Serious Hits... Live!

History

Instead of providing a live concert experience, they took the approach of putting a "hits only" selection for the album. The album has a very "stadium crowd feel" quality that various other live albums from the early 1990s had.

The live video and DVD version features one entire concert. The concert captures a live performance at Berlin's Waldbühne on 15 July 1990, which Collins has hailed as his best performance due to the energy of the German people after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On the final song of the album, Collins thanks the fans in Chicago. The DVD presents an in-depth personal look at his solo concert experience. Special moments include the crowd not allowing the concert to continue with prolonged applause after "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" and the lighter vigil during "Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore".

CD track listing

1. "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven" – 4:59 (Collins/Stuermer)
2. "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" – 3:28 (Collins)
3. "Who Said I Would" – 4:28 (Collins)
4. "One More Night" – 5:49 (Collins)
5. "Don't Lose My Number" – 4:42 (Collins)
6. "Do You Remember?" – 5:40 (Collins)
7. "Another Day in Paradise" – 5:36 (Collins)
8. "Separate Lives" – 5:16 (Stephen Bishop)
9. "In the Air Tonight" – 6:35 (Collins)
10. "You Can't Hurry Love" – 2:54 (Lamont Dozier/Eddie Holland/Brian Holland)
11. "Two Hearts" – 3:07 (Collins/Dozier)
12. "Sussudio"– 7:14 (Collins)
13. "A Groovy Kind of Love" – 3:30 (Carole Bayer Sager/Toni Wine)
14. "Easy Lover" – 4:46 (Philip Bailey/Collins/Nathan East)
15. "Take Me Home" – 8:39 (Collins)

DVD track listing

1. "Hand in Hand"
2. "Hang in Long Enough"
3. "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
4. "Don't Lose My Number"
5. "Inside Out"
6. "Do You Remember?"
7. "Who Said I Would"
8. "Another Day in Paradise"
9. "Separate Lives"
10. "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"
11. "The West Side"
12. "That's Just the Way It Is"
13. "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven"
14. "Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore"
15. "One More Night"
16. "Colours"
17. "In the Air Tonight"
18. "You Can't Hurry Love"
19. "Two Hearts"
20. "Sussudio"
21. "A Groovy Kind of Love"
22. "Easy Lover"
23. "Always"
24. "Take Me Home"

The version of "Doesn't Anybody Stay Together Anymore" performed on the Serious Hits... Live! recording differs considerably from the original version on the album No Jacket Required – having been re-arranged into a ballad style.

The Serious Guys

The Seriousettes

The Phenix Horns

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