Tuesday, August 5, 2025

The best of Phil Collins

 

  1. In The Air Tonight
  2. You Know What I Mean
  3. I Missed Again
  4. If Leaving Me Is Easy
  5. Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away
  6. Why Can't It Wait 'Til Morning
  7. Against All Odds
  8. Easy Lover
  9. I Like The Way
  10. One More Night
  11. All Of My Life
  12. Heat On The Street
  13. I Wish It Would Rain Down
  14. Another Day In Paradise
  15. Everyday
  16. Testify
This actually is one disc's worth of music.
I feel pretty pumped about this.  I used to have the darndest time imagining what a best of Phil Collins would look like.
I didn't put much from NO JACKET REQUIRED or BOTH SIDES because those albums are solid gold on their own.  There's not really anything you can easily excise from those albums.  I mean, sure, not every song is equally shiny, but I just think those two albums are pretty weighty overall compared to most of his albums.  FACE VALUE doesn't have any downright bad songs, but there's points in the album that are indeed weaker than others.  Rhino/WEA (or whatever...) surely isn't going to be pressing this on CD, so I figure I can pretend the majority of people agree with me.  It seems like the people that don't probably just don't like BOTH SIDES, but nonetheless would still agree that NO JACKET REQUIRED is staying in their record collection (or whatever it's called nowadays.......)
BTW, 40th anniversary edtion of NO JACKET REQUIRED is coming to blu ray.  Super exciting, but for some weird reason track 11 "We Said Hello Goodbye" is not included.  I'm tempted to just ignore it.