Originally Posted by
peterpyser
When CAS came out Genesis had already lost a large part of the audience who bought Invisible Touch and We Can't Dance.
Times change, people change, musical tastes change even more, so their decline in sales in that period wasn't really something strange in my opinion.
Nobody can prove it, but i believe if Collins hadn't left, CAS would have performed more or less the same.
It would have been a totally different album for sure, with different songs and sounds, but i don't believe it would have made better in the charts. Nor would it have been a better album.
It went that way... patience.
The only thing that leaves a bad taste in my mouth is that the best songs from the CAS sessions in my opinion are the 3 b-sides from the Not About Us single, which were the last things they did, and to which Ray Wilson finally made a contribution.
Maybe a second album would have been more focused and solid if they just had a go at it.
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