Phil Collins Singles 1988-1994

Jeffrey Tambor in IWIWRD's video is A+

voted something happened on the way to heaven - a shame philip bailey didn't sing on this. groovy kind of love gets brought up as an example of 'clearly awful phil collins' (popular gave it a 4) but i like it, there's a sparseness to that kind of phil collins adult contemporary (cf 'no one is to blame') that makes them much more charming or at worst more bearable than concurrent hits by michael bolton, etc.

"Something Happened..." really needs Philip Bailey.

i can remember when both sides of the story came out and relatively flopped and it was apparent that this weird unlikely midas run phil collins had had was over. when sears sponsored the tour it seemed all too fitting.
http://thmb.inkfrog.com/thumbn/shyflea/Phil_Collins_Concert_1994_Tour_T_Shirt_2.jpg=450

The Both Sides flop coincided with the dumping of fat white middle-aged men from VH-1 and MTV.

I can't check now but did ...But Seriously make the New Jersey thread? It sounds like a classic NJ.

I'd wear that shirt (or is it a hat)

that's a weird case cuz there's such a gap between no jacket required and it, w/ so much in that gap - invisible touch, buster. otoh it was much more ridiculously successful that you'd guess by its presence today, even the hits from it that haven't completely disappeared from radio aren't nearly as persistent as the earlier solo or even genesis hits. at the same time i do on occasion hear 'another day in paradise' or 'something happened' whereas i haven't heard anything from we can't dance in twenty years.

still hear "Hold On My Heart."

than you'd guess rather

"We Can't Dance" isn't bad. It just so happens that the title track is pretty much the worst thing the band ever did.

...But Seriously was the #2 album of 1990 here and one of the biggest sellers ever in England.

I would hear the title track, Jesus He Knows Me and No Son Of Mine the odd time.

woah i do still hear 'hold on my heart', which is something cuz it wasn't nearly as big a hit as 'no son of mine' or 'i can't dance' or even 'jesus he knows me', it might have something to do w/ being a much much better song than the other we can't dance hits. seems like 'i can't dance' might've been a tipping point for phil.

"Something Happened On the Way to Heaven" easily

'No Son Of Mine' is easily better than any of the songs in this poll!

no it isn't!

actually "Hold On..." was almost as big as "No Son of Mine" (both top fifteen, the former #1 AC) and much bigger than "Jesus" (which peaked in the top thirty).

and it's true: even at the time I heard "Hold On My Heart" a lot more than "I Can't Dance" (the only top ten).

and as far as he fell from his 80s heights (as did bruce and prince and even mj eventually - only madonna really managed to maintain hot 100 relevance into this century) he still kept having adult contemporary hits for a while longer and up to the end had chart topping albums in the uk.

In terms of commercial Phil-led Genesis We Can't Dance could be a New Jersey.

Calling All Stations and PC leaving seems to suggest this

aack i read chart wrong on 'hold on my heart'.

From a UK perspective, WCD was a very big deal

You can thank Genesis for a mind-boggling stat: every album til WCD they released outsold its predecessor in England.

yeah afaik they're still the kings of this thread: artists who had a long streak of every album selling more than the last

no it isn't!

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Monday, November 19, 2012 10:29 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes it is!

No it isn't!

TELL ME DO YOU REMEMBER

"Another Day in Paradise" for supreme Shopping Mall Miserablism

The hell with it. Voting "Another Day in Paradise".

I Wish It Would Rain Down, with maybe my favorite early 90s Clapton

I was obssessed with Another Day in Paradise as a child. I don't know what I thought he sang instead of blisters in the line "she's got blisters on the soles of her feet"; like, maybe "the shiz"...? I asked my mom what that meant, "the shiz on the soles of her feet".

That was probably one of her first heads' up that I was going to turn out a very strange individual.

Something Happened On The Way To Heaven

"Something Happened On the Way to Heaven" s one of the three or four of Phil's solo jamz u really need.

Haven't seen it but I like to imagine the video of Something Happened... being a band performance thing with the musicians being really into it, grinning at each other across the stage and joining in with the "How many times" bit, even if they're not near a microphone. Gets my vote.

Adored Groovy Kind of Love as a kid.

― Tim F, Monday, November 19, 2012 1:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, maybe I'm still hearing it through my childhood ears, but it still sounds alright to me. the mood in beginning is rather beautiful - it has a feeling I think Collins was really kind of the best at. could probably do without the strings arrangments further into it though.

I can't quite go for "Something Happened..." because of Collins' pitch.

I used to love the little melody that played in the breaks in "Another Day In Paradise" and the cover by Euro-dance act Jamtronix too. This was when I was about 9 though.

Two Hearts = One More Night played to the beat of Can't Hurry Love, no?

i am surprised at how many crumby Phil Collins songs I know. There must have been one on every Now! compilation ever released from 1981-1993

Probably be alone in this but I voted for Who Said I Would. Don't like any of these songs AT ALL, but that one at least has some sort of demented energy to it - maniacal gremlin stomp will always beat goofy Phil. Also there is some sort of (fake?) marimba thing going on right at the start that is actually kind of pretty, reminds me a bit of San Jacinto.

I am entirely too familiar with these songs due to my dad being a major Collins stan and his albums being the soundtrack to about 65% of car journeys I made with my family while growing up. I can recall each and every moment of all of these, much to my dismay.

"Two Hearts" is the one be least unhappy to listen to now. Might have to vote for "Another Day in Paradise" though, because it's one of the most cringeworthy I CARE ABOUT IMPORTANT ISSUES!!! songs ever penned. Also the only one to be covered by a Spice Girl, AFAIK.

video for Something Happened on the Way to Heaven is Phil and band at practice space through the eyes of a dog who is just hangin around the premises iirc

yes, classic vid

8 year old me was like "this phil collins fellow seems pretty cool, he's got a band and a dog and everything"

"and he's got a dog that responded to the song much like I did!"

Did the dog try and chew his own ears off in distress y/n?

Dog peed on his foot iirc

man it's weird that some things that were in heavy rotation on MTV back in the day aren't on YouTube at all

ah n/m had to click around but i found it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijIAKR7Ob6Y

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha that conga story is great, <3 george harrison

good Phil harmonies too xpost to Josh

Phil played drums on a couple Taking Tiger Mountain tracks iirc (xp to Josh, is that what you're talking about?)

Phil played a bunch of drums on "Another Green World,' actually, and a bit of "Before and After Science." Oh, and Peter Gabriel's third album.

Oh, forgot he was playing on all those Clapton albums in the '80s, too. Busy guy.

For those who have never heard Phil in fusion mode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo7mYqaMKXA&feature=related

What's the song that starts off like it's about to go into Boogie Wonderland?

is it this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqWVvyA9z1c

Soundtrack

Several Phil Collins singles were released from the soundtrack, including "A Groovy Kind of Love" and "Two Hearts", which reached #1 and #6 on the UK Singles Chart, respectively. Both songs were Number One singles in the US.[1] Phil Collins also co-wrote "Loco in Acapulco", performed by The Four Tops for the soundtrack. Two Hearts received an Oscar nomination for Best song in 1988.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U-5jxhSNDU

Also production/drums on "Foever Man", "She's Waiting"--which could've used a bit of Buster's ellipses: "Forever...Man" and "...She's Waiting..."

Is it wrong to love "It's In The Way That You Use It"? It and "Forever Man" are the only eighties Clapton I can stand.

Popular's take on "A Groovy Kind of Love": http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2010/07/phil-collins-a-groovy-kind-of-love/

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Clapton not even trying here, as per the '80s. And much of his career. But plenty of Phil, Live Aid MVP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyhmA14KXeU

Phil Collins Rick Roll!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcBKbu35nPo

voted for the one about that guy who coulda saved that other guy from drowning, but di'int, and phil saw it all then at the show he found him

Is that "Groovy Kind of Love?"

that's kinda how this is

I wonder what other Phil-related polls that ILX can come up with...

TS: The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight vs. Genesis - Tonight Tonight Tonight

or maybe... the ILX homelessness extravaganza!

Paul Simon - Homeless vs. Phil Collins - Another Day In Paradise vs. Pet Shop Boys - The Theatre

Surely Sting and Bruce have some of those?

TS: Phil Collins's "Both Sides of the Story" vs. Wyclef Jean's The Eclectic: 2 Sides II A Book

late 90s lol

although the album was called The Ecleftic, i should point out

omg

i seriously never noticed that, and i am someone who has repped on ILX for "It Doesn't Matter (feat. the Rock)"

apparently i wasn't the only one either: How many times can you vote in the best Wyclef Jean single poll?

The Battle Of The Baldies!

Phil Collins vs Billy Corgan vs Michael Stipe vs Sinead O'Connor vs Moby vs Future Neil Tennant vs Joe Satriani vs Midge Ure vs David Draiman from Disturbed

That's like the bizarro world Prince's Trust line-up.

Was going to add the obligatory Bone Thugs/Phil Collins video, but it seems to be off of YouTube.

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

I rank the American top forty singles. How many times can he say he's sorry?

would have voted 'Something Happened'. Big tune

ILM loves that one.

Yeah, it's one of his very best, that. His last truly great single.