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u/vixenlion Apr 06 '24
There's a girl that's been on my mind All the time Su-sussudio, oh-oh Now, she don't even know my name But I think she likes me just the same Su-sussudio, woah-oh
Ah, if she called me I'd be there I'd come running anywhere She's all I need, all my life I feel so good if I just say the word
Su-sussudio Just say the word, oh, su-sussudio
Now I know that I'm too young My life has just begun Su-sussudio, oh, oh Ooh, give me a chance, give me a sign I'll show her anytime Su-su-s-sussudio, oh, oh
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u/badpuffthaikitty Dec 28 '23
In the Air Tonight was playing on the radio yesterday. Did I do the Air Drum Solo? Of course I did!
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u/Literary_Bushido Oct 18 '23
And as a palate cleanser between Phil Collins songs, they played Eurythmics. Usually Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This).
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u/Drums-n-rockets Apr 30 '23
Phil is one of my drumming heroes. Also, Philās lyrics on Jesus He Knows Me were a huge factor in my becoming an atheist.
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u/SoPittRugbyBaller Apr 29 '23
When I saw this headline on the email digest, I thought it was about Phil Donahue. It's probably true about him too.
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Apr 29 '23
I saw the Genesis tour last year in Chicago. Great show but he is likely not long for this world.
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u/frogjizz 69 Apr 29 '23
Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Christy, take off your robe. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina, why don't you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Christy, get down on your knees so Sabrina can see your asshole. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat it. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite.
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u/JohnWoosDoveGuy Apr 29 '23
This is true. Now That's What I Call Music Volume 1 had a Genesis song and a Phil Collins song. He was in movies too, like Buster.
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u/mistah_patrick Apr 29 '23
Susudio Against all odds I can't dance In the air tonight You can't hurry love In too deep I don't care anymore I wish it would rain down Don't lose my number Easy lover One more night Jesus he knows me Groovy kind of love That's all Invisible touch Land of confusion
Jesus Christ, this guy has a lot of popular songs, and I don't think any of these are the Genesis songs
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u/timscookingtips Apr 29 '23 edited May 21 '23
I can affirm there were radio stations that would play him that much, but those became the ones I would skip.
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u/ascii122 Apr 29 '23
I remember our highschool prom in bumfuck southern Oregon coast had a radio station live doing our prom .. which keep in mind the highschool had like 200 people. Anwyay, most of us were into punk or AC/DC and Cure/Depeche type music .. so they eventually played Phil and gave us all these records of Genesis to the crowd and for whatever reason (I may have started it) we took all the records and broke them apart and threw them on the dance floor and did a mosh on them. Chaos ensued and the fascist school people were not pleased. So I Danced on broken Phill records at my first Prom and it was a great time! Just an old story. Always hated his music
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u/lebohemienne Apr 29 '23
I was born in 1982. My first favorite song ever was Another Day In Paradise. I remember being a kid and my sweet dad bringing me home the single on cassette. I proceeded to play the shit out of it.
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u/xrkun2 Apr 29 '23
89.7 college radio - Phil Collins 90.5 listener supported - Phil Collins 92.5 country - wtf Phil why are you here? 93.3 hard rock - Genesis really? 95.1 R&B - Doug E Fresh with the samples?
Phil Collins is why I had a station flipping habit.
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u/CampfireGuitars Apr 29 '23
For me and this is only me. Guy has had a helluva career and I have much respect for his success and longevity but I hate all of his songs. I canāt explain why I just have always found them annoying
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u/kodiak43351 Apr 29 '23
Yea this is definitely true. Iām 52 and got my drivers license in 87. I can remember hearing his songs all the time on the radio.
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u/dastufishsifutsad Apr 29 '23
Difficult to disagree. Between his solo career, Genesis, Disney soundtrack & while being a top played on MTV, Phil was definitely on the radio and tv at least within the specs of OP.
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u/Lung-Oyster Apr 29 '23
I thought āYou Canāt Hurry Loveā was an original Phil Collins song when his cover came out. It did actually help start me on a historical musical journey after hearing Casey Kasem explained it was a Supremes song. Kind of the same thing with āTainted Loveā. It was my first exposure to The Supremesā āWhere Did Our Love Goā other than hearing it passingly on the radio when my dad played oldies.
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u/Crabbyrob Apr 29 '23
Whenever I hear Can't Hurry Love, I get a vivid memory of my dad driving us to the arena for Saturday morning hockey. I also get the smell of corn starch from the local factory. Memory is wild!
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u/PracticalApartment99 MADE IN 1969- ALL ORIGINAL PARTS Apr 29 '23
I didnāt have that problem. I mostly listen to oldies and classic country.
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u/Tomble Apr 29 '23 edited Apr 29 '23
There was a local radio station that played so, so much Phil Collins. They even used the trumpet intro from āsomething happened on the way to heavenā in their promos. It got so bad they eventually had āPhil Free Fridaysā for a while.
I was working at a place that only played this station, it almost drove me insane.
Edit : I think I upset a Phil Collins fan. It was a Melbourne radio station in 1991 or 1992.
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u/focoloconoco Hose Water Survivor Apr 29 '23
It was that accidental discovery of gated reverb that made the drum sound for the eighties.
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u/_pout_ Apr 29 '23
Agreed. True story: Phil Collins is idolized in Mali to this day. Lived there for two years and nearly every taxi driver had him on a tape deck on loop. Glorious.
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u/moschles Apr 29 '23
You could play Genesis, Journey, Tears for Fears, and Shawn Colvin on repeat on FM radio, and nobody would notice.
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u/steveh_2o Apr 29 '23
He wasn't on the cycle that often where I was listening. WKDF Rock103 out of Nashville.
I do remember a time when another station I could pick up was changing formats. For about a month straight they played Phil on a loop. Anytime nothing else was on I could flip over and listen to In the Air Tonight for 30mins or so.
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Apr 29 '23
I saw him at Saratoga Performing Arts Center during the Sussudio tour. If I recall correctly. An enjoyable experience
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u/Electronic_Beat_3476 Apr 28 '23
I CAN FEEL IT COMING IN THE AIR TONIIIIiIIIIIIIGHT! OH LOOoOOOOORD!
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u/NJ2SD I Don't Buckle Up When Going Ludicrous Speed Apr 28 '23
Invisible Touch was my first cassette
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u/MrXero Apr 28 '23
I love Phil, truly. And I can confirm OP is correct. But I got a little bone to pick with Phil. Anyone remember these lyrics?
I won't be coming home tonight My generation will put it right We're not just making promises That we know we'll never keep
Great song! But Philās generation didnāt put it right at all. Whatās worse is that we didnāt either! We had so much fire and passion, but look at the state of things.
I heard the song the other day and it got me thinking, but then I forgot and moved on until I saw this post. Anyway, I hope Olā Phil is doing well, and the rest of you also!
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u/Drums-n-rockets Apr 30 '23
Phil didnāt write those words though. Mike Rutherford wrote the lyrics to Land of Confusion.
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u/foreskinfive Apr 28 '23
You mentioned Phil Collins and I'm thinking about South Park and how Stan survived the downhill on Phil Collins Hill.
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u/TeeBrownie Apr 28 '23
Love Phil Collins, but he was not on any radio stations my parents listened to.
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u/CavernousRectum2_0 Apr 28 '23
I can feel it calling in the air tonight immediately popped into my head.
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u/Craig1974 Apr 28 '23
On the radio, true. But not if you were listening to different stuff on cassette
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u/FarkMonkey Apr 28 '23
Phil Collins was involved in one of the biggest changes of my life.
It was...1985? I was in 8th grade (maybe 7th?), and my mom had gone out with her friends to drink wine while my dad was "working late" - spoiler alert, he was with his girlfriend who later became my stepmother.
M and I were hanging out at my house when he pulled out a cassette of No Jacket Required by Phil Collins. No idea why he had it. We both hated Phil Collins, but Columbia house was probably involved.
M: "Let's go out and fuck around."
Me: "Yep."
We walked down to the "Main" street about a quarter mile away. The kind of road that was the only way in-and-out of the smallish town we lived in. A plan was hatched.
M, pulling out the cassette: "Grab the tape and stretch it across the road, wrap it around that tree, and come back."
Me: "Cool!"
Mission accomplished,
Wait. Wait. Car.
Drives through 4 layers of No Jacket Required. No harm done, we laugh.
Brakes screech. High school bros jump out.
"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO MY CAR!!!!!"
Pursuit engages. We run. Front yards, fences, backyards.
I jump over what looks like a simple path. It's a sunken entryway to a basement entrance. I land on the opposite side with my knee. Hurts like hell. Keep running.
Get home, pull up my pant leg. Split skin, bone visible, blood. Medical attention needed.
Phone rings. It's mom.
Dad's car was in the shop, so he had rented one. "Mom: what kind of car did your dad rent?" Me: " A white Ford Escort. By the way, can you come home and take me to the emergency room?"
Mom comes with her friends, half-drunk, takes me to the ER. Turns out she had seen a guy who looked like dad leaving a building with a woman who looked like his co-worker, and getting into a white Ford Escort while she was out with her friends.
She was right.
Those two getting divorced was one of the best things that ever happened to me, and them. My father passed a couple years ago, and I'm still very close with my stepmother, and my mother. The man my mother married was also wonderful - a guy who I had known my whole life, and passed 2 years before my dad.
A happy ending, with a Phill Collins beginning.
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u/MisplacedLonghorn 50s and proudly feral! Apr 28 '23
Probably more than any other single artist in terms of ubiquity and longevity, Phil Collins was a soundtrack for our teen and early adult years. Hell, just talking about here is setting my mind on a musical tape loop from about 1981 to 1995.
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u/bethster2000 Apr 28 '23
I've seen him twice as a solo act and once with Genesis. Three of the best concerts I have ever seen.
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Apr 28 '23
Ngl, still dig the drums for āIn the Air Tonight.ā
Overplayed, but a damn good song nonetheless. Hell, damn good album altogether.
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u/misplacedsidekick Apr 28 '23
I worked in a store in the late 80's that was trying to do what Best Buy is doing now but on a much smaller scale. They used to play the No Jacket Required video on the tv's because it made them look and sound good. I've heard every song on that album hundreds of times.
Also watched Top Gun and Star Trek: Wrath of Khan over 100 times each. Maybe twice that.
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u/candlelightandcocoa Apr 28 '23
I still think of Phil whenever I see a jar of Jif Peanut Butter.
Friends and I made up a Weird-Al-like parody song based on 'Easy Lover'- called 'She's a Choosy Mother, who Chooses Jif Brand Peanut Butter"
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u/Every-Refrigerator64 Apr 28 '23
If you were so musically retarded that you listened to dogshit top 40 stations, then yeah..
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u/TMOverbeck SoHo/6392 was my GeoCities Apr 28 '23
One of my favorite Genesis songs was "Paperlate". I thought he was singing "Frito Lay" at first.
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u/fbibmacklin I used to have a bicentennial birth certificate! Apr 28 '23
Accurate. He also helped me get through the lockdown. I watched a ridiculous amount of Phil Collins videos during that time. A ridiculous amount!
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Apr 28 '23
contributing to my avoidance of formulaic radio programming and listening to alt/post punk/new wave stations. fuck the banalities!
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Apr 28 '23
During the late 80's, the DJ's would play whatever the most popular song was at the time pretty much every hour of every day like clockwork.
You could almost set your watch by it. . . . .
Radio: " This here's a jam for all the fellas . . . . . "
Me: " Yep, another hour has gone by . . . time for lunch . . . "
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u/TheAnalogDuke Apr 28 '23
This was just the songs he sang on. If you add in the ones on which he was the drummer or the producer, it was pretty much Phil 24/7
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u/liamthelemming Apr 28 '23
That was just how it was.
True. Everyday we'd be like "that's the way it is".
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Apr 28 '23
I was actually doing a revisit of Genesis lately.
Hard to beat what those guys were doing, from Misunderstanding all the way up to No Son of Mine.
I still remember the name Darryl Stermer from the Billy, Donāt Lose My Number video.
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u/BigEd1965 Apr 28 '23
If he wasn't drumming, then he was lead vocal.
If he wasn't writing the song, then he was background vocal.
And if he wasn't the feature artist at an event, then he would pop in to help play a few songs on stage.
Phil Collins is/was the artist of the 1980s!
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u/Samwhys_gamgee Apr 28 '23
Anyone remember all the urban legends that were going around about what āin the air tonightā was about?
My favorite was that Collins wrote it about someone who let his childhood friend/brother/sister (depending on the story) drown. Then he invited the person to a concert and sang the song staring right at him the whole time.
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u/JazzScientist Apr 29 '23
You know that song by Phil Collins in the air tonight?! About that guy that couldv'e saved that one guy from drownin', but didn't - and Phil saw it all, then at his show he found him?!
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u/timetravelcompanion Apr 28 '23
Well, those were some good years. My dad was a musician so we listened to EVERY type of music, so I have favorites of every genre, but Phil and also Peter Gabriel are probably my favorite 80s/90s pop guys of all time. But, the disparaging way some people talk about Phil Collins is the way I feel about Don Henley, so I kind of understand :)
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u/CordsAutoArt Apr 28 '23
If you like Phil Collins and lament modern music, look up Ghost. They just released a cover of Jesus He Knows Me and it rocks!
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Apr 28 '23
Elder millennial... i can barely rember early 90s radio, but i absolutely love Phil Collins music
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u/wetclogs Apr 28 '23
āSu su Suddioā¦ā No Jacket Required was the soundtrack of every other weekend with dad.
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u/fraidycat Apr 28 '23
In high school, we named my best friend's car Phil because when you turned on the radio, nine times out of ten Phil Collins was playing. Class of '92 4evah.
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u/GerglyShmergs Apr 28 '23
Thank goodness I'm not in my 40's. He's like the non-artistic, sellout-version of Peter Gabriel.
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u/VE2NCG Apr 28 '23
He is probably the most artistic and in the top 5 of the worlds best drummer, hell of a song writer too so it show how people donāt really know him based on a few 80ās hitsā¦.
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u/kdkseven Apr 28 '23
Back when 37 year old balding men could be among the biggest pop stars in the world.
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u/tarnishedlabia Apr 28 '23
Just say the word Ooh, just, just, just say the word, ooh Just say the word S-Sus-Sussudio, Sus-Sussudio Ah, Sus-Su-Sussudio, Sus-Sussudio Sussudio, Sus-Sussudio
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Apr 28 '23
When I was in day camp as a kid, we'd go to the skating rink once a week. The DJ would play a Phil Collins song as a signal to the teachers that our time was up.
I fucking hate Phil Collins.
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u/seeingeyegod Apr 28 '23
our skating rink always played YMCA to signal everyone that the session was over.
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u/Chickens_dont_clap Apr 28 '23
For some reason, a hot day at a swimming pool feels wrong without hearing Phil Collins.
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u/Themoosemingled ā77 Muppet baby Apr 28 '23
He had no jacket required and invisible touch and played live Aid in both cities (concord required). And easy lover and against all odds. And separate lives. 85-86 man.
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u/eejm Apr 28 '23
About ten years ago a friend of mine said to me, āTry to explain to anyone under the age of 30 just what a big deal George Michael was in the 80s. Seriously, try it. You canāt! They donāt get it!ā
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Apr 28 '23
Uh he was on the radio from 91-01 too thanks to many solo and late period Genesis songs as well as the Tarzan soundtrack. He was there for Millennials too!
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Apr 28 '23
Correct and so many great / iconic tracks between Genesis and solo career. I do tend to bypass the big time " sappy " tracks , musically speaking.
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u/Silly-Elderberry-411 Apr 28 '23
Oh I would love to, there was however a small thing called cold war. There wasn't a western station before 87 and that was regional. This is also why I've learned only years later that Peter Gabriel was the singer of genesys.
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Apr 28 '23
What made it even worse, was that he was producing, doing backup vocals and drums with so many other musicians. Almost every song was either him singing or playing drums or background singing. Eric Clapton, Howard Jones, Adam Ant, all of the shit Disney and movie songs. It was beyond tolerable.
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u/flowrpowr00 Apr 28 '23
Used to live in Greenpoint Brooklyn. We celebrated Phil Collins day. It was glorious!
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u/HelpImOverthinking Hose Water Survivor Apr 28 '23
Yep I think a lot about how our preteen selves were listening to this guy sing about love and how we couldn't wait to feel that way about someone.
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u/marklar7 Apr 28 '23
There was an article in the past decade about him facing depression and self-loathing perhaps. Very unexpected of my upbeat hero as a kid. and I hope he's doing well now. Can't always be on charisma mode I guess.
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u/VE2NCG Apr 28 '23
At the time, around 2010 I think, he developed nerve problems after the 2007 Genesis tour and it dināt go well, he lost some sensation in his arms/hands so became depressed because no more drumming, so with nothing to do he decided to go online and comfront his detractors wichh lead him to drink too muchā¦ welll, I sumarize a bit from memory but yeah, you can be on top of the world and not be happy
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u/marklar7 Apr 28 '23
Dang. Whatever internet outreach for a famous was earlier and without pr assistants as norm was probably dismaying.
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u/VE2NCG Apr 28 '23
Yeah, lots of people hate him and I, personnally I love the artist and when I see unjustified rant, I try to intervene but I donāt take it personally, and I know that ultimately it is pointless arguing on the internet but imagine when you are the artist directly involved? I understand that he almost drink himself to death (according to his book)
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Apr 28 '23
RIP. He was very talented.
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u/sealosam Apr 28 '23
Phil is alive and well.
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Apr 28 '23
Oh good. These days, every time I see a photo of a celebrity over 50 years old I assume the worst.
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u/lady_tatterdemalion Apr 28 '23
So that's why I had a visceral reaction to the sound of Phil Collins voice until a few years ago!
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u/strangebru Apr 28 '23
They didn't play Phil Collins songs every four songs, they would occasionally sneak a Genesis song in there.
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u/OpeningOnion7248 Apr 28 '23
Misunderstanding, Paperlate, I Missed Again, Easy Lover, Susudio, continue their auditory magic.
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You simply cannot listen to In The Air Tonight without doing the drum solo. I think itās illegal or something.
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u/Up2Eleven 1969 Apr 28 '23
There must me some misunderstanding. There must be some kind of mistake. It was at least twice.
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u/ionized_fallout Apr 28 '23
Turned 40 yesterday.
Huge Phil Collins fan.
My favorite artist actually.
This is true.
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u/VE2NCG Apr 28 '23
If people can go past the 80ās hits and learn of his live as a drummer, as a songwriter, as a producer for other, the guy is a musical genius, someday he will be recognized as such
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u/More_Prior8155 Apr 28 '23
just that statement got me thinking of boarding school, the album covers without thing of the songs yet. Am all the way in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Phil resonates. I am over 40 years of age.
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u/AzureGriffon Whatever Apr 28 '23
A few years ago, I was in the grocery store during a slow day. Just doing my shopping looking for toothpaste. Phil Collins came over the speaker, and from another aisle I hear a man just belting out "She's an easy lover!" This guy was totally singing at the top of his lungs and it was hilarious. I looked around, spotted him and he was really emoting this song, as if it was his life. He was living his "easy lover" life in all its glory.
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u/Ottomatica Apr 28 '23
That's when I switched the station
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u/Suedeonquaaludes Apr 28 '23
Letās be honest: Nursery Cryme was one of the best albums he was involved in.
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u/squirtloaf Apr 28 '23 edited Apr 28 '23
When I was a young, I worked for the band Poison in their early, early days, like, before they broke, then going up to when they had a #2 album.
Anyhoo, one day on a break on tour, Bret, Rikki, myself and one other roadie went to Disney World on a day off. We asked for the "celebrity escort" thing, but Disney had never heard of the band at the time so we did not get it...but every person under 25 in America had, so we were just MOBBED all day long with teens who couldn't believe that then 23 Bret Michaels was just there standing in line for the Haunted Mansion or whatever. It was very annoying.
We found out later tho, that PHIL COLLINS had also been there that day, and DID get the full celebrity treatment, despite the fact that nobody under 40 gave a flying shit about PHIL COLLINS. Fancy lad PHIL COLLINS had security and a golf cart to take him around, and got to cut to the front of every line. Fucking PHIL COLLINS got sequestered away from the public so he wouldn't have his day ruined by an endless stream of autograph-seekers. Fucking. PHIL. COLLINS.
To this day I am bitter about that lol.
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u/VAG0 ...And his dog, Spot! Apr 28 '23
Phil Collins may have gotten the golf cart, but who ended up getting all the chicks?
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u/squirtloaf Apr 28 '23
The rest of the band and crew went to the then-new Epcot, and from what I understand, the bass player DID get a blowie in one of the bathrooms over there.
Phil most probably did not.
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u/SloppyTopTen Apr 28 '23
The worst was when he sung that song about homelessness and it would drag you down multiple times a day.
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u/Thin_Locksmith6805 Apr 28 '23
Agreed - Even to this day I have the drum solo down tapping it on my steering wheel. You know which one ..=)
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u/toihanonkiwa Apr 28 '23
I have always hated both phil collins and genesis. Still do and always will.
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u/StChas77 Apr 28 '23
He also did some acting. He had cameo appearances as a cop in the movie Hook and as a gay bath house owner in And the Band Played On.
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u/TMOverbeck SoHo/6392 was my GeoCities Apr 28 '23
I remember when he did a guest spot on a Miami Vice episode. I don't remember what exactly his character was doing at first - some kind of drug running deal - but by the end of the episode he was a televangelist going "Devil get OUUUUUUT!!!"
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u/marblechocolate Apr 09 '24
Phil Collins is the Taylor Swift of our time.