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Track Listings
| 1. In The Air Tonight |
| 2. This Must Be Love |
| 3. Behind The Lines |
| 4. The Roof Is Leaking |
| 5. Droned |
| 6. Hand In Hand |
| 7. I Missed Again |
| 8. You Know What I Mean |
| 9. Thunder And Lightning |
| 10. I'm Not Moving |
| 11. If Leaving Me Is Easy |
| 12. Tomorrow Never Knows |
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The beginning of Phil Collins's massively successful solo career coincided with the discord in his first marriage, turning Face Value into a compelling churn of emotions, from the utter disgust of "In the Air Tonight" (where Collins dryly comments, "If you told me you were drowning / I would not lend a hand") to the delight he feels in exploring a new relationship ("This Must Be Love"). Collins's thundering drums and punchy horn arrangements--a close approximation of Earth, Wind & Fire's sound, actually--clicked with the public, turning "I Missed Again" and "In the Air Tonight" into Top 20 singles and launching Collins's career as one of the biggest and most unlikely stars of the '80s. --Daniel Durchholz
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A frank and honest review of Phil Collins' solo debut,
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This review is from: Face Value (Audio CD)
Phil Collins' first proper solo album Face Value was released in February of 1981. Phil was the last member of the band to do a proper solo album(the Brand X albums were a collaboration of sorts). When Face Value hit the streets, people were in awe over the excellent production(Phil co-produced with Hugh Padgham) and engineering of Hugh and were immediately aware that this album was a collection of letters to his wife whom left him. Also, the album had a collage of musical styles(Genesis to Motown to jazz to funk to soft rock to regular rock to art rock). The opening Top 20 hit In the Air Tonight was a classic that used the metaphor of a drowning man as the demise of his divorce. The track, like all the others features Phil's superb vocals and drumming but also showed he could play keyboards and write great songs. He wrote ten of the album's twelve tracks himself. I Missed Again was the album's other Top 20 hit and is another highlight featuring the Earth Wind and Fire horn section giving this track a Motown feel. This Must Be Love is an optimistic song about Phil rebounding from the demise of his first marriage to find peace with a new love in his life. The Roof is Leaking is a great country blues number with some killer slide guitar from Joe Partridge(although Clapton did play on an earlier take with the dobro) and banjo from Genesis touring guitarist/bassist Daryl Steurmer. The two instrumentals Droned and Hand in Hand are superb as well. My favorite track on the album is the ballad If Leaving Me is Easy which is a very sad song and will bring a tear to your eye after listening to the lyrics and the melody and orchestrations on the track. If this doesn't do the trick then you either are insensitive or a robot. The Genesis track Behind the Lines was redone as a funk tune after Phil played the original recording back at double speed and a new version was born complete with horns. His cover of The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows is the best cover version of the song I ever heard and a great album closer. He slowed the speed down and made this song as it was his own. Ironically, the track is now a tribute to John Lennon who passed away two months before this album was released. When released, the album shot straight to #7 in the US and sold four million(which was more than any Genesis album up to that point) in the States alone. I first discovered this album when my dad had the cassette when I was a child. Then, in late August of 1997 I bought the CD on a whim and was in my 7 CD changer along Genesis' Abacab, the fourth batch of KISS' reissues and Genesis' Duke for three months straight and was the soundtrack to the fall semester of college for me that year. Highly recommended!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brian Ogilby has not heard this album ...,
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This review is from: Face Value (Audio CD)
...and clearly has not listened to any of the Collins albums he has commented on. The fact that he credits The Temptations with penning Wish it Would Rain Down is proof enough that his are not reviews, but pathetic attacks on the artist and Amazon has been negligent in allowing this garbage to remain on the site. Amazon...pay attention to what goes on your site!!!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Phil's First Solo Effort,
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This review is from: Face Value (Audio CD)
Phil Collins has had an interesting career. Coming in for Genesis' third album to be the drummer, he then went on to become the lead vocalist after Peter Gabriel left. He also joined the Fusion group Brand X while in Genesis. In 1981 he launched his successful solo career with this album, "Face Value". He has even had a small acting career to go along with his career in music. Far from one expects from a star, at least in the way he looks, one has to respect his career and what he has accomplished. This first album from him very much fits his career. There is an iconic song, some puzzling song choices and some hidden gems as well.The album opens with "In the Air Tonight", a piece which has staying power as we near 30 years later, and with no end in sight, nor would one expect there to be. It is a simple piece, and yet masterful in the way it is executed. I suppose it didn't hurt that it spawned an urban legend about its origins either, but it would still be with us even if that had not happened. Next up is "This Must be Love", a nice pleasant piece but one which is easily forgotten after the opener. Next comes an odd choice as Phil chooses to cover "Behind the Lines", a Genesis song which had originally been released less than a year before on the "Duke" album. It is a different version, but it seems like a strange thing to do. "The Roof Is Leaking" is the next track, a nice track which has a different feel than the first pieces, with Phil on piano, and it blends well into two instrumentals (though with voices as instruments) called "Droned" and "Hand in Hand", which closes out the first half of the album. "I Missed Again" opens the second half of the album, once again a decent piece but not a classic, which made the top 20 as a single. Next up is a nice slower piece titled "You Know What I Mean", which is one of the pieces which I would call a hidden gem, along with the following piece "Thunder and Lightning" which is a faster and more upbeat song. "I'm Not Moving" is an interesting piece and provides some more diversity to an already diverse album. "If Leaving Me Is Easy" is another slower piece, but in this case the slowness tends to drag on a bit. "Tomorrow Never Knows" is another one of the odd choices. It is certainly different from "The Beatles" version, but at the same time Phil's version isn't enough different to justify doing the cover, at least in my opinion. The result is an album which has some great high points, but there are tracks here which one could well do without. Nevertheless, this is a classic album, and represents Phil's career quite well. He has always been one to perform, no matter the genre and that diversity comes through on this album, though certainly some styles are more prevalent than others.
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