My dad used to drink and listen to the album and this is the only song I can remember. He'd walk around the kitchen in his underwear, beer in hand, and sing along soulfully. Then the drum solo would come and shit would get real. And when the song was over he'd go back to doing whatever he was doing.
People should look up music because they want to hear it or like it. I can understand looking things up because of (insert name of movie/game/person here) but seriously, seeing things like the top comments here at the moment. Yes it was on Hangover. Good scene but shut the hell up. We don't need reminding every song on here where it was played. If someone likes it, they like it. You don't need to flaunt in the futile hope that someone else will "Thumb you up" for it.
@ShikogoFox hah yeah i had the same thing happen to me. the song was stuck in my head but didn't know why, then after a while i watched Hangover. and now i wish i had someone to punch while doing the drum solo haha.
@BenDarkbones1 I know because Phil Collins has confirmed on multiple occasions that the song is about his divorce, that he never saw anybody drown, and never tracked down anybody.
hallo leute, hatte in den 80er ein12" von dem stück, bei der das schlagzeugsolo sehr "ausgeprägt" war. fing langsam an und dauerte länger als bei allen mir bekannten extended versionen. wer hat sie noch, oder wo kann ich es finden.
This song is about when phil collins first met chuck norris.
They were discussing how bad ass chuck norris is and phil collins dared him that he couldn't punch through a mans chest to reach his drink on the bar that the man was standing in front of (passed out naked on the bathroom floor was the drink btw).
Chuck Norris easily dispatched a hole through the mans chest and retrieved Phils drink. Then Chuck demanded he autograph his Genisis album in the mans blood.
Collins has repeatedly explained the lyrics to "In The Air Tonight" are not based on any real-life event.
The truth, according to Collins, is that "In the Air Tonight" deals with his bitterness and frustration over the end of his marriage to his first wife, Andrea.
The hurt doesn't show, but the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you or me.
So the mythical event you refer to is nothing more than another case of song lyrics being interpreted too literally.
nicht nur von ihm, mit abstnd eines der besten lieder überhaupt....vieleicht liegts daran, das das es das erste lied war, was ich mir für meinen cd-player gekauft habe... irgendwann ende der 80er...
i am the next tv show. a poor broken down white man. "american idiot". i said it i want the rights, god damn it. motherfucker. i said it here first. god damn mother fucker, fuck you.
This song is not about a real fact. You guys should simply search it on the internet. Phil Collins himself said: "It’s so frustrating, ‘cos this is one song out of all the songs probably that I’ve ever written that I really don’t know what it’s about, you know."
Google this and see it for yourselves: "Phil Collins And The Legend of Drowning Man"
isn't he singing about the mansonic culture and like there belives like the the room with all the doors thats called the nexus and hes singing about out of body expiriance and the opposite world and shit...yh sorry i didn't spell everything correctly but i just can't b fucked lol
When Phil was eighteen years old, he witnessed a man drowning someone but was too far away to help. Later, he hired a private detective to find the man, sent him a free front row ticket to his concert, and when he played In The Air Tonight a spotlight shined down on the killer and Collins stared directly at him the entire time he sang the song. When the song was over, the killer was arrested.
what the hell are you talking about???? how does it make sense that the front row ticket to the concert was used by the man who drowned and then there was a killer (who killed the drowner????) also at the same concert to watch??? you confusing the fuck out of people
It's all true. The killer didn't even know Phil had witnessed him drowning the boy. He didn't realize it until the spotlight shined down on him at the concert. By then it was too late to do anything about it and he just stood their in shock as Phil humiliated him.
@unsanitized bull this is from the mouth of phil collins himself. "I don't know what this song is about. When I was writing this I was going through a divorce. And the only thing I can say about it is that it's obviously in anger. . So what makes it even more comical is when I hear these stories which started many years ago, particularly in America, of someone come up to me and say, 'Did you really see someone drowning?' I said, 'No, wrong'."
@unsanitized ur sooo full of shit lol the songs about him and his then wife andrea splitting up. drowning is symbolic check it on wikkapedia or his website.
@unsanitized You've got it mixed up. It was at a camp and phil saw a councilor watching another kid drown instead of saving him. When he invited him to the concert many years later, afterwords the guy killed himself.
MIKE TYSON
commenter198 2 weeks ago
this is amazing!
DarksideEnemy1892 2 weeks ago
My dad used to drink and listen to the album and this is the only song I can remember. He'd walk around the kitchen in his underwear, beer in hand, and sing along soulfully. Then the drum solo would come and shit would get real. And when the song was over he'd go back to doing whatever he was doing.
OuroborosSC2 1 month ago
" I've been looking for this long all my life.. "
sasanvancouver 1 month ago
Efuckt brought me here. fuck hangover.
nagatoFILMS 2 months ago 3
i live for the drum solo
Ferus11 2 months ago
i came here because of a family guy scene with stewie lol
bostonguy01 3 months ago
REVENGE SONG
FernandoNINETorres 3 months ago
original autotuner before tpain and others
ojay67 3 months ago 4
This song man...this song.
AMCope37 4 months ago 6
i came because of my good taste in music
ronanb766 4 months ago 12
music like this fucks with ya soul, I ain't lying. this is my JAM!!!
MZTASHA318 4 months ago 2
@MZTASHA318 just listen to the beat drop!!!!!!
MZTASHA318 4 months ago
3:40 your welcome.
HammersmashedTaco 4 months ago
@HammersmashedTaco haha dude exactly what i was looking for
cccuuubbbsss 4 months ago
no way im the only black person who likes this song and im not an uncle tom
chaffee44 5 months ago
So did I!! :)
mvanselmis 5 months ago
i cam here because i fuckin' love this song and knew it BEFORE the hangover.
poisonedxtears1993 5 months ago 7
Hangunder!
nolimit01110 5 months ago
HANGOVER :)
SirGartner2 5 months ago
hang over, mike Tyson punching out the funny fat guy
HRtruffles 5 months ago 3
love this song
epic - like if u agree this is one of the best songs in any movies
bejf33 6 months ago
People should look up music because they want to hear it or like it. I can understand looking things up because of (insert name of movie/game/person here) but seriously, seeing things like the top comments here at the moment. Yes it was on Hangover. Good scene but shut the hell up. We don't need reminding every song on here where it was played. If someone likes it, they like it. You don't need to flaunt in the futile hope that someone else will "Thumb you up" for it.
Here is to a great song.
smsscd90 6 months ago 2
LUV this song great beat , lyics , voice all toughter its extcy to my ear drums
mcintyreadam43 6 months ago
After watching the sex on the beach fail on efukt, I loved this song.
TheSimguy007 6 months ago 5
@TheSimguy007
epic
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epic
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@TheSimguy007 HAHAAHAH SAME HERE OMG hahahahah
dinminmamma 6 months ago
EFUKT
MrLisztomaniac 6 months ago 4
@MrLisztomaniac LOLOLOLOLOLOL btw what was the second song in that vid?
u5ernam3unavailabl3 6 months ago
@u5ernam3unavailabl3 THE RAP ONE?! I WANT IT SO BAD BUT I DON'T KNOW THE NAME
MrLisztomaniac 6 months ago
@MrLisztomaniac HA! found it. It's called "Shoulda Lean" by Young Dro....
u5ernam3unavailabl3 6 months ago
@u5ernam3unavailabl3 Alright thanks bro :) much appreciated
MrLisztomaniac 6 months ago
@u5ernam3unavailabl3
thanks too, bro...fucking awesome vid, too.
TheSimguy007 6 months ago
Wow if you didn't know this song before "The Hangover" I can only imagine what kinda gay music you must usually listen to!
MrTehproworld 6 months ago
@MrTehproworld I can only imagine they're little sheltered children too young for the wonders of the Internet.
4fterDawn 6 months ago
lil flip did the song better ha
MrBIGJOHN254 6 months ago
1 person has no soul
andayy22 7 months ago
@andayy22 they must be a ranga
tehBLAX 7 months ago
3:41 orgasm in my ears
CussingZebra 7 months ago 6
thats crazy
125yousef 8 months ago
Hallo, hier is dor Gewin aus Gemnitz un isch wünsche mir für meine Oma "in de Erde nei" von Fill Gollins
horst2k10 9 months ago 4
@horst2k10 xD xD xD das ist kein radio alter
TheKeule33 9 months ago
@horst2k10 SACHSE WOHOOO :D
Dresdn. :P
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@horst2k10 E SACHSE, WOHOOO :D
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TheKeule33 9 months ago
How he make voice talk like that when sing
missedthelikebutton 9 months ago
@missedthelikebutton it's called diverse talent
Jay4P 9 months ago
@missedthelikebutton heavy reverb, short noisegate. most modern digital reverbs have a phil collins preset that replicates this effect.
doubleuarex 8 months ago
T H E H A NG O V E R !
LilCelus 10 months ago 33
i love his voice :3
cinamarollove 10 months ago
Der eine hat ein echt gar keinen geschmack von musik hab ich recht??? Positiv bewerten bitte;D
Chistus14 10 months ago
I just watched the mike tyson scene on the hangover and had to listen to this lol.
TehEvilWolf 10 months ago 3
@TehEvilWolf me too =D
1Hamsterly 10 months ago
lol this started playing during my weightlifting class and i started singing along with it and then my friends joined it xD was epic
ttye5454 10 months ago
sickk song
MrGobester 10 months ago
like this is you came to see this video for the awesome drum solo
HardcoreSk8trPunk 11 months ago
Don't listen to unsanitized, that's nothing more than an urban myth.
SasoriB5 11 months ago
eat that pussy Phil!
Maxcaliberman 11 months ago
i came looking for this song just because of " HANGOVER".
gorillaz1690 11 months ago 60
@gorillaz1690 same her:D
marcusdmfdmf 11 months ago
@gorillaz1690 I had this song stuck in my had the whole day, but I didn't know why. Yesterday I watched Hangover. A lot things become clear now.
ShikogoFox 10 months ago
@ShikogoFox hah yeah i had the same thing happen to me. the song was stuck in my head but didn't know why, then after a while i watched Hangover. and now i wish i had someone to punch while doing the drum solo haha.
gorillaz1690 10 months ago
@gorillaz1690 And now thanks for reminding me what scene it was. The movie was great. :D
ShikogoFox 10 months ago
classic
rootbeerkid1 1 year ago
FUCK YEA.
pedrommacoris 1 year ago
I disliked, just to be the only one x)
pedrommacoris 1 year ago
favorite part is the drums
ergi0902 1 year ago
my moment of my life will be when i will be sent into battle as a real Ranger for the first time <3
lilGRaX 1 year ago
thumbs up if you started air drumming at 3:41
TehManBEarPiG 1 year ago 8
@TehManBEarPiG buy a drum kit n00b
zelda1russell 9 months ago
@everyone - just shut up and enjoy the music! PLEASE?!?!?!
pimpsalty 1 year ago
3:41-3:45 mike tysons favorite part
116garra 1 year ago
i loved Phil's voice eversince i Tarzan. he've got something special.... in his voice
dylanCongTu 1 year ago
3:42 - 3:45 best
EHCDYNAMOOSTBERLIN 1 year ago
@BenDarkbones1 I know because Phil Collins has confirmed on multiple occasions that the song is about his divorce, that he never saw anybody drown, and never tracked down anybody.
It's a cool story, it's just a shame it's a hoax.
ExplosiveFace 1 year ago
@BenDarkbones1 No, it's all bullshit.
ExplosiveFace 1 year ago
hallo leute, hatte in den 80er ein12" von dem stück, bei der das schlagzeugsolo sehr "ausgeprägt" war. fing langsam an und dauerte länger als bei allen mir bekannten extended versionen. wer hat sie noch, oder wo kann ich es finden.
sveniceman81 1 year ago
my trivia qeustion to my fiancee for the night was fucked up b/c you had to explain somthing that nobody should fucken know...you be trollen'
CaptainCountry1 1 year ago
This song is about when phil collins first met chuck norris.
They were discussing how bad ass chuck norris is and phil collins dared him that he couldn't punch through a mans chest to reach his drink on the bar that the man was standing in front of (passed out naked on the bathroom floor was the drink btw).
Chuck Norris easily dispatched a hole through the mans chest and retrieved Phils drink. Then Chuck demanded he autograph his Genisis album in the mans blood.
Thats the TRUE story!!!!
QQrTwoQQ 1 year ago
i noe yea i like him its are sad song to but
sugarshack3164 1 year ago
Collins has repeatedly explained the lyrics to "In The Air Tonight" are not based on any real-life event.
The truth, according to Collins, is that "In the Air Tonight" deals with his bitterness and frustration over the end of his marriage to his first wife, Andrea.
The hurt doesn't show, but the pain still grows
It's no stranger to you or me.
So the mythical event you refer to is nothing more than another case of song lyrics being interpreted too literally.
buka110 1 year ago
This guy. His songs. They help me get through life. I am so grateful.
mdupuis121 1 year ago
nicht nur von ihm, mit abstnd eines der besten lieder überhaupt....vieleicht liegts daran, das das es das erste lied war, was ich mir für meinen cd-player gekauft habe... irgendwann ende der 80er...
bracesstore 1 year ago
close some guy had watched his son drown and didnt help and the guy was also invtied on stage
D0OMS 1 year ago
close he witness his son drowing and the guy didnt help
D0OMS 1 year ago
Urban Legend about the drowning. Phil Collins himself has stated that this song references his bitterness about his divorce.
niptucklover 1 year ago
i am the next tv show. a poor broken down white man. "american idiot". i said it i want the rights, god damn it. motherfucker. i said it here first. god damn mother fucker, fuck you.
theratfarmer 1 year ago
This song is not about a real fact. You guys should simply search it on the internet. Phil Collins himself said: "It’s so frustrating, ‘cos this is one song out of all the songs probably that I’ve ever written that I really don’t know what it’s about, you know."
Google this and see it for yourselves: "Phil Collins And The Legend of Drowning Man"
kneekoo 1 year ago
@kneekoo exactly what i was about to comment!
notavampireomg 1 year ago
Miami Vice!
Tony2099 1 year ago
@unsanitized thats an urban legend - the song is about his divorce
atschul 1 year ago
i meant masonic..
Krydom 1 year ago
isn't he singing about the mansonic culture and like there belives like the the room with all the doors thats called the nexus and hes singing about out of body expiriance and the opposite world and shit...yh sorry i didn't spell everything correctly but i just can't b fucked lol
Krydom 1 year ago
He is soooo good, no! He is the BEST!
Since i´m a little Girl i heard his Songs, because my Dad have so often listening him!
But i´m very happy about this, he is one of the best Singer!
schafii08 2 years ago 19
@schafii08 Your dad must be a closet homosexual
P3ntatonicMonk3y 1 year ago
When Phil was eighteen years old, he witnessed a man drowning someone but was too far away to help. Later, he hired a private detective to find the man, sent him a free front row ticket to his concert, and when he played In The Air Tonight a spotlight shined down on the killer and Collins stared directly at him the entire time he sang the song. When the song was over, the killer was arrested.
unsanitized 2 years ago 89
what the hell are you talking about???? how does it make sense that the front row ticket to the concert was used by the man who drowned and then there was a killer (who killed the drowner????) also at the same concert to watch??? you confusing the fuck out of people
SpaceHog2099 2 years ago
It's all true. The killer didn't even know Phil had witnessed him drowning the boy. He didn't realize it until the spotlight shined down on him at the concert. By then it was too late to do anything about it and he just stood their in shock as Phil humiliated him.
unsanitized 2 years ago
@unsanitized nice
toreshiowns 2 years ago
@unsanitized how you know that
Souljaboy778 1 year ago
@Souljaboy778 I know a thing or two about a thing or two.
unsanitized 1 year ago
@unsanitized thats amazing where did you hear that
carsonmccullar 1 year ago
@unsanitized really?! is there are video on youtube about that concert?
youngbuck1928 1 year ago
@unsanitized wow, didnt know that!!! Amazing!!!
darthtavz 1 year ago
@unsanitized
Are you kidding?
Dude now I love him even more..
assclownbwoi 1 year ago
@unsanitized
is that relly true ??
can u maybe send me a side where it stood ?
Norfitheone 1 year ago
@unsanitized
look at wikipedia, thats just a lie (he told in a interview)
...;)
Yuceffan 1 year ago
@Yuceffan That's fuckin Wikipedia! Its full of lies!
Ultralman2 1 year ago 3
@Ultralman2 shut the fuck up kk
sugarshack3164 1 year ago
phil was on oprah and said he just wrote the song. the words don't mean shit you moron
odd19666 1 year ago
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@odd19666 calm the fuck up kk
sugarshack3164 1 year ago
@unsanitized Not true.
graveyardpc 1 year ago
@unsanitized I want to see a video of that O_O.
FreshPrinceOfHolland 1 year ago
@unsanitized bull this is from the mouth of phil collins himself. "I don't know what this song is about. When I was writing this I was going through a divorce. And the only thing I can say about it is that it's obviously in anger. . So what makes it even more comical is when I hear these stories which started many years ago, particularly in America, of someone come up to me and say, 'Did you really see someone drowning?' I said, 'No, wrong'."
TheCheckerBoards 1 year ago
@unsanitized The urban legend is referenced in the song "Stan" by Eminem. The reference is contained in the following lyrics:
You know the song by Phil Collins, "In the Air of the Night" [sic]
About that guy who coulda saved that other guy from drowning
But didn't, then Phil saw it all, then at a show he found him?
TheCheckerBoards 1 year ago
@TheCheckerBoards cool it all makes so much sense now :)
awesomevideomaker911 1 year ago
@unsanitized YEAH HEAPS MAN. thats not bullshit at all
tehBLAX 1 year ago
@unsanitized lol i would laugh
awesomevideomaker911 1 year ago
@unsanitized ur sooo full of shit lol the songs about him and his then wife andrea splitting up. drowning is symbolic check it on wikkapedia or his website.
ricker01100 1 year ago
@unsanitized Seriously?
Doofus1993 1 year ago
@unsanitized when was this , like what year?
specializedRH 1 year ago
@unsanitized This is some kind of urban legend. Do you really believe this kind of thing?
Schteinrick 1 year ago
@unsanitized
snopes.com/music/songs/intheair.asp
and96638 1 year ago
@unsanitized Thats bullshit even Phil said it. And because you don't save someone doesn't mean your a killer.
BluRay8o4 1 year ago
@unsanitized
That's an Urban legend.
Collins wrote this about the anger he felt after divorcing his first wife.
mrZoSo65 1 year ago
@unsanitized im glad your joking about that coz you cant seriously think thats true
FpsGameMaster91 1 year ago
@unsanitized true story ?
MBcRuXx 1 year ago
@unsanitized huh the way i heard it he watch a kid drown and the lifeguard didnt help him and the lifeguard killed himself after this song
dreadboot 10 months ago
@unsanitized exscuse me but is it a true story? Because it sounds really incredible!
babylowdown 10 months ago
@unsanitized is it not one of the urban legends
RachBuka 10 months ago
@unsanitized Faker than yo mommy's pussy
NuclearGalaxy 9 months ago
@unsanitized You've got it mixed up. It was at a camp and phil saw a councilor watching another kid drown instead of saving him. When he invited him to the concert many years later, afterwords the guy killed himself.
nheimi99 9 months ago
@unsanitized Except thats only an urban legend...
XtheXfallenXoneX 8 months ago
@unsanitized wasnt that some made up story that phil colins denies
125yousef 8 months ago
@unsanitized Too bad that isn't true.
flyleaf2424 8 months ago
@unsanitized wow ,thank you for information
farzad553 7 months ago