This compilation is the perfect introduction to Anthony's music.

Track Listing

1. Women Were Watching
2. Prelude '84
3. Anthem From Tarka
4. Lucy Will
5. Tregenna Afternoons
6. Unheard Cry
7. Catch At The Tables
8. Lights On The Hill
9. Now What
10. Um And Aargh
11. Slow Dance
12. Tears On A Rainy Day
13. God If I Saw Her Now
14. Nightmare
15. Last Goodbyes
16. Collections
17. Sleepfall/The Geese Fly West

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #145978 in Music
• Released on: 1995-10-16
• Number of discs: 1

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Customer Reviews

An eclectic but satisfying overview - great value too!
Anthony Phillips is certainly hard to categorise: from his beginnings as the pre-Steve Hackett guitarist (and leading musical influence) in Genesis, he has resolutely ploughed his own furrow and has covered many bases, such as prog, electro-pop, classical, film soundtracks and new age/ambient. This makes any compilation of his work extremely difficult to mould into something which flows well and is satisfying to listen to. Anthology (get the pun?), however, succeeds remarkably well on all counts. Inevitably the choice of tracks will give rise to some debate but my view is that in this case it is hard to fault and a great deal of care has been taken with the programming as it all hangs together brilliantly: full marks to the compiler!

Full justice is done to his range of styles and with a fairly large number of instrumental tracks we don't have to dwell too much on Phillips' deficiencies in the vocal department (his one weakness). The epic anti-animal cruelty ballad Now What (from Wise After the Event)is truly affecting and only a weak vocal prevents it from attaining classic status. There are many other highlights but my personal choices are Lucy Will, Collections, Lights on the Hill, Unheard Cry and the Tarka theme.

At over 70 minutes running time and with such an abundance of quality, this represents exceptional value for money: even when it was newly released the price was round the fiver mark. However, much as I recommend this, my advice would be to regard this as merely an introduction: many of the original albums are well worth picking up and I would particularly urge you to buy The Geese and the Ghost (his first, very pastoral work), Wise After the Event and Sides (prog-flavoured but more song-orientated) and Invisible Men (a surprising but enjoyable diversion into straight - and at times electro - pop). For his instrumental based work, check out the Private Parts and Pieces Series, my favourites being 1,3 (Antiques) and 8 (New England).

There is a wealth of great material out there waiting to be discovered and if this top-notch collection helps to turn more listeners onto the work of this unique artist then it will deserve even more than the five stars I am giving it!

Nice one!
The oft forgetten memmber of Genesis provides us with a tour through his own solo career.

As is often the case with compilations the tracks do not particularly flow well but there are some real highlights from the Ant Phillips catalogue which show just how versatile the man is.

This collection is perhaps best for the Genesis fan who perhaps cannot afford to replace every piece of "Ant vinyl" issued thus far or for those wanting to sample his work for the first time.

Weird!
I'll start by saying that the music is pretty cack (if you're a Genesis fan only the couple of tracks off the 'Geese & Ghost' will hold any interest). But the real strange thing is the booklet which gives an overview of his 'great' albums & tracks. And then you look at the track listing and realise that virtually none of the buggers mentioned in the overview are included. What the hell is that all about?

So I've no idea whether this is representative of his music (I suspect not) so it's probably best to ignore the cheap price & look elsewhere.