the book that is, which is quite hilarious

In it there's a chapter called Genesis where narrator Patrick Bateman gives his account of the Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel founded band, which is so convincing I was giving serious thought to buying one of their albums

....then he mentioned how a Genesis song called Land of Confusion has a groove funkier and blacker than Prince or Michael Jackson or any other black artist of recent years has come up with...

only in the mind of a psycho!
[Edited 10/11/04 16:45pm]

Did somebody call me? Just wondering, since Psycho is my nickname around here.

I fail to see the humor. It also shows that the person wasn't too in touch with P's music at the time...casual fan maybe.

The humor is that the guy is literally a psychotic killer. The movie is darkly hilarious, where he kills people while extolling the overlooked virtues of Huey Lewis & the News and Whitney's "Greatest Love of All." He's doing these dead-pan, deeply critical observations about the subtle genius of "Hip To Be Square" while he's killing prostitutes and business rivals. So it's appropriate that a soulless yuppie like Patrick Bateman would find "Land of Confusion" to be "funkier and blacker" than Prince and Michael Jackson. I haven't read the book, but the movie is funny (and disturbing!) in a very sinister, dark comedy kinda way. He kills one guy because he has a nicer business card...

superspaceboy said:

the humour is the fact that someone would actually think phil collins' land of confusion is funkier and "blacker" than anything prince or mj did, lol!

renfield said:

It could also be a reflection on his state of mind. "Land of Confusion" has all kinds of messages about the stae of how F'd up everything is. It seems as though the songs may have a double meaning behind them.

Damn, I love that fucking book. Brilliant.

I think Sassy's right on with his comment about the absurdity of finding Phil Collins funkier than MJ or Prince. Patrick Bateman (the psycho) is an extreme exaggeration of the white-bread, sparkly-on-the-outside, rotten-on-the-inside businessman.

Listening to Phil Collins does make me wanna start splitting some skulls with a pick-axe.

Has anyone ever noticed that the Phil Collins' Sussudio horn line sounds a little like the 1999 keyboards.

Hmmmm....

M

I'm reading that book right this very moment. And it is hilarious because it sounds just like something him and his pretensious friends would say.

Right before he slashes someone in a million pieces that is.

It's a very entertaining book so far.

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

In an interview at the time, Phil Collins himself said that he stole the riff from Prince and then thanked him for it!

No way Allaseon, I hadn't heard about that. Nice fact thanks.

Miguel

Allaseon said "Has anyone ever noticed that the Phil Collins' Sussudio horn line sounds a little like the 1999 keyboards.

Hmmmm.... "

And didn't Prince steal the line from "Monday, Monday"? And then steal it again for "Manic Monday" (not my idea - I stole it from Rolling Stone's 1986 review of Parade!).