[dfwgator]

The song on the “Melt” album.....

No Self Control - Peter Gabriel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFldidocIlA

[BipolarBob]

[BigFreakinToad]

Never cared for Phil or Genesis. Billy Joel either.

[dfwgator]

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The lyrics are famously misunderstood - I once heard Eminem babbling about his understanding of the song. Something about how Phil Collins witnessed a murder take place and then saw the murderer at one of his concerts - one of the dumbest things I've ever heard, and not unique to Eminem, others have stated the same thing. I always understood it to be something about Collins' troubled love-life and infidelity by whoever he was dating or married to in the early 80s.

It's always a mistake to pay too much attention to rock lyrics.

[frogjerk]

"The classic hit that defined the sound of the ’80s"

Not really.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Ugh. Everything he touched, he ruined.

[Sirius Lee]

“Please Don’t Ask” was another song that came out of Phil’s divorce at this time and was probably intended for his solo album, but Genesis needed a filler for their Duke album and it ended up there. Purists hate it but Duke is underrated.

[Hot Tabasco]

I was just thinking the other day of the greatest music and composers who ever lived was during the classical period, almost 300 years ago. It’s been a steady decline ever since.

[ronniesgal]

whenever I hear that song I think of Mike Tyson in The Hangover

[Dr. Sivana]

Written in D minor

The saddest of all keys.

[Vermont Lt]

I always find the stories about “how stuff was done” to be interesting. More often than not they come from someone “messing around” with the tools at some earlier point—and then they draw on that memory when it suits a new need.

I always told my kids that when you really understood your craft—no matter what it is—that only then could you “break the rules” to do something special.

I did that in my business career and also in my photographic career. When it works…it’s fulfilling. When it doesn’t…well, that is why there is a delete button.

You don’t always have to “like” the result…but appreciating the process is part of life.

[bgill]

Huh? I don’t get it. It is boring as all get out. The out of this world drum bit sounds worse than construction workers across the street hammering. The lyrics are on rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat.

[M. Thatcher]

At the time I found the music boring, but seeing the vid of this live performance recently changed my mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYV6KZpnEak

[ComputerGuy]

Makes me think of Miami Vice.

[dfwgator]

To me this is a much better testament to Phil’s greatness on drums.

Riding The Scree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XL8RXG-QeE

[Bigg Red]

Good song, but he had a terrible voice.

[Openurmind]

https://youtu.be/5s9l_jpO5yk

[Olog-hai]

And here I thought the most famous drum break was the opening to Led Zeppelin’s Good Times, Bad Times. (Or maybe Whole Lotta Love?)

[real saxophonist]

At least they’re properly calling it a drum “break”, and not a drum “solo”, which I’ve heard way too many people say.