phil collins
Flotsam & Jetsam
3:48PM Jess McGuire | Oh god. I feel partially responsible for helping to incite the Farnham frenzy that has swept across the country and left advertisers thinking it’d be a grand idea to mess with a pop culture phenomenon. Did you like the use of Phil Collins in the epic (and award winning) drumming gorilla commercial that made Cadbury’s the talk of the advertising town? Well, Phil’s tune been replaced with Farnesy’s You’re The Voice, and folks aren’t happy.
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Folks Are Not Happy With The New Farnham Flavoured Cadbury Ad
3:48PM Jess McGuire | Oh god. I feel partially responsible for helping to incite the Farnham frenzy that has swept across the country and left advertisers thinking it’d be a grand idea to mess with a pop culture phenomenon. Did you like the use of Phil Collins in the epic (and award winning) drumming gorilla commercial that made Cadbury’s the talk of the advertising town? Well, Phil’s tune been replaced with Farnesy’s You’re The Voice, and folks aren’t happy.
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It’s Time To Be Loud And Proud About Your Phil Collins Love
10:48AM Jess McGuire | Obviously I’ve never had a problem with publicly outing myself as a Phil Collins fan considering I once declared Don’t Lose My Number to be one of the greatest songs of all time on here, and then claimed responsibility for In The Air Tonight reaching the top spot in the New Zealand charts. But I want all folks who appreciate Phil Collins to be out about their love. I’m hoping the inspirational words of Creation Records founder Alan McGee might push you out of the closet.
From an article titled “The non-ironic revival of Phil Collins” (yes – I had a happy heart attack when I stumbled across the headline during my web travels)
If anyone in the 1980s had professed love for Phil Collins’s music, they would have been banished from the indie club; left holding their copies of Face Value as they faced a life without friends who would play them the latest Eyeless in Gaza release or enthuse over the latest James single. Even back in the days of Creation Records, if I told people of my love for Madonna, Pet Shop Boys and Kylie Minogue, I was scoffed at. People thought I was being ironic, but I wasn’t. And when I told a friend of my intentions to do a Phil Collins blog, he said, “That’s too far … that’s too far”. Why?
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This Is Probably The Greatest Song Of All Time
4:11PM Jess McGuire | It occurred to me this morning that I don’t share nearly enough of my borderline psychotic pop culture tastes with you, loyal readers. Sure, you probably picked up on the fact I was in the midst of an Icehouse ‘Electric Blue’ obsession back in February but is that enough? Surely I should be offering you delicious slices of spazztasical idiocy on a more regular basis? After all, I have been officially quoted in a proper grown up paper as saying “I love so much but maybe it is all about shit … Who knew?” so there’s no hiding it now.
Therefore, please breathe deeply, load the following video, and suck up the goodness that is Phil Collins’ ‘Don’t Lose My Number’.
This is not a guilty pleasure, mind you. I genuinely think the song is GENIUS. Melodramatic, totally eighties, and a killer tune to spin when you’re DJ-ing (well, anywhere but an Absolut 15 competition where you’re catering to the tastes of vodka swilling coolsies who will respond to your selection with an expression that can best be described as a mix of confusion and contempt, as DJ GIN + JUICE can assure you from experience).
All in all, I give it eighty thousand out of ten, and I suspect I will NEVER get over the tune’s cheesy brilliance. A live version of it has been my MySpazz profile song for about two months straight, and it’s not going anywhere. Is it wrong that I am now actually kind of sad I’ll never be able to hear it live in concert? It is? Okay. I can accept that.
PS: The official clip is quite long and ridiculous, but I’ve lovingly placed it for your perusal over the jump. More » 