Phil Collins "In the air tonight" C/D

i havent because i havent even heard that one.

The usual nice little piece from Mix:
http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_phil_collins_air/

Chorus:

[Phil Collins]
I can feel it coming in the air tonight
Oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment
For all my life
Oh Lord, Oh Lord

[Lil' Kim]
Keep still in the shit, killin the rhyme
The Queen stay poppin the wine and cockin the nine
For those who think they stoppin my dough
Wanna copy my show, wha
I'm switchin my flow, can't take it no mo'
Oh you think I'm playin around
I'm layin ya down
Album drop, new millenium shuttin it down
Better off givin it up, I'm rippin it up
Spendin money, livin it up, not givin a f**k

Hiding the tote, runnin the coast
Makin niggas catch the Holy Ghost
I'm realer than most, wha
The trendsetter, the Brooklyn repper
You know the routine
Smoke you like a ciggarette-r
We've been, out in a bit
Y'all still talkin shit
Ain't that a bitch?
What part of the game was this?

[Lil' Kim singing]
Millions I'm holdin'
Drop tops rollin'
Diamonds on my neck
And Bentley ballin'
Me and my niggas gettin' high all day
Straight to the top, cuz we on our way

[Lil' Kim rapping]
Comin' for y'all, comin' for y'all
That's right I got something for y'all
Something for y'all, wha
God bless me, look at all I've been through
It's my time, I can feel it, can't you?

Chorus:

[Phil Collins]
I can feel it coming in the air tonight
Oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment
For all my life
Oh Lord

Can you feel it coming in the air tonight?
Oh Lord, Oh Lord

[DJ Clark Kent]
JM, JM
Lil' Kim, Lil' Kim
PC, PC
Clark

[Phil Collins]
Well I remember..

[Lil' Kim]
...back when it used to be the eighties
Said the world was gon' end in 2000 (that's crazy)
I'm the only thing to fear
For the new year
New year, and if BIG was here (woo)
Get the fans, we the ones to talk
We die real on the streets
So watch where you walk
And you can find me, usually
Talkin' dirty to a cat thugged out
Or even kinda nerdy
Lil' Kim, Lil' Cease and JM
Taking over like a plague on a town
All y'all can do is pray and watch it go down
Like when the ball drop
My fam's all I got, we keep it gangsta

Comin' for y'all, comin' for y'all
That's right I got something for y'all
Something for y'all, wha
God bless me, look at all I've been through
It's my time, I can feel it, can't you?

[Phil Collins]

Well, if you told me, you were drowning
I would not a lend a hand
I've seen your face before my friend
But I don't know if you know who I am
Well I was there and I saw what you did
Saw it with my own two eyes
So you can wipe off that grin
I know where you've been
It's all been a pack of lies

[Phil Collins]
I can feel it coming in the air tonight
Oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment
For all my life
Oh Lord, Oh Lord

I can feel it coming in the air tonight
Oh Lord
And I've been waiting for this moment
All my life
Oh Lord, Oh Lord

[Clark Kent]
Lil' Kim, Lil' Kim
JM, JM

*fades*

Who needs Phil Collins when you've got Peter Gabriel?

I don't know what this song is about. When I was writing this I was going through a divorce. And the only thing I can say about it is that it's obviously in anger. It's the angry side, or the bitter side of a separation. So what makes it even more comical is when I hear these stories which started many years ago, particularly in America, of someone come up to me and say, 'Did you really see someone drowning?' I said, 'No, wrong'. And then every time I go back to America the story gets Chinese whispers, it gets more and more elaborate. It's so frustrating, 'cos this is one song out of all the songs probably that I've ever written that I really don't know what it's about, you know.

"Oh lord" makes up half the lyrics to every song he's written since 1980!

Almost all of his lyrics got "Oh Lord" on it!

Holy shit.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo

That was awesome. I had to watch it twice.

hahaha

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article2537369.ece

"Chocolate is about joy and pleasure. For years Cadbury has told us that it was generous, through the glass and a half strap line. We thought, don't tell us how generous you are; show us. Don't tell us about joy; show us joy."

Bill Hicks was wrong about people who work in advertising.

knocked me sideways last night when shown during the Big Brother (yeah yeah ..) Final ..

I'm intrigued by the "If you told me you were drowning" line.

Surely it's something that you'd scream. Not quietly beckon someone over and suggest to them that, like, they might not mind lending a hand.....

Playing the 45 on 33 is like drugs X1000

one of the best air-drumming moments ever
-- cankles, Tuesday, May 15, 2007 1:25 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link

you have to turn this song way the fuck up

this is NOT to be jammed lightly

yeah i'm wary of anyone who doesn't have a distinct memory of air drumming this shit like they were playing madison square garden

yeah i'm wary of anyone who doesn't have a distinct memory daily fucking plan of air drumming this shit like they were playing madison square garden

shit ive entered the zone where i can no longer figure out if im being ironic or not.

it perplexes me, it does, why individuals profess such adulation for this tune, being that it is sung by such an unattractive man, so fat and bald, aye.

we're all heart-throbs in the dark, baby.

yeah, because we all judge music by the attractiveness of its performers

oh that's why i thought you liked chromeo rev :/

it perplexes me, it does, why individuals profess such adulation for this tune, being that it is sung by such an unattractive man, so fat and bald, aye.

-- res, Sunday, February 24, 2008 8:55 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

fuck you, beauty queen lookist

this song blows

oh that's why i thought you liked chromeo rev :/

-- J0rdan S., Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:07 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Yeah, that P. Thug, he's such a hottie.

sockpuppet Tombot

The thing about that ad is that it mirrors the sensate pleasure of eating chocolate. And the gorilla? He's the part of the brain that likes chocolate. He's a lover, too. And he has a quite dignity, but he's also skillful and full of passion.

*quiet

this shit is one of my favorite songs of all fucking time. i love it so much. what perfection.

My youngest brother (age 16) just called & asked me to sing him this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo

Holy shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo

― caek, Saturday, September 1, 2007 12:00 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

Damn, didn't see that. Anyway . . . the gorilla - he drums!

That gorilla fucking means it.

I wonder how many people he's drowned.

I was really sad to learn that the murderer story was a hoax--about a day after I first heard it (the story, not the song).

The great thing about Phil Collins is that these songs have aged really well precisely because he's a drummer and he had a great ear for good tones.

"It's about a dude he saw drowning."

"This Must Be Love" sounds good coming after on the record.

I recently sat and watched the Miami Vice pilot episode on Hulu mostly to get to see the scene when "In the Air Tonight" comes on.

super classic song and scene obviously, even if it indirectly led to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBiDiCDetwA

"in the air tonight" is what it sounds like to get murdered

-- max (maxreax), Friday, January 19, 2007 10:31 PM (3 months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOwAvW1CIJs

What a song. I spent some time air drumming to this. The best part about it is the inspiration behind it, my understanding being it is somewhat Phil collins’s own musical version of Death Wish. As the story goes a man was out boating on a bay when the boat capsized and sank and he did not know how to swim and unfortunately did not have a life preserver with him. Phil was at the same place that day but was up on a bluff, and too late noticed this man in distress shouting for help. He noticed a single individual on the beach just watching and Phil ran down but by the time he arrived this man had vanished beneath the waves and drowned. The other man could have helped but chose not to. Phil made an attempt to press charges but there were no other witnesses. Years later Phil decided to track the man down and invited him to a concert, with a front row center seat. He sang this song to the man while staring at him and the lights in the stadium lowered except for a single spotlight on the man, who eventually according to those who were there realized who Phil was, the same man from the beach all those years before. The man committed suicide shortly after the show was over out of shame and humiliation. Kind of a cool story about justice. Phil never speaks about it or the song I guess only two people really knew the truth at the time and one of them is dead it took a lot of detective work for people to get to the real inspiration behind this song.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/458589121596894873/C3A2F378C63B5504CC5242E33B4F48825A629410/

In The Air Tonight drum solo: Quarantine edition pic.twitter.com/iwfHikau0d

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