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Track Listings
| 1. Girl [Why You Wanna Make Me Blue] |
| 2. [Love Is Like A] Heatwave |
| 3. Uptight [Everything's Alright] |
| 4. Some Of Your Lovin' |
| 5. In My Lonely Room |
| 6. Take Me In Your Arms [Rock Me For A Little While] |
| 7. Blame It On The Sun |
| 8. Papa Was A Rolling Stone |
| 9. Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer |
| 10. Standing In The Shadows Of Love |
| 11. Do I Love You |
| 12. Jimmy Mack |
| 13. Something About You |
| 14. Love Is Here And Now You're Gone |
| 15. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever |
| 16. Going To A Go-Go |
| 17. Talkin About My Baby |
| 18. Going Back |
Product Description
Review
Certainly, hip hop artists can’t get enough of the near-iconic In the Air Tonight, and Collins, lest it be forgotten, once lent his nimble stick-work to leftfield albums by the likes of Brian Eno and John Cale. All of which is a very long way from Motown: the adolescent Collins’ musical tipple and the inspiration for Going Back, his first solo album since 2002’s underperforming Testify.
An 18-track trawl through the Hitsville USA songbook, this is not so much an homage to Berry Gordy’s Detroit stable as a battlefield re-enactment, underpinned by three surviving members of The Funk Brothers, Motown’s peerless, 60s in-house studio band. So faithfully have Collins and his confreres recreated the Sound of Young America – shimmering tambourines drowning out drums, bass compressed to a fat, distorted throb –that it’s hard not to be swept along. Thus, Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue) is as much a blast of toe-tapping euphoria here as it was for The Temptations back in 64, Collins’ reedy, helium-like vocals squeezed into a fair impersonation of the style, if never quite the gravity, of Messrs Ruffin, Kendricks and co. Sprightly versions of Martha and the Vandellas’ Heatwave and Stevie Wonder’s Uptight also stack up remarkably well against the originals.
Things go slightly awry when Collins swaps Motor City tropes for contemporary interpretations, synth pads and all; Some of Your Lovin’ and Blame It on the Sun being particularly saccharine casualties. When he recreates the finger-snapping brio of Standing in the Shadows of Love, Jimmy Mack or Going to a Go-Go, however, his reverence for the material is, whisper it, completely disarming.
--David SheppardFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off Amazon in a new window
CD Description
Going Back sees Collins faithfully recreating classic soul gems, and features a tangible link to the past courtesy of performances from three members of legendary Motown session players, The Funk Brothers--bassist Bob Babbitt and guitarists Eddie Willis and Ray Monette.
Customer Reviews
His voice has lost it's unique edge and is no longer good enough to carry the songs he has chosen to sing. There are too many better cover versions of these songs around. This sounds like a pub singer who has paid to sing over backing tracks (which admittedly are very good)
If you want good cover versions of Motown songs buy Peter Cox's Motor City Music, you won't be disappointed.
Clearly this is a labour of love for Phil and these tracks obviously mean something to him, which comes out through his interpretations of the classic songs, however I don't think anyone is capable of repeating the perfection of the Detroit sound of the 60's originals, but as it stands its still a great covers album.
I'm sure if it gets repeated airplay it will become a big seller because there is an audience for Phil's music, and his fans will not be disappointed with this fine effort.
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