Phil Collins: When did you get off the bus?

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