PHIL COLLINS : ...HITS

  1. Another Day In Paradise
  2. True Colors
  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. A Groovy Kind Of Love
  15. In The Air Tonight
  16. Take Me Home

Label : Face Value Records

Length : 75:33

Release Date : October 6, 1998

Review (AllMusic) : If Hits seems a little inadequate, even though it weighs in at 16 tracks, that's because Phil Collins had such a long, productive run. Also, to casual listeners (and possibly even some fans), it's hard to tell which singles are by Genesis and which ones are solo cuts. So, it's almost a certainty that listeners will find something missing from this disc - and not just because Genesis cuts are absent, but because there's not enough space to fit all of Collins' solo hits, especially since the compilers decided to include a couple of lesser, latter-day hits at the expense of some earlier, bigger ones, while adding his non-LP cover of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" to entice hardcore fans. Thus, there are only 13 hits, which means some other big hits and good songs are absent - "I Missed Again," "I Don't Care Anymore," "Don't Lose My Number," "Do You Remember?" are all MIA. A few of these omissions are quite regrettable, but in the end, Hits is nevertheless a representative and pretty entertaining collection. The sequencing is not chronological, so it doesn't develop a nice flow (although "Take Me Home" is admittedly the ideal closer), but the chief strength of this collection is that it puts all of the big hits - including "Easy Lover," "Against All Odds," "In the Air Tonight," "Sussudio," "One More Night" and "Separate Lives" - in one place. No, it's not perfect - and it's hard not to wish that it was - but Hits still contains the majority of Collins' solo smashes, and that alone makes it a nice addition to his catalog.