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| 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 |
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Long installed in popular music’s multi-million-selling pariah pantheon, there are fewer easy targets for arrows of critical opprobrium than 59-year-old Philip David Charles Collins. Granted, Collins has sometimes been guilty of painting the bull’s-eye on his own forehead (that self-aggrandising Live Aid Concorde business, the cringe-worthy lyrics to Another Day in Paradise, Buster, etc), but nonetheless, the sometime Genesis frontman’s canon is so substantial and his hits so profuse that it feels myopic to dismiss him merely as a haughty purveyor of tortured, romantic ballads for the middle income world.
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
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Sorry to give a bad review to an artist I really like, but the album is one that you file in "bought because of who it was and their past good albums, listened once, place in cupboard and never listen again"
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.
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.
27 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There seems to be a lot of negative opinions about this album but I'm sure that anyone that liked songs such as 'You Can't Hurry Love' will enjoy this 18 song track through the Motown back catalogue. One thing that stands out on this collection is the production which really captures the classic 60's Motown feel and the backing vocals are really authentic. Phil's vocals are spot on with some tracks such as 'Uptight, Everything's Alright', less than perfect on tracks like 'Heatwave' and standard Phil Collins fare on the ballads like 'Some Of Your Lovin'.
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.
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.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Bought this for my dad as a birthday present. He's over the moon with it. If you want to hear the originals, buy them. If you want to hear Phil Collins, buy this. Great album.
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I was born in 1980 and brought up on a staple diet of Phil Colins and food - I am still unsure which was most important. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Lynchies
Going Back to Bed
At last! Phil Beany Scumbag Collins decided to dust off his drumkit, polish his bonce and release a new album. Just Kidding!
Here's the concept. Read more
Here's the concept. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Greg Boyd
old one`s we remember
phil has pulled this one out of the bag .lots of mowtown memories from the past. he does well with some that where sung by women groups the first time around.
Published 5 months ago by little mo
Disappointing
Not the best Phil has done, think he could have picked some better songs from the huge tamla mowtown rnage of tracks he could have chosen.
Published 8 months ago by Dolly
Perhaps for those who like Motown Classics
This wasn't our cup of tea after listening to the songs. One or two songs like this would have been fine, but all of them sounds quite similar if you ask me. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Sumella
Something different
I happened across the concert Phil did on TV and was so impressed by his version of 'Going Back' that I wanted the CD. Read more
Published 9 months ago by L. Bulmer
Going Back says it all !!
Forget what all the so-called critics say about this album. If you've done what Phil Collins has done to date I think you're entitled to put together an album of YOUR favourites. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Ray Davies
Phill Collins "Going Back"
Before i purchased this produt i wanted one of his CD's with different songs on to the other one that got. It had as it is good that was able to see what songs were on it. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Jen
fabulous
I didn't think I would ever hear Dusty Springfield's 'going back' covered by another artist and sounding better than the original. Read more
Published 10 months ago by malstod
Hopefully ths man will now do nothing but covers
For my money Phil Collins as a singer songwriter is pretty boring.As a Carpet Man ie one who does covers the man is in a different class. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Richard
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