Face Value (album)

Face Value (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Face Value
Type = Album
Artist = Phil Collins


Released = February 9 1981
Recorded = August 1980 — January 1981
Genre = Soft Rock
Progressive rock
Length = 47:49
Label = Virgin Records (UK and Ireland) Atlantic Records (rest of the world)
Producer = Phil Collins, Hugh Padgham
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:lzanqj3bojka~T1 Review]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/philcollins/albums/album/108682/review/6067463/face_value link]
Last album = - -
This album = "Face Value" (1981)
Next album = "Hello, I Must Be Going!" (1982)

"Face Value" is the title of Phil Collins' debut solo album, released in February 1981. The album includes one of Collins' biggest, and perhaps most enduring hit, "In the Air Tonight".

Like the album that followed, Hello, I Must Be Going!, most of the songs on "Face Value" are based on the pain and anger Collins felt while he was going through his divorce.

Other singles didn't have the same chart success as "In the Air Tonight", they were: "I Missed Again", which reached No. 14 in the UK and No. 19 in the USA. Also "If Leaving Me Is Easy" was released as a single, reaching No. 17 in the UK, but was never released as a single in the USA.

This is the only Phil Collins album to include a hidden track.

One of the songs not included on this album, was a track titled "How can you just sit there?", which was the working title for the song that later became, Against All Odds. Phil had stated in an interview in 1985 that the reason why the song was left off the album was that he felt the album had "too many ballads".

Track Listing and Instrumental Contributions

1. "In the Air Tonight" 5:32
* Phil Collins: Roland Drum Machine, Vocals, Drums, Prophet, Fender Rhodes, Vocoder
* John Giblin: Bass
* Daryl Stuermer: Guitars
* Shankar: Violins

2. "This Must Be Love" 3:55
* PC: Percussion, Vocal, Prophet, Fender
* Stephen Bishop: Backing Vocals
* Alphonso Johnson: Bass
* Daryl: Guitar

3. "Behind the Lines" 3:53
* PC: Vocals, Drums
* Alphonso Johnson: Bass
* Daryl: Guitar
* Don Myrick: Tenor saxophone
* Louis Satterfield: Trombone
* Rahmlee Michael Davis and Michael Harris: Trumpets
* J. Peter Robinson: Prophet

4. The Roof Is Leaking 3:16
* PC: Piano, Vocals
* Daryl: Banjo
* Joe Partridge: Slide Guitar

5. "Droned" 2:55
* PC: Piano, Prophet, Congas, Voice, Claps
* Shankar: Violins, Tamboura, "Voice Drums"
* Daryl: 12-String Guitar

6. "Hand In Hand" 5:12
* PC: Roland D.M, Prophet, Piano, Drums, Marimba, Voice, Vocoder
* Alphonso Johnson: Bass
* Daryl: Guitar
* Children from the churches of Los Angeles
* Don Myrick: Tenor
* Louis Satterfield: Trombone
* Rahmlee and Michael: Trumpets

7. "I Missed Again" 3:41
* PC: Piano, Vocals, Drums, Prophet
* Alphonso Johnson: Bass
* Daryl: Guitar
* Don Myrick: Tenor
* Louis Satterfield: Trumbone
* Rahmlee and Michael: Trumpets
* Ronnie Scott: Tenor Solo
* Shankar: Violins

8. "You Know What I Mean" 2:33
* PC: Vocals, Piano (strings arranged by Arif Mardin)

9. "Thunder and Lightning" 4:12
* PC: Piano, Fender Rhodes, Drums, Vocals, Claps
* John Giblin: Bass
* Daryl: Guitar
* Don Myrick: Tenor
* Louis Satterfield: Trombone
* Rahmlee and Michael: Trumpets

10. "I'm Not Moving" 2:33
* PC: Piano, Drums, Vocals, Prophet, Vocoder, Percussion
* John Giblin: Bass

11. "If Leaving Me Is Easy" 4:54
* PC: Fender Rhodes, Drums, Vocals, Prophet
* Alphonso Johnson: Bass
* Eric Clapton: Guitar
* Daryl: Guitar
* Don Myrick: Alto Sax
* Rahmlee and Michael: Flugelhorns

(Strings arranged by Arif Mardin)

12. "Tomorrow Never Knows", "Over the Rainbow" (Hidden echo on Track 12) 4:46
* PC: Vocals, Roland D.M, Drums, Prophets
* John Giblin: Bass

(cameo appearances by Daryl, EWF Horns, children of L.A., and Shankar)

Hidden Track

At the end of Tomorrow Never Knows (the last track), beginning at 4:14, is a very low volume 30 second recording of Collins singing the first phrase of Over the Rainbow. (Collins has stated in interviews that he used this song to warm up, and added the recording as a sort of inside joke.)

Later Samples

*"In the Air Tonight"
**"One Mic" by Nas from the album "Stillmatic"
**"Edge of Night" by Shaquille O'Neal from the album "You Can't Stop the Reign"
**"Starin' Thru My Rearview"" by 2Pac from the soundtrack of ""
**"Letter to the President" by 2Pac & The Outlawz from the album "Still I Rise"
**"Silent Warrior" by Krayzie Bone from the album "Thug Mentality 1999"
**"Rest in Peace (In the Air)" by Joe Budden
**"I Can Feel It" by Sean Kingston from the album "Sean Kingston"
**"New York City" by Young Buck
**"In the Air Tonight" by Lil' Kim
**"Feel It" by Naturally 7 from the album "Ready II Fly"


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