Five guilty pleasure albums people keep too quiet about liking

Phil Collins - Serious Hits…Live

I’m not a great fan of greatest hits collections, especially since I already have many of the artist's albums. If you really like the artist then you’ll appreciate hearing the other album tracks too. But make it a live album and I’m much more interested. Especially if I have seen them live and can bring back the event when I hear the album.

That's entirely the case with this 1990 collection of Phil Collins songs played live. It’s exactly what the title promises, it’s a huge list of hits played live. It’s not concentrated on a particular gig, the songs are taken from a wide range of dates. 

It’s a great album if you like Phil Collins. And that’s where the problem comes. Perhaps unfairly, it has sneaked onto my guilty pleasures list. Collins has gone out of favor over recent years for various reasons. It’s not really that cool anymore to like his music.

He was a huge artist back at that time, though, and this captures him showing why. His live shows were brilliant, and he delivered hit after hit. I was lucky enough to see him on tour a couple of times at his peak. And now, well, I reckon being cool is overrated. So I still like dropping this album into playlists or digging out the original CD and reminding myself of those shows and times.

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