Defend Phil Collins

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

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Old Man On The Corner

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Grandmama

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Nursing Home By The Sea

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Second Nursing Home By The Sea

Reverse Mortgaging England by the Pound

oh damn lmao xp

Blames Everything On Illegal Aliens

lol

Billy, Don't Lose Dignitas' Number

Jesus, I Knew Him

Duke's Retirement

Man of Old Times

You Can't Hurry

A Gravely Kind Of Laugh

Dawdle into the Light

hee hee

Turn It (My Pacemaker) On Again

Second Nursing Home By The Sea

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain)

You're No Son of Mine (Dementia Remix)

He seems to have that visible gut, yeah

Something Happened on the Way to the Buffet

The “dance into the light” cover eradicated my ability to enjoy his earlier work

First, he's not dead. Second, this rules:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgnZD4mMRDY

(ruling starts around 1:18)

It does.

That whole album... Esp Firth Of Fifth.

Original mix is back in-print thanks to Analogue Productions. Kind of pricey though