Product Description

In the early '80s, Collins took a break from the helm of Genesis to inaugurate a solo career that abandoned his group'sart-rock agenda for a mainstream pop approach. In the ensuing years, the king of Nice Guy Pop established himself as one of the world's premier top 40 balladeers, as evidenced by the wall-to-wall hits that make up the balance of this appropriately titled collection. HITS walks the listener through the smooth, well-produced Collins hits that have worked their way into the collective consciousness of radio listeners (even casual ones) over the years. There are majestic power ballads ("I Wish It Would Rain") to light-hearted, infectiouspop-funk ("Sussudio") and moody atmospheric pieces ("In theAir Tonight") HITS represents the full range of material this prolific performer has turned out over the course of his wildly successful career.

Track Listing

1. Another Day In Paradise
2. True Colours
3. Easy Lover
4. You Can't Hurry Love
5. Two Hearts
6. I Wish It Would Rain Down
7. Against All Odds
8. Something Happened On The Way To Heaven
9. Separate Lives
10. Both Sides Of The Story
11. One More Night
12. Sussudio
13. Dance Into The Light
14. Groovy Kind Of Love
15. In The Air Tonight
16. Take Me Home

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #738 in Music
• Released on: 2007-09-17
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
For better or worse, Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" was the "Stairway to Heaven" of the 1980s, 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

Musical Genius!
I don't need to tell any of you how great an artist Phil Collins is. A true 80s legend and an awesome live performer. He's produced many great songs and this collection features a lot of his best work. Many fans will probably argue that some of their favourites are not on here, but this album does boast his most liked and most popular tracks. Brilliant from start to finish, a good combination of uplifting 80s music and powerful ballads.

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.

A Great Collection of Songs
Right from the beginning of this album, introduced with "Another day in Paradise", you know you in for a treat. Contained within this album are a collection of up-beat tracks, with great compliment to the drumming involved. Throughout the album, each track is individual and intriguing, lyrically and musically, and at no point did I want to change the track for a different song or album. The high quality of music has continued from his work in Genesis, comparable to Paul Weller from The Jam to a solo career. Highly recommended, with Phil Collins at his best.