Phil Collins

[Swiss Toni]

Just seen this doing the rounds on Facebook and found it quite surreal. Imagine flipping through records at a flea market or car boot and suddenly having one of these staring back at you.

http://www.boredpanda.com/phil-colli...ook-at-me-now/

[Mescal]

I didn’t even realise he had that many albums.

I can’t stand his music. And he totally butchered ’you can’t hurry love’

[Paul-K]

you dont have to imagine it. it happens in practically every record box at every boot sale. his big sweaty face judging you as your knees creak and you can taste the onions in the air.
didnt someone here call it vapour meat once?

[RedX]

Hello, I Must Be Robin Williams!

[Swiss Toni]

you dont have to imagine it. it happens in practically every record box at every boot sale. his big sweaty face judging you as your knees creak and you can taste the onions in the air.
didnt someone here call it vapour meat once?

That's what I mean though. I'm used to seeing these week in week out. But imagine the shock you'd get it when rather than the cover you've flipped past a million times you've got an identical album but with a significantly older Phil Collins staring back at you. Now that'd be odd.

[amidar]

I saw the 'But Seriously' one the other week, thought it was common knowledge but didn't realise he'd done them all the bald weirdo. I think his worst musical crime was 'John Martyn - Grace and Danger' two miserable buggers who's wives leave them make album and the results are well as you'd expect 'orrid.

[Agnes_Guano]

I reserve a special place in my bile duct for Phil's 'Another Day In Paradise'. There's nothing like a smug multi-millionaire tax exile tutting about you not giving all your money to the homeless to really get my contempt flowing. As well as being just an awful record, thanks to the sanctimonious drivel it somehow transcends that everyday awfulness and travels to another plane of awfulness entirely. That said, I hope Ken Dodd revisits all of his old record covers.

[eclectiktronik]

Certainly quite unsettling to see those 'older' face shots. And yes, it'd freak out any one of us who have spent decades flicking past those Lps as we went rifling thru boxes of vinyl to suddenly see those other versions, real double-take time!

While we're on the subject of those sleeves, I have to say, what a horrible, narcissistic (and highly unimaginative) cover art idea it was to do all those sleeves that way in the first place. Just your own mug on every one? come on....

[MPFlapp]

From a day spent doing Phil faces in passing with Herr Plainstone from a few years back - properly lost in translation on the shop owner ;-)

[amidar]

Just heard 'Colin Murray' on Talksport say that he saw him when he was young and when he did 'In The Air Tonight' the whole place went dark then all that lit up in the entire stadium was his head. Probably wouldn't work with Health and Safety etc these days, exit lights etc.

[babycart]

I hope they don´t do No Parlez.

[Agnes_Guano]

Perhaps he could think about changing some of the titles while he's at it.

[Aggle]

I'm always coming accross the no jacket required one.

freaks me out, looks like he's just had sex and is now coming to you for seconds

[peretti]

It's not all bad. Mrs Mills looks a lot slimmer on the cover of the current reissue.

[theeman]

Don't understand the hate for Phil Collins. Superb drummer for a start and I'd rather have one of his blue eyed soul LPs over a load of the badly played, badly recorded cack that just happens to be rare that often gets touted as "great" in vinyl nerd circles.

Pitch, pitch, where is he when you need him