Face Value

Performer: Phil Collins
Artist: Earth Wind & Fire Horns; Eric Clapton; Daryl Stuermer
Engineer: Hugh Padgham
Producer: Phil Collins; Hugh Padgham
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Personnel includes: Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Stephen Bishop, Shankar, Daryl Steurmer, Earth Wind & Fire Horns. Personnel includes: Phil Collins (vocals, drums); Daryl Steurmer, Stephen Bishop, Shankar. Atlantic's Gold Standard Audiophile Compact Discs are gold-plated CDs that boast 20-bit digital reproduction technology for improved dynamics. Each reissue comes in a mini-box that includes the CD jewel box plus a 24-page color booklet featuring new liner notes, photographs and the complete original album artwork. FACE VALUE contains videos, live performances and home movies principally centered on the making of the 1981 album of the same name. The risk that Phil Collins took in displaying painful lyrics at an obviously harrowing time could have been taken as self-indulgence, but 18 years on this album is still seen as his best and most assured. The Genesis drummer displayed dynamic arrangements ('In The Air Tonight'), melancholy piano ('You Know What I Mean') and Philadelphia soul ('I Missed Again'), and wrapped up with a cover of 'Tomorrow Never Knows' at which even John Lennon would have tipped his hat. After this album Collins embarked on an extraordinarily busy career that included a rejuvenated Genesis, film roles and huge solo success. This will always be the album closest to his heart, with the paint pot on the piano. The risk that Phil Collins took in displaying painful lyrics at an obviously harrowing time could have been taken as self-indulgence, but 18 years on this album is still seen as his best and most assured. The Genesis drummer displayed dynamic arrangements ('In The Air Tonight'), melancholy piano ('You Know What I Mean') and Philadelphia soul ('I Missed Again'), and wrapped up with a cover of 'Tomorrow Never Knows' at which even John Lennon would have tipped his hat. After this album Collins embarked on an extraordinarily busy career that included a rejuvenated Genesis, film roles and huge solo success. This will always be the album closest to his heart, with the paint pot on the piano.

Q (11/96, p.64) - 3 Stars - Good - "...He never bettered the monumental 'In The Air Tonight'..." Q (11/96, p.64) - 3 Stars - Good - "...He never bettered the monumental 'In The Air Tonight'..." CMJ (1/5/04, p.8) - Ranked #3 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1981". CMJ (1/5/04, p.8) - Ranked #3 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1981".

Phil Collins's frontman talents lay dormant for many years when he was the drummer for prog-rockers Genesis, taking a back seat to Peter Gabriel. When Gabriel quit in 1975, Collins stepped out from behind the drums and made Genesis a hit-making machine throughout the 1980s. Collins also launched a successful solo career as a pop singer, which he kept going in conjunction with Genesis until he became a full-time solo artist in 1996 (though he and Gabriel returned for a 1999 Genesis reunion). As a solo artist, Collins released highly personal and introspective work (not always as commercially viable), wrote a hit soundtrack song for Disney's TARZAN, jammed with Paul McCartney and Ozzy Osbourne, formed a big band to perform jazz versions of his many hits, and played drums for Queen Elizabeth II's "house" band at Buckingham Palace.

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