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Amazon.com essential recording: For better or worse, Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" was the "Stairway to Heaven" of the '80s, winning radio stations' listener polls and even lending its designer threat to an episode of Miami Vice. Hits recalls the days when the Collins name on a disc ensured its immediate embrace by programmers and the public. How you feel about these songs will depend on how you felt about them then; despite the undeniable niceness of "Take Me Home" and "One More Night," they're unlikely to win over anyone who didn't adore them to begin with. Those who cared, though, will no doubt be gladdened to find most of Collins's biggest tunes together on one disc. --Rickey Wright Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-05
Dance into the light of phill collins hits
I purchased this cd when I visited Singapore a few years ago and I am happy that I bought this cd. This was the first of the cds that I had owned by Phil Collins and I believe that it was worh the money I spent. Why the 4 stars instead of the five? Currently I am 27 years old and I am happy to know that there are songs on this cd that I remember hearing on the radio and had first heard when I was growing up. I was delighted to hear "two hearts" a beautiful and upbeat song that I first heard when I was around 8 years old and "you can't hurry love". I also love "groovy kind of love", "one more night", "dance into the light" and "against all odds". There are other good songs on this cd but the ones I just mentioned happen to be some of my favorites. The only con was that I eventually had to buy a genesis greatest hits compilation to get some of the other great phil collin's songs(which I finally did last year and will review later). However if you are willing to look past this collection missing some of his other great songs you will honestly enjoy this cd. I know that I said it before but this cd is so good that I still play it even though its been a few years since I first bought it (I am 27 now and I remember first buying the cd when I was around 21-22 years of age). I also agree with the one reviewer that had stated that this cd is a good first place to start if this would be your first time owning a Phil Collins greatest hits collection. Rating: 
Date: 2008-05-24
EXCELLENT
If you like Phil Collins in his solo career day's then you will love this cd , it has all of his greatest hits. a++++++++++++++ Rating: 
Date: 2008-04-26
Life in the Fast Lane
`Cultural Seismology - An attempt to record the shifts and displacements of sensibility that regularly occur in the history of art, literature and thought.'
It makes you wonder doesn't it?
Phil Collins was/is a member of ancient rock group Genesis, and a releaser of diabolically bad solo music.
He is bland and non-descript in a nails-down-a-blackboard, bite-on-cotton-wool sense, and his music contains not one note of interest or revelation to prove otherwise.
For years he was in Genesis. What can you say?
Genesis, who even by the early 80's, were embroiled with the Moody Blues in a `Who's the Deadest Rock Group' competition, Phil apparently became a bit disillusioned and stale, and decided to go his own way.
Left poor Genesis, (who must've been crestfallen) and joined that rather sad little band of going-nowhere monomaniacs. Gabriel, Sting, Weller, McCartney, et al, folk who sensible people would shun like lepers, and who should've finished scratching and pecking around the music business, DECADES ago.
Into this erstwhile company leaps fiery Phil, a 'rocker' with all the threat and endangerment of a King Charles Spaniel.
Why isn't he a vicar? The Church wouldn't have him. Imagine being on your deathbed and the Rev Collins coming to give you comfort and succour; "Don't call me vicar, just call me Phil..." and "Miracles CAN happen" I believe you Phil....groan.
Anyway, you need to show some signs of actually being alive to fight in God's corner, and Phil would fail there and then. Listen to his cd. `Sussidio', `Two Hearts', `Easy Lover', Fibreless. Weak. Tired. Unemotional. Quite clearly, Phil needs SONGS as opposed to nebulous yik-yak, needs dynamite in his arrangements. Something - anything!
`One More Night'. Beyond a joke now. Phil's in the studio, swaying gently to the music, he doesn't realise it's so bad. He'd stop surely? Drums pulse gently when they should fire-crack, the lyrics barely exist. Weedy strings flutter away in the background...you get the picture. Lethargic. Small.
This stuff is ruthlessly exploitative as well, scientifically aimed at middle aged housewives doing the hoovering, who don't want anything too demanding, or they'll get a migraine.
It's stubbornly inward looking, a pompous slop-rock ghetto. A niche, a mono-directional phenomenon, an artistic void, destined for the barren Woolworths shelves...
Nothing on `Hits' is good or even mildly diverting. There's a dramatic chord change towards the end of `Groovy Kind of Love' that threatens to rescue the whole song, but, ahh hopes are dashed, and we're soon back on the snoozy track to the rocking chair and oblivion. So close there Phil...
There seems to be a mad, spurious trust between Phil and his audience. I'd imagine it's the same kind of thing Daniel O'Donnell has with his. A we-won't-do-anything-awry understanding, beginning in earnest and ending in Switzerland.
Maybe some-one should give old Phil a gentle nudge, tell him Justin Heyward's just released an lp. That'd get him going...perhaps.
Perhaps he could do a tour, a triple header with Twinkle and Alvin Stardust. Or he could just sleep, bless him. Pop's dreariest man looks (and sounds!) weary. Just put `In the Air Tonight' on and have 40 winks. Shhhh.....
Don't go waking him.
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Date: 2008-04-21
Good, but not encompasing, collection
Well I guess the gripe with any "hits" collection is the songs that are left out. So in typical fashion I'll say this CD is lacking three classics: I Don't Care Anymore, I Missed Again, and Don't Lose That Number. However, I think a PhilPhan needs to at least have the first three solo CDs (Face Value, Hello I Must Be Going, and No Jacket Required) because they are packed with outstanding music and are under-represented on this hits compilation. The great thing about this CD though is it gathers Phil's "non-album" tracks together so you get the outstanding songs True Colors, Easy Lover, Two Hearts, Groovy Kind of Love, Against All Odds, and Separate Lives. That easily validates the CD and makes it worth owning. Of course missing from this Hits list is one of Phil's biggest songs You'll Be in My Heart because it was made after this best of. But if you're a casual Collins fan looking for one excellent overview album, Phil's Hits is highly recommended; it does contain four of my all time favorites from Phil: Against All Odds, Take Me Home, In the Air Tonight, and Easy Lover. Rating:
Date: 2008-04-18
excellent must have album!
This was my first Phil Collins album as a child, yes folks i'm young!... but I still remember listening to this at about age 10 or 12. Even now it is one of my must have albums. Great songs and great work! Every hit you could ever want by phil's solo work. |
