The case is not at all as the Metro Newspaper headlined here in Finland said, Phil Collins doesn't bother to come up with new material. This is a nice tribute record to the Motown music.
The record consists of hits and a little less known Motown tunes. Immediately when you start listening to the record and the first tunes comes out of your speakers, you can tell it's a well done record. The whole feel of the record is Motown, the singing, the instruments, the mixing even a bit the looks with the black & white photo of young Phil Collins. If I didn't know better I could very well be fooled to thinking this actually was recoded back in the 60's in the very same studio as Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations with others played, recorded, made history. Phil Collins maybe didn't do history with this album, and I don't know how many spins I will give it, but that doesn't change the fact that it is a bloody damn good record!
4/5
Track listing:
"Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)" (Norman Whitfield/Edward Holland, Jr.)
"(Love Is Like A) Heatwave" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
"Uptight (Everything's Alright)" (Clarence Paul)
"Some Of Your Lovin'" (Gerry Goffin/Carole King)
"In My Lonely Room" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
"Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
"Blame It On The Sun" (Stevie Wonder/Syreeta Wright)
"Papa Was A Rolling Stone" (Whitfield/Barrett Strong)
"Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer" (Wonder/Wright)
"Standing in the Shadows of Love" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
"Do I Love You" (Peter Anders/Phil Spector/Vincent Poncia Jr.)
"Jimmy Mack" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
"Something About You" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
"Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" (Ivy Jo Hunter/Wonder)
"Going To A Go-Go" (Warren Moore/William Robinson, Jr./Robert Rogers/Marvin Tarplin)
"Talking About My Baby" (Curtis Mayfield)
"Goin' Back" (Goffin/King)
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