YMMV / ...Calling All Stations...

• Angst Aversion: One of the many reasons the album is seen in an unfavorable light is that it's far more somber and dour in tone than any Genesis album, in either the prog or pop era. While the band has never been strangers to writing albums with dark subject matter, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and Duke for example, they have always bathed it in a fun, quirky, or whimsy tone. This album completely shifts the band's sound into Alternative Rock angst and in doing so made what many viewers consider a miserable listening experience.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Many people, including the band themselves tend to pretend that the album never happened. None of the songs from that album were performed on the 2006–07 reunion tour.
• Mis-blamed: Ray Wilson gets so much flack, even though Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks were the ones who actually wrote most of the album. In the end, Ray was only doing what he was asked to. Some fans seem to have at least warmed up to him in recent years though.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Ray Wilson has seemed to parlay his brief stint into a substantial career. To this day, he still performs songs from the album live and appeared as a guest singer at Steve Hackett's 2013 Genesis Revisited II show at the Royal Albert Hall. Currently more than half his live set list consists of Genesis covers, including several songs originally recorded long before he joined the band.

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