise pop song, but then Tony overcomplicates it with cryptic lyrics and complex synths, and the original idea just falls flat on its face.
Wilson isn't a bad vocalist, but he doesn't help the situation either. He just doesn't fit Genesis, and has the stage presence of a potato, unlike Phil who constantly engaged with the crowd."
Advertisement