[conserv8]

I had never really listened to the words, but I liked the beat.

It was on a jukebox in an out of the way lodge-café in the foothills.

I played it with a couple other songs.

I could then clearly discern the lyrics and I was kind of creeping-out, people were repeatedly glancing at me.

I got up, paid the waitress in silence, and felt wtf for the rest of the day.

I returned to that location about fifteen years later.
I guess they felt obliged to play it for me just as I was starting to enjoy my coffee.

[oblomov]

“Firth of Fifth” is a much better tune.

[airborne]

However, ‘In The Air Tonight’ is a painful reminder of a dark period in Collins’ life after the heartbreaking break-up of his first marriage.

This song was around just as my first (and last) marriage was disintegrating.

That drum rift was something that always made me play along, sometimes very forcefully.

Still do. I have a fond place in my heart for this song. Sad to hear that Phil doesn't much like it.

[frank ballenger]

Little known meaning is In the Air Tonight was written after Nancy Pelosi passed gas at a party Collins attended.😁

[MAGA2017]

When I was a kid back in the 1980s I heard a story about this song from an older kid. He told me that Collins was playing this song during a concert and in the audience there was someone there that Collins knew. This person was somehow responsible for the death of someone close to Collins. During the songs climax a spotlight was directed at this person and was used to show the police where he was. He was arrested.

In retrospect this makes no sense.

[mass55th]

It’s one of my favorites. I like Abacab too.

[bigbob]

after making a bazillion dollars from it...

[FlingWingFlyer]

"However, ‘In The Air Tonight’ is a painful reminder of a dark period in Collins’ life after the heartbreaking break-up of his first marriage. When he wrote the track, his mind was in a lonely place,..."

"Sonny Crockett" (Don Johnson) was essentially in the same place with this song was used to great effect when used in the pilot of the original "Miami Vice".

[Kazan]

Strange that feels that way given that he had 12 top ten hits and four number one albums after that song was released.

[Albion Wilde]

This is a “reaction” video by a couple of young black rappers who have never heard this Phill Collins / All My Life song before, and he’s not a familiar artist or genre for them. Starts slow, but their reaction to the instrumental break about halfway through is priceless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l3-iufiywU

[moviefan8]

So many good songs.

Land of Confusion
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nxlFMSPdcR4

[wardaddy]

Artists often whine