Phil Collins vs Peter Gabriel

You have a problem with "No Son Of Mine?"

 

Given the amount of far superior singles they released, yeah.

I mean it´s just ´okay´, but from the album it came from, ´We Can´t Dance´ (which is, quite frankly, dogshit) - it´s hideous, overproduced pop-shit; most of the tracks sound like castoffs from one of Collins´ solo albums.

 

He was clearly taking the piss out of the reporter

 

That´s what they all said, I bet...

 

Shut up, faggot

 

yeh it sucks
Steam is his best single, no doubt

 

You probably like hot steam all over your back

 

Who the fuck bought cassettes in 1995?

 

Millions of people

The cassette didn’t start to die off until the tail end of the 1990s

 

I started by saying I'm not a Genesis fan. I don't really connect with their music. I bought a greatest hits CD of them from a bargain bin. Had a new mix of "The Carpet Crawlers" not been included, I probably would have never heard it as I am unfamiliar with their work before 1980 or so.

Anyway the first time I heard "No Son Of Mine" , I was on an airplane. I always like music more when I'm flying. I liked the haunting sound of it. It's not in my top 100 songs or anything but I like it more than most other Genesis songs I have heard.

 

Seriously? I didn't buy a single non-cd album past 92, maybe even earlier.

 

I bought both, really... they were a lot less expensive and most cars just had tape decks then so you could start it up straight away

 

I had a car discman that plugged into my tape deck. Plug looked like a tape.

 

I had one of those later on like 1999 because by then they improved the technology on disc players to prevent skipping

 

I still have a discman. It doesn't even play discs. I listen to the radio on it at work with headphones.

 

Mine was supposed to be specially made for the car (must have been later 90's). But the thing still skipped quite a bit. Was always kind of a pain in the ass actually.

 

No option much better for radio except if you have unlimited data on your phone.

 

Do you buy vinyl again now, being as it's made some kind of 'comeback'?

 

No. I have better shit than that to spend my money on. Plus, mobile streaming music is just so convenient.

 

Stealing it (like I do) is better...

 

I was definitely still buying cassettes in the mid-90's, were always a couple of quid cheaper than CD's back then.

 

Och the stinginess - are Ye sure Ye’re no’ Scoattish?

Anyhoo, back tae Phil Collins. Ah really like his song ‘Heartbeat’ from the film ‘Manhunter’. Ah think it went ‘Heartbeat! Heartbeat! I can hear your heartbeat!’

It’s definitely in ma top five songs aboot hearts beating.

 

LOL. In between Celine Dion's "Where Does My Heart Beat Now?" and Taylor Dayne's "With Every Beat Of My Heart."

 

i'd give the nod to Amy Grant's 'Every Heartbeat'

 

Or this:

 

Never really understood why genesis or Phil Collins were so popular. I remember a lot of his songs because they were constantly on the radio.

 

Can you explain why Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd were all popular then?

 

Pink Floyd doesn’t fit really at all

They were popular because of what are technically speaking, very straightforward songs. They didn’t have the classical pretensions of Yes or ELP (or to a lesser extent Tull) ... visuals and being English are pretty much their only link to those bands

Yes or ELP would never think to write a song like “Wish You Were Here” (and none of them were good enough songwriters to come up with it anyway)

Even Jethro Tull, for all their smug pretension largely were successful commercially because of decidedly more “rock” tunes like “Aqualung”, “Locomotive Breath”, “Cross Eyed Mary” etc ...

ELP and Yes are more similar to each other than either is to Jethro Tull, let alone Pink Floyd

(of course, even Yes made a couple of good records... ELP made nothing but garbage which is why the only ELP song anyone under 40 has ever heard is “Lucky Man” and even that stopped being played with any regularity 20 years ago)

 

Some of ELP´s early, shorter stuff was okay....and their longer pieces were technically proficient, which I guess is what people liked and why they were one of the world´s biggest bands from 1970-77.
I can listen to and appreciate stuff like ´Tarkus´ or ´Karn Evil 9´ but it does get boring now.

Floyd and Tull I mentioned merely because they get lumped into the whole Progressive Rock genre, when clearly they´re not.

 

Agree, Floyd and Tull were much more song oriented groups ... I don’t generally think of them as prog