So what about that New Toyota Ad with Phil Collins?

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Background info: There's a "New Toyota Ad with Phil Collins"

The name of the song and the "Artist" are given at the beginning of the ad.. I think Jaguar did this with Sting.

OK, Phil Collins sux ... no epiphany there ...

.. looks like Sir Collins {he was knighted, wasn't he? ;-) } heard that Sting and Moby promoted their records by letting them be used in advertisements...

Amusing because:
-No one seems to know/care that Phil has a new record.
-They had to go so far as to put his name on the ad so people would know who it was.
-It's fucking Toyota! Would have been funnier if were Spam or Velveeta, but still ....

..No question here .. just saw it on TV & had to say something....

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 23 January 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Phil may suck, but there was a time when he was the man:check his production on Frida's "There's Something Going On" ('nuff said). And he was a hell of a drummer.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 23 January 2003 18:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The song in this ad suck so much donkey it's incredible. It's like the top money-maker at the burro brothel.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 January 2003 18:29 (twenty-three years ago)

How can you 'keep it real' and be shilling for the man?

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 23 January 2003 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I think you just summed up the last hundred years.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 January 2003 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I always find it hard to reconcile his 80's-onwards work with the Genesis prog-years - and both of those incarnations with his appearance on various Eno albums.
(I think he drums on the manic '3rd Uncle' from Eno's 'Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy' - as well as on various tracks on 'Before & After Science' album - & isn't he on 'Another Green World' too?)

Musicians, eh ?
Can turn their hand to anything, that lot.....

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 23 January 2003 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

my favorite thing about Phil Collins is that one of his tours was sponsored by Sears. Rock on brutha!

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 23 January 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

(To my horror, I recently realized that while Phil collins seems to be the smuggest man alive besides Bono and Tom Cruise and he did an unforgivably wrong cover of "You Can't Hurry Love", I still thank that the _Invisible Touch_ album is fantastic and "Another Day In Paradise" has an amazing chorus. Also, "In The Air Tonight" is still great. HELP ME.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 January 2003 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I still thank that the _Invisible Touch_ album is fantastic

I fear for you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 January 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I hope whatever illness Dan has isn't catching.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 23 January 2003 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

...one of his tours was sponsored by Sears...

--That actually says more about Sears than it does about Sir Collins, eh?

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 23 January 2003 19:48 (twenty-three years ago)

What's more rock and roll then hopping on the Concorde to drum at both Live Aids? You people ought to be ashamed of yourselves. And let's not forget all the rock credibility he added to "Miami Vice."

TMFTML
http://intonation.blogspot.com

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Thursday, 23 January 2003 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Basic Patrin Math decrees that the amount of hatred (x) one has of Phil Collins* (y) is directly proportional to the amount of time (z) one is forced to listen to a co-worker's "Lite FM" station (WLTE). I'd graph it out but I haven't even remotely come within sniffing distance of algebra in about seven years and would probably fuck it up. (xy=zWLTE?)

*or as I'd call him if I were a 17-year-old hesher, "Filled Colons"! ROFL dude!

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 23 January 2003 20:31 (twenty-three years ago)

B-b-but "Land OF Confusion"! "Tonight Tonight Tonight"! "Throwing It All Away"! That ultra-proggy thing 20-minute extravaganza on the second side that babbles about dancing in rivers of blood!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 January 2003 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)

You're making that last part up.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 23 January 2003 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, there is a prog cut on that album, but i think it's more like 8 minutes, innit? Even at their suckiest, mersh worst Genesis used to throw a token "prog" track on the records.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 23 January 2003 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

It's called "Domino" and it's BRILLIANT. It's got two parts ("In The Glow Of The Night", "The Last Domino") and it's totally insane. (It may not actually be twenty minutes long, though.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Come and test drive the new Toyota Sussudio, an SUV for the complacent middle class.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

STOP IMPUGNING TOYOTAS. The Rav4 kicks ass (sometimes there's a GOOD reason why everyone wants something, you know...).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I wasn't impugning Toyotas, just the company's unfortunate conjunction with Sir Phil. I'm sure Toyota makes a fine vehicle. And the Celica looks snazzy.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

(The hilarious thing is that "Sussudio" sounds like the name of a car.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, "In The Air Tonight" is still great.

I'd agree if it weren't for that godawful bassline.

― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 23 January 2003 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd like to see someone defend "The Brazilian." With a straight face.

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I loved that song when I was in junior high.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I loved The A*Team when I was in junior high. That doesn't make it right.

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

DAN YOU ARE NOT ALONE

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

But I am. Desperately, desperately alone. *sob*

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 23 January 2003 23:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, I just downloaded "Domino" and the opening is just as fantastic as I remembered it to be. Pulsating guitar/synth lines with wispy goth drums suddenly burst into a micro-fit of AOR bombast minus bass line and power chords. All the while, the guitar is just lurking in the background, playing the same undulating hypnotizing line. Phil sings about a broken relationship, jonesing for luvin' and a thunderstorm without rhyming until the chorus. The chorus itself contains one of those AWESOME descending progressions that just make you want to sway. The whole thing builds in 80s cliche after 80s cliche (Drumpad abuse? Check. Cathedral keyboards? Check.) all throughout the first half.

Then, everything drops out except for the synths. Phil sings a line about wishing things would last forever, then BAM we've got The Genesis interpretation of Nitzer Ebb's "Lightning Man". Phil starts singing REALLY LOONEY lyrics about a river of blood that overflows its banks and melts children. There's a reverb/echo break for the guitar at this point, sounding sort of like Pink Floyd's "Run Like Hell" rescored for solo guitar, then they burst into the TRIUMPHANT SOUNDTRACK FINALE where Phil talks about awful things on TV and quotes Anthrax (!!) interspersed with triumphant (and nonsensical) exhortations that "you gotta go domino!" The song's final breakdown occurs, where Phil repeats the "nothing lasts forever" line at the faster tempo then wanks all over his drumpads, and then they play us out by having Tony hit every preset on his keyboard in succession while Mike continues to show that while Genesis may have guitar, it's all rhythm guitar. Tony, Phil and Mike tastefully jam their way to the fade-out and you immediately push play again because the whole thing is SO AWESOME.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 January 2003 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

"Against All Odds" is good.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 24 January 2003 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan in OTM. Invisible Touch is a spectacular track.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 24 January 2003 00:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan, you crazeeee.

― Kim (Kim), Friday, 24 January 2003 01:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Does Phil get run over by a Toyota?? If not,why would I want to see it??

― brg30 (brg30), Friday, 24 January 2003 01:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan, like a good music writer, has made me want to hear a Phil Collins song. Jesus.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 24 January 2003 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)

That has totally made my day, EK!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I love "Against All Odds". It makes me think of Jeff Bridges, shirtless.

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

When it comes to his early eighties ballad type things, I think I have to go with "Man on the Corner" for some reason. If I have to go with anything. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 January 2003 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I like "Mama" - it used to scare the crap out of me. Ha-ha ha!

― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 24 January 2003 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah i've been convinced by ilx that i might want to hear something i would have previously dismissed before,but this is ridiculous...

― robin (robin), Friday, 24 January 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Phil (and Philip Bailey) is responsible for the best moment of my djing life, when, at the end of one of our sweaty and irresponsible nights at a little Dublin pub called Thomas House, the crowd were chanting "one more time, one more time..." (which had become the traditional night-closer in there). I put on the 12 inch of Easy Lover, which has those great tinny drums at the start. Everyone stood there thinking "what's this wanky electro shit? we want One more time!" and then those monstrous opening chords came in, and the smiles broke out, and then everyone bounced around on the floor and the seats like twas the proverbial 1999. You probably had to be there to realise the full extent of how into it people were, but if you had, you would forgive Phil ANYTHING.

― Conor (Conor), Friday, 24 January 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I gotta love the irony of an artist who needs the ad way more than the company needs his endorsement. where sell-out is not a temptation but an accomplishment.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 24 January 2003 23:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ok, ok, I like "Keep It Dark" and "Abacab"; they're on the same album so I bought it from the dollar bin. But I really do hate him. Dan, Arthur, et al; I'm disappointed.

― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 25 January 2003 04:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Anthony Miccio wins the prize.

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Saturday, 25 January 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

hey, also isn't Phil Collins a horrendous racist (or at the very least, a guy who appreciates a good minstrel joke)? Often shuckin'n'jiving for humor in videos, and the abominable "Illegal Alien" where he practices some kind of reedy Hispanic accent.

But calling Phil Collins a simpleminded dork does feel rather redundant.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 25 January 2003 18:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Er... "a horrendous racist"? No. Doubtful he would leant his name to Phil Bailey's solo album if that was the case.

Anyway, Collins is definitely a dork and his solo music blows, but I doubt he's all that simpleminded really. You have to have a little something going on to play the drums the way he can.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Ok. "Horrendous racist" was DEFINITELY hyperbole. But I still stand by his appreciation of a good minstrel joke. Plenty of cheap humor based on stereotypes to be found in his videos.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 25 January 2003 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I really dislike him too, Sean, which is why realizing that I still love the _Invisible Touch_ album threw me off a little.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 25 January 2003 23:37 (twenty-three years ago)

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