INVISIBLE TOUCH

When i was but a young boy at school, probably around the time that this album came out, my itus as a child was Phil Collins. I regularly used to sit in the front room playing on pots, pans and footstools along to his perkins palace gig. Invisible touch was such a catchy album, and we would listen to it over and over when on long journeys in the car.

It is interesting to not understand lyrics at such an early age, and then learning their true meaning when you are more mature, Tonight Tonight Tonight pulls the same trick as the chilli's Under the Bridge;it is all about drug addiction. When you hear the drum machine, you wonder whether there is something wrong with the player! The original name of this song was "monkey zulu", monkey being the first part, (comin down comin down like a monkey) and zulu being the second. I wonder whether the BBC used the "eh ooohrr's" from the first part of the "zulu" section when they were dreaming up the teletubbies......who knows. It does actually feel like it is building up to a climax, just when the drums come in again. Add to that a huge power chord bringing the next lyrics section in, you know you are listening to something special. One interesting thing about the Zulu section, is that Collins appears to be playing a combination of acoustic and electro drums and it doesn't sound like there are two separate drum tracks. Excellent!!

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