Phil Collins "In the air tonight" C/D

Current Uncut has a whole article about it. Been meaning to hear the whole album for oh, 27 years.

i have loved this song since i was a kid

Also, who was the music supervisor on Risky Business that decided to cut away from "In the Air Tonight" to that fucking Tangerine Dream score...

yeah, but that Tangerine Dream song is also a classic.

My youngest brother (age 16) just called & asked me to sing him this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo

Holy shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo

― caek, Saturday, September 1, 2007 12:00 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

Damn, didn't see that. Anyway . . . the gorilla - he drums!

That gorilla fucking means it.

I wonder how many people he's drowned.

I was really sad to learn that the murderer story was a hoax--about a day after I first heard it (the story, not the song).

The great thing about Phil Collins is that these songs have aged really well precisely because he's a drummer and he had a great ear for good tones.

"It's about a dude he saw drowning."

"This Must Be Love" sounds good coming after on the record.

I recently sat and watched the Miami Vice pilot episode on Hulu mostly to get to see the scene when "In the Air Tonight" comes on.

super classic song and scene obviously, even if it indirectly led to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBiDiCDetwA

"in the air tonight" is what it sounds like to get murdered

-- max (maxreax), Friday, January 19, 2007 10:31 PM (3 months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOwAvW1CIJs

What a song. I spent some time air drumming to this. The best part about it is the inspiration behind it, my understanding being it is somewhat Phil collins’s own musical version of Death Wish. As the story goes a man was out boating on a bay when the boat capsized and sank and he did not know how to swim and unfortunately did not have a life preserver with him. Phil was at the same place that day but was up on a bluff, and too late noticed this man in distress shouting for help. He noticed a single individual on the beach just watching and Phil ran down but by the time he arrived this man had vanished beneath the waves and drowned. The other man could have helped but chose not to. Phil made an attempt to press charges but there were no other witnesses. Years later Phil decided to track the man down and invited him to a concert, with a front row center seat. He sang this song to the man while staring at him and the lights in the stadium lowered except for a single spotlight on the man, who eventually according to those who were there realized who Phil was, the same man from the beach all those years before. The man committed suicide shortly after the show was over out of shame and humiliation. Kind of a cool story about justice. Phil never speaks about it or the song I guess only two people really knew the truth at the time and one of them is dead it took a lot of detective work for people to get to the real inspiration behind this song.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/458589121596894873/C3A2F378C63B5504CC5242E33B4F48825A629410/

In The Air Tonight drum solo: Quarantine edition pic.twitter.com/iwfHikau0d

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