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Track Listings
| 1. Dance Into The Light |
| 2. That's Whats You Said |
| 3. Lorenzo |
| 4. Just Another Story |
| 5. Love Police |
| 6. Wear My Hat |
| 7. It's in Your Eyes |
| 8. Oughta Know By Now |
| 9. Take Me Down |
| 10. The Same Moon |
| 11. River So Wide |
| 12. No Matter Who |
| 13. The Times They Are A-Changing |
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In an attempt to ditch Collins's aural and visual image of doom and gloom, Dance Into The Light is his endeavour to move into lighter, more poppy territory, complete with colourful album cover. On a couple of the tracks, punchier musical styles are introduced, such as on the title track, with its African carnival-esque influences. There's even a pop cover of Bob Dylan's, "The Times They Are A-Changin", complete with synthesised bagpipes. However, expect no huge surprises as overall the album follows the musical approach of his previous solo albums, and more recent recordings with Genesis. If you enjoyed any of Collins's (or Genesis's) previous albums you'll want this one, but for anyone wanting an introduction to his music try his Hits collection or his solo debut Face Value. --John Galilee
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By T. Morris
Format:Audio CD
It's wonderful that Collins has bought out a really cheery, lively album after all of his brilliant yet mellow others.
There is a very vibrant theme behind all of the songs with backing music with african and carribean styles. Its a real chillout album yet one that could be danced to, to top it off Collins' excellent voice suits the lively music perfectly.
There is a very vibrant theme behind all of the songs with backing music with african and carribean styles. Its a real chillout album yet one that could be danced to, to top it off Collins' excellent voice suits the lively music perfectly.
A must have album
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By John Smith
Format:Audio CD
This is the most schitzophrenic of all Collins's solo records. He seems to have caught the 'McCartney Syndrome' - tackling as many different styles as he can within a single album. Unfortunately, more than with McCartney, it comes over as 'jack of all trades, master of none'.
Low points include sudo-urbun effort 'Just Another Story', and three jingly-jangly Byrds-by-numbers efforts, that all just come over as disengenuous, even amateurish - certainly cheesey.
There is one fine high point where the old magic of this old genius shines through: 'Lorenzo' includes some trademark big drum sounds, dramatic, captivating rhythms and a joyous tune. It's far too good to have been dumped on this album.
Title track 'Dance Into The Light' also shows some potential, with its stabbing brass arrangement. But, it all feels a bit too safe and laid back - Collins is in Tarzan-soundtrack mode. This is more apparent still on the ultra-slushy 'Same Moon'.
'Take Me Down' is a Paul Simon-circa-Graceland pastiche. I've got Graceland; why do I need this?
'No Matter Who' is a fourth Byrds-ish number, but borrows more from their country period. It's not bad. Harmless enough.
It all ends on a low point with a formulaic arrangement of Dylan's 'The Times They Are A-Changing'.
If you want to hear this man at his creative and commercial best, get his first two solo albums and all the Genesis stuff from the 80s and early 90s. Then move on to the rest of the Genesis catalogue.
After listening to that you'll maybe regard this as a bit of a throwaway joke.
Low points include sudo-urbun effort 'Just Another Story', and three jingly-jangly Byrds-by-numbers efforts, that all just come over as disengenuous, even amateurish - certainly cheesey.
There is one fine high point where the old magic of this old genius shines through: 'Lorenzo' includes some trademark big drum sounds, dramatic, captivating rhythms and a joyous tune. It's far too good to have been dumped on this album.
Title track 'Dance Into The Light' also shows some potential, with its stabbing brass arrangement. But, it all feels a bit too safe and laid back - Collins is in Tarzan-soundtrack mode. This is more apparent still on the ultra-slushy 'Same Moon'.
'Take Me Down' is a Paul Simon-circa-Graceland pastiche. I've got Graceland; why do I need this?
'No Matter Who' is a fourth Byrds-ish number, but borrows more from their country period. It's not bad. Harmless enough.
It all ends on a low point with a formulaic arrangement of Dylan's 'The Times They Are A-Changing'.
If you want to hear this man at his creative and commercial best, get his first two solo albums and all the Genesis stuff from the 80s and early 90s. Then move on to the rest of the Genesis catalogue.
After listening to that you'll maybe regard this as a bit of a throwaway joke.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Greg Boyd
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Phil Collins is renowed for being downright miserable and most of his albums are. Their good but they leave you feeling down. Dance into the Light is a really refreshing change for Phil and contains some brilliant and moving songs. The title song "Dance into the Light" is great. It's very upbeat and has an incredible rich sound. A bit later, Phil falls back into his miserable rut for "Just another story" but it's also a good song so just keep listening even if you hate this song. A real highlight in the album is "Wear my Hat". This song is hilarious and happy and more than makes up for "Just another story". It gets a bit slushy after this but the songs are beautiful like "The same moon". If you're not a fan of slush you can always skip forward to the last, and most controversial, song on the album. People seem to think that Bob Dylan is somehow holy and should never be covered. I'm not saying that Bob Dylan is a bad musician but Phil Collins version of "The times they are a-changing" completely blows the original out of the water. People can't accept that someone like Phil Collins would dare to cover this song but if you can take your head out of Bob Dylans bum for five minutes and eight seconds you may really like what you hear! It has a much more interesting sound with richer arrangements and, unlike the original, it doesn't get tedious and repetetive after the first verse. This album is full of african influences and is very fulfilling. It's defineatly worth buying and you will almost certainly end up playing it over and over again.
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Dance Into the Light
Still dancing into the light, brilliant music, lots of memories. Nice to have it again within my collection. Well priced as well.
Published 3 months ago by Mr. A. Chingati-phiri
4.0 out of 5 stars
just a little correction for the last reviewer.......
.......................the track "lorenzo" on the dance into the light album was actually penned by the lad in question and not PC, the boy was an avid fan of phil and it was his... Read more
Published on 2 Aug 2004 by paul heald
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A Jungle Party
I wouldnt ever know what the difference between this album and Tarzan... they are both african and so much alike... Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2003 by "mohammedhajjar1985"
3.0 out of 5 stars
A happier Phil...
Whatever you make of the man, Phil Collins, you have to admit he has done well out of songwriting. With his Brit awards, and his whistle along pop melodies, Phil is a well... Read more
Published on 20 Aug 2001
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