Peter Gabriel

HCTF = epic

whoa kate in the clip

As good as that is, the version on Fripp's Exposure is ten times better.

I saw PG live on the So tour, which was some big poppy stuff amid a lot of other stuff I didn't really get. And yet it was still a quasi-religious experience, although I couldn't really tell you why.

san jacinto KILLIN me right now

BLAST FROM THE PAST:

Is it just me, or does Pete look more than a little like Ed Helms in that HCTF clip?

SAN JACINTO
SAN JACINTO

Just to take me to heaven on that live album, goddamnit, wings, take me...take me there

Solsbury Hill.

HERE COMES THE FLOOD

"White Shadow" is awesome! Are there any other songs in this world where pedal steel sounds so epic?

not a rhetorical question btw

Passioni: walloping beats, Fairlights backing violin lines, something called "Arghul drones," * a boys choir singing "With This Love," a track called "It is Accomplished" waiting to become a pop song. I love this album.

* I learned much about music by studying Peter Gabriel instrumental credits.

It's a good'n'.

Sharing "your eyes" with a stranger at a bar

It must be hard holding that jukebox up over your head.

Someone tell Axl that it has been 12 years since the last Peter Gabriel album of original material.

he said recently maybe he'll be done soon. yeah right!

PG is part of a group that teaches the world how to take better videos when filming brutality as a firsthand witness.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/teaching-citizens-shoot-better-video-witness-brutality/

Aw he's a good guy

Birdy ost is my favorite pg album now. No words just vibes for miles.

Has Gabriel ever spoke about Gary Brooker from Procol Harum as being an influence? Listening to A Salty Dog right now and man sometimes the melody and phrasing and even tone of his voice reminds me of Gabriel (or I guess it could be an coincidence or even vice versa as they are essentially contemporaries)

He supposedly has brought him up as an influence, though I don't know when/where. At the least Brooker (and most of Genesis, a couple of years later) all went to Charterhouse.

And, ha!, I've never heard this before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct_R6CPD5-o

So Peter Gabriel is doing a co-headlining tour with Sting this summer. Following his anniversary tour of "So," I think it's safe to say Peter Gabriel has officially ended his epic winning streak of originality and invention.

Pretty sure that ended with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TC8dwdz7Yg

I'm looking forward to the all-lute cover of Rhythm of the Heat.

Riding Pernwaves

Well then:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_OtfstmDgo

So the guy follows up doing the most boring thing possible - a summer tour with Sting - by releasing something new? Relatively speaking, of course, because that sounds like a leftover from "Up." Wish the rhythm, track weren't so generic and boring. Guy used to be so good with drums and percussion. Backstory:

"I wrote a song a few years back – 'I'm Amazing,' which was, in part, inspired by Muhammad Ali's life and struggles," Gabriel wrote. "At the time of his death, when so many people are celebrating his life and thinking about all he achieved, it seemed the right time to release it."

Mentioned this on another thread but I'm pretty sure I would rather see this than Peter Gabriel proper these days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjOCaL-rmOM&feature=youtu.be

Gabriel live is still pretty great. He really knows how to stage things, and I heard amazing things about the "So" redux tour (despite it being the most boring choice short of touring with Sting; someone's got to pay those Real World bills).

His voice is well-preserved and there's still a hint of menace in even the new track, but yes, he's mostly boring now. Which he's certainly entitled to — after a lifetime on the road and a ruined marriage behind him, I can empathize if he just wants to be a wealthy family man for a while. As a selfish fan, though, I wish he took more risks. Someone like Robert Plant is the kind of late career I'd hoped for him. Or, more ambitiously, David Bowie — though it's clear now that Gabriel isn't nearly as restless or daring.

can't bring myself to go see him with Sting this year, but yeah the So tour was amazing.

i thought he'd done quite a lot to not be thought of in the same breath as Sting these days, ah well

oh I dunno. i saw a live DVD from an early '00s show in which Gabriel mostly played with a laptop or behind keyboards and his voice heaved with the sound of alimony and boredom.

Huh? What tour was that? The boring orchestra tour behind the boring orchestra albums?

Growing Up Live, was it?

Is that the one where he was on a Segway for part of it? Can't remember, but I know I saw the Up tour (which, like the Us tour, was designed by Robert Lepage), and it was cool. In the round? Also, literally in the round:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh80jJNgRrY

Honestly, I don't know much of what he's done the last 20 years or so, but the rot seemed to set in w Us. There really didn't seem to be the same energy once he hit the, uh, big time.

I think Us was pretty good, actually. Good songs, pretty, neat/novel performances/arrangements, like "Digging in the Dirt." It's not like he's done much since, but like I was saying before, even the stuff on Up - which I like - is pretty rhythmically inert, like band in a box generic. The soundtrack to Rabbit Proof Fence is great, though.

I liked Us, too. He'd really assimilated his African influences by this point, not just tacked on for effect but part of the melodies and structure of the songs. "Come Talk to Me" is beautiful, even if I don't fully know (or care) what the hell he's singing about. And the Secret World tour was his best, if only for Paula Cole in lbd and combat boots.

Although he's turned into Randy Newman at times, he's still put out really great one-off songs like "Burn You Up, Burn You Down" and "Signal To Noise".

I love Us. Didn't used to, especially when it was new, but I revisited it a couple of years ago and now it really moves me.

Us is tremendous and stands with his best work imo.

Us has the first evidence of the alimony voice I mentioned above and needs more fast ones, but I could tell at the time he was the sort of guy who abjured fast ones because they weren't serious; that's why the two fast ones are a "Sledgehammer" knockoff and an extended conceit about his dick which I hope Rosanne Arquette liked (the conceit, that is). I loved the tour, still one of the grandest I've seen.

Also: he still had the aura of a mainstream star in '92-'93: the Miami Arena was sold out that night.

lol I deleted "kiss that frog" from my iTunes and the album is better for it.

looking through his catalog the proportion of "fast ones" to great ones doesn't seem unusually low fwiw. he's recorded some great uptempo tracks but that's not really what I look to him for.

i really hate burn you up, burn you down. talk about a bog standard, pg in a box track. blech

Was Sting ever on a Disney soundtrack? Anyway the Gabriel tune from Wall-E was very nice I thought. Co-written by Randy Newman's cousin Thomas!

Thomas Newman!

It wasn't the paucity of fast ones on albums that bothers me as their increasing desperation, as if he bowed to pressure to Write Some Hits. Remember "The Barry Williams Show"?

Thomas Newman is great, he's fashioned a nice little sound world for himself in film.

It wasn't the paucity of fast ones on albums that bothers me as their increasing desperation, as if he bowed to pressure to Write Some Hits. Remember "The Barry Williams Show"?

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 17, 2016

ah gotcha. totally agreed then. and lol that's another one that is conspicuously absent from my library.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xkTWLR8vLE

Trying to ride the dual-language version coattails of Nena, Falco and the Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmjnK4zTBhM

A 15 minute video to explain that Peter Gabriel recorded an album in German?

here comes the dud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0zQaWEvUKo

Announcement via his subscription service just now:

I’m delighted to say that tonight, at the full moon, we will be beginning another year of full moon releases under the name o\i.

The songs are a mix of thoughts and feelings.

I have been thinking about the future and how we might respond to it. We are sliding into a period of transition like no other, most likely triggered in three waves; AI, quantum computing and the brain computer interface. Artists have a role to look into the mists and, when they catch sight of something, to hold up a mirror.

These are my lumpy bits – i/o: the inside has a new way out and o\i: the outside has a new way in.

We are not, and have never been, the exclusively self-determining, independent beings that have been given the run of the world. We are something else, a part of nature, a part of everything and feeling a connection, shaking our booty and giving and receiving some love can help us find our place - and put a big smile on our faces.

Some of these songs are going to form part of the brain project that I’ve been exploring for a number of years, and some just make me feel happy. I hope you like them.

I'd like to say a special thank you to all the full-mooners who have stuck with us through this time. In the period in between the records we've been more focussing on older, archive demos and different versions, and now that will shift back with o\i into stuff around these twelve songs...

he'd been teasing new album all week with oblique images that looked like Os and Is, glad suspicions were confirmed.

In the period in between the records we've been more focussing on older, archive demos and different versions

Wait, what does this mean? Did I miss him releasing a bunch of archival stuff?

yeah he has been posting loads of archive stuff on bandcamp the past year

Was fun hearing "I Have The Touch" in Marty Supreme for the first time in decades.

a favorite of Bill Haley in the mid '50s.

yeah he has been posting loads of archive stuff on bandcamp the past year

Huh, anything good?

I'm not a subscriber so I lost track! But they are all listed out here. many alternate mixes, early mixes, works in progress, etc:

https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/subscribe

Live at Womad and In the Big Room both got standard streaming-only releases, and they are more than worthy. That Womad set is exceptional actually; professionally recorded (with studio overdubs at the time so presumably considered for release back in the early 80's).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb-sOCk6BP4

Low-key but a groove.

It’s good! I was all in on I/O so I’m overjoyed about this.

So, five songs out so far on this and it certainly hasn't created the discussion i/o did. Thoughts?

I think it's ... fine. Nothing is offending me, but none of it is really surprising me very much. A tad dull, which I guess makes it, in general, kind of disappointing. Best song so far is Put the Bucket Down.

New album? Had no idea, which itself is a tad shocking. Does he still have a label? Publicist? Promotion person? Anything?

yes? it's the slow rollout he did with the last album all over again. new song every full moon.

Oh, I see, I misread your post. For some reason I thought you were saying you had heard the first five songs of the album *so far*, as in, a listen in progress, not that PG was five songs into slowly releasing the new album.

ah ha.