Face Value

Excellent.

Well, now we'll turn to... face value face value so you got the copy of the new remix for atmos surround and everything have you had a chance to listen to it yet one i don't have an

atmos

surround a full setup sure

And that is in 81, 82.

What was it, Face Value? Face Value, exactly.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Yeah, I'm excited about this one.

These are two of my favorite songs on this album.

And they happen to be two of the saddest songs ever written, maybe.

At least from this era, you can't dismiss what's going on, at least in Phil's head.

Yeah, looking forward to getting that.

So we are, of course, talking about misunderstanding.

And please don't ask Phil Collins to contributions in songwriting on the Duke album from 1980.

And look, you've been listening to us.

...

so it was just really in- really refreshing to see Phil kind of at face value, quote, unquote.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

In fact, you were there.

Yeah.

The reason why we were a little delayed in getting this episode out was because I got the opportunity to travel over to London to attend the, an event that was held at a theater in Leicester Square of a playback of the Atmos mix of Face Value, the new one that was just released, on Blu-ray I should say, and that it was in the presence of Steven Wilson, who did the remix, and Mr. Phil Collins was there also.

So that was, uh, it was, there was a Q&A before the, uh, event started up, and so it was a lot of fun.

I mean, it's the introduction of the drum machine into the 1980s Genesis.

Uh, it's gonna play a massive role in this album, this song, uh, Face Value, uh, some of the key hits from Collins that are coming up.

But then, you know, I mean, Mama, uh, uh, uh, the list goes on in terms of how they start to kind of use this drum machine.

And I think I mentioned that, uh, Phil didn't ha- want to have anything to do with the drum machine until he went through this divorce and deci- and knew that he was gonna be a, a bachelor at home and wanted to kind of set up a studio.

...

in a song.

And this is like, I, you know, this is where you're gonna get that drum machine intro to, um, uh, well, all the stuff from Face Value comes, [laughs] comes to mind.

Mm-hmm.

Regular listeners will spot the difference.

We are, as you can tell from the title of the episode, we are here to review Phil Collins' 1981 album, Face Value.

And...

Mikey is unfortunately not able to join us this evening, although he may appear later in the episode.

Okay.

The less said about that, the better, yes.

We are reviewing face value.

Because it's had yet another reissue, hasn't it? A