Peter Gabriel is full of talent and win.

It should be a law that you have to listen to an hour or two of his music before you can download/buy a rap album.

/picked rap because its an easy target
//substitute your own hated music instead

LOGICAL_PSYCHO: It should be a law that you have to listen to an hour or two of his music before you can download/buy a rap album.

At least his first four solo albums.

I know, I know, I'm probably the only one in Farkistan that believes that "So" was a creative step down...

"Passion" was awesome.

And by too old, you mean too fat.

Tatsuma: And by too old, you mean too fat.

Going by the pics of him from last month with his broken leg, looks like he's taken off quite a bit of that poundage.

Big points on the headline, subby.

Melting Face is one of the best albums evar. Still fresh sounding.

whidbey: LOGICAL_PSYCHO: It should be a law that you have to listen to an hour or two of his music before you can download/buy a rap album.

At least his first four solo albums.

I know, I know, I'm probably the only one in Farkistan that believes that "So" was a creative step down...

Somewhat agree, but Mercy Street is a great song.
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Happy birthday, Pete. Somebody left you a setlist for your birthday.

It starts with "The Knife". Hint hint.

whidbey: At least his first four solo albums.

His Genesis work was pretty good, but I agree that those solo albums were his best.

/came out of a six-month bout of amnesia to hear Solsbury Hill on the radio... strangest experience ever
//not a soap opera character

Gulper Eel: Going by the pics of him from last month with his broken leg, looks like he's taken off quite a bit of that poundage.

Really? Last pics I've seen he was still a bloater

I saw him on the Security tour, Dec 11, 1982, in Houston, Row E, the center. At this point, he came out into the audience stepping on the seat arm rests, and walked right between me and my buddy all the way to the back of the auditorium.

BOB! I shout, WE'RE HOLDING UP THE GABE!

A fantastic show, with Gabe dancing and jumping and animated until the very end, when he stood rock still and solemnly sang "Biko."

/still not as cool as when the lights attacked him during "No Self Control" and he dived and dodged their attack
//got those 3rd and 4th albums in German, too
///Schock Den Auffen!

"Up" from 2002 was a fantastic record as well. Ranks among my favorites.

Just wish he'd put out another album soon. He's not getting any younger.

I saw Peter's "Security" tour in LA at the Universal Amphitheater December 15, 1982. Easily the best show I've ever seen before or since.

He's been touring nonstop for what, 6 years now??
Pete: release album, call Steve, reunion tour.

I recently bought one of the "bootleg" CDs from last summers tour off his website. Holy fark. It's like listening to a setlist from 1982. I hope he brings that show to the US. I'd love the chance to hear some of those great old tunes live again.

GurneyHalleck
Melting Face is one of the best albums evar. Still fresh sounding.

THIS!!

I discovered Peter Gabriel [and thusly Genesis shortly after] with this album. My dad had a vinyl copy. I first listened to it in 1995/6-ish and [occasionally] still am to this day.
I got the recent remastered CD version, it's AWESOME. So clear, crisp, bold, 100x better than my old vinyl version.
And it has a nice booklet too.

/actually come to think of it I discovered Gabriel and Collins [him via "No Jacket Required" cd] around the same time. I then got into Genesis a short time later. After listening to Gabriel Era Genesis, I discovered the wonderful world of Prog. :-)

I Like Bread: Pete: release album, call Steve, reunion tour.

Oh, come on, he released an album only 5 years ago. It'll be another 5-7 before the next one.

whidbey: I'm probably the only one in Farkistan that believes that "So" was a creative step down...

There's not a lot on "So" that I can still listen to, other than Red Rain and Mercy Street. His next 2 studio albums were far better.

T-Servo: His Genesis work was pretty good, but I agree that those solo albums were his best.

Better than Supper's Ready, Selling England by the Pound and Lamb Lies Down?

Happy birthday, Peter. You've rocked our world for a lot of years.

/1993, Tacoma, Wa... Digging in the Dirt was mind-bending

I Like Bread: Pete: release album, call Steve, reunion tour.

This, this and very much this.

/i can haz unaccompanied bass pedal solo by michael rutherford?

whatshisname
There's not a lot on "So" that I can still listen to, other than Red Rain and Mercy Street. His next 2 studio albums were far better.


Hmmm... i actually think "So"'s pretty good. Except for "That Voice Again" and "Milgram's 37". But yeah, "Red Rain" and "Mercy Street" are probably the best in the bunch.
[sometimes "big time" and "don't give up" get on my nerves a little bit]. 7.5/10

I think that "Us" is one of his worst. [right down there with "PG II".] "Us" is too heavy on ballads, and the sound quality is surprisingly not the greatest. [kind of 'flat' sounding and quiet.] It does have a few great/classic songs:
"Come Talk to Me", "Steam", "Digging in the Dirt", "Secret World" and maybe "Washing of the Water".
I really HATE "Blood of Eden", and "Kiss that Frog". The rest are just ok, i guess. 6.5/10

"Up" took a while to grow on me, but now i think it's one of his very best. I think that "I Grieve", "More than This" and "the Barry Williams Show" are the weakest songs, but they're still ok, I guess. The rest are wicked GREAT. 8/10

I've had a massive non-sexual crush on Peter Gabriel for a little over eight years now. I got into his Genesis stuff first, and then Melt ended up as one of the two major albums (Before and After Science was the other) that helped convince me to expand my horizons into New Wave, Post Punk and other areas I'd completely ignored to that point.

My favorite 70's album is Selling England by the Pound.
My favorite 80's album is Melt.
For a long time, my favorite 90's album was Us.

Hooray for Peter, both in Genesis and solo.

Third_Uncle_Eno: GurneyHalleck
Melting Face is one of the best albums evar. Still fresh sounding.

THIS!!

I discovered Peter Gabriel [and thusly Genesis shortly after] with this album. My dad had a vinyl copy. I first listened to it in 1995/6-ish and [occasionally] still am to this day.
I got the recent remastered CD version, it's AWESOME. So clear, crisp, bold, 100x better than my old vinyl version.
And it has a nice booklet too.

/actually come to think of it I discovered Gabriel and Collins [him via "No Jacket Required" cd] around the same time. I then got into Genesis a short time later. After listening to Gabriel Era Genesis, I discovered the wonderful world of Prog. :-)

I have a similar story of Sweet Pete discovery: I was a gardener listening to a generic local rock station (100.3 the Q!), when I noticed the song I had been listening to had been playing for a very very long time, but it was still entertaining me... I waited for the end when they told me it was Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes live... I promptly bought the CD and fell in man-love. Then, wanting to hear what he sounded like when he was in Genesis, I bought The Lamb Lies down on Broadway, naively thinking it a 'best-of' compilation, given the number of songs... was I ever in for a surprise!!!

Peter Gabriel liked one of my songs.

I'm still trying...

/38

//Thanks a zillion, Peter!

MrWhipee: I recently bought one of the "bootleg" CDs from last summers tour off his website. Holy fark. It's like listening to a setlist from 1982. I hope he brings that show to the US. I'd love the chance to hear some of those great old tunes live again.

That set list looked so good when I first saw it, I promptly hopped a plane to the UK and made his show at Blickling Hall. It pissed rain the whole time, but god it was a great show.

Love this guys music. Wrote some of the most memorable and odd lines in music for me.

"and I'm hovering like a fly waiting for the windshield on the free way"....beautiful

And the carpet crawlers was full of tons of surreal stuff. ..."and the needles eye is winking"...just too much great stuff to all write down.

All his solo stuff, even if it didn't all connect for me, was interesting. Great. different voice too. Man I wish he would release something new. I loved his last one and that song Sky Blue (I think that was the name of it) with those blind guys singing the chorus.

Also if I were to listen to Phil Collins outside of Genesis, I'd point to some of his Brand X stuff. He was a drummer first back then. Un-Orthodox Behavior and Moroccan Roll by Brand X. Great stuff and the bass player was really playful cool. More a jam band.