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Face Value |  | Artist: Phil Collins
Label: Virgin
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 1858
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 077778632528
EAN: 0077778632528
ASIN: B000026GGE
Release Date: March 11, 1983
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| Tracks:
| • | In The Air Tonight | | • | This Must Be Love | | • | Behind The Lines | | • | Roof Is Leaking | | • | Droned | | • | Hand In Hand | | • | I Missed Again | | • | You Know What I Mean | | • | I'm Not Moving | | • | If Leaving Me Is Easy | | • | Tomorrow Never Knows | | • | Thunder And Lightning |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The beginning of Phil Collins's massively successful solo career coincided with the discord in his first marriage, turning iFace Value/i 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' 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' career as one of the biggest and most unlikely stars of the 1980s. i--Daniel Durchholz/i
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 Early peak May 22, 2003
BenF (London, UK)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
In 1981, before he discovered his social conscience, he wrote a great album about problems that he really understood, and sentiments that he really felt. There's real edge here, in the menacing bassline and explosive drums of 'air tonight'. There's some funk in the riffs 'behind the lines'. And genuinely exotic world influences in 'droned' and 'the roof is leaking'. He even picked a great, neglected Beatles track to cover. So don't buy anything he's ever written - except this. 20 years ago, he got it absolutely right. Swallow your pride and put it in your basket.
Warm, meaningful and musically on the money. November 8, 2001
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I first heard this album in the season of autumn and, for me, it will always be an autumn album. That said, it is an outstanding piece of work and a musical rarity i.e. not a weak song in sight. In the air tonight is so listeningly beautiful that,up until that famous drum solo occurs, you can almost heard a pin drop. Then there is the most romantic of love songs this must be love before the mood is again broken by the dispairing tones of roof is leaking and Droned. The album takes this high to low mood swing throughout but it certainly keeps you interested. My personal favourite is thunder and lightning with lines as strong as I never believed in second chance...you just get one crack of the whip and thats all.... Overall the album has great variety, great lyrics and music that seems as important now as it did in 1981. My only regret is that it was never repeated. Perhaps a case of too many eggs in the one basket..?
Brilliant September 25, 2001
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
His first solo album and he never bettered it. He will never write anything as good as In The Air Tonight. The man talents are immense and he has done great things since but this is Collins at his best.
A Genius Finds His Feet November 28, 1999
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Superb. This stunning debut album from one of British music's most talented musicians has to be heard to be believed. Moving away from the restrictions of his Genesis project, Collins finds time to revisit past musical loves (see, for example, his exemplary take on the Beatles' 'Tommorrow Never Knows') and strikes an, at times, almost experimentalist pose. The pain of his seperation from his wife inspires many of the songs, making it like Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks', although better as it is not as commercial. Lyrically blessed and emotionally charged, the opening, epic, 'In the Air Tonight' proves to be the springboard from which the rest of the album takes flight. The drumming that Collins offers on the track is at once comfortingly familiar, yet strikingly original. No wonder they later asked him to do a drum solo for the benefit of starving African Children during 1985's Live Aid, stealing the show from the U2-Status Quo supergroup!! Guitar legend Eric Clapton, a long time friend of Collins due to their shared interest in the Prince's Trust, plays slide guitar with an emotional depth that transcends the pals' at times violent political differences. Surely one of the best albums of all times, ever. The roots of the longevity of Collins' career can be seen in this LP. 'Face Value'? Great Value!
Behind Genesis April 3, 2008
D. J. H. Thorn (Hull, UK)
Phil Collins debut, an instant smash, revealed why Genesis' music was taking a more mainstream direction, and is far more impressive than that band's contemporaneous release, 'Duke.' I wasn't keen on that album's 'Behind The Lines,' but here Collins funks it up which seems to suit it better. Despite the brassiness of several other tracks, the overall feel of 'Face Values' draws comparisons with Peter Gabriel's third album, released in 1980. While Gabriel evokes Cold War age stress and politics, Collins uses the same barbed wire desolation to explore personal relationships. There are signs of his aptitude for balladeering, especially on 'You Know What I Mean' and the biting, intense 'If Leaving Me Is Easy.' He experiments on the instrumentals 'Droned' and 'Hand In Hand,' the former uncomfortably, the latter exaltingly. Of course, this album also gives him the opportunity to show his prowess and scope as a percussionist. It isn't only 'In The Air Tonight' that showcases his excellence in this area. His choice of 'Tomorrow Never Knows' to close the album is no mere token Beatles cover; it's a track that begs Collins to drum on. Despite an increasing run of stellar hits, this is, in my opinion, still his best album.
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