Songoftheday 2/16/19 - Find yourself in the gutter in a lonely part of town, where death waits in the darkness with a weapon to cut some stranger down...
from the album Both Sides (1993)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #25 (three weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 7
Today's song of the day is from Phil Collins, whose fourth solo album ...But Seriously had spun off five top-40 pop hits in the U.S. with "Hang In Long Enough", "Something Happened On The Way To Heaven", "Do You Remember?", "I Wish It Would Rain Down", and the #1 track "Another Day In Paradise". He returned to his gig with the prog-rock hitmakers Genesis for their We Can't Dance album in 1992, landing five more top-40 pop hits from that record. Phil went back in the studio the following year to record yet another solo set, Both Sides, which was released in the fall of 1993. The first single from the album, "Both Sides Of The Story", was like a parallel universe to the first single from the We Can't Dance album, "No Son Of Mine", in which it deals with kids going through family problems and the trouble it causes...
"Both Sides Of The Story" became the first top-40 hit from Both Sides in November of 1993. The song was a much bigger hit on "easy listening" radio stations, climbing to #10 on Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary format chart. It also crossed over to climb to #24 on their Mainstream Rock radio list as well. Internationally, the single climbed all the way to #2 in Canada, made the top ten in Italy (#3), the UK (#7), Belgium (#7), and the Netherlands (#8). It also reached the top-40 in Switzerland (#11), Germany (#12), Finland (#13), Ireland (#21), Austria (#22), France (#30), and Sweden (#31).
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Here's Phil performing "Both Sides" on his MTV Unplugged episode in 1994...
And in concert in Japan the following year...
Up tomorrow: R&B singer makes it clear what he wants.
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