Hello, I Must Be Going! (album)

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Hello, I Must Be Going!
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Studio album by Phil Collins
Released November 1, 1982
CD issue: June 1988
Recorded May - September 1982
Genre Soft Rock
Length 45:03
Label Atlantic Records
Producer(s) Phil Collins & Hugh Padgham
Professional reviews
Phil Collins chronology
Face Value
(1981)		 Hello, I Must Be Going!
(1982)		 No Jacket Required
(1985)


Hello, I Must Be Going! is the second album by Phil Collins, released in 1982. This was Phil Collins' second solo record and takes its title from the Marx Brothers' song of the same name from the movie Animal Crackers.

The highlight of the album was the cover version of the Supremes hit "You Can't Hurry Love", which is one of Collins' best-known singles, although none of the other single releases from the album made any significant impact on the charts. Other notable tracks include the modern-jazz instrumental "The West Side", and "Thru These Walls", a dark vouyeristic song about a man listening through the wall to his neighbours partaking in unseemly nighttime activities -- or at least that's what he's imagining at the time. The more upbeat tracks serve as a preamble to the more commercial sound of the next album No Jacket Required. The album takes much of its inspiration from the problems in Collins' personal life, most notably the painful divorce he was going through at the time. This accounts for the dark and embittered tone on several of the tracks, including the single "I Don't Care Anymore". Co-produced with Hugh Padgham, the gated reverb sound of the drum kit is employed in full yet again, with a mixture of very dry drum sounds on tracks like "I Cannot Believe It's True" in contrast to the huge acoustics used on "Do You Know, Do You Care?".

[edit] Miscellanea

  • Phil made his trumpet playing debut on the track "Do You Know Do You Care"
  • Often criticised for using the typical 1980s drum machine sound too often (especially on the 1985 album No Jacket Required), this album is the only one of his output not to use a drum machine on any of the songs; instead Collins played a set drum pattern repeatedly without the need of click tracks or machines to assist. This is demonstarted over the ruthless five minutes of "I Don't Care Anymore" where the drum pattern repeats, builds up in tension, until exploding near the end, only to be concluded in the way the track began.
  • Secondly, in contrast to some online reviews, all of the brass parts are live and not synthesized. In retrospect, this is probably his most organic, live studio album.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "I Don't Care Anymore"
  2. "I Cannot Believe It's True"
  3. "Like China"
  4. "Do You Know, Do You Care?"
  5. "You Can't Hurry Love"
  6. "It Don't Matter To Me"
  7. "Thru These Walls"
  8. "Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away"
  9. "The West Side"
  10. "Why Can't It Wait Til' Morning?"

[edit] Personnel



 v • d • e Phil Collins
Bands
Genesis| Brand X | Flaming Youth | The Phil Collins Big Band
Notable Touring And Studio Artists
Phil Collins | Hugh Padgham | Daryl Stuermer | Chester Thompson
Other Artists
Studio Albums
Face Value | Hello I Must Be Going! | No Jacket Required | ...But Seriously | Both Sides |
Dance into the Light | Testify | Complete Discography | List of Phil Collins's awards
Movie and Broadway Soundtracks
Against All Odds | White Nights | Buster | Tarzan | Brother Bear | Tarzan (Broadway)
Live Albums
Serious Hits... Live! | A Hot Night in Paris
Compilations
12"ers | Hits | Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New
Box sets
The Platinum Collection
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