RECORDINGS Taking the Reins Phil Collins Serious Hits… Live! A Hot Night In Paris Plays Well With Others A look back at Phil Collins’ masterful work onstage, as well as studio collaborations with famous friends. Phil Collins continues his reissue campaign with a pair of live albums now freshly remastered. Serious Hits… Live! (Atlantic) documents Collins’ 1990 tour supporting his …But Seriously album and is a tight greatest-hits compilation with a crackshot band executing nearly note-perfect renditions of the superstar’s best-loved songs. Since Genesis’s mid-’70s musical chairs shuffle, Chester Thompson was Collins’ choice for live drummer for virtually everything he did, and here he lays down some serious four-on-the-floor pocket on “Who Said I Would” and spacious, syncopated smoothness on “Don’t Lose My Number.” But it’s on ballads like “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)” where you can hear Thompson’s metronomic yet nuanced timekeeping. Collins briefly gets […]

July 2019 Issue