I have many years ago, to the commercial heyday of Genesis, once saw an interview with Phil Collins, where he over his chest arms and a certain arrogance about his role as a singer spoke with their heads held high, in which he allegedly never "pushed" wanted to be, because this only the "Jumping Jack" was, the representative of the other makes a fool of oneself or something like that. When I look now so look at him and listen to especially, I have just this interview immediately before your eyes and in your ears. Because what I was getting now be heard on the CD, has a little bit of complaints of an aging man who has somehow never quite found his place in his musical life. Collins is a great musical craftsman with some, the mass appealing charisma. He had a feel for the market and has sold some time accordingly. But his heart belongs to the Soul. Just is not his talent here. And you can feel on this CD, how much he suffers. I can not judge, because I have no idea in this regard, as the title, which serve as a sample for never were of interest to me the "value" of interpretation. Nevertheless, it seems to me that what I hear as distinctly mediocre with the tendency to be insufficient. While listening to an actual thoughts as coming "uninspired" and "little creative", but I think the impression is deceptive. Collins was well inspired, because you can feel on his entire body of work that he comes from this music that it is what he really wanted to do. He also wanted to be sure to implement creative, but there's the rub. He lacks the very small step that would make him something special. He squinted in his past too much to the outside, focused too much on the trappings. Perhaps we should even say that he was so "unfortunately" success, because it now lacks in his "labor of love" exactly what would make it: the soul; the Soul. I think for many fans Collins this disc is unnecessary, surely it is for most Soul followers, but also, and this is crucial, for himself. To me she is preparing a certain pain. I think who understands what I mean by that one time or another.
