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Phil Collins — In the Air Tonight
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ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: Sep 20, 2009 - 20:32
 
Because the earlier links to this seem to be dead:
 

 
 
And because, well, just because:

 
 
More here. Don't miss the gorilla's audition.

NewFee
(Toronto - Beaches)
Posted: Sep 20, 2009 - 20:09
 
Bold choice Bill, but I still like - nay love! - this song.

If only I could get the thought out of my head, which popped in a few years ago, that because of the chorus "I can feel it coming in the air tonight", this song is really about...

masturbation.

There. Put that on a separate line so you folks couldn't miss it.

Put *that* with your bag of limes and the gorilla, and see if you ever hear this song the same again :)


Xeric
(Montana)
Posted: Sep 20, 2009 - 20:01
 
This starts out very good.  But then Phil's undies just get tighter and tighter and tighter. . . .

djengs
Posted: Sep 20, 2009 - 19:58
 
Something about this song just makes me want to ride public transportation...

von_Hayek
(Fr-Su Duesseldorf, Mo-Th Magdeburg)
Posted: Sep 09, 2009 - 09:54
 
 peter_james_bond wrote:

{#Rolleyes} So The Beatles also had no talent?
 
It's if...then, NOT: if and only if, Einstein...


SweTex
(Swede living in Texas)
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:26
 
 newwavegurly wrote:
I always get a kick out of reading the song comments for a more "commercially successful" song like this on RP.
 
Let's get a grip, folks. YES, we could hear this song on commercial radio (if we were commercial radio listeners... ahem), but Bill tossing a song like this into the mix on any given day is one of the things that makes RP so awesome. For example, we just heard "Andare" by Ludovico Einaudi then "My Little Basquiat" by Cowboy Junkies, this track, and now Silversun Pickups' "Three Seed" is playing. Where else are you going to hear a set of songs like that played back-to-back? That's right, NOWHERE else.
 
Thank you, Bill. Thank you for keeping our musical minds sharp by tossing music together that we would never put together ourselves. 
 

{#Yes}

Marr
(Houston (dreaming of Austin))
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:21
 
 iscoot4peace wrote:
Nope.  It would never have been missed.
 bbryan wrote:
A brave decision to include this over-played tune in the playlist. And the right decision, I think...
 
 

By which you surely mean that it would've neve been missed by you and any number of others. However, I think there are enough positive comments here on the board, and this has a high enough overall rating, to suggest that it would have been missed by some.

iscoot4peace
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:20
 
Nope.  It would never have been missed.
 bbryan wrote:
A brave decision to include this over-played tune in the playlist. And the right decision, I think...
 



newwavegurly
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:19
 
I always get a kick out of reading the song comments for a more "commercially successful" song like this on RP.
 
Let's get a grip, folks. YES, we could hear this song on commercial radio (if we were commercial radio listeners... ahem), but Bill tossing a song like this into the mix on any given day is one of the things that makes RP so awesome. For example, we just heard "Andare" by Ludovico Einaudi then "My Little Basquiat" by Cowboy Junkies, this track, and now Silversun Pickups' "Three Seed" is playing. Where else are you going to hear a set of songs like that played back-to-back? That's right, NOWHERE else.
 
Thank you, Bill. Thank you for keeping our musical minds sharp by tossing music together that we would never put together ourselves. 

handyrae
(Zero Point Field)
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:18
 
 cakkafracle wrote:
The bitching and moaning (in general)  is really tiresome.

 
I have to agree. What I dislike about this song is all the screaming. If he toned it down a bit, I'd find the song quite enjoyable.


danagle
(Sarasota, FL)
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:18
 
When I hear this song I think of Mike Tyson air drumming.

cakkafracle
(Chilly Chilly Winnipeg)
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:17
 
The bitching and moaning (in general)  is really tiresome.


BowTieDad
(Stockholm, Sweden)
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:16
 
BLÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ {#Razz}

bbryan
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:15
 
A brave decision to include this over-played tune in the playlist. And the right decision, I think...

Dave_Mack
(Five bus, Jive bus!)
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:15
 
I enjoy this song a lot more when instead of singing "It's all been a pack of lies," I substitute "It's all been a bag of limes."  I can't help grinning after that.

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:15
 
 ptooey wrote:
Man, I can't stand Phil Collins, but there's something about this song...
 
Exactly. He's done so much dreck, but this really holds up.


Marr
(Houston (dreaming of Austin))
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:14
 
 MsJudi wrote:
I never much liked him solo, too soft and fuzzy for me, but this song rocks the rafters even after all these years.
 

Full agreement from me. This is the one solo song he ever did that always seems to pull me down from whatever else I'm doing.

evansdad
(CT)
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:14
 
I really don't need to hear this again...{#Stop}

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:14
 
Stewie Griffin did a very respectable cover of this, complete with drum break.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6H-OpvATW4


ptooey
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:13
 
Man, I can't stand Phil Collins, but there's something about this song...

MsJudi
(Houston, TX)
Posted: Aug 20, 2009 - 08:13
 
I never much liked him solo, too soft and fuzzy for me, but this song rocks the rafters even after all these years.

lmic
(Narrow Minded Couch Potato)
Posted: Jul 19, 2009 - 21:09
 
Oh, Bill, thou disseth Sheryl Crow earlier this afternoon, then subjecteth us to PC? tsk.


peter_james_bond
(Lunenburg, NS)
Posted: Jul 19, 2009 - 18:07
 
 Feghoot wrote:
If you have no talent use an echo chamber, reverb, and repetition.
 
{#Rolleyes} So The Beatles also had no talent?

ottojschlosser
(Coarsegold CA)
Posted: Jun 17, 2009 - 21:55
 
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over? Why are you subjecting us to this? If I never hear this nauseatingly overplayed song again in my whole life I will consider myself very lucky. You are better than this, folks.

EniwaMan
(Hokkaido, Japan)
Posted: May 17, 2009 - 03:59
 
 mongoose01ca wrote:
Guilty pleasure. Like ABBA.

But it does have one of the coolest drum breaks of all time, so that's gotta count for something.
 
I agree completely (well, maybe not the ABBA part, but even there, I can sort of get the appeal, even if it doesn't appeal to me).  

I am with everyone who criticizes all the Phil Collins fluff-pop out there, but It should also be said that in this tune he shows that he gets the idea of musical tension, and exploits it well, right up to that drum break.  And the crescendo continues beyond that, too.  A guilty pleasure of mine too.  Luckily, I've avoided classic rock radio, so it's not ruined for me.


RedGuitar
(Iowa, USA)
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 13:45
 
 Feghoot wrote:
If you have no talent use an echo chamber, reverb, and repetition.

  Phil is a talented drummer (do you think Peter Gabriel would have any old drummer back in the Genesis days?) and he stepped up to the mic when Peter left the band.  I do agree that his solo stuff was perhaps less than stellar.  All said, I like this tune.



The_Enemy
(The Sewer)
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 13:21
 
 SantaFeGrace wrote:
{#Yes}  He put on one hell of a show, too!   {#Drummer}
 
I gave this song a 2 but I must agree with you.  I saw him in a solo concert a few years ago (free tickets and box seats — who can say 'no'?  :) and I give him full points for showmanship.

Even thinking the music was crap, it was a good concert.

smdeeg
(SillyCone Valley)
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 13:20
 
I though this song was dark and deep when I was a teen.  Now I hear it and it just feels bland.  More the imitation of something dark and deep.  Nostalgia can't hold it up for me.  Pass.

Radio_Dweeb
(Maryland)
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 13:17
 
When the song ended I was waiting for a "Hits of the 80's, 90's and Today ... Mix-FM" jingle {#Lol}

FrankMc
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 13:14
 
Phil was one of the feature performers on WMIP (White Men in Pain). Others featured include Michael Bolton, (some) Don Henley. The dudes sound like they're having their voice boxes ripped out when they "sing." I'm with the try to refrain from negativity crowd, but this is one song I could go the rest of my existence without hearing again. I'm afraid that's not likely to happen, but I can hope.

Feghoot
(Renton, WA - the Riviera of the Valley)
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 13:13
 
If you have no talent use an echo chamber, reverb, and repetition.


SantaFeGrace
(Santa Fe, NM)
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 13:13
 
 akmegan wrote:
Oh, HELL YEAH!! Love this song. Reminds me of being a little kid & my mom just ROCKING out & loving this song & Phil & Genesis. Thanks for the flashback! {#Music}
 

{#Yes}  He put on one hell of a show, too!   {#Drummer}

westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 13:12
 

Light, accessible, broad appeal, "commercial" maybe.

It's a good pop song.  Some of you folks should lighten up.



Stave
(San Francisco)
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 13:12
 
  I survived the 80's, and yet the strongest memory I have associated with this song is from that scene in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie where Frylock learns his true origins...

nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 13:10
 
 Proclivities wrote:
I generally refrain from negative comments, but this guy produced some of the most lifeless, commercial drivel in history.  For years, one couldn't escape that insincere, grossly-overplayed pablum.  He has done some great stuff, but I can't get that awful sound from the 1980's out of my ears.

 
Srsly. I decided to tone down my comments because, well, if someone likes a song, good for them. I can keep my trap shut.

But jeeze, this is just awful in every way you can think of but primarily it's been overplayed to the point where I reflexively reach for the "mute" button when it comes on.


kimacho
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 13:10
 
I've found that if I just imagine Peter Gabriel singing, all Phil Collins/Genesis songs improve by ten fold. Still doesn't make me like Phil any more, though.

mongoose01ca
(Terminal City, BC)
Posted: Apr 15, 2009 - 13:09
 
Guilty pleasure. Like ABBA.

But it does have one of the coolest drum breaks of all time, so that's gotta count for something.

07734
(Lost Angels)
Posted: Mar 15, 2009 - 00:25
 
This song totally got me into Miami Vice. I heard this was played on an episode (this was around 1989) and I decided, with some acknowledgement of the ridiculousness of the choice, to watch the daily reruns until I saw the episode with this song and the one with PC on it. It took me a couple of years, and by then I'd seen practically every one. I loved the characters - Black Daytona Spyder... White Testarossa... I was so shocked when they blew up Daytona that it is seared in my brain. I can still see the Bad Guy showing the missile launcher off, and then... Boom. Oh, and I guess the people were ok, especially EJ Olmos. Best soundtrack on TV, and (to take it full circle) they played a lot of Phil Collins/Genesis.

Proclivities
(NC)
Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 11:36
 
I generally refrain from negative comments, but this guy produced some of the most lifeless, commercial drivel in history.  For years, one couldn't escape that insincere, grossly-overplayed pablum.  He has done some great stuff, but I can't get that awful sound from the 1980's out of my ears.Pablum



robco1
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 10:56
 
Peace_tode wrote:
gjeeg wrote:

Love Phil, but always feel like he learned everything he ever knew from Tony and Pete. It's a bad bias: that drummers (percussionists) don't have equivalent musicianship to others.
Dis-proved by Henley.... and by Phil. Anyone who ccould drive Summer's Ready, Watcher of the Skies and The Lamb, qualifies.
Astounding the way Tony never soared in a solo career.
billbangert wrote:


I couldn't agree more, I really thought that Tony had the most musical talent of the original lineup.


Sorry for the clumsy paste.

Tony was the musical director, Peter G. was the creative genius. But PC had the commercial sensibilities that took over down the road. Everything from the "Mama" album on, PC had a signiture sound on the drum kit. Hell just listen to Eric Clapton's "Into The Sun" album. And this particular song gives the world a lick everyone can nail!

But that being said, the studio drumming for Supper's Ready on Foxtrot, and his vocal of the same on Second's Out is enough eveidence for anyone to see and appreciate his real talent.

Here, here. Too bad he went down the Top 40 road to creative ruin. I thought his first two solo efforts had a nice balance of those commercial sensibilities and a more personal and authentic expression. Nothing like a messy divorce to get the juices flowing! Then came No Jacket Required and Invisible Touch. I couldn't listen to any post-Gabriel Genesis for about a decade after those turds dropped.


jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 10:39
 
This track is alright, although we certainly have heard enough of it on classic rock stations to last an eternity. And though I have appreciated RP's turning me on to early Genesis and a lot of Peter Gabriel's work I never would have heard otherwise, I sure hope this isn't a harbinger of more Collins' tunes being added to RP's rotation. This is a guy who has simply suffered from WAY too much overexposure. Bully for him, but I appreciate RP being more a shelter from all of that commercialism Phil seems to thrive on.


Gweniviere
(Minneapolis, MN)
Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 10:37
 
I have to admit that like Dove chocolate, this is a guilty pleasure.  {#Embarassed}

Tree_Hugger
(Seattle)
Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 10:37
 
Indeed!  No more Phil.

 shawshank wrote:
{#Frustrated}  Why not play "Sussudio" too!

 



shawshank
(Maryland)
Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 10:35
 
{#Frustrated}  Why not play "Sussudio" too!


tiggers
Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 10:35
 
Yuck!!!! Get rid of it!!!

akmegan
Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 10:33
 
Oh, HELL YEAH!! Love this song. Reminds me of being a little kid & my mom just ROCKING out & loving this song & Phil & Genesis. Thanks for the flashback! {#Music}

Peace_tode
(Atlanta)
Posted: Jan 10, 2009 - 18:52
 
gjeeg wrote:

Love Phil, but always feel like he learned everything he ever knew from Tony and Pete. It's a bad bias: that drummers (percussionists) don't have equivalent musicianship to others.
Dis-proved by Henley.... and by Phil. Anyone who ccould drive Summer's Ready, Watcher of the Skies and The Lamb, qualifies.
Astounding the way Tony never soared in a solo career.
 billbangert wrote:


I couldn't agree more, I really thought that Tony had the most musical talent of the original lineup.
 

Sorry for the clumsy paste.

Tony was the musical director, Peter G. was the creative genius. But PC had the commercial sensibilities that took over down the road. Everything from the "Mama" album on, PC had a signiture sound on the drum kit. Hell just listen to Eric Clapton's "Into The Sun" album. And this particular song gives the world a lick everyone can nail!

But that being said, the studio drumming for Supper's Ready on Foxtrot, and his vocal of the same on Second's Out is enough eveidence for anyone to see and appreciate his real talent.

Hairfarmer
(Appalachia)
Posted: Jan 10, 2009 - 18:50
 
That must be Chester's Gorilla

ninja_band
(chicago, il)
Posted: Jan 10, 2009 - 18:38
 
calling this the worst song of all time is overkill - there are truly wretched phil collins songs that are much stronger contenders for that title

that said, i admit that this falls into an age-when-i-first-heard-it blind spot for me

HoneyBearKelly
(Brooklyn)
Posted: Jan 10, 2009 - 18:38
 
I hate this song with the heat of a thousand suns.