Peter Gabriel solo career - GIVE ME STEAM AND HOW YOU FEEL CAN MAKE IT REAL

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He looks just like Peter Murphy.
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I hate to look up how Pete Townsend looks now. Maybe its a British Pete Boomer thing.
 
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Peak Gabriel form. I've only heard a few of his solo career songs I think, Solsberry Hill being the only one I remember. If I wanted to catch up what should I listen to?
 
Jones McCann said:
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Peak Gabriel form. I've only heard a few of his solo career songs I think, Solsberry Hill being the only one I remember. If I wanted to catch up what should I listen to?
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The melting face album. It also features one of the first uses of Phil Collins' famous gated reverb drum (on "Intruder").
 
As someone that actually listened to So last year, I just want to say that This Is The Picture is probably one of my favorite songs from him.


The video is pretty cool.
 
I just saw him on tour. He’s in great shape and still sounds excellent, but he is so notoriously slow to produce new music and tour that I do wonder if this will truly be his last time on the road in the U.S. So, if you‘re a fan and can afford the tickets, it really is worth the price.

I enjoy the new songs very much, but I enjoy most of his songs no matter the era. I do have to say that, despite his reputation for experimentation, his sound is, in my opinion, quite consistently his. I think i/o is his best album since So, but I’m a biased source.
 
Peter Gabriel is BFF's with Kate Bush and taught her how to use the Fairlight machine so he's a good egg in my book.
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
Peter Gabriel is BFF's with Kate Bush and taught her how to use the Fairlight machine so he's a good egg in my book.
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Plus they sang together on "Don't Give Up," possibly Gabriel's only purely sweet song, and on So, probably his best-produced album (by Daniel Lanois).
 

Not exactly an obscure listen, but friend, if you have clicked on this thread, you should sit back, relax, and enjoy, just for a few minutes:
 
I was just listening to this a few days ago for the umpteenth time
 
None of the new songs have really clicked with me yet, and it had me worried as I'm a lifelong Gabriel fan. Then I remembered that Up took almost as long to click with me as it took to record and release, so I'm not too worried. Vocally, he's still in great shape.

I'd have to say Security (the proper title being of course, Peter Gabriel, but easier to distinguish this way), is my favourite although really I think all his albums have something to offer. That album though, still sounds like its from another planet some 40 years later.
 
God's Own Sling said:
I'd have to say Security (the proper title being of course, Peter Gabriel, but easier to distinguish this way), is my favourite although really I think all his albums have something to offer. That album though, still sounds like its from another planet some 40 years later.
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I'd say it's a toss-up for me between Security (yes I know he didn't name it that) and Melt (also named Peter Gabriel). Security had his first real breakout hit and, despite that, the hit (Shock the Monkey) is probably the least notable song on the album. San Jacinto and The Rhythm of the Heat are both much better songs.

Melt is just a derange-o bugfuck album chock full of mental illness and big sound.

As for the new stuff, I'll either eventually like it or I won't. So finally clicked with me after I got over how exquisitely produced it was to be able to listen to the actual music, and for that matter, listened to it on actual audiophile equipment and was able to appreciate the densely textured sonic landscape. Red Rain was the track that finally got me.

Also come to think of it, when I read American Psycho, it finally jumped out at me that Patrick Bateman was just shitting me when he had this idiotic rant about how Phil Collins had a much better solo career than Peter Gabriel, for the dumbest and most bogus of reasons.

I forget whether this was before or after the similarly idiotic comparison between Huey Lewis and Elvis Costello, but same kind of deal.

It was like I could let the sadistic rapes and murders slide, I mean, whatever, tastes vary, but your opinions on music suck, dude.
 
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