aggiehawg said:

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Lateralus Ag said:

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aggiehawg said:

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The only Phil Collins song worth listening to more than once.

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I loved Genesis in the 70s and early 80s.

Collins got a Grammy and Academy Award for Take a Look at Me Now.

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I still have that record.

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I had the double album from Genesis Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. A couple of great songs for when I was feeling depressed after my first husband and then my brother were killed a week apart. I know that sounds weird but sometimes just having a long crying jag was cathartic. Cry until you can't cry anymore.

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aggiehawg said:

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That's the soundtrack.

We are both wrong. He wrote the song for another album but it was cut.

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Collins was approached to write the title song to the film Against All Odds while it was still in its "rough cut form".

At the time the soundtrack was being completed, Collins was on tour with Genesis. Director Taylor Hackford flew into Chicago to see one of the band's concerts. Collins watched the movie on a videocassette recorder in his hotel room and agreed to appear on the soundtrack.

Originally titled "How Can You Just Sit There?", the song was initially from the sessions for Collins' debut solo album Face Value (1981). Collins wrote the song, while arranger Arif Mardin produced it. The piano performance is by New York musician Rob Mounsey. Piano, keyboard bass and a string section arranged and conducted by Mardin were recorded at RCA Studios, New York, while Collins recorded vocals and drums in Los Angeles.

On episode 339 of This American Life, "Break Up", Collins relays that the song was inspired and written shortly after the breakup between him and his first wife. In the interview he says that the divorce transformed him from being a musician into also being a lyricist.

The song was first included on a Collins album on the 1998 compilation Hits, and it also appeared on his compilation Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New (2004). A live performance of the song also appears on the Serious Hits Live! album. In 2015, Collins released the original demo recording from the Face Value sessions as part of his Take A Look At Me Now project.

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Crazy how THAT song could be cut from any album.

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