Should we prosecute Phil Collins?

[TheDemonLord]

I like a few of his songs.

If you want meaningful lyrics though, ya can't beat some of the thrash metal bands.


I see you had your mind all made up you group of pitiful liars.
Before I woke to face the day, your master plan transpired.
Something told me, this job had more to meet the eye.
My song is not believed?
My words somewhat deceiving?
Now I'm unwhole.
You've waged a war of nerves
But you can't crush the kingdom
Can't be what your idols are.
Can't leave the scar.
You cry for compensation.
I ask you please just give us
5 minutes alone
I read your eyes, your mind was made up.
You took me for
A fool.
You used complexion of my skin for a counter
Rascist tool.
You can't burn me, I've spilled my guts out
In the past.
Taken advantage of because you know where
I've come (from) my past.
You've waged a war of nerves
But you can't crush the kingdom
Can't be what your idols are.
Can't leave the scar.
You cry for compensation.
I ask you please just give us
5 minutes alone

Fuck yeah! Pantera!

RIP Dime and Vinnie.

[MD]

My point was it wasn't always possible to turn it off, it was everywhere you went. Some people can 'not listen' but others just suffer. I think I'd repressed it all. But now we should have rewengee. (Cant remember the movie but think it was Michael Palin with a speech impediment and a steamroller).

Agreed. That repetitive playing on every radio station was impossible to avoid. We didn't have iTunes and we socialised back then (we spoke and acknowledged other people around us), we didn't all walk around town with bloody headphones covering our ears 24/7 living in a silo. But as you say … we suffered the Phil bombardment. His solo hits were so similar they were just an annoying noise, you couldn't even differentiate which particular song was playing.

Start a give a little page for a collective lawsuit

[sidecar bob]

You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a lack of pies.

[husaberg]

I would just like to submit this for the defense case


She seems to have an invisible touch yeah
Wouldn't you agree?
She reaches in, and grabs right hold of your heart
Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord
I feel so good if I just say the word
I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord, oh Lord
It takes control and slowly tears you apart.
Ooh give me a chance, give me a sign
Baby, cause you and me got a groovy kind of love
But I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord
Sussudio oh oh oh

[pritch]

I'm innocent of Phil Collins, his work is entirely absent from my vinyl stack, CDs or iPods etc.

I saw this once on TV back in the day. Loved the self deprecatory style of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcY3FH208l8

[pritch]

Not Collins but Cooder, from a similar time and place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG91Y62T4C0

[Laava]

I am not too sure, but think it might be acceptable with a little Weird Al...

[jasonu]

80s radio was a shit smear of dreadful with playlists near single digits repeated several times a day by cynical broadcasters playing to the lowest common denominator while the rest of us suffered or tried to afford more records and furiously tape them in real time so music could be enjoyed not endured. Pity the poor shop workers.

And Phil Collins was the poster boy of cynical formulaic pulp pop. And that is why he must be brought to justice like a despotic dictator finally brought to heel.

Didn't bother me. I used to listen to Campus radio BFM. They played what the fuck they liked. Lotsa NZ music.
Now I have what I think is the best station ever. 92.9FM Bend.
https://onlineradiobox.com/us/krxf/

[F5 Dave]

We had RadioActive down here back when students listened to alternative music. Then it became gangscar wrapping or something like that.

But wherever you went in the 80s someone was playing the radio. . . , after even they had got sick of their mix tape.

I parked next to someone blaring the radio at a trail ride. I asked him if it was the advert station. Why would you subject yourself to that?

[bert_is_evil]

Chop him into bits and feed him to Marilyn Manson

And I don't want you and I don't need you
Don't bother to resist, or I'll beat you
It's not your fault that you're always wrong
The weak ones are there to justify the strong
The beautiful people, the beautiful people
It's all relative to the size of your steeple
You can't see the forest for the trees
You can't smell your own shit on your knees

[Berries]

Don't let your indecision
Take you from behind
Trust your inner vision
Don't let others change your mind

[SVboy]

I wholeheartedly support the OP. make it so. In ChCh we have 96.1, Garage radio which is 80's alternative music. Very worthy. Killing joke, Cure, Joy Division, Stiff little fingers , the Beat, Cramps, The Gordons!, Baurhaus etc. The occasional clangers such as REM but a station like this shows the 80's were not too bad.

[F5 Dave]

There was good 80s music but you had to go a long way out of the way to find it.

When I was 13 most of the school had either a rats tail or a Flock of Seagulls haircut.

[Beekeeper]

Take a look at me now https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...s-phil-collins

[Drew]

There was good 80s music but you had to go a long way out of the way to find it.

When I was 13 most of the school had either a rats tail or a Flock of Seagulls haircut.

The eighties was the decade that my brand's of music took off. Dunno what you're on about.