Defend Phil Collins

hey this is no time to mock, this song is about our very own rushomancy!

went to see phil collins in '82 and it was great but when he started playing "in the air tonight" he put a big spotlight on me and then the cops came and arrested me. turned out i'd murdered somebody a couple years previously and phil saw the whole thing and wrote the song about me, and i wound up doing twenty for it, so i never saw the end of the show.

the phenix horns were great that night, though.

― rushomancy, Sunday, September 13, 2015 3:10 AM bookmarkflaglink

It's bad enough that he's going through this humiliating divorce, which is getting increasingly ugly and public and personal. But it broke my heart when I saw a picture of him being pushed out of Genesis rehearsals in a wheelchair. I know he uses a cane, and for that last brief solo tour he was seated the entire time, but Phil in a wheelchair ... gosh. That nerve damage must have been even worse than it sounded.

I can feel Phil coming in the chair tonight

oh lord

morrisp ought to take some comfort that on the most recent SNL Weekend Update, Michael Che made exactly the same "stu-stu-studio" joke.

get a good lawyer, morrisp

Just saw this; pleased that my bad joke was bad enough for SNL!

Tonight, my wife and I watched 4 eps. of that silly Emily in Paris show... she looked up the lead actress, and then made me guess who her father is (“Twenty Questions” style). Even after narrowing it down to “singing drummer, popular in the ‘80s,” I was surprised by the reveal.

Kind of suspect these rehearsals are being filmed in case the tour can't happen, for a variety of reasons

https://player.vimeo.com/video/412937729

I’ve never done coke but damn if Phil don’t put me in the mood

It's pretty overrated

even the genesis years?

no the coke

would be hard pressed to narrow down phil collins' coke years

https://tse4.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.QaiUM4jHznCBk6uNnkMvDwAAAA&pid=Api

So So Soda yo!

(Gr)abaTab

Drinking the Last Coke

One More Sprite

Coca-Coland of Confusion

There must be some fizz understanding

Abacoke

Dance Into The Sprite

su-su-sucralose

it’s another day with coke and ice

Take a Drink of me Now

Tabacab

Forgot he won an Oscar over South Park - and never knew they took it this badly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V672NDj4iYo

Anyway, I found Trey Anastasio's HOF induction speech for Genesis, and he really makes the case for them, especially at the end when he makes it clear that a lot of people probably don't know how good they really were (or could be):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V672NDj4iYo

Whoops, forgot to copy the right link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgLHj1VpcFw

(Horn stab)

Phil Collins spent millions on fake Alamo relics
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/next-battle-of-alamo/

His dealer kept finding items with the initials of famous Alamo people on them, only visible after he put some solvent on them.

Collins bought a knife supposedly belonging to Jim Bowie for $1.5 million. It had been verified as authentic by consulting with psychics.

Many collectors’ puzzlement grew when Collins’s The Alamo and Beyond was published, in 2012. The gorgeously illustrated book is a source of profound skepticism in the Alamo collecting and archaeological worlds. “Just about everything they said was used at the Alamo—these are not Alamo-related items,” says Thomas Nuckols, who volunteers as an archaeological consultant to the Texas Historical Commission and is an expert on Alamo-era artifacts. “A lot of us enjoyed the book just because of the silliness of it.”

The article gets into the ridiculousness of Texas politics in the second half.

must have been a misunderstanding

(She's an) Easy Alamo Relic

She's the kind of girl you dream of
Dream of keeping hold of
You'd better forget it
You'll never get it
She will play around and leave you
Leave you and deceive you
You better forget it
Oh you'll regret it

No Provenance Required

"verified by psychics"

LOL...got to say I love this as a phrase. Nancy Raygun bought into that BS.

Sounds like lost BOC tune (by either one).

Pseu-Pseu-Pseudamo

Look up on the wall, there on the floor
Under the pillow, behind the door
There's a crack in the mirror
Somewhere there's a hole in a windowpane
Do you think I'm to blame
Tell me, do you think I'm to blame

Alamo
you're never there
When you show it
You stop and stare
Alamo
He's in anywhere
Alamo

Now that he knows the truth, he's throwing it all away

Doesn’t any relic keep its value anymore?

"Well I remember, I remember the Alamo
How could I ever forget"

Davy Crockett & Tubbs

All of this time
I still remember everything you faked

This thread is in danger of overtaking "Make a song title more reasonable" as the worst.

you can’t hurry love

sussudio

In the Air Tonight

you can't hurry felch

Phil Collins spent millions on fake Alamo relics

I'd like to think this was some sort of crazy divorce tactic. Like, "you want my money? All right, you can have it...as shitty fake Alamo souvenirs!"

"These artifacts were found...in the basement."

Hahahaha…there’s no basement in the alamo! Hahahaa

Virtually the only thing I know about the alamo is that there's no basement. Phil's obsession is rather unusual for a brit.