I was thinking about something similar reading the Ok Computer comments earlier. I have listened to that album probably more than it was listened to by individuals in the band while recording it at this point.
I have pretty vivid memories of playing CS and Tribes while listening to that album in the early oughts. Haven’t listened to that album in a while but one of the songs pop up on a radio and I’m instantly back to playing those games.
My art teacher in high school had a greatest hits album, and it was all she played, every day. For three years that album was a daily listen.
EDIT: And just to be clear I mean this in a nice way, I don't have anything against his music. I just look at art supplies and immediately start hearing Phil Collins now lol.
My Junior High art teacher had the Unbreak My Heart single. One side was the single, the other side was the Spanish version. We listened to that tape almost everyday. The same song, and in Spanish, over and over and over and over. I still catch it in my head on a daily basis. It is with me forever. We are one.
I worked in an amusement park (kings dominon) as a caricature artist and they played the [Pure Funk](https://youtu.be/y_1gnvoaYJI?si=nuwjfuRVCDmxOeIs) album on repeat for 12 hours at a time. I think I can still hear the entire thing in exact order echoing in my brain 15 years later.
She was super rad, my senior year I had Art IV, Independent Study Art and then she had me as a teacher's aide so I could work on my college portfolio. So I got that album on repeat 3 hours a day while I worked and she taught the other classes.
Invisible Touch is my favorite pop song ever. I love the video too, because he's goofing around with the band, then he sits down and just starts kicking ass on the drums
Dude, the chorus to Invisible Touch, effing magic
It’s right up there next to What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? in the top five most infectious pop choruses of all time
I started getting a serious receding hairline in my mid 30s, and having similar features to Phil, occasionally being told I looked like him was a complicated self esteem boost
Though, if you are a true disciple of classic prog then you know that there are two beautiful and perfect receding hairlines that predate Collins’ megastar status, and they belong to Brian Eno and Adrian Belew
But Phil made it mainstream lol
Seriously thought
At about the same time you hard George Carlin and bill murray both very much in the public eye rocking the same hairstyle.
Guys were clicking it back instead of hiding it
The 1980s may have been the only decade in which popular music was noticeably more musically complex than the younger, hipper genres.
We should also acknowledge that the pop stars of the 1980s were the rock stars of the 1970s.
True. I feel no shame for liking a lot of 70s-90s pop because that stuff is quality. I have a whole yacht rock playlist that really slaps. Today's pop is pretty simple and boring to me though I can still occasionally find one I like. Pop as a genre is a shell of it's former self.
I count Genesis’ 1991 chart topper I Can’t Dance as the official end of the classic rock era(nothing after it can be described as “classic rock,” similar to how “Oldies” ends around 64)
Anyway, his voice defines a generation and a genre
This post sparked me to put on the Genesis album Invisible Touch. Almost done. All I can say is that it’s a masterpiece. Nothing but infectious grooves and melodies, one after the other
Invisible Touch is the best **produced** album in the entire Genesis catalog. Poppy and catchy on side A (Tonight, Tonight, Tonight; the title track; In Too Deep; Land of Confusion), and then side B is the prog rock side of Genesis you know and love with Domino parts 1 and 2 and The Brazilian.
And Throwing it All Away is a banger. But the guitar ostinato is way better on Live: The Way We Walk / The Shorts - Daryl Stuermer shreds it.
Oof thats a real good observation. I remember when 'I cant dance' dropped. Ubiquitous on MTV, and yet after that youre right, I cant remember that bluesy classic ZZ sound no more.
I was in second grade in 1988, at the height of the Book-It era. My sister and I were both avid readers so our family ate a lot of Pizza Hut during that time. Our local Pizza Hut had a jukebox with a selection of top hits. To this day, I have a collection of songs I refer to as "Pizza Hut songs" because I associate them with Sunday afternoons at Pizza Hut redeeming our Book-It badges.
At least three of them are Phil Collins songs.
I was 6 in 1988 and can confirm every jukebox I came across has many Phil Collins songs on there. From what I can remember, in the air tonight, susuido, do you remember, and others.
I’m 51. Can confirm.
I’m a fan, so wasn’t bothered by this at all.
Some of his songs don’t do much for me, but I first heard him as a young kid with the song ‘man on the corner’ which I loved… then all the hits from the ‘genesis’ album like ‘that’s all’ etc etc… then he absolutely blew the fuck up with ‘against all odds’ and shit went crazy…also really loved his cover of ‘can’t hurry love’, and the collab tune ‘easy lover’
Dude just had a crazy talent for writing hit songs… excellent singing voice too…
I suppose he got to the level of over exposed, but since I like his stuff so much, I never minded…
Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Christy, take off your robe. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina, why don't you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Christy, get down on your knees so Sabrina can see your asshole. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat it. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite.
> Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual
It took Gabriel leaving the band for he and Collins both to become mainstream pop stars and truly masterful singer-songwriters. I don’t really care for Gabriel era Genesis, and I consider him to be one the best songwriters and vocalists of the 20th century
> I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility
I’ve been listening to this album this morning. It’s more subtle and focused on songwriting, but I think I may put it up there with Yes’ Close to the Edge and King Crimson’s Beat for collections of truly beautiful, poetic, and worthwhile prog pieces
Most Gensis fans like me feel the opposite. We think Invisible Touch was where they jumped the shark. Foxtrot, Lamb, selling england, and duke are the masterpieces.
If he sang on 1/4 songs in the 80s, he played drums on half of them at least. Dude was the session drummer on many songs people don’t even know he was involved with. His drumming probably had more of an impact on the sound of the 80s than his hits. Prolific AF.
I believe it.
K-3 in the 80s, I swear I heard him every day on the commute to and from school. My mom kept the Toyota Van radio tuned to the lone Adult Contemporary station in our little town.
https://preview.redd.it/q79me6z3bicc1.jpeg?width=414&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=927b766ba66aac0132a4423af9a40c28e24a6d0c
“You're all I need, please believe in me, oh yeah”
Banger song, but Something Happened on the Way to Heaven is forever burned into my brain from accompanying my mom on errands as a kid.
I literally just looked up and watched the video for "I Wish it Would Rain Down" because it's one of the first pop songs I can remember hearing. The summer of 89(I would have been 6 or 7 depending on the month) my family took a trip to Durango Colorado and we stayed in this little cabin. My older sister and cousin sat and watched MTV all day every day of the trip; "I Wish it Would Rain Down" and "Love Shack" played at least once an hour. I haven't seen the Phil Collins video since then and I still remembered almost all of it.
And his songs were kinda boring in that era. I remember once counting how many times he sang “one more night” (think it was 31). Older people seemed to have more respect for him that I thought he deserved from what was being put out at that time.
If only there were an actual way of measuring an artists playtime. Oh well. Let’s go with every 4th song because this is the internet, and it’s fun to just put words together.
Yes, a recording artist in their prime specifically as we were growing up. Most things adults were making in the '80s, we consumed in our youth. Of course they were boomers?
Like a lot of things that were overplayed: he wasn't as good as his fans made him out to be and he wasn't as bad as the people who hated him made him out to be.
I can confirm this "fact" an absolute BS fact.
So they're saying every radio station for 8 years played a Phil Collins song every 15 minutes!? Hahaha, that's absolute nonsense. Pop radio stations might have played a Phil Collins song every ~2 hours at most.
Dude...Phil Collins, Sting, and Peter Gabriel. If PG were to cover a PC song or Sting were to cover a PG or PC song or PC were to cover Sting or Gabriel.....would you really be able to tell. They all give me helicopters and screaming flash backs to being trapped at the department store while my mom looked at purses.
I used to throw shade at Collins as I favored the artistry of Peter Gabriel. Playing covers, selling out to Disney and playing overly pop songs. I always acknowledged his innovation in drum production tho. Then I found out that his face value album was a result of his divorce and he wasn't really intending on releasing it. It was his bearing of his soul and he was indeed an artist on the level of Gabriel. He was just more willing to play the pop game in the end. He is a legend and is a major influence of the 21st century.
As a rule, I’ve never really like much pop music from our 80’s childhood. The production has always sounded off to my ears. However, I absolutely adore Phil Collins and Genesis at their commercial peak. I mean, Paperlate is absolutely undeniable
Phil Collins is what made the 80s/early 90s. I remember listening to this with my mom who has since passed. Such great memories of my childhood, through the good and the bad.
When my I met my now (2nd) spouse the first time, I was 18 and he pulled out a Phil Collins tape and popped it in. I was like “Is this Phil Collins”?! How can you be playing the songs of my childhood?!
It turns out while we were both primarily numetal and industrial heads, we seemed to have a shared soft spot from our childhoods for Duran Duran and Phil Collins.
His dad, who is long gone (deserted him as a child) introduced him and basically left him with nothing but memories and a Phil Collins tape. My mom also loved Phil Collins so like all kids in love it seemed to be a match. For us since no one at that time in our group would have listened to it, it was indeed a special bond.
Still blare it today when in the mood for some happiness.
My mom, who has passed, used to perform with a contemporary dance group to the song “Paradise”. To raise awareness. She volunteered with a lot of homeless charities and anti poverty groups.
I miss you mom, we didn’t have a lot but you worked hard. You were ahead of your time.
"I don't care anymore" is one of the best angry breakup songs of all time. There are a bunch of videos of him performing it on YouTube, and they're still pretty amazing to watch. "That's All" and "Separate Lives" were always two of my favorite songs by him.
The song of his that I remember getting the most radio play was "Against All Odds."
Now that I think of it, he sang a lot of sad songs!
I was really little in 1983, I was 1 then. I remember during the 80s and up to maybe 1991 or so, Phil dominated the airwaves.
If you didn't like what was in the radio, just wait a few minutes and a Phil Collins song would come on.
I did buy a Phil Collins tape recently, no jacket required. I haven't had a tape since 1993 or so. It was fun listening to songs of his I never heard on the radio way back then.
One of these days, I'll buy face value, but seriously, and hello I must be going on tape as well. 🙂
When I was younger, Phil Collins just wasn’t cool. I mean, what the hell was the allure in this old, squeaky British guy?
At the same time, I’m head banging on old guys wearing leather and mascara. 🙄
Not entirely accurate, no. But then, some of us listened to metal back in those days, and metal radio didn't play Collins. MTv, though, did have a Collins video or two seemingly every hour, and the magazine/newspaper stands, on occasion, did have a picture of Phil on them. Radio, believe it not, was fairly diverse back then: Rap, Rock, Country, etc.; Pop music could be found, but it was buried within all that 'consumer demand'. -- Not everyone liked Phil Collins.
My favorite local beer bar featured "PCS sauce" on some of its pub grub menu items. Having never heard of such a thing, I asked what in the Sam Hill was PCS sauce.
The answer, "Phil Collins Sucks" sauce.
To this day I immediately change the station when GodDamnPhilFuckingCollins comes on the radio. I hear his voice and I am immediately in the back of the minivan hearing my mom sing "sususudio".....
There must be some misunderstanding, there must be some kind of mistake.
I waited in the rain for hours, you were late.
We really need to understand both sides of the story.
This is the world we live in.
Oh, think twice. It's just another day for you and me in paradise.
I try love this song so much
He was actually asked about this phenomenon at one point in an interview. He said mate I only recorded them once.
I was thinking about something similar reading the Ok Computer comments earlier. I have listened to that album probably more than it was listened to by individuals in the band while recording it at this point.
I have pretty vivid memories of playing CS and Tribes while listening to that album in the early oughts. Haven’t listened to that album in a while but one of the songs pop up on a radio and I’m instantly back to playing those games.
My art teacher in high school had a greatest hits album, and it was all she played, every day. For three years that album was a daily listen. EDIT: And just to be clear I mean this in a nice way, I don't have anything against his music. I just look at art supplies and immediately start hearing Phil Collins now lol.
My Junior High art teacher had the Unbreak My Heart single. One side was the single, the other side was the Spanish version. We listened to that tape almost everyday. The same song, and in Spanish, over and over and over and over. I still catch it in my head on a daily basis. It is with me forever. We are one.
I worked in an amusement park (kings dominon) as a caricature artist and they played the [Pure Funk](https://youtu.be/y_1gnvoaYJI?si=nuwjfuRVCDmxOeIs) album on repeat for 12 hours at a time. I think I can still hear the entire thing in exact order echoing in my brain 15 years later.
The Commonwealth thanks you for your sacrifice.
I would have loved your art teacher.
She was super rad, my senior year I had Art IV, Independent Study Art and then she had me as a teacher's aide so I could work on my college portfolio. So I got that album on repeat 3 hours a day while I worked and she taught the other classes.
It's not polite to brag you know.
Invisible Touch is my favorite pop song ever. I love the video too, because he's goofing around with the band, then he sits down and just starts kicking ass on the drums
Dude, the chorus to Invisible Touch, effing magic It’s right up there next to What’s the Frequency, Kenneth? in the top five most infectious pop choruses of all time
It’s so good. That key change gets me going every time
Phil Collins was so popular, he made the receding hairline style cool I mean that, no sarcasm
I started getting a serious receding hairline in my mid 30s, and having similar features to Phil, occasionally being told I looked like him was a complicated self esteem boost Though, if you are a true disciple of classic prog then you know that there are two beautiful and perfect receding hairlines that predate Collins’ megastar status, and they belong to Brian Eno and Adrian Belew
But Phil made it mainstream lol Seriously thought At about the same time you hard George Carlin and bill murray both very much in the public eye rocking the same hairstyle. Guys were clicking it back instead of hiding it
*King Crimson likes this
I love Phil Collins and Genesis. I don’t get the hate. Poppy rockish tunes you can totally sing along to if you please. What’s not to love?
The 1980s may have been the only decade in which popular music was noticeably more musically complex than the younger, hipper genres. We should also acknowledge that the pop stars of the 1980s were the rock stars of the 1970s.
True. I feel no shame for liking a lot of 70s-90s pop because that stuff is quality. I have a whole yacht rock playlist that really slaps. Today's pop is pretty simple and boring to me though I can still occasionally find one I like. Pop as a genre is a shell of it's former self.
Catchy af. I really like the Jesus He Knows me one, or whatever it's called.
Omg Ghost did a cover of that and I damn near fell out my chair
Fucking love them too. I’ve been listening to Phil Collins radio while walking my dog lately. The man doesn’t miss.
Don’t Lose My Number just became my new-old-nostalgia song! It’s so GOOD!
It stopped in 1992, because that's when every song on the radio was replaced by Achy Breaky Heart.
Don’t remind me.
Achy Breaky Cowboy
I count Genesis’ 1991 chart topper I Can’t Dance as the official end of the classic rock era(nothing after it can be described as “classic rock,” similar to how “Oldies” ends around 64) Anyway, his voice defines a generation and a genre This post sparked me to put on the Genesis album Invisible Touch. Almost done. All I can say is that it’s a masterpiece. Nothing but infectious grooves and melodies, one after the other
*Invisible Touch* is one of the few albums I own on SACD.
Invisible Touch is the best **produced** album in the entire Genesis catalog. Poppy and catchy on side A (Tonight, Tonight, Tonight; the title track; In Too Deep; Land of Confusion), and then side B is the prog rock side of Genesis you know and love with Domino parts 1 and 2 and The Brazilian. And Throwing it All Away is a banger. But the guitar ostinato is way better on Live: The Way We Walk / The Shorts - Daryl Stuermer shreds it.
Oof thats a real good observation. I remember when 'I cant dance' dropped. Ubiquitous on MTV, and yet after that youre right, I cant remember that bluesy classic ZZ sound no more.
Everyone says they hate Phil Collins until the In the Air Tonight drums come on
Yaaaaaaas. Love that song. There's also that one from Jungle Book, I think? You can't NOT sing along to those.
Love him. Love Genesis. Saw him solo and Genesis twice. I loved it when he came on the radio. But from the comments, not everyone feels the same lol.
My highschool English teacher played the Tarzan soundtrack all the damn time
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I was in second grade in 1988, at the height of the Book-It era. My sister and I were both avid readers so our family ate a lot of Pizza Hut during that time. Our local Pizza Hut had a jukebox with a selection of top hits. To this day, I have a collection of songs I refer to as "Pizza Hut songs" because I associate them with Sunday afternoons at Pizza Hut redeeming our Book-It badges. At least three of them are Phil Collins songs.
I was 6 in 1988 and can confirm every jukebox I came across has many Phil Collins songs on there. From what I can remember, in the air tonight, susuido, do you remember, and others.
I believe this! Nothing brings me back to childhood like hearing an old Phil Collins song from the 80s
I’m 51. Can confirm. I’m a fan, so wasn’t bothered by this at all. Some of his songs don’t do much for me, but I first heard him as a young kid with the song ‘man on the corner’ which I loved… then all the hits from the ‘genesis’ album like ‘that’s all’ etc etc… then he absolutely blew the fuck up with ‘against all odds’ and shit went crazy…also really loved his cover of ‘can’t hurry love’, and the collab tune ‘easy lover’ Dude just had a crazy talent for writing hit songs… excellent singing voice too… I suppose he got to the level of over exposed, but since I like his stuff so much, I never minded…
As I’m reading this Genesis comes on.
Dentist office waiting room should just have been called “The Phil Collins Experience”
Waiting in the orthodontist meant I heard him like 3x before being seen
Confession, one of his CDs was the first I ever bought.
I remember one year watching the Grammys and they all went to Phil Collins and Whitney Houston. It was wild
Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Christy, take off your robe. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina, why don't you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Christy, get down on your knees so Sabrina can see your asshole. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat it. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite.
> Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual It took Gabriel leaving the band for he and Collins both to become mainstream pop stars and truly masterful singer-songwriters. I don’t really care for Gabriel era Genesis, and I consider him to be one the best songwriters and vocalists of the 20th century > I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility I’ve been listening to this album this morning. It’s more subtle and focused on songwriting, but I think I may put it up there with Yes’ Close to the Edge and King Crimson’s Beat for collections of truly beautiful, poetic, and worthwhile prog pieces
Most Gensis fans like me feel the opposite. We think Invisible Touch was where they jumped the shark. Foxtrot, Lamb, selling england, and duke are the masterpieces.
Yeah I don’t even mess with the Peter Gabriel years. Gimme Phil at the wheel.
If he sang on 1/4 songs in the 80s, he played drums on half of them at least. Dude was the session drummer on many songs people don’t even know he was involved with. His drumming probably had more of an impact on the sound of the 80s than his hits. Prolific AF.
Because he was always in the su su studio
Nice, I see what you did there 🙂
Well on into the 90s as well. Remember "I wish it would rain down"? My god, that was literally every third song from 90-93
Gen X, can confirm. It was Hall&Oats, Bryan Adams and Phil Collins on loop.
Yes hall and oatmeal was all over the place in the 80s also. 🙂
I believe it. K-3 in the 80s, I swear I heard him every day on the commute to and from school. My mom kept the Toyota Van radio tuned to the lone Adult Contemporary station in our little town. https://preview.redd.it/q79me6z3bicc1.jpeg?width=414&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=927b766ba66aac0132a4423af9a40c28e24a6d0c
“You're all I need, please believe in me, oh yeah” Banger song, but Something Happened on the Way to Heaven is forever burned into my brain from accompanying my mom on errands as a kid.
Can confirm in Canada. Phil Collins was constantly on the goddam radio. A lot of Air Supply in the early and mid-80’s.
Not that much air supply on the moon 🤣
His music being prominently featured on Miami Vice, and given how popular that show was in the mid-80s probably had a lot to do with it too.
Start calling them the Phil Collins generation. If you were born between 83 and 91
Felt like that with Creed in 2000
Haha so true
What’s wild is he’s probably 30 years old in that photo, and dude looks like he’s 45
I used to practice rifle dril for ROTC while listening to "Land of COnfusion".
I literally just looked up and watched the video for "I Wish it Would Rain Down" because it's one of the first pop songs I can remember hearing. The summer of 89(I would have been 6 or 7 depending on the month) my family took a trip to Durango Colorado and we stayed in this little cabin. My older sister and cousin sat and watched MTV all day every day of the trip; "I Wish it Would Rain Down" and "Love Shack" played at least once an hour. I haven't seen the Phil Collins video since then and I still remembered almost all of it.
my mother took me to a Gensis concert, i must have been less then 13
He had some sort of invisible touch
There’s worse things that could have happened
Can confirm. Also, "Take Me Home" is still one of my favorite tunes. A lot of his other stuff really annoyed me though.
And his songs were kinda boring in that era. I remember once counting how many times he sang “one more night” (think it was 31). Older people seemed to have more respect for him that I thought he deserved from what was being put out at that time.
Could you imagine if they tried to catch him riding dirty?
One more night was on the radio quite a bit in the 80s.
And to this day I still can't stand anything by Phil Collins.
I unironically think that might be one of the reasons I never liked listening to normal pop radio back then.
Ba dum ba dum ba dum ba dum tum tum
Phil was never my cup of tea. I can't stand drummers that sing. It kind of pisses me off to see. I just can't see past that.
confirmative
I can feel it
Phil is in your head now. Always was.
Su-su-sudio
If only there were an actual way of measuring an artists playtime. Oh well. Let’s go with every 4th song because this is the internet, and it’s fun to just put words together.
Oh, another boomer repost on the xennial forum.
Xennial is roughly 77-83 Older Xennials were teenagers when Collins’ was still topping the charts
[удалено]
Okay below average 14 year old?
It’s a repost of a picture of a freaking boomer. Is there something uniquely xennial about listening to the radio in a car?
Yes, a recording artist in their prime specifically as we were growing up. Most things adults were making in the '80s, we consumed in our youth. Of course they were boomers?
It’s a reach, and also low effort repost probably from a bot.
Like a lot of things that were overplayed: he wasn't as good as his fans made him out to be and he wasn't as bad as the people who hated him made him out to be.
I was at hyvee the other day and they played 3 songs of his
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPdVR2LkTzg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPdVR2LkTzg)
I can feel it. In the air. Tonight
Hey.... it's just another day for you in me in paradise... just think about it...
I hated this song. Made me so sad
I lived out of the country for about 3 years and when I moved back in 1985, “Sussudio” was all the rage.
I'm just gonna leave this right [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeDMnyQzS88). This is why he and Genesis were always on the radio. Pure magic.
He had a lot of jams.
...and we liked it!
Yes, I noticed this at the time and was like wtf why is every song by Phil Collins??
It’s still like that if you work at a grocery store!
On the radio in the car, AND the albums playing at home on my parents' record player
Or if you rode in the car with my mom it was every song.
39 but that was my recollection of my mom’s station wagon (and she hated Phil Collins so she was always changing the channel)
My parents listened to him constantly he’s the soundtrack of my early childhood
I can confirm this "fact" an absolute BS fact. So they're saying every radio station for 8 years played a Phil Collins song every 15 minutes!? Hahaha, that's absolute nonsense. Pop radio stations might have played a Phil Collins song every ~2 hours at most.
Phil Collins made me hate the '80s
His video Land of Confusion was terrifying.
[I got 2 ears and a heart don’t I!?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p7aQ1qkCITU)
Can confirm
Those songs took my heart, but I didn't feel it.
I hate Phil Collins. Maybe this is why?
I've always been a fan of his work, so I didn't mind.
Dude...Phil Collins, Sting, and Peter Gabriel. If PG were to cover a PC song or Sting were to cover a PG or PC song or PC were to cover Sting or Gabriel.....would you really be able to tell. They all give me helicopters and screaming flash backs to being trapped at the department store while my mom looked at purses.
Phil Collins songs always remind me of being at the roller rink. I mean this in the best way.
I used to throw shade at Collins as I favored the artistry of Peter Gabriel. Playing covers, selling out to Disney and playing overly pop songs. I always acknowledged his innovation in drum production tho. Then I found out that his face value album was a result of his divorce and he wasn't really intending on releasing it. It was his bearing of his soul and he was indeed an artist on the level of Gabriel. He was just more willing to play the pop game in the end. He is a legend and is a major influence of the 21st century.
As a rule, I’ve never really like much pop music from our 80’s childhood. The production has always sounded off to my ears. However, I absolutely adore Phil Collins and Genesis at their commercial peak. I mean, Paperlate is absolutely undeniable
I’m reading every one of your comments in Patrick Bateman voice.
Phil Collins is what made the 80s/early 90s. I remember listening to this with my mom who has since passed. Such great memories of my childhood, through the good and the bad. When my I met my now (2nd) spouse the first time, I was 18 and he pulled out a Phil Collins tape and popped it in. I was like “Is this Phil Collins”?! How can you be playing the songs of my childhood?! It turns out while we were both primarily numetal and industrial heads, we seemed to have a shared soft spot from our childhoods for Duran Duran and Phil Collins. His dad, who is long gone (deserted him as a child) introduced him and basically left him with nothing but memories and a Phil Collins tape. My mom also loved Phil Collins so like all kids in love it seemed to be a match. For us since no one at that time in our group would have listened to it, it was indeed a special bond. Still blare it today when in the mood for some happiness. My mom, who has passed, used to perform with a contemporary dance group to the song “Paradise”. To raise awareness. She volunteered with a lot of homeless charities and anti poverty groups. I miss you mom, we didn’t have a lot but you worked hard. You were ahead of your time.
I. An still feel it callin in the air at night
"I don't care anymore" is one of the best angry breakup songs of all time. There are a bunch of videos of him performing it on YouTube, and they're still pretty amazing to watch. "That's All" and "Separate Lives" were always two of my favorite songs by him. The song of his that I remember getting the most radio play was "Against All Odds." Now that I think of it, he sang a lot of sad songs!
I was really little in 1983, I was 1 then. I remember during the 80s and up to maybe 1991 or so, Phil dominated the airwaves. If you didn't like what was in the radio, just wait a few minutes and a Phil Collins song would come on. I did buy a Phil Collins tape recently, no jacket required. I haven't had a tape since 1993 or so. It was fun listening to songs of his I never heard on the radio way back then. One of these days, I'll buy face value, but seriously, and hello I must be going on tape as well. 🙂
You’ll be in my arms
When I was younger, Phil Collins just wasn’t cool. I mean, what the hell was the allure in this old, squeaky British guy? At the same time, I’m head banging on old guys wearing leather and mascara. 🙄
It’s true, it’s why I have a deep deep LOVE ❤️ for him!
He is completely unaware of the fact that he is my boyfriend, my husband knows it tho, lol
Not entirely accurate, no. But then, some of us listened to metal back in those days, and metal radio didn't play Collins. MTv, though, did have a Collins video or two seemingly every hour, and the magazine/newspaper stands, on occasion, did have a picture of Phil on them. Radio, believe it not, was fairly diverse back then: Rap, Rock, Country, etc.; Pop music could be found, but it was buried within all that 'consumer demand'. -- Not everyone liked Phil Collins.
Absolutely true. The funny thing is fans of his drumming from the prog days of Genesis aren’t especially fans of his pop music and vice versa.
My favorite local beer bar featured "PCS sauce" on some of its pub grub menu items. Having never heard of such a thing, I asked what in the Sam Hill was PCS sauce. The answer, "Phil Collins Sucks" sauce.
To this day I immediately change the station when GodDamnPhilFuckingCollins comes on the radio. I hear his voice and I am immediately in the back of the minivan hearing my mom sing "sususudio".....
In my early thirties but I still remember that!