Phil Collins, re punk

[dreamer_easy]

"I was somewhat suspicious of the deliberate bad singing and out-of-tune stuff but in principle the idea of shaking the tree and getting rid of the dead wood was great because I didn't feel we were part of the dead wood! However, to them, we were, of course. [...] I still haven't heard [Never Mind the Bollocks], only the singles, which are fantastic, very well produced anger, attitude and energy. Genesis took punk as an opportunity to scale down, which we did on our next album, Abacab. Punk had settled in, and we even had our own 'homage' in a song called Whodunnit. Our audience hated it, but we loved playing it live. The effect of Bollocks was like a hurricane... we survived mainly because we were difficult to pin down. We weren't like ELP, overly tricky virtuoso stuff that didn't have any heart. We had songs."
- Mojo March 2007