HATERS...phil is awesome

Haha this is funny. Phil Collins (and Genesis) used to have a great sense of humour. I Can't Dance, You Can Wear My Hat, Jesus He Knows Me, etc. He should use this petition in a music video.

MotownSubdivision said:

Never did nor will understand the hate Phil Collins receives. The man is one of the greatest artists of all time and has the talent and catalog to prove it.

Agree

"Easy Lover" is such a great love to hate song.

Dude had some nifty hits in the 80s and 90s. I agree with Guns: white "purists" in the media
are straight trippin'.

If he hadn't made Stupidsuddio, he'd have far fewer haters

MendesCity said:

If he hadn't made Stupidsuddio, he'd have far fewer haters

I think it's more his uber-lite covers of "Can't Hurry Love" and "True Colors" that earned the hate.

Rock critics hardy ever hyped soft rock and that's what they had Phil as. Some call it "yacht rock" as a joke. They usually didn't praise acts like Barry Manilow, Whitney Houston, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, John Denver, Michael McDonald, Bryan Adams, Richard Marx, etc either. I don't think the cool folks liked that Christopher Cross won a Grammy. It always seemed to me that soft rock and adult contemporary was not considered cool because women were a large part of the buyers/audience rather than the more macho rock like the Rolling Stones & Van Halen. It's like to them, John Lennon's protest songs and George Harrison's spiritual music were good, but Paul McCartney just made "silly love songs" and "granny music". There's nothing wrong with soft music, I grew up listening to it. I'm the person who likes Feelings & You Light Up My Life. Those records sold a lot of copies, way more than many of the acts critics like.

MickyDolenz said:

Rock critics hardy ever hyped soft rock and that's what they had Phil as. Some call it "yacht rock" as a joke. They usually didn't praise acts like Barry Manilow, Whitney Houston, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, John Denver, Michael McDonald, Bryan Adams, Richard Marx, etc either. I don't think the cool folks liked that Christopher Cross won a Grammy. It always seemed to me that soft rock and adult contemporary was not considered cool because women were a large part of the buyers/audience rather than the more macho rock like the Rolling Stones & Van Halen. It's like to them, John Lennon's protest songs and George Harrison's spiritual music were good, but Paul McCartney just made "silly love songs" and "granny music". There's nothing wrong with soft music, I grew up listening to it. I'm the person who likes Feelings & You Light Up My Life. Those records sold a lot of copies, way more than many of the acts critics like.

Guess I'm officially old. I remember all of these artists and like them still.

purplethunder3121 said:

I remember all of these artists and like them still.

The local AC station still play some of them. The Doobie Brothers (with Michael McDonald in it) was on the Tonight Show recently.

I don't get the hate for him; I don't get the love for him, either. He's good at what he does. But hey, good for him on the coming back, and I hope the surgeries keep him out of pain.

EddieC said:

I don't get the hate for him; I don't get the love for him, either.

Some of these are progressive rock fans who like the 1970s Genesis who think Phil ruined the group. That's interesting since it's been said Tony Banks had the most power in the group and part of the reason Peter & Steve Hackett left. It's like others put down Van Hagar or the J.T. Taylor version of Kool & The Gang or Supernatural Santana. They don't seem to like so-called commercial music that's popular. When did critics praise teen idol acts or bubblegum? They say The Beatles saved music from the Frankie Avalons or Elvis Presley is cool but Pat Boone is not. Pat was "whitebread" to them. Critics didn't consider Vegas performers like Wayne Newton as valid, but yet they drew audiences to see them even without getting a lot of hit records

Cinny said:

TERRIBL...Y funny

I agree.