Phil Collins: When did you get off the bus?

just can't bring myself to like many of the songs he's done, but there are some, and his drumming (to my admittedly untrained ear) sounds unusually good. there's also something rather effortless about his singing voice, and emulating his performances must actually be pretty hard, so i'd almost go so far as to say he's underrated as a vocalist - but then he seems to have a hard time being serious or impressive without being corny/clowny. this live video of "Duchess" is pretty interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1kGEu7mWdA&feature=channel_page&fmt=18

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

one of the least melodically interesting bands the british isles have produced

WTF! At least harmonically, Tony Banks is one of the most genius composers that has ever been, a master of constant key changes!

― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 8:34 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha Geir, to put it in basketball terms, you're the type of guy that thinks the Harlem Globetrotters are better at basketball than the Jordan-era Bulls

I figure Steve Vai or Joe Satriani would be much closer to the Harlem Globetrotters than Genesis. Genesis is more like Spain in soccer, a team of skilled people who create wonderful art together. :)

Btw. will those 4 fans of "Dance Into The Light" and "Testify" please stand up? :)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/8360584/Phil-Collins-calls-time-on-music-career.html

http://www.philcollins.com/us/news/breaking-news-message-phil

I say the WOOOORRRRDDDD!!! SSS..SUUU...SUUUUUDDDIIOOOO

His bitterness is pretty much pathetic these days.

But sure, if he cannot play the drums anymore, he wouldn't be able to play in a reunited Gabriel-era Genesis, so as such he might as well end as his solo output has been pretty much unneccessary since the 90s.

what is it with old-school Tory entertainer cunts at the moment? http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/mar/06/jim-davidson-stand-up-be-counted?intcmp=239

that's interesting, Bryan. the way media moves sometimes is freaking weird.

Isn't the whole Tory Phil thing a misconception too?

How tragic that Phil should call it a day after making hundreds of millions; fronting a massively successful band; doing just as well as a solo act; playing on, producing or otherwise assisting on any number of essential records; nudging against retirement age; and facing nerve damage that may make it impossible to play drums. He had so much left to achieve!

Isn't the whole Tory Phil thing a misconception too?

yes

yes, it was one of the things he cried about in the RS article last year.

But sure, if he cannot play the drums anymore, he wouldn't be able to play in a reunited Gabriel-era Genesis, so as such he might as well end

This kind of reunion was so never gonna happen in the first place. If it was, it would have on that last Turn it On tour.

yes, it was one of the things he cried about in the RS article last year.

Apparently simply moved to Switzerland because he fell in love with a Swiss lady.

This kind of reunion was so never gonna happen in the first place. If it was, it would have on that last Turn it On tour.

I do understand it almost happened then though, with Peter seriously considering it and Steve being all for it all along.

gabriel was the reason it didn't happen. i understand his reservations, but I still think they could have done something interesting, and different from the 70's shows (it would have to be by necessity, i really don't want to see the increasingly gnome-like gabriel dancing around in a flower mask at this point)

he doesn't need makeup then!

Apparently simply moved to Switzerland because he fell in love with a Swiss lady.

. . . if you know what I mean (wink, wink).

http://www.boston.com/sports/columnists/pierce/swiss%20miss.jpg

i really don't want to see the increasingly gnome-like gabriel dancing around in a flower mask at this point)

The way he looks these days, he'd be perfect to front a Gentle Giant reunion... ;)

Finally, people comin' around to the obvious: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/02/phil-collins-godfather-popular-culture

And that's just the surface, I'd say.

If he's considering a return to the stage, it's likely that his nerve damage is healing. Regardless of whether you'd like to see Collins back on the tour circuit, it's hard not to be pleased for him. Having a chronic conditions sucks like little else.

I got off the bus once the 90s came in; some of the Tarzan stuff is fairly pleasant in a pedestrian way, but none of his solo records from the past two decades have wowed me. I like his first four records and the Genesis stuff he did as front-man very much.

No Jacket Required is one of those catalog albums I've played most often in the last three years.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/phil_1.jpg

man has a strong album art game

some kind of midlife crisis is the only explanation I can think of for that Dance into the Light cover, glad to see he reverted to form with Testify

Never occurred to me before now that he has a penchant for horrible 70s album titles like I've got my own album to do

I mean jesus, No Jacket Required sounds like the name of an imaginary Billy Joel album worse than all other Billy Joel albums combined.

was Dance Into The Light his attempt to 'go dance'?

album art for the deluxe face value is quite something...

https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61b2iQXpayL._SS280.jpg

old phil staring into your soul

was Dance Into The Light his attempt to 'go dance'?

it's more like his attempt to do 'world music' a la Peter Gabriel and Paul Simon

The DIL title track had a surprisingly long muzak shelf-life, still getting spins at least ten years after release.

I was in a cab earlier this year and the driver put on 'Something Happened On The Way To Heaven'. Suspect he's had the CD in the car player for 25 years, jamming that shit every day.

He shouted at his car, "I'M NOT LEAVIN' 'LESS THE CD COMES WITH MEEEE!!!"

Figured this got bumped because of this http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-warts-and-all-autobiography-arriving-in-2016-20151012

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/10/phil-collins-returns-i-am-no-longer-retired/

BOOM

http://www.newlifepca.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tomb-2.jpg

*gated rum roll*

for real, phil collins cameo and then CONCERT YES in gta: vice city stories is one reason why that gta is my second fave gta

https://youtu.be/gZrcUDRUBjw

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/phil-collins-plotting-comeback-i-am-no-longer-retired-20151028?page=2

The Peter Gabriel-led lineup of Genesis hasn't played since a one-off reunion in 1982 and they haven't toured since 1975. Fans continue to fantasize about a reunion, which baffles Collins. "I just don't understand that," he says. "They haven't thought it through. Pete won't sing 'Invisible Touch' or 'I Can't Dance.' We'd only do material like 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.' Also, I can't play drums, so I can't do what I did. I just want to settle with the bits of me that I can possibly do."

For some reason reminds me of a hypothetical from an old Jim DeRogatis interview I always enjoyed:

Did they ever wish they could lock themselves in their studio, get really stoned and cut loose to make another album as bizarrely brilliant as "The Lamb," I asked? Maybe under another name, so there were none of the expectations that came with being "pop hitmakers Genesis"?

"I suppose if one was doing that, one would probably try to be more off the wall," Banks said, transformed for a moment into the teenage musician jamming in that cottage. "I think the sheer reason for doing it would surely be to try to do a few things that might be disastrous."

"At the same time," Collins petulantly added, "it might be nice to do something like we've just done and call it a different name and see how it's received. By saying that, you're playing into -- what's your name? -- Jim's hands, because you're admitting that, because we're going in and calling it a different band, we actually have confines within Genesis that we want to stick to."

"Well, that's a fair enough comment to make," Banks said, scowling at his partner. "Because there's probably some truth in it."

I like of think of this news accompanied by the mayhem that is the beginning of "Something Happened On The Way To Heaven"

"I suppose if one was doing that, one would probably try to be more off the wall," Banks said, transformed for a moment into the teenage musician jamming in that cottage.

because teenage musicians jamming say "one." Maybe this happens in a "cottage."

No Joke, Un-Retired

I got off the bus w/ Collins shortly after I boarded once I realized where it was going

Hello...you must be going?

A pair of Phil Collins fans, some unspecified late night in 1987.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM6pybPuVt4

Anybody fuck to Phil Collins