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- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Wea
- ASIN: B00008LMDE
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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Phil Collins is to pop music what Heinz is to baked beans, and like that familiar and ubiquitous brand, he consistently delivers the goods. Testify, his follow-up to 1996's Dance into the Light, finds the British singer-songwriter strolling through a mostly gentle collection of romantic ballads, with Collins on both the winning and losing end of relationships. He also sends a few messages our way with "Wake Up Call" and "Don't Get Me Started", suggesting his subscription to the Economist is intact. But the chief delight of Testify is in the sonics. Collins has clearly been watching from the sidelines, chin in hand, as his adult-pop contemporaries have layered world beat influences into their music to haunting effect. "Thru My Eyes" is a spiritual cousin of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes"; "The Least You Can Do" has a decidedly Celtic lilt, while "Driving Me Crazy", with its woozy cascading synth, is destined for car-commercial grandeur rivalling Sting. The title track, appropriately, gets added ballast from a choir while a cover of the weepy "Can't Stop Loving You" (also recorded by Leo Sayer in the 1970s) is a worthy successor to Collins's own "One More Night". --Kim Hughes
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Why isn't this album all over BBC Radio2 and similar AOR stations?
This is a superbly gentle and subtle album (aha! Perhaps there's our reason!!), that offers so much more than the single, Can't Stop Loving You - which is one of the lesser tracks on the album IMHO.
OK, it's probably best not to take the lyrics seriously - but it's really the tunes that Phil Collins has always excelled at, and he does so again here.
I was so prepared to dismiss this album, thinking it would continue the downward spiral since But Seriously - but seriously(!) this album reverses the decline and if only we hadn't of had the intervening decade, perhaps this album would be in it's rightful place, high in the charts.
This is a superbly gentle and subtle album (aha! Perhaps there's our reason!!), that offers so much more than the single, Can't Stop Loving You - which is one of the lesser tracks on the album IMHO.
OK, it's probably best not to take the lyrics seriously - but it's really the tunes that Phil Collins has always excelled at, and he does so again here.
I was so prepared to dismiss this album, thinking it would continue the downward spiral since But Seriously - but seriously(!) this album reverses the decline and if only we hadn't of had the intervening decade, perhaps this album would be in it's rightful place, high in the charts.
16 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Phil Collins, as some of you may think, is and forever will be long gone. This, however, isn't true. With Phil's latest album "Testify", he shows his passion and ability to write songs at their best, and with the inspiration from his son and wife, I think that he's reached his goal. The instuments and vocal texture really do add to the mood of the album and it's songs, which is something that, in my opinion, is another great addition to this truly brilliant creation.
The lyrical front of all the songs on the album cease to amaze me really, as Collins has written with meaning and hasn't just strung together a list of words that rhyme. This is by far a good album, and both long-time Phil Collins fans and new ones alike, will enjoy "Testify" forever. It's truly a hit, and from what I've heard of it, is highly reccomended!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
A man should always speak the truth... that's what i learned from the songs of PhilCollins since i first knew him in late 1998. i was never in fond of western music (i am from the east) and can say he was the first man to make me be in love with it.
Testify is absoluetly an outstanding record. maybe he has better songs like "ANOTHERDAY IN PARADISE" But there are songs of his greatest like the inspiring songs "Come with me" "Wake up call" "Can't stop loving u" And if i am gonna keep u'll find that i have written all twelve tracks... that's why i say that philcollins's songs are not songs for one to hear or vote for, but they are songs for everyone to live with so u can't say but he's an outstanding lovely musician.
Testify is absoluetly an outstanding record. maybe he has better songs like "ANOTHERDAY IN PARADISE" But there are songs of his greatest like the inspiring songs "Come with me" "Wake up call" "Can't stop loving u" And if i am gonna keep u'll find that i have written all twelve tracks... that's why i say that philcollins's songs are not songs for one to hear or vote for, but they are songs for everyone to live with so u can't say but he's an outstanding lovely musician.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
superb album!
This album is my favourite of Phil Collins with some really lovely tracks on it. It is easy to listen to and I feel that his fantastic voice really shines through on it. Read more
Published 3 months ago by nutty
Testicle
This was to be the final album I needed to complete my Phil Hippocriticallins collection. I tore open the case eagerly, then stopped to glue it back together. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Greg Boyd
Formulaic
I do enjoy Phil Collins' work and I can't say I duslike this album.
It's just...the lyrics and the structure. Read more
Published on 28 Sep 2005 by Martin diMartino-Marriott
If you a Phil Collins fan, you're going to be disappointed
Like I suspect many people, I bought this CD on the strength of the excellent 'Can't stop loving you' track. Unfortunately, all the other tracks - without exception - are dreadful. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2004 by TheFrog
Music at last
finally here comes the only one who still beleives there is music in the world...
listen to Testify and u'll know what i mean... Read more
listen to Testify and u'll know what i mean... Read more
Published on 16 Dec 2003 by "mohammedhajjar1985"
looking at the reviews already - time to even the score
I have tried, tried and tried again to like this album. Like John Starling who also expresses a similar sentiment, I have almost every track Phil has done, not all brilliant I... Read more
Published on 24 Oct 2003 by David Sayers
3 stars for the music, 0 for the copy protection
As the sales show this album has not exactly caught on fire with the UK public, and as by far the best track has been released as the first single it's unlikely it's going to. Read more
Published on 7 Feb 2003 by Richard Laven
Not Phil Collins best album!
I was not sure what to expect when I purchased 'Testify', that said nothing could have prepared me for this 12 track dissapointment. Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2002 by "john_starling"
A top-quality pop-album - not Phil's best, but excellent.
The shortest way to describe 'Testify' might be as a happy version of 'Both Sides'. Even if this isn't exactly precise, it carries two very important points of the album: First,... Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2002 by Kasper Michelsen
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