Billy, Don't Lose Dignitas' Number
― MaresNest, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:29 (one year ago) link
Jesus, I Knew Him
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 January 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link
Duke's Retirement
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 23 January 2023 21:59 (one year ago) link
Man of Old Times
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 23 January 2023 22:01 (one year ago) link
You Can't Hurry
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 January 2023 22:04 (one year ago) link
A Gravely Kind Of Laugh
― nashwan, Monday, 23 January 2023 22:04 (one year ago) link
Dawdle into the Light
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 23 January 2023 22:15 (one year ago) link
hee hee
― calstars, Monday, 23 January 2023 22:56 (one year ago) link
Turn It (My Pacemaker) On Again
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 23 January 2023 23:02 (one year ago) link
Second Nursing Home By The Sea― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain)
― enochroot, Monday, 23 January 2023 23:18 (one year ago) link
You're No Son of Mine (Dementia Remix)
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
He seems to have that visible gut, yeah
― is it milli vanilli or just a facsimile (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
Something Happened on the Way to the Buffet
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 17:31 (one year ago) link
The “dance into the light” cover eradicated my ability to enjoy his earlier work
― calstars, Saturday, 3 February 2024 18:53 (four months ago) link
First, he's not dead. Second, this rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgnZD4mMRDY
(ruling starts around 1:18)
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:09 (three months ago) link
It does.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 20:35 (three months ago) link
That whole album... Esp Firth Of Fifth.
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:46 (three months ago) link
Original mix is back in-print thanks to Analogue Productions. Kind of pricey though
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:00 (three months ago) link
Thought for second there was like a trending TikTok cover version of longtime CVS Jam "Dance Into The Light"...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:20 (three months ago) link
I keep reading this thread title as "Defund Phil Collins"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:21 (three months ago) link
ABACAB
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 22:55 (three months ago) link
Defun Phil Collins
― calstars, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 00:44 (three months ago) link
Prog Phil is just too much for me to process, can’t enjoy it
― calstars, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 00:46 (three months ago) link
Hello, I Must Be Gnoming
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 00:56 (three months ago) link
In sum, it doesn't appear that Phil Collins needs much defending.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 01:07 (three months ago) link
He's no stranger to you and me
EPIC TOM FILL
― Sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 11:40 (three months ago) link
Heard "Invisible Touch" in the car yesterday: embarrassed pleasure at the time, still sounds good (the grain of the voice and all that). I started thinking about the recent photos of Collins that occasionally pop up on my FB wall: a kindly old British gentleman surrounded by his grandchildren. That got me to doing that timeline game: we're as far from "Invisible Touch" today as "Invisible Touch" was from George Formby. That's how someone young would look at Phil Collins today, right? He's George Formby.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 16:52 (six days ago) link
Well so is Nick Cave
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 16:55 (six days ago) link
I guess true of anybody from 1986, but doesn't Nick Cave still sort of try to look like he used to? (I looked at a few online photos.) He doesn't look very grandfatherly.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 16:58 (six days ago) link
(And believe me, trying to look like you used to is not preferable.)
not to cause an existential crisis but yeah it's wild to think that the amount of time between Invisible Touch and say, Revolver is the same amount of time between now and "Float On" by Modest Mouse
― frogbs, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:07 (six days ago) link
Would any performer of Formby's generation have played to crowds in their 70s like those that saw Genesis a year or two ago?
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:11 (six days ago) link
The performers in their 70s, not the crowds (mostly).
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:12 (six days ago) link
These kinds of calculations always fascinate me. The thing they often lead me back to is that the music I loved as a kid, all the late '60s and early '70s pop, is still everywhere today. But I don't recall hearing Rudy Vallee and Harry Lauder and Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians when I was a kid. (I know--thanks, Boomer.)
(It was just a casual formulation, Halfway--I'm sure you can pick it apart a million ways.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:13 (six days ago) link
We're actually making the same point there.
I don't reject the formulation or calculation, but as you say it shows a change in how music lives on or is disposed of now.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:15 (six days ago) link
The oldest music I remember from the "Adult Contemporary" AM radio in the 1970s was maybe the Andrews Sisters, less than 40 years old at that time, and maybe a handful of 50s leftovers.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:19 (six days ago) link
They would have gotten a huge boost from Bette Midler's hit cover...I should clarify that if '20s music was being played in the early '70s, it would have passed me by anyway. All I listened to was CHUM on the AM dial.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:26 (six days ago) link
Not sure what the radio format was where I heard "Invisible Touch" yesterday...FM dial, the kind of station that doesn't go earlier than the '80s, I think.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:28 (six days ago) link
There has been that kind of thing before, as Dixieland trad Jazz was a fairly popular party music in the 50s and early 60s. In an interview I saw with bassist Steve Swallow he talked about playing with some early players who played with Bix etc doing some of these party’s in college.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:36 (six days ago) link
Things definitely come back 50 years later that are clearly thought of as nostalgia or retro or whatever--thinking of that horrible Cherry Poppin' Daddies hit from the '90s. Not sure if something like "Invisible Touch" is heard or presented the same way. (Meaning, literally, I'm not sure.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:48 (six days ago) link
Which, if it isn't, contradicts my original post...this is just way too complicated.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 17:55 (six days ago) link
Makes me think of when Lorde told Marc Maron how much she loved Phil Collins' music and he was incredulous.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 June 2024 18:20 (six days ago) link