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| 1. Wake Up Call |
| 2. Come With Me |
| 3. Testify |
| 4. Don't Get Me Started |
| 5. Swing Low |
| 6. It's Not Too Late |
| 7. This Love This Heart |
| 8. Driving Me Crazy |
| 9. The Least You Can Do |
| 10. Can't Stop Loving You |
| 11. Thru My Eyes |
| 12. You Touch My Heart |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An Undeservedly Overlooked Album!,
This review is from: Testify (Uk Version) (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.
16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Come Back At It's Best!,
By Rik James (England, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Testify (Uk Version) (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:
5.0 out of 5 stars
amazingly inspiring, ethical and soundful,
By jason (lebanon (Asia)) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Testify (Uk Version) (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.
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