It’s as heartbreaking a song as he’s ever written. Collins sings about knowing he fucked up, not being able to change the fact that he fucked up, but still having strong feelings for his ex-wife. ![]() It’s almost a demo from a production standpoint. “Can’t Turn Back the Years” is spare-just Phil and a. With the most enjoyable being “Can’t Turn Back The Years”, a song that thankfully offers a cleansing feeling after the bomb of the first single/title track. The good songs on it-and there are several-are quite enjoyable, though. The album isn’t great-two songs lean hard on bagpipes, the title track is a piece of social commentary that just seems like a ripoff of Phil’s earlier song “Another Day In Paradise”, so on and so on. ![]() As exhibited by many of the songs on this list so far, I have a bit of a melancholy streak. I had and still have a soft spot for Both Sides. Perhaps America decided melancholy suited it better when represented by sullen dudes with loud guitars and soul patches. Both Sides also was Phil’s second divorce album, with the first being 1981′s Face Value. ![]() It was the first of his albums to not go multi-platinum or spawn a top twenty pop hit. 1993′s Both Sides marked the end of America’s fascination with Phil Collins as anything other than a marker of the ‘80s.
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