Defend Phil Collins

he said he saw a gorilla running from the scene of the crime.

i bellowed loudly WOT GORILLA?

You misspelled cryme

"Chinese whispers"?

I think he was talking about the Cure EP.

It's what Americans call "telephone" or "whisper down the lane," i.e., a message getting diluted/distorted by repetition, or a self-replicating (ahem) misunderstanding

Please don’t tape drum sticks to Phil Collins hands, it’s not funny.

― Alba, Sunday, September 12, 2021

Not infrequently, the funniest thing I hear all day is on ILM. Today it was this.

"Chinese whispers"?

Yeah, bit surprised the Guardian was using that phrase as late as 2016.

xpost!

Q: What did Phil Collins say when Mike Rutherford was offering the cocaine around at the reunion rehearsals?
A: I'll 'ave plenty! (Aisle of Plenty)

that must be what happened on the way to Heaven

he knows what he likes (in your wardrobe)

Nothing like being in a hardware store in the afternoon with “in the air tonight” playing

I can buy a trowel in this store today
oh lord

If you told me you were leaking
I would not lend a wrench

She calls out to the man in the store
"Sir, can you help me?
My toilet's old and it's starting to leak
Is there something you can sell me?"

They seem to have an acetylene torch yeah

Lol

I still hear the LP version of "In the Air Tonight" at least on a weekly basis, on a whole range of stations, but yesterday was the first time I've *ever* noticed that what is I guess the single version, or maybe the video version, has extra drums throughout!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxV4KipHXFE

Very cool. Sounds like maybe some extra guitar and backing vox on the 2nd verse / chorus too

The “….well I REMEMBA” part gets me every time.

As I move further into my 40s I definitely find myself mumbling “I don’t care anymore” pretty frequently

Try yelling it.

According to the internet - the internet! - the single mix has extra drums because Ahmet Ertegun thought people would get bored waiting for the drums to come in. So he said to Phil Collins "add more drums" and Phil Collins said "yes" and Ahmet Ertegun said "that sounds good" and Phil Collins said "yes" and then the aeroplane crashed into the sea and it was a shark and I used the teeth to make six crowns.

I grew up with the single version so I find the album version unusual. The drum machine was a Roland CR-78, which was all over John Foxx's Metamatic. The pattern is at about 04:50 (it had preset patterns, but there was scope for variation):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2-KTcMycoE

Collins strikes me as a man who would be held in higher regard if he had never said anything ever. If he had just shut up at some point in the late 1970s and never said anything. He'd still be held in low regard because of "Groovy Kind of Love" and Live Aid and Buster, but not as low.

What’s up with these covers with Phil looking older ? Am I listening to the original albums? E.g.

https://i.imgur.com/INUQNmv.png

this was after Nicky Santoro put his head in a vice

When they were reissued a coupla years back he reshot all the sleeves as he is now. It's literally an inexplicable move.

kinda rocks imo

As a concept, definitely. The images themselves always stop me in my tracks though.

Hilarious if other artists picked up the baton. Not sure Sly could pull off the Fresh leap now tbh...

So he didn’t re-record the songs on the albums? Just updated the covers?

just take a look at me now

He didn't rerecord them. They include bonus tracks but they're all demos and live tracks from those eras, iirc.

He's a monster but not that sort of monster.

Hilarious if other artists picked up the baton.

You mean like maybe Fleetwood Mac recreating elements of the Rumours cover for The Dance?

My other half worked on those reissues, and people definitely were scratching their heads at his idea of redoing the cover photos.

No Botox Required

...But Senescently

Hell, why not:

AARPbacab

Geriatric Hits... Live!

You'll Be in My Pacemaker

Hello? I Must Be Going Deaf

Nursing Home by the Sea

Old Man On The Corner

Grandmama

Nursing Home By The Sea

I Don't Pee Anymore

Aged, Full Of Warts (Take A Look At Me Now)

I Pissed Again

I Know What I Like (Prunes and an Early Bedtime)

ahem

Nursing Home by the Sea

― is it milli vanilli or just a facsimile (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, January 23, 2023 2:33 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Old Man On The Corner

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, January 23, 2023 2:53 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Grandmama

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, January 23, 2023 2:57 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Nursing Home By The Sea

― PaulTMA, Monday, January 23, 2023 3:01 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Second Nursing Home By The Sea

Reverse Mortgaging England by the Pound

oh damn lmao xp

Blames Everything On Illegal Aliens

lol