Phil Collins..
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has brought out a Motown & Soul classics covers album!
Track listing:
Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)
(Love Is Like A) Heatwave
Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Some Of Your Lovin'
In My Lonely Room
Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While)
Blame It On The Sun
Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer
Standing In The Shadows Of Love
Do I Love You
Jimmy Mack
Something About You
Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
Going To A Go-Go
Talking About My Baby
Goin' Back
He told a German newspaper, "I want the songs to sound exactly like the originals".
Erm.. Only with a shit singer.. right?
It must be fun to that rich.
Apparently, so he could still play, they had to tape the drumsticks to his hands, cause his nerves are all fusked up due to some major surgery.
Track listing:
Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)
(Love Is Like A) Heatwave
Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Some Of Your Lovin'
In My Lonely Room
Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While)
Blame It On The Sun
Papa Was A Rolling Stone
Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer
Standing In The Shadows Of Love
Do I Love You
Jimmy Mack
Something About You
Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
Going To A Go-Go
Talking About My Baby
Goin' Back
He told a German newspaper, "I want the songs to sound exactly like the originals".
Erm.. Only with a shit singer.. right?
It must be fun to that rich.
Apparently, so he could still play, they had to tape the drumsticks to his hands, cause his nerves are all fusked up due to some major surgery.
Comments
Yes!! Dude got soft when Disney came knocking. He definitely got caked up though.
nuff said. don't necessarily need to hear motown covers from him, but he still rules, IMO.
Can you recommend any more Collins heat?
Phil Collins is alive and well and living in Switzerland.
Back in high school (mid '80s), just to be a dick, I told this one dude I knew (who was a huge Genesis fan) that Phil Collins had just died in a plane crash. I played it straight. Dude was crestfallen.
Phil Collins is dope. Great drummer and occasionally intense vocalist (I dig how worked up he gets on tracks like "Mama" and "I Don't Care Anymore".)
Dude is also an Alamo obsessive. How cool is that?! http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/Alamo_is_new_passion_for_singer_Phil_Collins.html
Why cover them then? Don't need PC to spread awareness of Motown
I don't need PC in MY LIFE. Period.
This video blew my mind when I was 8.
My thoughts exactly!
:nagl:
The soul covers album is the final refuge of the artistically barren.
I should add that I too think he's a great drummer, but that doesn't mean I want to hear him do Papa Was A Rolling Stone.
I mean, that's the my fav album cut. I'm assuming you know all the hits, no?
There are, of course, the joints where he employed EWF's horn section:
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he seems to be repeating himself here....
http://www.123video.nl/playvideos.asp?MovieID=217143
Do you think the one CRAIG DAVID has therefore shot his last artistic bolt some time ago?
thanks for the links...I'm not into any of them as much as I'm Not Moving - its got the late 70's AOR thing i like. I find it odd that it's on the same album as In The Air Tonight, the two couldn't sound any more different!
RE the Motown Covers - why these artists doing the covers want to make them sounds just like the originals is beyond me, why would you do something like that without putting your own slant on it? I guess its trying to cash in on the new old sound as per Winehouse, Plan B etc.
Hey now listen please do not make Phil look like some commercial cat that's in it for The Money
He' s just keepin it real
Mike Macdonald I think made a killin' with old folks doin Motown shit.
Im open to Phil's interpretations.
That Big Chill steez will be around for minute.
I don't mind giving Phil a pass but Campbell...........Campbell can go fuck right off.
???I need a hit??? - Yeah, but do you really? And, if so, does it have to be by desperately aping Levi Stubbs' phrasing on yet another cover of Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever? Levi Stubbs, Phil! C'mon, son. Not as long as you've got a hole in your arse.
???It worked before, it'll work again. And again??? - We all know how many times UB40 have returned to that particular well. They've now virtually abandoned the concept of an album of original material altogether, and Ali Campbell has clearly chosen the safest possible platform from which to launch his solo career.
???You'll make a mint!??? - Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. Expensive divorce? Big tax bill? Costly legal proceedings against former band members? Can't be bothered auditing your publisher/label, but still fancy that beachfront property in Ibiza/Miami/Mauritius? Do a covers album. It'll put you back on the radio somewhere, if nothing else.
I take batmon's point about the Big Chill generation, but I can't let the comparison between Phil Collins and Michael McDonald stand. McDonald is a true blue-eyed soul voice, and one of the greatest of the last 30 years. Collins, on the other hand, is someone who surrounds himself with the signifiers of classic soul/r&b, such as the EW&F horn section and the ersatz Motown stylings he's hit big with before, in the hope that he will appear soulful as a consequence. It's like every rock band of the 70s that drafted in a troupe of black girl singers and a percussionist with a 'fro or a Donny Hathaway po'boy cap to try and make themselves look fon-kay. Most of the time, they just looked like they were trying way too hard. This'll probably end up being Collins' biggest hit in years, but let's not kid ourselves that the world actually needs any more records like this, especially ones where the main artistic impulse seems to be to sound as much like the originals as possible. I mean, what on earth for?
Unexpectedly for me, the only thing of this nature I've heard in recent years which didn't seem completely and utterly perfunctory was Mick Hucknall's Tribute To Bobby, an album of Bobby Blue Bland covers. He steered clear of the obvious, done-to-death songs (Stormy Monday excepted), and didn't dress them up in self-consciously retro arrangements either. No substitute for the originals, of course, but nevertheless clearly done for the love and surprisingly listenable as well.
Pretty cool. Actually pretty great. Made my day in small way to read the words "Alamo" and "basement" in the same paragraph (Pee Wee's Big Adventure-related). The fact that it was in reference to Phil Collins' storing "hundreds" of cannonballs from the Alamo in his basement in Switzerland was just a bonus. I mean, WTF -- how does one store that more cannonballs? It's odd that really rich people can pick something so random as the focus of their collection. I could really be into the Strait of Gibraltar but I don't have the cannonballs to acquire the really baller Gibraltar collectibles.
Collins would have been much cooler, however, if he brought his hobby and career together, in a prog-themed Texas Revolution record, on some fireside reveries shit. That would be much more interesting than the Motown covers.
Im not sure Phil Collins needs to worry about making millions per records anymore...though i could be wrong. Maybe all his $ was with Madoff and Lehman Brothers.
Dude's playing is sturdy though.