On Phil Collins...

[moderate rock]

Phil Collins fooled a lot of us as youngins..

[dave from knoxville]

Phil Collins fooled a lot of us as youngins..

No more than Stiv Bators or Richard Hell, really. It's only in hindsight that you can look back and have the necesary perspective to judge which musicians had lasting talent, and which just happened to be pushing all of your right buttons as you struggled with your adolesence.


I would challenge you to reassess the collected works of Anne Murray, now that you're no longer obsessed with "cool".

And Roger Whitaker.

[masterofsparks]

Hall & Oates, too. They rule.

[Spoony]

I can't believe this Phil Collins thread has made it to 4 pages.

[Gibby]

I can't believe this Phil Collins thread has made it to 4 pages.

Yacht Rock is big news again in 2K8.5

[iAmBaronVonTito]

I can't believe this Phil Collins thread has made it to 4 pages.

and dip its toe into sci-fi.

[senorcorazon]

I can't believe this Phil Collins thread has made it to 4 pages.

and dip its toe into sci-fi.

C'mon......






















PAGE 5?















PLEASE?

[senorcorazon]

How 'bout this -- remember the Phil Collins song "Another Day in Paradise" that has his big statement about homelessness? I was on a bus in Italy once a guy was singing that to the American girls as a ballad. Missed the point but made the song better than ever.

[senorcorazon]

Crap. Still not five pages?!

[Steve of Bloomington]

I liked Phil Collins in the 80s.  Nothing wrong with that.

I went to a show on the 'Invisible Touch' tour.  Something wrong with that.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

Crap. Still not five pages?!

maybe...now?

[Tim K in DC]

So I just went down to the friendly neighborhood Walgreens to purchase discounted vitamin-rich beverages and guess what song was playing on the satellite radio? Hmm?

"Paperlate" by Genesis.

Which I thought (mistakenly) was a solo Phil Collins song (it's got that whole peppy "Susudio"-ish horn thing, etc.).

Which I thought (also mistakenly) was called "Keep Her Late."

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[jbissell]

Crap. Still not five pages?!

maybe...now?

NOW.

nevermind

[Allen Towne]

Maybe the dumbest thing I ever read was in a mid-1990s Rolling Stone ellipsis-ridden column that went something like:

"Phil Collins' Tarzan soundtrack is being released in 11 different languages. Why? His voice is unmistakable…"

Think about that for a second.

[emma]

I would challenge you to reassess the collected works of Anne Murray, now that you're no longer obsessed with "cool".

And Roger Whitaker.

DFK, have you ever read Lester Bangs' Anne Murray reviews? You should.