The storming of the charts, yet very well advised!

This album is now no longer floats in the Prog-water, so you should start here good criteria, inovative, atmospheric pop music. So then results my rating. If you would set the criteria of Genesis albums from the 70s here, you have to deduct a minimum of 3 star ... It would simply be a unfaierer comparison which would not serve the cause.
This album comes from a short window of time in which it appeared it still possible to commercially successful and to make the same high-quality and inovative (pop) music (see also Police, Talking Heads, etc.). This balancing act is here fully succeeded. Genesis makes no special effort more to verschleieren what is at stake. It's about the big coal to fun but also to musical feeling. And the latter, this disc plentiful! The melodies are catchy and consistently footed, but also advised very atmospherically.
The very first song 'Mama' begins quietly, with a drum machine! What is that ?! Well, on 'Abacab' Mr Banks has sometimes even used wind sounds, one of which is later Uncle Phil still make ample use ... One probliert maintenance obligations from experimenting.
Slowly evolving 'Mama' but further and at the latest when using the guitar and the keyboards fat, it gets really brilliant. Collins can here - so it seems - with his voice still do what he wants.
This mandatory longtrack that starts slowly and then increases up to the climax, is offered in this form on all following albums:
1. 'Invisible Touch' - 'Tonight, Tonight, Tonight';
2. 'We Can not Dance' - 'Driving the Last Spike ";
3. 'Calling All Stations' - 'Alien Afternoon'.
Here you have more 'Home by the Sea' call, which mainly live extremely atmospherically come off (when finally comes the 'Mama' concert on DVD ???) and merges into a second, purely instrumental part. This is, in addition to 'Mama', the only place where it still going gets really powerful and bombastic.

'Just a Job to Do' is a rock piece, whose theme is carried simultaneously by a mute guitar and keyboards. Here you would need to replace only the rolls! Banks namely simulates a guitar sound ?! What if you have a guitar player on board?!?!? The piece comes but nice-upbeat therefore.
On 'Silver Rainbow' to Collins raging then again really nice.
The hit song "That's All 'should now each / r, the / which is about 25 years old, to be known.
The drawback:
The eel-smooth production, this album takes all hardness, except in a few places where this was apparently not possible (as 'Mama') and is responsible for the actual pop feel.