Did Simply Red get progressively worse???

[Leftfield Shoegazer]

Just listening to my double CD of Simply Red (Greatest Hits) and by no means is he my favourite artist, but is he like Stevie Wonder, in the sense that his early stuff was brilliant, but his later stuff ventured more to 'middle of the road' dross??? e.g. Just listened to 'You Got It' and 'It's Only Love' - decent early hits, then poor songs like 'Fairground' and 'Air That I Breathe ' - a cover of The Hollies - came on and thought, does his later stuff get worse. I personally feel his early stuff is quite credible.