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'Everyday' was Phil Collins' 20th UK Top 20 single making No. 15 in January 1994... He wrote, produced and performed all the songs on his latest album and has now sold in excess of 35 million albums worldwide
It would, of course, be unfair and mean-spirited to suggest that the reason he had to do all the work on the album himself was because nobody else in the studio could stay awake. Still, it's fair to say that this doesn't raise the pace of the album much. Now, Phil Collins crops up quite often on here and I try to be even-handed with him and not just follow the typical consensus that everything he does is inevtiably boring. But unfortunately, this is really boring.
Borne as it might be from the pain of his split with the second Mrs Collins, 'Everyday' finds him reshuffling the same cards he used on 'One More Night', 'I Wish It Would Rain', 'Hold On My Heart' (I know that's techinically a Genesis song) and 'Against All Odds' but in a remarkably passionless way. To be charitable, it may be that the emotional reality of the song made it harder for him to deliver the vocal, but his mumble just makes the listener even less likely to be drawn into a song that's already forbidding by its overslick, hermetic production, its staid synthesised rhythm (if only he'd known somebody who could play the drums, eh?) and its glacial pace. The radio edit featured here cuts almost a minute off the album track but it still adds up to five minutes and feels longer still.
I have to admit that there's a melody in the chorus that I was able to remember for 17 years, but I'd struggle to remember the verses after 17 minutes. This is Phil Collins at his most frustratingly slight.
Also appearing on: Now 1, 3, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 41, 44, 68
Available on: Both Sides
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