(this, btw, would also fit into the ILE "funniest things said while having sex" thread)
"No really, Gail, he was there and John Martyn was on guitar, and he talked him into playing and John Stevens said halfway through one improv piece "Right you lot, Phil and I are gonna have a little chat on the drums now so the rest of you cunts can just shaddup, alright?"
"Yes, that sounds like good old John," sighed G. Four-second pause. "Dirty old man that he was..."
(according to G, every Brit improv legend is or was a "dirty old man" heheh).
Anyway, as a drummer the boy Collins dun good on the John Cale Island trilogy and also on Bob Fripp's Exposure. The latter, come to think of it, is not currently available on CD either except as an expensive and not recommended import.
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 9 October 2003 09:29 (twenty years ago) link
― southern lights (southern lights), Thursday, 9 October 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 9 October 2003 14:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 October 2003 14:26 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 12 October 2003 13:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 12 October 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link
― robin (robin), Sunday, 12 October 2003 21:15 (twenty years ago) link
― damian_nz (damian_nz), Sunday, 12 October 2003 22:18 (twenty years ago) link
― damian_nz (damian_nz), Sunday, 12 October 2003 22:19 (twenty years ago) link
Has no one noted what a brilliant 'video actor' Phil Collins is? Not every artist puts their *all* into their visual performance (nevermind exact proper lip-synching) as Phil Collins does. Like, in the video for 'Mama', he literally looks like he's going mad with rage, hatred and desire, and you really believe it, you can't take your eyes off him... It is hard to believe this is the same guy who's being all cheery and silly in some of his other videos. That's what I love about Phil Collins, he is so multifaceted, as well as multi-talented. I don't claim to love *all* his songs (some of them I downright can't stand) but I don't turn my nose up at him as a musical artist. It takes talent to write a good pop tune, and that Phil Collins has written so many well-loved hits is testament to his song-writing skill, on top of being a brilliant drummer, a very decent keyboardist, and emotive vocalist. Now that I think about it, Phil Collins was the first pop artist I ever got into as a teenager. Ah, memories! :)
― Joi Raida, Monday, 13 October 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link
Haha that was me, babbling about "Domino"!
So what about that New Toyota Ad with Phil Collins?
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:35 (twenty years ago) link
-- Fabrice
Yes. I used to have a copy, but I left it on my desk and it was the victim of office theft. It's hillarious, and again the word here is 'unintentionally'.
― Anna (Anna), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:49 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 13 October 2003 13:53 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 November 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Flaming Jugend, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 04:23 (twenty years ago) link
― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link
(I'm speaking of Trick of the Tail and Abacab)
― uh, Monday, 26 April 2004 20:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 01:44 (twenty years ago) link
― uh, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago) link
― uh, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago) link
"it's no fun/being an illegal alien!"
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 02:38 (twenty years ago) link
holy shit new modern drummer has FOURTEEN PHIL COLLINS BEATS
― cutty, Friday, 24 August 2007 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
"He's totally punk rock, he's got on sneakers and a suit! It's crazy!"
― zaxxon25, Friday, 24 August 2007 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
per the Miami Vice argument upthread, Phil actually had a song on the Miami Vice 2 sdtrk, one of his best solo songs, 'Take Me Home.' fcking great tune.
― the table is the table, Friday, 24 August 2007 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
do you still subscribe to modern drummy, cutty
― Jordan, Friday, 24 August 2007 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Phil is an Honorary Negro. That's all the justification he needs.
― The Reverend, Friday, 24 August 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate myself for reviving this thing TWICE, but I just listened to Hello I Must Be Going, and he can do the untrustworthy-cad-narrator as well as Randy Newman. Not all the time, but when he's on. "Like China" is probably the smartest song ever about defloweration. "Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away" is probably bad advice.
Also, my wife learned in her master's percussion methods class that Phil has an official cadence named after him. You know what it sounds like. DA-dum!, DA-dum!, DA-dum!, DA-dum!, dum-dum ("I can feel it coming in the air tonight...."). It's also in "Thru These Walls" and probably a ton of other shit.
― dr. phil, Monday, 14 January 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Not that Phil needs any more defending, but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy52yueBX_s
― rogermexico., Monday, 14 January 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Or rather...
http://adweek.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/31/gorilla.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy52yueBX_s
― rogermexico., Monday, 14 January 2008 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Har!
― dr. phil, Monday, 14 January 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Has no one noted what a brilliant 'video actor' Phil Collins is? Not every artist puts their *all* into their visual performance (nevermind exact proper lip-synching) as Phil Collins does. Like, in the video for 'Mama', he literally looks like he's going mad with rage, hatred and desire, and you really believe it, you can't take your eyes off him
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 14 January 2008 17:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i was listening to "abacab" the other day...it's such a weird album, sort of mainstream 80s pop, but there's still odd structural and instrumental passages that betray that they used to be prog chops dudes, strange mix and i kind of love it...there's a weird subgenre of music like this, all the prog dudes really embraced the 80s, like the 80s yes albums, and asia, stuff like that...maybe rush's 80s albums like signals and grace under pressure have that same vibe (tho rush wasn't really prog exactly)
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 14 January 2008 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QZOc-DbE5ko
― Lolpez, Monday, 14 January 2008 18:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"the "gangsta" way he dealt with his wife's affair with his decorator (ie, an ultra-spiteful appearance on TOTP with a tin of paint on the piano)."
anyone have a youtube of this?
― r1o natsume, Monday, 14 January 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i was listening to "abacab" the other day...it's such a weird album, sort of mainstream 80s pop, but there's still odd structural and instrumental passages that betray that they used to be prog chops dudes, strange mix and i kind of love it...
This goes for a lot of late 70s/early 80s AOR by musicians with a prog background. Not a fan of "Abacab" though.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 14 January 2008 19:59 (sixteen years ago) link
What are some other good examples of prog bands getting poppy, yet remaining great?
The best I can think of is Le Orme's late '70s albums (particularly 'Storia O Leggenda'). They always seemed more inspired to me compared to their more famous early '70s work.
― Patrick South, Monday, 14 January 2008 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link
All Rush from '78-82
― Bill Magill, Monday, 14 January 2008 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd forgotten about these when I revived, but here's some PC "fan fiction" that might appeal to readers of this thread. See if you can spot the familiar ILXor in the second one!
They must have thought we had a butler.
There is a married bachelor, therefore the moon is made of green cheese.
― dr. phil, Monday, 14 January 2008 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Enter Kogan, a Hispanic (we won't insult him by assuming Mexican) haircutter and zapatarist who owns the joint and digs the Latin hip hop.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 07:46 (sixteen years ago) link
It's easy to only remember In The Air Tonight on Miami Vice, but he did convincingly portray a coke dealer creep aswell!
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Defend Phil Collins
No.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link
never ban Bo Jackson Overdrive
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Bo is rong. Wind & Wuthering is reason enough to not murder Phil Collins completely.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 03:56 (sixteen years ago) link
well actually I did like A Trick of the Tail and Abacab. My vitriol is mostly for his solo career (although yes, "in the air tonight" ist neato)
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Pigeons Ep was good genesis past Wind and Wuthering.
― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 03:58 (sixteen years ago) link