ex-wife kinda losing the press war here
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
Lol how bad at PR do you need to be to make Phil Collins seem like a good husband?
― fretless porpentine (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
I don't think "stealing a house and staffing it with armed guards to prevent its recapture" is most accurately described as "a PR problem"
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
Follow you (back to my house) Follow me (to the police station)
― Walter Draggedman (stevie), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
Get 'Er Out By Friday
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
o lord
https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/26/phil-collins-trump-in-the-air-tonight-stop-playing-campaign-rally-beef-cease-desist/
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 26 October 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
Trump issues executive order giving his house to his ex-spouse
― Neanderthal, Monday, 26 October 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
I think a pretty solid defense of phil is that we have collectively spent 18 hours riffing on this, drawing on a pretty deep storehouse of memorable lyrics and song titles from 30 years or so, without much effort.
I was a plus-one to a Phil show a long time ago (at the Tacoma Dome), and literally every song in the entire concert was a hit, culminating in collecting canned food and "Another Day in Paradise."
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 26 October 2020 22:27 (three years ago) link
Ha! I swear I went to that Tacoma Dome show with my mom. It was probably like 1992, and I was 11 or 12. I remember bringing canned food. I also remember he mocked audience members who wouldn't participate and said 'I'm just too fucking cool for this'. Also we brought canned food, and the music was so loud it was distorting in my ear.
― Publicradio (3×5), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
There is a group of artists who could play nothing but hits for hours, and even if you aren't a fan you would at least recognize every song.
Bruce, Billy, Phil, Who, Stones....
― Fjord Explorer (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
Some of these acts, it's really nuts. I don't think Phil could do it, tbh, but I've seen back-to-back Bruce shows where each one seemed to be a solid 3+ hours of hits, yet differed by maybe 65%!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 01:09 (three years ago) link
what's pretty nuts is that Phil was already lowering the keys of many of his hits like, 20+ years ago. I remember buying a pay per view show in the late 90s and he was singing most everything in lower keys.
wonder if he sounds like Lou RAwls now
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
There is a group of artists who could play nothing but hits for hours, and even if you aren't a fan you would at least recognize every song. Bruce, Billy, Phil, Who, Stones....
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
Billy Withers
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 10:53 (three years ago) link
Wild Billy Childish obvs
― Neil S, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link
Joel, c'mon
― Sunset Claus (Uncle Juice), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 10:58 (three years ago) link
My first thought was Billy Ocean too.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
Billy Corgan; the core, the chart music
― Master of Treacle, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 11:54 (three years ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_Billie
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 12:47 (three years ago) link
Ha! I swear I went to that Tacoma Dome show with my mom. It was probably like 1992, and I was 11 or 12.
This was the show! I was 20 and went with a British co-worker who loved the hits but scowled at me during the long freeform drums/guitar space jam that ended into “In The Air Tonight.” “What is this, art or something?”
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
Billy Joel, obvious one!
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 13:27 (three years ago) link
Mellencamp was another one who had a show of pretty much all recognizable hits.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
When I saw Bob Seger in 2007, I had been expecting a solid greatest-hits show, but he actually played six new songs! I wrote about it for the Voice.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link
Loggins could probably do this too
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
I saw the Stones at some point in ... I don't remember what year it was. Bigger Bang tour? Anyway, right beforehand the publicist swung by and gave the writers (or at least a writer) a copy of the setlist, which identified all the songs they were playing that night that they had not played the previous night, and it really struck me what a science it must be to devise a setlist when you literally have more hits than you can play.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
I remember reading an interview with Brooks & Dunn where they were a little frustrated because their audience would not put up with them playing anything but their #1 hits
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
Metallica really does have this down to a science — I remember reading Lars Ulrich talking about how they'd get Spotify and YouTube data and find out which songs got the most streams in a given market, and make sure they went into the set that night.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
At the same time, I recall Lars claiming one justification for the shorter songs on the Black Album (and beyond) was that all the increasingly long songs were really limiting what they could do in their setlists.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
Once the Who settle on a setlist at the start of a tour, it rarely changes. It's all up to Daltrey: he picks the songs and determines the sequence for what's easiest on his voice. He also knows that a significant portion of the audience will feel cheated if they don't hear the biggest hits (aka, half of Who's Next). They'll slot in rarities from time to time -- in 2015/16 I saw them do "Pictures of Lily," "Slip Kid," and "A Quick One, While He's Away" -- and if there's a new record out, a few songs from that. John Entwistle used to say that if the running order works, why mess with it?
When the Grateful Dead opened two Who shows in 1976, Townshend expressed his amazement to Jerry Garcia that the Dead only repeated one song from one night to the next.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
tbf once you take being tight or consistent off the table, it really doesn't matter what you play night to night. That's sort of the miracle of bands like Springsteen or Pearl jam, that they can shake it up so much from night to night and never get sloppy.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, October 27, 2020 10:27 AM bookmarkflaglink
simple they could have cut all of the damn noodling. seriously, Metallica shows would be 3 hours, and 20 minutse of that would be James making dumb jokes or whining about the crowd not making enough noise, 15 minutes of that would be James getting fans to sing the chorus to "Seek and Destroy", 5 minutes would be Jason playing old Flotsam and Jetsam basslines and calling that a bass solo, 10 minutes would be Kirk soloing so drenched in wah that it rendered his solos incomprehensible. that's almost an hour there, 7 or 8 more songs!
I've noticed when I see Metallica the last few years, their shows are much tighter with less dicking around, and they seem to play more in less time (usually 2.5 hours)
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
And now — according to a lawsuit filed by Collins — Cevey and her new husband, Tom Bates, are allegedly living in his $33 million dollar Miami beachfront mansion.
when they do it he's never there
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
She knows (she knows)There'll always be a special place in his house for her
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
They might well be described as lurkers
― Fjord Explorer (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
when i'm feeling blueall i have to do istake your house from you
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
she said love don't come easyit's a game of give and take your house
― Fjord Explorer (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
Fjord Explorer (Ye Mad Puffin) at 7:41 26 Oct 20There is a group of artists who could play nothing but hits for hours, and even if you aren't a fan you would at least recognize every song.Bruce, Billy, Phil, Who, Stones....Dylan plays hits for hours but you don't recognize them
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/HSDCNA4v69APhil Collins day celebration from earlier this year
― ncxkd, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
Cevey and her new husband, Tom Bates, are allegedly living in his $33 million dollar Miami beachfront mansion.
Imagining Phil having an old-school butler calling him Master Collins, and now he has to call the new husband...
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
Hah.
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
― Fjord Explorer (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
I kinda feel like there should be a sister site to Setlist.fm called theydidntplay.fm which is a site where dudebros complain about specific songs the band didn't play at each show
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
As I was playing that TMS clip, I realized that the lyrics to "In the Air Tonight" can be read as a sinister allusion to covid-19.
― daavid, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 17:35 (three years ago) link
Well if you told me you were coughing,I would not lend a hand.
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
it's all been a pack of lies
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
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
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 16 November 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link
I can feel Phil coming in the chair tonight
― coupvfefe (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 November 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link
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, morrispJust 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.
― it's AG in your faaaace.... (morrisp), Monday, 16 November 2020 07:36 (three years ago) link