Hits (Phil Collins album) US as of July 2012. There are other greatest hits compilations of Phil Collins songs. Most recently, a collection of Collins more romantic songs were released on a two-disc compilation titled "". A live collection, "Serious Hits... Live!", was released in 1990. 1999's "", 2005's "Platinum Collection" and 2014's "R-Kive" were greatest hits collections by Collins' original group, Genesis. Finally, Collins recorded many of his most popular songs as big band recordings on the album "A Hot Night in Paris" with The Phil Collins Big Band. The compilation's cover features stylized versions of the cover art for Collins' first six
Phil Collins been characterised by favourable critics as a "rock god", and an artist who has remained "down to earth". In "The New Rolling Stone Album Guide", published in 2004, J. D. Considine wrote: "For a time, Phil Collins was nearly inescapable on the radio, and enormously popular with the listening public — something that made him an obvious target for critics. Despite his "lumpen"-pop appeal, however, Collins is an incisive songwriter and resourceful musician." Creation Records founder Alan McGee wrote in 2009 that there was a "non-ironic revival of Phil Collins" happening. According to McGee: "The kids don't care about 'indie