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Title: Do not accept mediocrity
Review: Here's another mediocre CD by Phil Collins. I was hoping he would challenge himself and create interesting music again but it sounds like a continuation of the same mundane, mid-life crisis he's been having for the last ten years.The divide between former bandmate Peter Gabriel is greater than ever. Whereas Peter's excellent album 'Up' (released the same year) is an exploration of sonic landscapes and psychological, personal and cultural phenomena using a multitude of disparate musicians from around the globe, Phil Collins' music is self-centered but not self-revealing.In the end, it turns out that Phil Collins couldn't maintain the creativity exhibited on Face Value and Hello, I'm Must Be Going! His music will be forgotten like much of the other mediocre music of the '80s and '90s.[DW]
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