Small Talk (track) by Genesis
Small Talk appears on the following album(s) by Genesis:
- Calling All Stations (track #9) (this album) (1997)
- 1983-1998 (track #38) (compilation) (2007)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
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40/100  | 08/01/2025 04:21 |  AAL2014 | | 76/100 |
65/100 | 04/09/2025 08:50 |  Squonk007 | | 73/100 |
65/100 | 07/07/2023 05:12 | juanr1096 | | 79/100 |
80/100 | 04/25/2023 18:06 |  paladisiac | | 64/100 |
70/100 | 08/27/2022 10:25 | Exist-en-ciel | | 76/100 |
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This track has a Bayesian average rating of 68.4/100, a mean average of 65.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 65.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 13.2.
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Squonk007 08/13/2021 17:27
The weakest track on the album. Only Ray's voice offers a glimmer of hope. I'd have preferred one of those left off the album, maybe Anything Now, to this track.
Calling All Stations went so deep without a genuinely below average track... and we finally get one. Subpar lyrics, yeah, yeah, yeah... but the oozing cheesiness of the main melody is just unforgivable, mostly caused by Banks' completely unfitting and uninspired keyboards. Ray Wilson saves a little face with a nice vocal delivery, and the choruses are better than the verses, but the majority of this song just isn't all that great. It's not terrible, but this is the kind of song that gives Calling All Stations its reputation.
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