I Missed Again

"I Missed Again" is a song from Phil Collins's debut solo album, Face Value. This song is the seventh song on the CD and the first song on the second side on the record. The song features a tenor sax solo from British jazz musician Ronnie Scott.

"I Missed Again"
Single by Phil Collins
from the album Face Value
B-side"I'm Not Moving"
Released7 March 1981
RecordedJanuary 1980–January 1981
Genre
Length3:47
LabelVirgin (UK)
Atlantic (international)
Songwriter(s)Phil Collins
Producer(s)Phil Collins, Hugh Padgham
Phil Collins singles chronology
"In the Air Tonight"
(1981)		 "I Missed Again"
(1981)		 "If Leaving Me Is Easy"
(1981)
Music video
"I Missed Again" on YouTube

Background

Like many of the songs on Face Value, "I Missed Again" is about Collins's anger and frustration about his first wife leaving him. The original demo was entitled "I Miss You, Babe", with sadder lyrics. He re-wrote the lyrics, gave the song a different tempo, and re-titled it "I Missed Again" in an effort to make it lighthearted instead of sad.[1] The demo version is the b-side for the single "If Leaving Me Is Easy".

In other media

The song's music video features Collins on a white background singing and miming the various instruments. It was released on VHS in 1983.[2][3] which received a Grammy nomination for Best Video, Short Form.[4]

The song was featured in a late 1980s promotional commercial, which featured bloopers, by the National Basketball Association. It was also used in the early 1990s by the BBC in a montage of snooker players missing shots. Similarly, NBC Sunday Night Football played the song immediately after kicker Eddy Pineiro missed the second of two field goals during the Chicago Bears' game against the Los Angeles Rams on 17 November 2019.[5]

Credits
  1. "I Missed Again"
  2. "I'm Not Moving"
  • Gavin Cochrane – photography

Chart performance

In the US, "I Missed Again" was the first single from Face Value. It peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 1981. It reached No. 14 in the UK.

References
  1. Collins, Phil (21 October 1999). "Making of Face Value". Classic Albums. Isis Productions.
  2. "Phil Collins - Phil Collins (VHS) at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  3. "Phil Collins - Phil Collins at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  4. "Grammy Awards 1985". Awards & shows. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
  5. "NBC Sports subtly trolled the Bears during 'Sunday Night Football' loss to Rams". Kansas City Star. Archived from the original on 19 November 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  6. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (Illustrated ed.). St. Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 71. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  7. "Item Display - RPM". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Library and Archives Canada. Archived from the original on 28 November 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  8. The Irish Charts, 8 March 1981
  9. "NZ Top 40 Singles Chart". The Official New Zealand Music Chart; nztop40.co.nz. 5 July 1981. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  10. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  11. Whitburn, Joel (1999). Pop Annual. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-142-X.
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