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Phil Collins: Serious Hits...Live!

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Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 1990.08.12
Time:
 76:50
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.philcollins.com
Appears with: Genesis, Brand-X, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford
Purchase date: 2009.12.23
Price in €: 2,00





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[1] Something Happened on the Way to Heaven (P.Collins/D.Stuermer) - 4:59
[2] Against All Odds [Take a Look at Me Now] (P.Collins) - 3:28
[3] Who Said I Would (P.Collins) - 4:28
[4] One More Night (P.Collins) - 5:49
[5] Don't Lose My Number (P.Collins) - 4:42
[6] Do You Remember? (P.Collins) - 5:40
[7] Another Day in Paradise (P.Collins) - 5:36
[8] Separate Lives (Bishop) - 5:16
[9] In the Air Tonight (P.Collins) - 6:35
[10] You Can't Hurry Love (Dozier/Holland/Holland) - 2:54
[11] Two Hearts (P.Collins/Dozier) - 3:07
[12] Sussudio (P.Collins) - 7:14
[13] A Groovy Kind of Love (Sager/Wine) - 3:30
[14] Easy Lover (Bailey, Collins/East) - 4:46
[15] Take Me Home (P.Collins) - 8:39

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Phil Collins - Percussion, Drums, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Engineer

Daryl Stuermer - Guitar
Chester Thompson - Drums
Brad Cole - Keyboards
Rahmlee Michael Davis - Trumpet
Harry Kim - Trumpet
Lui Lui - Trombone
Don Myrick - Alto Saxophone
Leland Sklar - Bass

McCuller - Background Vocals
Bridgette Bryant - Background Vocals
Fred White - Background Vocals

Robert Colby - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
Paul Gommersall - Producer, Engineer, Mixing

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1990 CD Atlantic 82157-2
1990 CS Atlantic 82157-4

Recorded at various locations during Phil Collins' Serious Tour 1990.

Recorded during the US tour for his fourth solo album, 1989's BUT SERIOUSLY, 1990's SERIOUS HITS...LIVE! is Phil Collins' first solo live album. True to its title, the album functions neatly as a live greatest hits summation; indeed, Collins' band, featuring longtime guitar sideman Darryl Steurmer,is so impeccably rehearsed that at times it's difficult to tell the difference between these recordings and the original studio versions. Highlights include a solo piano rendition of "In the Air Tonight" that's nearly as thick with dread and atmosphere as the original, and a hypnotic, extended version of the Peter Gabriel-like "Take Me Home". If you're aPhil Collins fan, SERIOUS HITS...LIVE! is a pleasant diversion.


Q (1/91) - 4 Stars - Excellent "...an excellent live album for Phil Collins fans everywhere to come out of the closet and...look proud!"


Along with being a multi-talented musician and an excellent songwriter, Phil Collins is one of the best live performers in rock. His songs usually stay true to their original form, he puts plenty of fire into his vocals, and best of all, every one of his in-concert qualities transfers well into album form. Serious Hits...Live! is a wonderful example of this, with not only 15 tracks, but 15 of Phil's best tracks, performed with an overcharged amount of enthusiasm and energy. There's an equal number of ballads and fast songs on the album, but even on the slow stuff, Collins puts a lot of passion and feeling into the lyrics. Efforts such as "One More Night," "Do You Remember?," and especially his best ballad, "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" are heartfelt and unhindered. His moods shift easily without any false emotional dramatics, which in turn enhances the ambience of the songs. The tracks are taken from a number of shows during his Serious Tour in 1990, but his performance level remains enthusiastic the whole album through and the change of venues goes unnoticed, which is again another plus. Collins is just as sharp on the quicker tunes, with some wonderful percussion filling in behind him. The drumming is stellar on "Easy Lover" and again on "Sussudio," but the album's only downfall is its lack of credits, leaving the identities of the musicians a mystery. The album makes up for this with a spine-chilling version of "In the Air Tonight" as Collins does a good job of capturing the song's haunting air, and from here the album switches gears with "You Can't Hurry Love" but doing so with undefiled perfection. Almost all of the songs here broke Billboard's Top Ten, and five of these tracks hit number one, which makes Serious Hits...Live! truly live up to it's name.

Mike DeGagne - All Music Guide
 

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