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A1 I Don't Care Anymore
Guitar – Daryl StuermerKeyboards, Drums, Vocals, Synthesizer [Bass Pedals] – Phil*Written-By – Collins
5:00
A2 I Cannot Believe Its True
Alto Saxophone [Alto Sax Solo], Soloist – Don MyrickBass – John GiblinChoir – Phenix ChoirGuitar – Daryl Horns – Phenix Horns Keyboards [Keys], Drums, Vocals, Percussion – Phil Performer [Phenix Choir] – Don , Louis , Peter Newton, Phil , Rham Performer [Phenix Horns] – Don, Louis, Michael, Rhamlee Written-By – Collins
5:14
A3 Like China
Bass – John Guitar – Daryl Keyboards [Keys], Drums, Vocals, Handclaps [Claps] – Phil Written-By – Collins
5:05
A4 Do You Know, Do You Care?
Guitar – Daryl Keyboards [Keys], Drums, Vocals, Synthesizer [Pedals], Timpani [Tymps], Trumpet – Phil Written-By – Collins
4:57
A5 You Can't Hurry Love
Arranged By [Strings Arranged By] – Martyn (Norrie) Ford Bass – John Drums, Vocals, Tambourine – Phil Guitar – Daryl Piano, Glockenspiel [Glock], Vibraphone – Peter (Scene) Robinson Written-By – Holland-Dozier-Holland
2:50
B1 It Don't Matter To Me
Bass – Mo FosterGuitar – Daryl*Horns – Phenix Horns Keyboards [Keys], Drums, Vocals, Percussion [Perc.] – Phil*Performer [Phenix Horns] – Don*, Louis , Michael, Rham Written-By – Collins
4:12
B2 Thru These Walls
Bass – Mo Guitar – Daryl Keyboards [Keys], Drums, Vocals, Marimba – Phil Written-By – Collins
5:02
B3 Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away
Arranged By [Strings Arranged By] – Martyn (Kickers) Ford Bass – John Guitar – Daryl Piano, Drums, Vocals – Phil Written-By – Collins
4:43
B4 The West Side
Alto Saxophone – Don Guitar – Daryl Horns – Phenix Horns Keyboards [Keys], Drums, Percussion [Perc], Vocals, Synthesizer [Pedals] – Phil*Performer [Phenix Horns] – Don , Louis , Michael , Rham Written-By – Collins
4:59
B5 Why Can't It Wait Til Morning
Arranged By [Strings Arranged By] – Martyn (Doris) Ford Piano, Vocals – Phil Written-By – Collins
3:01
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Arranged By [The Phenix Horns, Wonderfully Arranged By] – Tom-Tom 84
Conductor [Orchestra, Conducted By] – Martyn ( ) Ford
Directed By [Orchestra, Led By] – Gavyn Wright
Engineer – Hugh Padgham
Engineer [Assisted By] – Howard (Double Plug) Gray
Engineer [Strings] – Mike Ross
Mastered By – Ian Cooper
Orchestra – Mountain Fjord Orchestra, The
Photography By [Inside Pics] – Hugh Padgham, Jill Tavelman, Margaret Maxwell
Photography By [Main Cover] – Trevor Key
Producer – Phil Collins
Producer [Assisted By] – Hugh Padgham
Tenor Saxophone [Tenor], Alto Saxophone [Alto] – Don Myrick (tracks: A2, B1, B4)
Trombone – Louis Satterfield (tracks: A2, B1, B4)
Trumpet – Michael Harris (tracks: A2, B1, B4), Rhamlee Michael Davis (tracks: A2, B1, B4)
Recorded at Old Croft on 1" 8 track.
Overdubbed at "The Farm" and "Townhouse," May-June 82.
Strings recorded at CBS.
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Phil was still on with his divorce in 1982, by the time this was released. And just like in Face Value, he makes a fantastic album, this time only better and underrated.
And I mean it when I say this is underrated. This has some of Phil's best songs, while we can't say the same about is predecessor, other than "In the Air Tonight" and probably its cover of "Tomorrow Never Knows". Other than those tracks, the rest is mostly fantastic at best. Here, there's not a single track that I find dull, uninspired or bad. Sure, there are some that don't live to the level of others, but that's normal, ain't it? Just look at the first three tracks. They're all different. The (anthemic?) darkness of "I Don't Care Anymore", the irony of "I Cannot Believe It's True" and the brilliantness of "Like China", which I find hilarious, are all fantastic, epic tracks.
Now, when we speak of Hello, I Must Be Going!'s sound, we can see Phil is trying to break free from the sound of his current band, Genesis. They were experimenting with progressive pop at that time; a year after this, they would go nearly full pop. And while Phil tries to distance himself with songs like "It Don't Matter to Me", "Do You Know, Do You Care?" or the hit "You Can't Hurry Love", the progressive rock influence can't be denied. Just listen to "The West Side". Yes, it features the Phoenix Horns, but without them, it sounds like an experimentation Genesis could easily have done at the time. Same goes for "Like China". "I Don't Care Anymore" (which resembles just a bit of "In the Air Tonight", while I find "Thru These Walls" to be a copy-paste of that song), nonetheless, can't be seen for my eyes as a potential Genesis song. Too abstract, too weird for the style of the band. Still...
Well, take it as you want it. Hello, I Must Be Going! might be Phil's most underated album, as it's full of fantastic surprises.
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Really good album. In my opinion not as good as Face Value but still a really good album. I Don't Care Anymore is a really good edgy opener ( although I don't understand how some people can compare it to In The Air Tonight) I Cannot Believe It's True is probably one of the best on the album, Like China is a great song Do you know, Do you care? is ok, You Can't Hurry Love is one of the best covers ever. The second side: It Don't Matter To Me is a pretty good song and entertaining enough, Thru These Walls is ok but can overstay it's welcome, Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away is actually a really good uplifting record, The West Side is a pretty good instrumental not one of his best though and Why Can't it till morning is just meh. Overall a very good and very underrated album mainly because it was released between his debut album and NJR.
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You know, if you listen to this album for what it is and don't compare it to Genesis masterpieces like "A Trick of the Tail" and "Wind and Wuthering" (as I have done many times until recently), this really is a fine and interesting album. This is a really tight album featuring excellent drumming from Phil as usual and some really unique guitar work that borders on the ambient, from Daryl Streumer. "I Don't Care Anymore" is a thunderous classic and "Thru These Walls" is awesome as well and one of the few cuts that have traces of prog. The definite highlight for me is the potent and haunting "Do You Know, Do You Care?" which is also the proggiest of all the tracks where Phil shines on the keys as well. This cut and "I Don't Care.." absolutely demand top volume.
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Often overlooked for not being as hit-packed as No Jacket Required or as significant as Face Value, this is not an album without it's own charms. But it is inconsistent and is Phils weakest album of the eighties.
Despite Face Values reputation as a "divorce" album, a lot of the songs on Hello... have a much nastier edge, like the opening 'I Don't Care Anymore' or 'Do You Know, Do You Care'. And yet others are as lightweight as anything in the Collins songbook such as 'Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away' or the infamous cover of 'You Can't Hurry Love'.
Probably inspired by the success of 'I Missed Again' and 'No Reply', there are quite a few songs with the EWF horns and an R&B feel, like the Supremes cover (a style done better on 'Two Hearts' a few years later) or the excellent shoulda-been-hit-single 'I Cannot Believe It's True' with its busy percussion, punchy horn arrangement and killer bridge. 'The West Side' is also a noteworthy instrumental in the vein of 'Hand In Hand'.
This album also contains more songs that sound like Genesis than any of his others. 'Thru These Walls' has an Abacab-era feel to it, and 'Like China' sounds like a better thought out 'Whodunit'. 'Do You Know...' seems like it was formed during a Genesis album session.
Overall, this disc has the distinct taste of a follow-up: The success of Face Value had been a surprise and Hello... has a lot of tracks that feel like re-treads of that albums highlights. Many tracks are built off of the same moody keyboard and drum template as 'In The Air Tonight' ('Thru These Walls' even recycles the famous drum fill) and I've already referred to the R&B numbers styled after 'I Missed Again' or 'Hand In Hand'.
For all of its shortcomings though, I still find this a very enjoyable album to listen to. Casual fans that may not be as familiar with these songs (only one track made the ...Hits album) will certainly find some gems. Although I don't come back to it as often as Face Value, No Jacket Required or ...But Seriously, it gets more play than his more recent discs...
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This album always seems to lie in the shadow of Face Value critically and No Jacket... popularly. But it deserves to be heard on it's own. Admittedly, it seems to copy portions of the first very closely to capitalize on the earlier success...especially "I Don't Care Anymore" leading off the album and sounding so similar in nature to "In The Air Tonight"...but the material is still good. Since I am less saturated by it, I really prefer "I Don't Care Anymore". Other great moments are "Like China", "Do You Know, Do You Care" (is this Phil's angriest song?), and "The West Side". His cover of "You Can't Hurry Love" is so faithful to the original that it's hard to tell the difference before the voice kicks in. (That love of Motown would show itself again on the Buster soundtrack.) Phil's pop music sensibilities were excellent and it would pay off as the remainder of the decade hardly produced a more successful artist than Phil.