Comments on: Why is Phil Collins so unpopular?

By: respectphil

respectphil — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:32:48 +0000

I agree with that. Respect to Phil Collins his one of the worlds greatest musicians.

“By rights, the man should be hailed as great British musical genius”

And i’m 17 years old boy not some household mom,.

By: marketmama

marketmama — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:09:07 +0000

I think a lot of people in the UK hate Phil because of his alleged Tory ‘affiliations’.

Frankly, I don’t care and I hope neither does anyone who cares about music, because he has given us some very good tunes, he is an excellent drummer (watch his easy-drumming with Ringo in Harrison’s ‘While my guitar gently weeps’) and even with all the brouhaha about it being overtly ‘in your face’-'Another day in paradise’ is a brilliant song and will always continue to be one. And so is ‘In the air tonight’.

So, as long as his musicality is concerned, there’re many reasons why he should be respected if not loved (as that is personal choice).

As a crude aside, even Gustav Mahler, one of the greatest classical composers, was extremely foul-mouthed. But that has never been a topic when you talk about Mahler. He is one of the greatest and will always be, even if he is foul-mouthed, or if he supported the terrorists at that time (this is an example-get the drift..).

By: Phil Collins is great

Phil Collins is great — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:11:40 +0000

It is just in the UK that people seem to have forgotten how great an artist Phil Collins is. He is a fantastic musician and a great and award winning song writer that if you added up all the album slaes he has been involved with(including producing and guest singing) he has sold in excess of 350 million albums. Only the members of The Beatles have sold more. In the US he is still well liked and well respected especially by the R n B performers. I think it is a case of in the UK everyone thinks that it is important to be big in the UK with bands such as Oasis and singers like Robbie Williams. When in fact if you added up their album sales combined wouldn’t even make a third of what Phil Collins has sold. Lets face it in the US nobody has time for those type of bands. They save special reserve for artists like Phil Collins that deserve it

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:24:48 +0000

Weirdly, he’s lauded in hip hop circles. There was a profile of Ice T in the Face years ago which revealed that in pride of place at the front of his CD racks was every Phil Collins release, chronologically ordered. And somewhere I have a truly peculiar compilation album called Urban Renewal on which Phil’s hits are reworked by by R&B and hip hop people: Lil Kim and Phil duet on In The Air Tonight and Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s does a deeply disturbing cover of Sussudio. (I should point out I was sent this to review, I didn’t buy it.)

I think he’s due a revisionist compilation on a boutique label, to be honest – if some of his songs had been released by some obscure 80s Dutch art collective, or Godley and Cream for that matter, they’d be critically revered for the avant-garde production. Maybe.

By: Jackie Danicki

Jackie Danicki — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:52:40 +0000

Has anyone ever been taken seriously again after receiving the Chris Morris treatment?

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:06:48 +0000

Just kidding Donna. I think PC is unpopular for all the reasons mentioned above, not forgetting his involvement in jazz funk. He was unfortunate in the early 90s to become shorthand for ‘the old, crappy 1980s’, in much the same way as Simon Bates was for radio and Little & Large were for comedy.

By: JAMIE

JAMIE — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:01:03 +0000

I HAPPEN TO THINK PHIL COLLINS IS A BALDY TWUNT THOUGH IF I AM BEING HONEST I HAVE TURN IT ON AGAIN BY GENESIS ON ITUNES AND I HAVE A SNEAKING REGARD FOR AGAINST ALL ODDS BY THE PHILSTER> >>BITE ME DONNA.

By: DONNA

DONNA — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:53:10 +0000

I HAPPEN TO LOVE PHIL COLLINS. ALTHOUGH HE ISN’T AS POPULAR AS HE ONCE WAS, IN THE EIGHTIES HE HAD THE MOST CONSECUTIVE TOP 40 SONGS OF THE DECADE.CRITICS HAVE NEVER LIKED HIM MUCH, WHY I’LL NEVER KNOW AND I’M QUITE SURE HE DOESN’T CARE. HE HAS ALWAYS SAID THAT HE DOES NOT WRITE TO BE POPULAR OR MAINSTREAM HE WRITES FROM HIS HEART AND IF PEOPLE ENJOY IT THEN THAT IS A BONUS.I’VE SEEN HIM THIRTY ONE TIMES AND STILL HAVEN’T COME ACROSS A BETTER ENTERTAINER

By: DONNA

DONNA — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:53:09 +0000