Never listen to Collins tbh. Just for the poll
― Garden variety uncouth (Ross), Monday, 2 July 2018 01:06 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 6 July 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
went for "man on the corner." it's pretty sad
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson), Friday, 6 July 2018 00:12 (five years ago) link
"taking it all too hard" or "man on the corner"
― flamenco blorf (BradNelson)
my pal
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 July 2018 00:17 (five years ago) link
I used to hear "Taking It All Too Hard" on AOR radio through the mid nineties and assumed it was a massive pop hit.
Isn't there a song about someone doing a hit-and-run on We Can't Dance?
― bedraggled vorticist (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 July 2018 08:03 (five years ago) link
(Ok nm)
― bedraggled vorticist (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 6 July 2018 08:08 (five years ago) link
groovy kind of love
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Friday, 6 July 2018 08:12 (five years ago) link
another day in paradise tho
oh - think twice!
would be my vote
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 6 July 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
the answer to this is Please Don't Ask
― akm
...you are correct, sir.
― bodacious ignoramus, Friday, 6 July 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
I like a lot of these songs more than "Against All Odds," but voting that one because I always thought the "you're the only one who ever / really knew me at all" line is genuinely sad in a way pop music songs about breakups rarely are. Like, if someone said that to you irl, you'd have to be one cold ass motherfucker for it to not break your heart
Agreed -- Phil was clearly going thru some serious shit around that time. Tough times for Phil.
Also a pretty good argument that "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" is his best vocal performance.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 6 July 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
I believe that is true.
― akm, Friday, 6 July 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
I'm literally getting misty-eyed thinking about this stupid song, I really love it.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 6 July 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
Watched the video again, film looks like a sappy Romancing The Stone knock-off. Should I shell out 3 bucks to stream it?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 6 July 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
I think it's more like Glenn Frey 80s L.A. noir a la Tequila Sunrise or a less pulpy Indecent Proposal.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 6 July 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
Ebert review:
The movie has a lot of muted social criticism in it, involving professional sports and ecology. The Jane Greer character has a plan to destroy several beautiful canyons to build houses. The Bridges character is a victim of unfair labor practices. And so on. Sometimes we get the idea we're watching a clone of "Chinatown" -- but not with that jealous triangle. Woods is the villain, so he does smoke, of course. But Bridges and Ward are so consumed with passion, they don't even need to.
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 6 July 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link
film looks like a sappy Romancing The Stone knock-off
i was also hugely peeved when this film didn't turn out to be the gritty reinvention of vérité we'd been promised in the trailers
― Neymar, Mr Nice Guy (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 July 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 7 July 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
It really is
― i know kore-eda (or something), Saturday, 7 July 2018 00:09 (five years ago) link
can a song with a parenthetical subtitle be truly sad tho
― mookieproof, Saturday, 7 July 2018 00:35 (five years ago) link
can't believe groovy kind of love didn't win
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Saturday, 7 July 2018 09:34 (five years ago) link
No love for “do you remember?” “Called you up just to say I’m sorry etc...”
― calstars, Sunday, 12 January 2020 16:18 (four years ago) link
When Phil is sad, the world hears him, and he knows that, and I hope that makes him feel a little better
― calstars, Sunday, 12 January 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
― mookieproof, Fri
I see your point but when you think about it it kinds of makes it even sadder.
― calstars, Sunday, 12 January 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
I was just listening to this track and does Roger Chapman invent Phil Collins here or what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X74zXgeKNBk
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 January 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link