David, I'm impressed that you were openminded enough to give it a try! Hey, my best friend, Mike Finnigan, can't stand Led Zeppelin.
I mean really can not stand them. And this is a guy who recorded with Hendrix, too and not some folkie or jazz snob. This sort of thing might just not be your kind of bag, baby.
My advice, make yourself a short playlist of the following songs and see if you you can get your head around these first:
When My Baby's Beside Me, My Life Is Right, Get What You Deserve, Back of a Car, September Gurls, In the Street and Ballad of El Goodo.
If those don't grab the Beatles and Badfinger lover in you, then it's just not the band for you. And btw, I don't own any solo Phil Collins albums either (or solo Sting for that matter).