Free at last, free at last thank GOD almighty, we are free of Phil Collins at Last!

HAHAHA

RIP

What a terrible thing to say!

This is the man who played drums on Another Green World, don't forget.

And while Genesis on the whole were kind of lame, I betcha I can name five good songs from them under Colllins' direction right now: "Land of Confusion," "Man on The Corner," "ABACAB," umm, "Keep it Dark," and uhh, uhh, "Turn it On Again."

And though I ain't buying it, a recent thread here says "In The Air Tonight" was worth bothering with.

And then there was the whole Brand X thing, a respectable jazz fusion thing that I can't really comment on, other than to say it was probably alright.

So chill, there's a lot more to bitch about than Phil Collins, y'know?

if u stressin about phil collins making music u can succ a dicc

You haven't really heard "In The Air Tonight" until you've heard it done DJ Screw style.

haha I still want to make a tribute album to this dude
sort of wesley willis meets like a tim style

just in case you guys weren't absolutely sure if I really hated music and wanted it to die or not

His last decent solo album was released in 1989 anyway, so he will not be missed for now. Hopefully the others can make him change his mind whenever Peter Gabriel is ready for a reunion tour though ;)

His last decent solo album was released in 1989 anyway

1989 1981

Been talking to Hongro all my life...

if u stressin about phil collins making music u can succ a dicc

-- and what, Friday, April 25, 2008 1:27 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

otm

srsly tho hating on phil collins is the functional equivalent of hating on sting or bono or something, pls just go write jay leno's monologues or something equally inoffensive because youve revealed yourself as the most boring person on the planet

phil collins has been a part of a lot of good songs.

phil collins really wasn't THAT bad, even later. i remember liking one of the 'tarzan' songs and i owned 'both sides' once. i heard 'i can't dance' after 'baby baby' by amy grant on the radio today and it was kind of awesome.

lol max likes sting and bono

u2 and the police have some bangers too

she's got a body under that shirt
but all she wants to do is rub my face in the dirt

phil collins >>>>>> bono > sting

i would probably still enjoy 'fields of gold' in spite of myself.

Only when he's high, tho. (xxxxp)

i wonder who smokes weed still outta those three. i could see bono being more of a drunk now. phil probably still burns one and listens to jazz or something....stings is probably xxxSXExx now w/all that yoga and shit

Sting hangs out with the most jazz musicians

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2359527921

xpost
yeah but they are all like guitar mag dorx that are down with the wyton marsalis type shit

ya that's true. seems more Yusuf Islam than Cat Stevens

i like phil and sting, not a huge bono fan tho i like u2, mostly im just annoyed with grinning idiots who think its funny or cool to hate the biggest and most obvious targets in the world, plus ever since i gave into the mellow stylings of these dudes a few years ago and stopped being all ian mackaye about this shit my life has been a lot more fun, ppl should consider unclenching thr butts and putting on face value cause it fuckin rocks

dude is a studio genius even if he has written some shitty songs in his time

i mean this is the motherfucker that all but invented gated drums with a couple other dudes and yall are gonna be like "lets get free of phil collins"

i guess not yall really just oilyrags and geir

dude had a special compressor put in a mixing desk just for him.. not too many famous musicians you can say that baout

http://ak.buy.com/db_assets/prod_lrg_images/276/63970276.jpg

^^ this is not a bad album

srsly tho hating on phil collins is the functional equivalent of hating on sting or bono or something, pls just go write jay leno's monologues or something equally inoffensive because youve revealed yourself as the most boring person on the planet

portrait of the hardman as a young man

omg screwed "In The Air Tonight" is changing my life

http://www.sendspace.com/file/gn5bws

^^ dope cover of in the air tonight by toure kunda

Oh well, he has a career in porn to fall back on.

oh think twice

i mean this is the motherfucker that all but invented gated drums with a couple other dudes

I'de give most of the credit for that to Hugh Padgam. (And Bruce Springsteen had quite a bit of gated drums on "Hungry Heart" already, didn't he?)

LOL at that porn! OMG

i've been waiting for this moment for all my life

i like phil and sting, not a huge bono fan tho i like u2, mostly im just annoyed with grinning idiots who think its funny or cool to hate the biggest and most obvious targets in the world, plus ever since i gave into the mellow stylings of these dudes a few years ago and stopped being all ian mackaye about this shit my life has been a lot more fun, ppl should consider unclenching thr butts and putting on face value cause it fuckin rocks

-- max, Saturday, April 26, 2008 1:44 AM (21 hours ago) Bookmark Link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/11/True_Colors_2007_The_Tour_CD_cover.jpg/300px-True_Colors_2007_The_Tour_CD_cover.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y148/Juror8/anim_a6fe4b55-5519-3464-3562-5e93f7.gif

yo more people need to download that cover i uploaded its tite

I don't own any Phil Collins albums, but I've liked almost every single of his I've heard. I like his nasal, unassuming vocals, and he's very good at crafting pretty pop songs. I even liked "Both Sides of the Story" and "Dance into the Light".

You mean, someone liked "Dance Into The Light"? Impossible. :)

srsly tho hating on phil collins is the functional equivalent of hating on sting or bono or something, pls just go write jay leno's monologues or something equally inoffensive because youve revealed yourself as the most boring person on the planet

-- max, Friday, 25 April 2008 22:52 (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

Max is so fucking OTM.

i dunno, i grew up hating all three of 'em. americans get british pop wrong, film at 11.

i don't know how hating one shitty singer is the "functional equivalent" of hating two other shitty singers -- it's not a challenging opinion to hate them.

probably about as challenging as slamming jay leno's monologues?

challops about challops about challops

I was under the impression Phil Collins hadn't actually done anything in about 14 years anyway?

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/scaryblog2/images/6-picture1.jpg

Free at last, free at last thank GOD almighty we are free of John Major finally free at last finally finally!

Possibly the scariest album cover ever:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002JB3.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

It's a still shot from the video for "Ello, John Gotta New Motor?"

If Graceland was, as some critics have suggested, Woody Allen Goes To The Townships, then this was kind of the Fred Macauley budget version.

i dunno, i grew up hating all three of 'em. americans get british pop wrong, film at 11.

-- banriquit, Monday, 28 April 2008 11:00 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Nah, I think Max is right. It's all about easy targets, innit. "free at last, free at last, thank GOD almighty" from a guy who's barely made any records for the last decade at least, from a guy who's played on some straight up classic records, and who's one of the best drummers ever to come out of this country. The comments section on that nme link is like
http://www.sheep101.info/Images/sheep_racing.jpg

What on earth is a "fud"?

hmmm...

Gra Howling
Apr 28, 2008

All you people just follow on current trends like a flock of sheep, wake up and appreciate great music like Phil's, instead of being funny haired clones!

gra to geir in five moves...

Like going into retirement is going to keep me from hearing One More Night, every night, at work.

srsly tho hating on phil collins is the functional equivalent of hating on sting or bono or something, pls just go write jay leno's monologues or something equally inoffensive because youve revealed yourself as the most boring person on the planet

-- max, Friday, 25 April 2008 22:52 (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

It's predictable and I can think of greater demons but he's just kinda yucky and I can sympathize with the reaction.

last night on VH1 Classic there was a history of Genesis and i didn't even turn it off after Gabriel left. some decent shit phil did

lol enrique u are quite the contrarian

"A Trick Of The Tail" and "Wind And Wuthering" were two of the best albums ever made. Phil didn't do much more than sing and drum on those two though.

All English men look like Phil Collins.

lol enrique u are quite the contrarian

-- max, Monday, April 28, 2008 7:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

wtf? it's you with the chall-ops here, saying p-col and those other dbags DON'T suck.

consensus opinion on thread (and in world) seems to say phil doesn't suck. which makes you the contrarian surely? Not a bad thing, it is good to be an individual

though like everyone else here I got no problem with Phil either

things were so much simpler in the 90s.

Not quite everyone else here.

though like everyone else here I got no problem with Phil either

well.. other than the fact he's a Tory piece of shit;)

Well, judging from the 2000 and 2004 elections, most Americans are Republicans. And rather a Tory than a Republican after all.

Stick to the music before you make an even bigger fud of yourself.

One of the things that always made me laff:

If you called yourself a republican in the UK, you are a lefty trotsky red basterd or something.
If you called yourself a liberal in the USA, same result.

Reverse both, and people go ah.

"....he is more interested in his collection of memorabilia from the Battle Of The Alamo than music. 'It's not that unusual for a man of my age, who grew up reading Davy Crockett.'"

Ummm...but, yes, in fact, that is "unusual."

I'm more interested in Davy Crockett than Phil Collins' music, but there you go, how old am I?

"A Trick Of The Tail" and "Wind And Wuthering" were two of the best albums ever made. Phil didn't do much more than sing and drum on those two though.

lol

"....he is more interested in his collection of memorabilia from the Battle Of The Alamo than music. 'It's not that unusual for a man of my age, who grew up reading Davy Crockett.'"

Ummm...but, yes, in fact, that is "unusual."

-- Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:45 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

"And it's not even that big of a deal, something like 8 percent of kids do it."

"judging from the 2000 and 2004 elections, most Americans are Republicans"

Umm, no-that's not how it works

nrq you need to embrace post-irony

<i>"A Trick Of The Tail" and "Wind And Wuthering" were two of the best albums ever made. Phil didn't do much more than sing and drum on those two though.

-- Geir Hongro, Tuesday, April 29, 2008 1:32 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Link</i>

haha geir your biggest aesthetic problem is you think the drumming is the least important part of rock music, when it's really the most important part.

Composition is the most important part of any kind of music, regardless of genre.

ppl compose drum parts too dillweed

Well, prog rockers like Genesis sometimes did. Mostly they are largely improvised though.

Pros: Gated drumming, Eleventh Earl of Mar
Cons: Is Phil Collins

Well, prog rockers like Genesis sometimes did. Mostly they are largely improvised though.

-- Geir Hongro, Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:04 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

rong

produced and played drums on this A+++ Frida (of ABBA) song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz5DkTF2RW8

great drummer

Yeah, the Frida song is one of my all-time faves.

I really like his work on the first two Robert Plant solo albums as well.

Wow I haven't heard that Frida song in a long ass time! I used to like that one a lot.