SHES AN EAAASY LOVER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1kDmnHyOBg

this is basically the best song ever imo -- did this at karaoke last nite & have never had so much fun

I tried it once singing the Philip Bailey part. I blew out my voice, while my bro blew out the windows with his shouting.

i can pull off a falsetto typically but trying to do a philip bailey falsetto is like ... the only thing harder would be el debarge at the end of 'i like it' i think

omigod

both are physically impossible after cigs and drinks

― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Sunday, February 22, 2009 10:40 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

You are right, this is the greatest song...my last.fm will back up that I have a v deep love for "Easy Lover."

good god this song was my childhood

you people who weren't grown up when this song was new will probably have a hard time understanding that it sucks

THE OWNLEEE WAYYYY

YOU'LL EVER KNOWWWOWWWOWWOOW

AHHHHHHHH AH AH

Actually I was in high school when it came out and i think i kinda liked it then *shameface*. But as a general rule I hated Phil Collins.

But dont listen to me, I liked Go West when I was 15 :/

you people who weren't grown up when this song was new will probably have a hard time understanding that it sucks

condescending AND true!

i never said it was a good or bad song! i just said it was my childhood.

as was the Top Gun soundtrack

you people who weren't grown up when this song was new will probably have a hard time understanding that it sucks

Does this also explain how I feel about "One More Night"?

I was 5 when it came out and i loved it. one of my earliest childhood memories was hearing that song in the car

altho most Phil Collins solo sans "In the Air tonight" and "Against all Odds" sucks donkey feces

You kids today with your Grizzly Bears and Animal Collectives, you don't understand Phil Collins.

Phil was at his best when he wrote songs that were used in tv shows involving cocaine

yayo-rock

millennials amirite

YOU'LL BE DOWN ON YOUR KNEES!!!!!

It's a really good song and one of Collins' better ham-fisted productions, so fuck you.

in general Phil Collins songs are great for karaoke. this and against all odds are my favourites.

she's the kind of girl you dream of
DUN DUN-DUN
dream of keeping hold of

I stuck this on the jukebox last time I was in a pool hall. It's so vibrant - it murdered all the boring metal that those greasers had been spinning.

I went on a trip to San Francisco with my dad when I was 14, spring of 9th grade. He was interviewing for a job that he didn't end up getting. We stayed in a hotel near the entrance to Chinatown, a place designed mostly for Japanese tourists. The windows opened. I was listening to a lot of top-40 radio that summer ("Obsession" et al), and "One More Night" was in the top 10 then, and I heard it all the time. Anyway, one night when I was on my own, I would sit on the windowsill, listen to "One More Night," and watch streetwalkers trying to engage Japanese businessmen in conversation on the street below.

"Easy Lover": love the meta-meta-meta video. And my theme song.

this song is terrible

it murdered all the boring metal that those greasers had been spinning.

That video cuts out the intro... I do not approve.

I remember once reading an interview where Phil Collins described the creation of the song and he was talking about how it started out real smooth, but that he directed his band to stomp on the fuzz box and make it more "rock"...like he made it this raw animal.

I mean the song is still a shimmering piece of pop, the distorted guitar makes it no more rockin' than Toto's Hold the Line.

Doesn't mean it's not a great song tho.

also Philip Bailey never gets the love he deserves on this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9xY_cPenSs

ok much better

oh one other thing about Philip -- I saw Earth Wind and Fire a few months ago and dude's voice STILL sounds incredible. He can still hit all of his insanely high notes (in fact he showed off a lot). not bad for a dude that's been in the band for almost exactly 40 years.

Meanwhile, Phil Collins has been lowering the keys of his songs during live performances since THE 90'S!!!

We played this song in high school jazz band.
And a medley of songs from the Top Gun soundtrack in marching bad.
And "Take My Breath Away" in chorus.
And I like "Easy Lover" but in retrospect, that was a tough year for a band geek.

I was not a child when this song was popular and it does NOT suck. Imagine being a teenager with other crap blaring at malls and swimming pools. No, I was not a "top 40" fan.

1985, according to Cashbox:

1 WE ARE THE WORLD – USA for Africa Total shit.
3 EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD – Tears For Fears Not a party anthem.
6 ST. ELMO’S FIRE (Man In Motion) – John Parr Good for a laugh.
8 I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS – Foreigner Mom liked it.
12 DON’T YOU (Forget About Me) – Simple Minds The worst song ever!

Elsewhere : bad Stevie Wonder, bad Duran Duran. Imagine being stuck at your summer job listening to this shit.

SUSSUDIO – Phil Collins Here is the crap Collins that annoyed everyone.

WE BUILT THIS CITY – Starship Time for more pain meds.

I more or less hate Phil Collins for turning an amazing band (Genesis) into yet another version of his solo act.

I loved the Gabriel era, and the first few Collins LPs had some good quirky pop like the Abacab or Duke albums but fuck INvisible Touch yo.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q207/joemuscat/Genesis-Invisible-Touch-Front-www.jpg

bad cover imo

I agree, Gabriel solo is a zillion times more intelligent and serious. Like "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time".

That video is about the making of that video? I'm confused.

Like, in another universe, the video for that song is the finished product of what we, in this universe, see as the behind-the-scenes making-of video.

Imagining what the finished version would be like blows my mind

I'm glad I stumbled upon this thread and rediscovered this AMAZING AMAZING song. Like with Stevie Wonder, when Phil Collins stopped playing drums, his records turned to shit.

I could see Bailey easily pulling this off solo; but Collins, not so much.

this video gave me some strange ideas about what it must be like to fly into London ... i certainly don't remember seeing Big Ben or the Thames.

... or was greeted in a TV studio by Phil Collins, or any British pop star.

and oh boy, what a generation gap this song has provoked ...

http://a.imageshack.us/img227/6082/shiteatingphil.jpg

Believe it!

I need to make an 80's guilty pleasures mix..

much prefer this philip bailey 80s hit (think collins produced it?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXJNauP123I&feature=related

Collins-era Genesis >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gabriel-era Genesis. I'll take calculated chart-pop over labored, knotty prog (and I like lots of solo Gabriel). But we've been through this.

Collins' mid eighties production resume:

Adam Ant - Stripped
Frida - Something Going On
Eric Collins - Behind the Sun
Eric Collins - August
Philip Bailey - Chinese Wall
Howard Jones - "No One is To Blame"

so RONG RONG RONG.

Selling England by the Pound, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Foxtrot, and Nursery Cryme all dispense loads of anal goop all over Collins-era Genesis, especially the latter half.

I liked Peter Gabriel's pop era a lot better

Haha -- ERIC COLLINS. Might as well1

i'm not much of a "prog"/Genesis/Gabriel fan, but "watcher of the skies" and "get 'em out by Friday" blow away any Collins-era Genesis i've heard.
i always liked "Easy Lover", even though i can't stand Phil C; but it sounds even better now than i'd remembered

This may sound bizarre, but Collins was really good at overstatement (e.g. Genesis' "Home By The Sea" and "Domino). I wrote this long thing recently in which I tried to salvage No Jacket Required's very good to excellent album tracks.

Phil sounds good on the song,, I just find it amusing that it was a showpiece for PHILIP BAILEY'S Chinese Wall album and yet Collins got all the recognition for the song.

He performed it regularly on his tours too, although the last recording I heard of him doing the song live was awful, as he lowered the key, and the 'rock' elements were downplayed. he also had his backup band doing the Philip Bailey vocals (including former EWF bassist Nathan East), and it was good technically but IT WASN'T BAILEY.

"easy lover" is high school era for me, and i always liked it despite having seriously mixed feelings about phil collins in general. (really have never been able to stand "sussudio," e.g.)

and i like gabriel better than collins, but i like early-collins-era genesis better than either gabriel-era genesis or later genesis. "abacab" is a good tune, and i was always a sucker for "follow you follow me."

I lived through the Collins Epoch, and, frankly, he's punchable, but I don't understand the hate.

If anyone's interested, my Phil Collins thing.

I'm on the same page as the mothra man here. Always loved 'Paperlate', but also wtf is a paperlate?

thanks for tha "PC thing", Alfred.
what made me hate him was watching Live Aid when he played on two continents. my friends and i were like "what a complete and total egotistical **ckstick". i know, we were in high school and i don't ~have to~ still feel that way

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I don't doubt his ubiquity on radio and MTV/VH-1 caused too many stomachs to turn (I hope Collins rewarded his agents handsomely, btw), but, really, there were far worse mainstream stars. The guy was a more than adequate singer, an excellent drummer, an underrated keyboard programmer, and knew his way around his hook (his ballads are far less soppy than the rest of the charts proffered). It's been almost twenty years since his last Top Fifteen hit. Time to cut him some slack.

*knew his away around A hook

I feel like I heard "You'll Be In My Heart" all the time but OTOH both my parents rocked the adult contempo station on the regular. It was a perfectly acceptable little song, marred only by its association with a purple, Rosie O'Donnel-voiced ape.

And that was still 11 years ago.

Yeah, that was his last hit, not reflected in its chart placement. The Billboard charts were a strange place in the late nineties.

hard 2 believe ppl are hating itt. this song kicks ass

i love the extra beats leading into the chorus. song is kind of tricksy.

shes-an-ea-sy lov-er

Whoa whoa whoa, what if, in ANOTHER parallel universe, the video for Easy Lover is about the making of the video for Easy Lover in OUR universe. I.e. the making-of the making-of the Easy Lover video. It's like inception or something.

this thread is pretty much blowing my mind.

meta videos were a real trend in the 80s i think, and Phil did more than one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Z-eUmR2bM&ob=av2e

Hookiest Genesis song ever with Phil - "No Reply at All" off ABACAB. Those Earth Wind and Fire brass stabs!

hm to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^. i'd say misunderstanding, but it's debatable.

Naw, 'Paperlate' people! Again, it's got the Earth, Wind & Fire horns on it. Don't think it was that much of a hit in the US though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weRCHo36MeM

hm. well, yeah, that's a good song (and a hit in the US, iirc), but i'll still take misunderstanding.

i really don't like much genesis, but a handful of songs were killer.

Classic meta-video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oN80al-7BI

Hookiest Genesis song ever with Phil - "No Reply at All" off ABACAB. Those Earth Wind and Fire brass stabs!

That Mike Rutherford bassline! Seriously, people, listen to it. It's the best thing he ever did in Genesis, bar none.

Interlude (this was hard)
G---7--7/9--12---10---12/14---12-11-12-11---------------12-14---12-14-14/16--14--17---
D-7----------------12--------------------14-12-11-12/14-------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G--17/19--17----17-19--17----17--
D------------19-----------19-----
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------
G-------9-10-9---12--10---------9--
D-10-12-------12-------12-10-12----
A---------------------------------- X 3
E----------------------------------
G-------9-10--9----------------------------
D-10-12---------12--8---8--7--7-5----------
A---------------------------------7-5------
E-------------------------------------8-5--
G---------------7-7/9-9--
D-------------------------
A-3-3-0-------------------
E-------------------------

That Mike Rutherford bassline!

hell yes! I think I am going to listen to ABACAB right now, dammit.

BTW Paperlate, I like too - was that a bside or something?

Thrown away on an EP, I think.

great song! what a bollock-achingly awful video though. hate those cringy 'OH PHIL YOU JAPESTER! bits

'mama' was like WOAH SCARY when i was as 7 or whatever

i think Paperlate was from "Three Sides Live" (a double album - fourth side being studio tracks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbt9VKOCQGw

Kim I think you are right. Tryin to rack my brains from all the Genesis stuff my ex used to play constantly, he did play 3 Sides Live a lot.