[Claud]

When Collins does an album on the order of ‘Wish You Were Here’ then he can talk, otherwise it’s just noise.

Not gonna comment on the Floyd album as I don't know it, but Collins helped write some of the greatest prog albums of all time. Foxtrot. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Selling England by the Pound.

So yeah. He can definitely talk.

[dfwgator]

Phil didn’t really start writing until the Duke album. It was mostly Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford who wrote those earlier songs.

[dfwgator]

It’s funny that two musicians that closely parallel each other are Phil Collins and Peter Cetera.

Both incredibly talented musicians, Cetera was a beast on bass on the early Chicago albums, but he didn’t do a lot of writing, did sing on hits, but those were mostly written by Robert Lamm. Then he hits paydirt when he wrote “If You Leave Me Now”, and then totally changed the course of the band into a more pop sound, and like Collins eventually became best known for sappy 80s ballads.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Well, he really didn't do a lot of writing on the Gabriel-era Genesis albums, and even after that, the more intricate stuff was Banks/Rutherford.

Guy was a great prog drummer, though.

[KC Burke]

Wish You Were Here holds up real well, especially with a good pari of Beyerdynamic headphones.

And I never listened to much PF at the time.