Hello, I Must Be Going! (album)
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Hello, I Must Be Going! is the second solo studio album by the English drummer and singer-songwriter Phil Collins. It was released on 5 November 1982<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> on Virgin Records in the United Kingdom and on Atlantic Records in North America, and named after the Marx Brothers' song of the same name. After Genesis took a break in activity in late 1981, Collins started work on a follow-up to his debut solo studio album Face Value (1981).
Hello, I Must Be Going! received a more reserved commercial reaction than Face Value, but it nonetheless reached No. 2 in the United Kingdom and No. 8 in the United States. In total, Collins released eight singles from the album, with various tracks released as singles in different countries. The most successful was the first US and second UK single, a cover of "You Can't Hurry Love" by the Supremes, which went to No. 1 in the United Kingdom and No. 10 in the United States. Collins supported the album with his 1982–1983 tour, which was his first as a solo artist. The album earned Collins a Brit Award nomination for British Male Artist in 1983,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and "I Don't Care Anymore" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male.
Background and recording
In December 1981, Collins's band Genesis entered an eight-month break in activity after touring their eleventh studio album Abacab (1981). He started work on a follow-up to his first solo studio album, Face Value (1981), which mainly concerned events in his personal life including his divorce from his first wife.<ref name=UCR>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Collins was aware that Hello, I Must Be Going! contains even greater amounts of material concerning his private life, and reasoned its concentration down to feeling guilty regarding the divorce and "to be purely sentimental about it".<ref name=MM1982>Template:Cite news</ref> He described the album years later: "If my first album was 'I'm divorced and I'm miserable' ... my next one was 'I'm going to kick this fucker to bits'".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> However, upon meeting his second wife Jill Tavelman and releasing Hello, I Must Be Going!, Collins noted a change in his songwriting: "[I'm] happier [...] I write happy songs now".<ref name=MM1982/>
The album features elements of groove pop that Collins would utilise further with his next solo studio album, No Jacket Required (1985).<ref name=UCR/> "I Cannot Believe It's True" has been compared to "I Missed Again" from Face Value (1981) "right down to the undulating rhythms and swaying brass".<ref name=UCR/> Collins confessed to "a distinct lack of judgement" in recording the drums for "Thru These Walls" as the drum fill he used matched what he had done for "In the Air Tonight" from Face Value (1981). To him, that is the sole comparison between the two albums, despite being called out for rehashing similar material for Hello, I Must Be Going!<ref name=MM1982/> In addition to this, according to Collins, "Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away" and "Why Can't It Wait 'Til Morning" were leftovers from the Face Value sessions in 1978-79.<ref>Template:Cite magazineTemplate:Subscription required</ref>
Artwork
The album's sleeve contains various photographs from Collins's family life, which he had also done for Face Value (1981). He also continued the visual style of Face Value with a facial close-up as the cover image - this time showing Collins' face in profile, with its mirror image on the reverse cover (the original CD release of the album placed this on the insert card instead). The handwritten notes were also a feature carried over from Face Value. Collins wanted both albums to be a "matching set, something that felt like it was from the same bloke".<ref name=MM1982/> Included is a picture of his young son Simon in a Superman costume, which Collins found humorous to include but later found that some people misinterpreted it as focusing the album too much on his personal life.<ref name=MM1982/>
Critical reception
Hugh Fielder of Sounds praised Hello, I Must Be Going! as "a broader, stronger and better executed follow-up to Face Value", writing, "The original inspiration may be second-hand but the execution and character is entirely his."<ref name="sounds"/> In Rolling Stone, John Milward said of the record: "Despite its trend-bucking boast of an eight-track recording, the album's rich luster is of the old classical-rock school. In fact, the LP sounds like stripped-down Genesis, ornamental but not too ostentatious."<ref name="rs"/> Simon Hills of Record Mirror claims Hello, I Must Be Going clings on desperately to old soul cliches and reworks of 'In The Air Tonight'."<ref name="NRM22">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
NME writer Graham K. Smith was less enthused, criticising the lyrics as excessively self-pitying and the music as steeped in "blatant textbook commercialities"; he found that the album "resoundly collapses between the two stools of 'meaningful rock' and disposable pop, wallowing in all the worst aspects of both with none of the saving graces".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
Retrospectively, AllMusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated that Collins "began to inject his highly melodic pop songwriting with more soul and R&B influences" on Hello, I Must Be Going!, with mixed results: "While some of the material was successful, much of it showed that he was still coming to grips with how to incorporate R&B techniques into his style."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In a later review of the album for AllMusic, Tim Sendra was more favourable, deeming it "a winning follow-up that shows Collins to be in full control of songwriting and production".<ref name="allmusic"/>
Tour
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Collins supported the album with a concert tour of Europe and North America between November 1982 and February 1983. He performed with a nine-piece band<ref name=MM1982/> that included Genesis touring musicians Chester Thompson and Daryl Stuermer, and the Phenix Horns.Template:Fact
Reissue
The album was re-released using a flat transfer done by Steve Hoffman for the Audio Fidelity label in 2011 on Gold CD. The album was also reissued as part of the Take a Look at Me Now series of Collins studio album remasters during 2016, with a new second disc of bonus songs.Template:Fact
Track listing
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2016 reissue
Personnel
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Production and artwork
- Phil Collins – producer
- Hugh Padgham – assistant producer, engineer
- Howard Gray – assistant engineer
- Martyn Ford – engineer (for orchestral tracks)
- Mike Ross – engineer
- Ian Cooper – mastering
- Trevor Key – cover photography
Charts
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Weekly charts
| Chart (1982-1983) | Peak position | |
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| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)<ref name=AUS>Template:Cite book</ref> | 15 | |
| Finland (The Official Finnish Charts)<ref name=FINI>Template:Cite book</ref> | 16 | |
| Italian Albums (Musica e Dischi)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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12 |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon)<ref name="JPN">Template:Cite book</ref> | 31 | |
| Spanish Albums (AFYVE)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> | 3 |
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Year-end charts
| Chart (1983) | Position | |
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| US Billboard 200<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation | CitationClass=web
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21 |
Certifications
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