History Music / CallingAllStations

* NewSoundAlbum: An attempt by the band to incorporate their sounds with AlternativeRock influences.

->''"Calling all stations,\\

Watching the darkness closing around me."''
-->--'''"[[TitleTrack Calling All Stations]]"'''

''...Calling All Stations...'' is the fifteenth and final album by Music/{{Genesis}}, released on 1 September 1997 by Creator/VirginRecords.

The previous album ''Music/WeCantDance'' sold well in 1991, but reception was mixed through a combination of backlash against the overexposure of lead singer Music/PhilCollins and the change in the music landscape that took place over the late 80's and early 90's. Within a few years in hiatus, Collins officially left the band to focus on his solo career, leading Music/TonyBanks and Music/MikeRutherford to seek a replacement while writing new songs in 1996. After auditioning various candidates, they named Stiltskin frontman Ray Wilson as the replacement, an announcement made official to the public in June 1997.

Alongside Israeli session drummer Nir Zidkyahu and Music/SpocksBeard drummer Nick D'Virgilio, the band made their recording sessions in the first half of 1997 before releasing the album to the public later in the year. Reviews were brutal, albeit with some of the otherwise harsh reviews complimenting Wilson's performance and a couple songs in particular. After a promising No. 2 debut in the UK, sales dropped off quickly afterwards, and while sales in Europe were merely modest, reaching as high as gold certification in some major markets within, sales in America were catastrophically bad, being the first Genesis album in two decades with neither a charting single nor a Billboard top 50 debut[[note]]''We Can't Dance'' went four times platinum by the mid 90's, making the dropoff that bad[[/note]]. Additionally, that No. 2 British debut was the highest it ever reached, thereby becoming Genesis' first album since ''Music/AndThenThereWereThree'' to miss the top position on the UK Albums chart.

Genesis toured in 1998 throughout Europe to promote the album, but the American leg had been cancelled due to low album and ticket sales. At the conclusion of the tour in 2000, the group disbanded, and regrouped only twice since then as a touring group with Phil Collins. Tellingly, only two songs on the album have ever made it to compilation albums and none are on the itinerary of the 2007 or 2021 reunion tours. While the album has picked up a cult following in the years since its release, its reputation as a CreatorKiller sill pervades it, bearing the burden of putting an ignoble end to what was once one of the biggest ProgressiveRock bands in the world.

Alongside Israeli session drummer Nir Zidkyahu and Music/SpocksBeard drummer Nick D'Virgilio, the band made their recording sessions in the first half of 1997 before releasing the album to the public later in the year. Reviews were brutal, albeit with some of the otherwise harsh reviews complimenting Wilson's performance and a couple songs in particular. After a promising No. 2 debut on the UK Albums chart, sales dropped off quickly afterwards, and while sales in Europe were merely modest, reaching as high as gold certification in some major markets within, sales in America were catastrophically bad, being the first Genesis album in two decades with neither a charting single nor a Billboard top 50 debut[[note]]''We Can't Dance'' went four times platinum by the mid 90's, making the dropoff that bad[[/note]]. Additionally, that No. 2 debut in the UK was the highest it ever reached, thereby becoming Genesis' first album since ''Music/AndThenThereWereThree'' to miss the top position.

Alongside Israeli session drummer Nir Zidkyahu and Music/SpocksBeard drummer Nick D'Virgilio, the band made their recording sessions in the first half of 1997 before releasing the album to the public later in the year. Reviews were brutal, albeit with some of the otherwise harsh reviews complimenting Wilson's performance and a couple songs in particular. While sales in Europe were merely modest, reaching as high as gold certification in some major markets within, sales in America were catastrophically bad, being the first Genesis album in two decades with neither a charting single nor a Billboard top 50 debut[[note]]''We Can't Dance'' went four times platinum by the mid 90's, making the dropoff that bad[[/note]].

Genesis toured in 1998 throughout Europe to promote the album, but the American leg had been cancelled due to low album and ticket sales. At the conclusion of the tour, the group had disbanded, and regrouped only twice since then as a touring group with Phil Collins. Tellingly, only two songs on the album have ever made it to compilation albums and none are on the itinerary of the 2007 or 2021 reunion tours.

Alongside Israeli session drummer Nir Zidkyahu and Music/SpocksBeard drummer Nick D'Virgilio, the band made their recording sessions in the first half of 1997 before releasing the album to the public later in the year. Reviews were brutal, albeit with some of the otherwise harsh reviews complimenting Wilson's performance and a couple songs in particular. While sales in Europe were merely modest, reaching as high as gold certification in some major markets within, sales in America were catastrophically bad, being the first Genesis album in two decades with neither a charting single nor a Billboard top 50 debut.

''...Calling All Stations...'' is the fifteenth and final album by Music/{{Genesis}}, released on 1 September 1997 by Music/VirginRecords.