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Anyone want to bet Phil Collins performance on Later tonight won't be repeated on Friday?
Posted by russell123 on 15 September 2010 - 10:32pm.
It was hard to describe really.
He tried to sing Blame it on the Sun.
Jool Holland's eyebrows gave the game away.
On Friday I'd expect to see another take...
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I think it may be the biggest travesty ever witnessed on Later
It was so bad, I thought it was Gregg Wallace from Masterchef doing karaoke.
Doh!
He is probably suddenly wishing he hadn't decided to do a covers album!
Still, if it goes in at number 1 on Sunday he may think of Volume 2 next year........then Volume 3.......then maybe a Volume of 'classic' rock stuff......then the duets album with, amongst others, Sharleen Spitoon,Val Doonican,Tommy Steele,Cilla and, from beyond the grave (by the miracle of technology) Elvis.
After being trapped in a room full of Durian fruit...
Drakeygirl you made me laugh out loud and almost spill my supper!
Imagine poor ol' Phil has to have another go right now for Friday's show!
OK I didn't see it...
Isn't PC pretty much deaf as a dodo, or a doornail, or whatever these days?
Monitor problems or somesuch was it?
I'm not mocking him - just interested.
Oh, and is it on YouTube yet?
It wasn't terribly out of tune
But it was terrible. His voice is always on the thin and nasally side, but it was so lacking in any warmth, richness or feeling, it was as if he had gone on stage brandishing a specially-adapted Dyson vacuum cleaner, and sucked all the soul out of the universe.
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Excellent.
Thanks to your description I don't need to see it!
Loathing Phil Collins and (Most of ) His Works,
I'm really not the best person to ask. I didn't see the show, but I have read various interviews around this release and it really didn't come across as though his heart was ever really in it. The terms 'contactual obligations' and 'nagging manager' spring to mind.
Still, he's rich and living a nice life in Switzerland-land. So who gives a shit, eh?
A pedant writes...
Friday's Later is recorded before the live one. 99% of the time it's recorded "as live" in one take. Then when everyone's adrenalsied from that, they do the half hour live show.
It should be on iplayer...
Same old PC, surely?
People are knocking Collins for this covers album but didn't he sell shed-loads of such tosh in the truly dire 1980s?
I vividly remember scratching my head in disbelief at the huge record sales of 'You Can't Hurry Love' and 'A Groovy Kind Of Love'.
Reedier/thinner voice or not, I can't see any difference to this release and those ones.
I thought we'd got rid of him
True - I tried to ignore him back then (when it was quite hard) it seems that it might be easier to do so this time round probably within a week of the promotional rounds finishing.
Not sure about the claim that the 80's were truly dire but that's a whole other thread.... or two.
I wonder if this album will go the same way
as Stings Symphonocities which I saw for £3.00 in HMV last week not much more than a month after release. Their ego's certainly don't appear to allow self criticism leaving the population at large to suffer this drivel.
Terrible
I'm glad Stevie didn't have to see that
I've openly
defended the ITATH but having enjoyed Herb Albert's bit I came back into the room to see PC murder Blame It On The Sun. Up there with Paul Shane singing You've Lost That Loving Feeling. Or should that be 'down there'?
He SO should have stuck with Brand X
Youve lost that loving feeling.
Paul shanes version - worst sining ever ?/
Top gun has so much to answer for.
Just Watched It
Its not even listed on iPlayer menu of the show. Having read the posts here I was all a quiver for a rich slice of Tv roadkill....but....know what? It's OK. It really is. Not Al Green but not a disaster neither. It is what it is. Phil Collins singing Stevie Wonder. Guess he's still the whipping boy. There have been far poorer and more irksome performances on LWJH...
His new CD is called Going Back
But not to the glory days of the Giant Hogweed, unfortunately. Shame.
What is it with covers albums these days? Why would I want to hear Phil's versions of these songs anyway?
Still, I don't wish to knock a man who is, or used to be, a better drummer than John Bonham. Unlike Peter Gabriel's covers album, at least Phil's will have some drums on it.
Don't get me started
It made me want to throw up