As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Thursday, September 4, 2014

#30 Two Hearts -- Phil Collins (1988)



I was never much of a Genesis fan, either before or after Peter Gabriel’s departure. Nor was I fond of Phil Collins as a solo performer – I mean, the guy turned one of his few good songs (“In The Air Tonight”) into a beer commercial, and resurrected one of the sappiest songs from the British Invasion (“Groovy Kind Of Love” by the Mindbenders), somehow managing to make it sound even worse than the original. This one, however, is a pure pop masterpiece, and I guess serves as redemption for a multitude of other sins.

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