Phil Collins - Love Songs (2004)

CD1
01) Tearing and Breaking
02) Do You Remember
03) One More Night
04) Against All Odds
05) Can't Turn Back The Years
06) Groovy Kind Of Love
07) Everyday
08) Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away
09) Please Come Out Tonight
10) This Must Be Love
11) It's In Your Eyes
12) Can't Stop Loving You

CD2
01) Testify
02) True Colours (rehearsal)
03) You'll Be In My Heart
04) If Leaving Me Is Easy
05) I've Been Trying (Previously Unreleased)
06) I've Forgotten Everything
07) Somewhere (Previously Unreleased)
08) Least You Can Do
09) Two Hearts
10) Separate Lives (Live)
11) My Girl (live)
12) Always (live) (Previously Unreleased)
13) The Way You Look Tonight (live)

Phil Collins - Composer, Mixing, Primary Artist, Producer 
Gerald Albright - Sax (Soprano), Soloist 
Harry Kim - Flugelhorn, Soloist 

Released on Rhino/Atlantic/Face Value Records in the fall of 2004, Love Songs is a good idea executed poorly. Since Phil Collins is known for his romantic hit ballads, the idea to have all of these hits on one disc is appealing. That's not what Love Songs is -- as the subtitle A Compilation...Old and New suggests, it has grander ambitions than that. It spans two discs, adding several new songs, rarities, and live recordings into the mix, sometimes substituting alternate versions for the hit version (as on a live version of "Separate Lives" and a rehearsal take, of all things, for "True Colors"). While the low-key, romantic atmosphere is more or less kept throughout the 25 songs, the preponderance of unfamiliar material and sheer length makes this a less than ideal make-out record. This is one case when less would have been more. ---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, AllMusic Review

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