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The art behind any Phil Collins<\/a> song doesn\u2019t always have to come back to the drums. <\/p>\n There\u2019s no doubt that the guy was an absolute monster behind the kit if you go back to any of those old Genesis records, but there\u2019s a lot more to him as a songwriter than the sentimental side of his music. But even if there was a lot of weapons-grade cheese in a lot of his back catalogue, the reason why people keep coming back is that those melodies move something in their hearts every time they come on.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not to say that Collins necessarily has to be the most in-depth writer in the world. No one who writes a song like \u2018Sussudio\u2019 really demands to be taken seriously every single time they make a tune, but when he does go for the throat, a song like \u2018Against All Odds\u2019<\/a> would have still been among the greatest songs of its time even if you ignored all of the 1980s production surrounding it.<\/p>\n Because before anything else, Collins always took his cues from the greatest songwriters that he had ever heard. No one was going to expect him to rewrite Dylan by any stretch, but when you listen to a lot of his musical instincts, he clearly had a fair amount of education listening to those old Beatles records and tried his best to create that same kind of feeling whenever he started writing his own introspective masterpieces on albums like Face Value.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s not like he didn\u2019t have some experience to draw on, either. Regardless of how many musical chops he had, a lot of his first solo record came from him taking the building blocks of music and trying to figure out his crumbling marriage at the same time. Not everyone needs to be necessarily pushed the same way that he was, but Collins always knew he at least had a friend when listening to Bonnie Raitt.\u00a0<\/p>\n Raitt had been established well after Collins\u2019s glory years, but he had nothing on the way that she could sing. Sure, she had her bluesy side, but there was a side to her that felt like the perfect middle ground between the blues belter and the kind of tenderhearted rock and roll star. And when both personas came together on a song like \u2018I Can\u2019t Make You Love Me\u2019, Collins just about went to pieces. <\/p>\n