Phil Collins - ...Hits (1998) {2008, Reissue}

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Artist: Phil Collins
Title: ...Hits
Year Of Release: 1998 / 2008
Label: WEA / Face Value Records / Warner Music / Nikitin #460717315419
Genre: Soft Rock, Pop Rock
Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue, Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 01:14:10
Total Size: 522 / 199 Mb (Full Scans)
WebSite: Album Preview

...Hits, released in 1998 and again in 2008, following the success of "In the Air Tonight" on the Cadbury advertisement campaign, is the first greatest hits album by English drummer and singer-songwriter Phil Collins. The collection included fourteen top 40 hits, including seven American number one songs, spanning from the albums Face Value (1981) through Dance into the Light (1996). One new Collins recording, a cover of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors", also appeared on the collection and was a popular song on adult contemporary stations. Hits was also the first Phil Collins album to include four songs originally recorded for motion pictures (all of them US number-one hits) as well as his popular duet with Philip Bailey, "Easy Lover" (a UK number-one hit). In 1998, the album reached number one in the United Kingdom and number 18 in the United States. On 4 August 2008, it became the number one album on the New Zealand RIANZ album chart. In July 2012, the album re-entered the US charts, reaching number six on the Billboard 200 when the album price was deeply discounted very briefly by Amazon.com. The compilation's cover features stylised versions of the cover art for Collins' first six albums, the collection's primary sources of songs.

If Hits seems a little inadequate, even though it weighs in at 16 tracks, that's because Phil Collins had such a long, productive run. Also, to casual listeners (and possibly even some fans), it's hard to tell which singles are by Genesis and which ones are solo cuts. So, it's almost a certainty that listeners will find something missing from this disc -- and not just because Genesis cuts are absent, but because there's not enough space to fit all of Collins' solo hits, especially since the compilers decided to include a couple of lesser, latter-day hits at the expense of some earlier, bigger ones, while adding his non-LP cover of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" to entice hardcore fans. Thus, there are only 13 hits, which means some other big hits and good songs are absent -- "I Missed Again," "I Don't Care Anymore," "Don't Lose My Number," "Do You Remember?" are all MIA. A few of these omissions are quite regrettable, but in the end, Hits is nevertheless a representative and pretty entertaining collection. The sequencing is not chronological, so it doesn't develop a nice flow (although "Take Me Home" is admittedly the ideal closer), but the chief strength of this collection is that it puts all of the big hits - including "Easy Lover," "Against All Odds," "In the Air Tonight," "Sussudio," "One More Night" and "Separate Lives" -- in one place. No, it's not perfect -- and it's hard not to wish that it was -- but Hits still contains the majority of Collins' solo smashes, and that alone makes it a nice addition to his catalog.

~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music

Track List:

01. Another Day In Paradise [5:23]
02. True Colors [4:35]
03. Easy Lover [5:03]
04. You Can't Hurry Love [2:53]
05. Two Hearts [3:25]
06. I Wish It Would Rain Down [5:29]
07. Againts All Ods [3:26]
08. Something Happened In The Way To Heaven [4:52]
09. Separate Lives [4:07]
10. Other Side Of History [6:38]
11. One More Night [4:47]
12. Sussudio [4:22]
13. Dance Into The Light [4:23]
14. A Groovy Kind Of Love [3:30]
15. In Air Tonight [5:31]
16. Take Me Home [5:53]

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