Peter Gabriel

Anyway, "Moribund the Burgermeister" is a great, weird number, but there's also not much separating it from past work. "Modern Love" is a no frills rock tune, very much no way he would play something like that today (sadly; he could use an injection of livelihood on his last albums), "Excuse Me" is a semi-comic relief number with barbershop quartet opening. "Humdrum" is also very Genesis-like, but I think it's the best tune on the album.

The second album I've actually never heard, in all my years of being a fan. I keep meaning to pick it up, especially since everything's been remastered. People say it's pretty underrated...

I never really liked his third album, myself. The songs just never really clicked with me, except maybe "Intruder".

i've never heard the simple minds version, but Robert Wyatt covers it, and beautifully at that

For me, "San Jacinto" and "Rhythm of the Heat" come damn close...

So!

"Red Rain"!

Oh yeah man, I have totally been on a Red Rain trip of late. Just can't get away from that song at all.

Listened to it driving through the farmland surrounding Bristol, VA in bright, bright sunlight following a hotel morning today. 100% arcadian.

Listen to the sound of the drums before the break!

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Fantastic! I grew up in VA.

I <3 Daniel Lanois 4-ever.

Yeah, "Red Rain". "Mercy Street" too. Something about that line: "swear they moved that sign."

It's funny, because I was browsing YouTube and had just finished watching this when I saw this thread. These two have always struck me as two sides of the same coin, both following a particularly English trail of slightly ethereal slightly mad overflowingly creative whimsy.

Peter looks so young there!

Were he and Kate ever in a romantic relationship with one another? I thought I remembered reading this, but I can't find anything confirming it. I must have made it up.

Doesn't he? I'm not sure, but it would be kind of weird, like siblings making out. Which is also creepily awesome in their case (and only in their case, right?).

aaaaaaahhhhh! It's the performance of "Another Day"! I haven't seen this in awhile. WOW. Thanks!

No really, this has made my night. Oh my god.

I know. Mine too.

New album is called "Big Blue Balls"!!

Here Comes The Flood

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn306/Floridian_20/GabrielCatII.jpg

IS HE GOTH OR NOT? LOOK AT THAT PICTURE!

He's going to marry Kate Bush and they're going to rein as king and queen of the desert island. And we're all going to be happy. Just you wait.

Peter Gabriel is even more heavenly than Brian Eno, and that's saying something.

Here Comes The Flood

― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You)

Here comes the late-night revive of the borderline goth thread by drunken Bimble, amirite?

hahahahah too right

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

Sounds like the end credits song of a film about an eminent English scientist slowly succumbing to Alzheimer’s

good song; he played this on the back to front tour as 'daddy long legs', it's better with actual lyrics now. also snagged tickets; too expensive, assuming it's the last time I'll ever see him.

got tickets for his October show here...pretty excited. Not cheap but I guess pretty reasonable in the current climate. Got 6th row of the first deck for $110 each + bullshit.

I'm going too! Glad he scheduled a Twin Cities date so I didn't have to arrange a whole trip out of state to see him.

yeah I had almost pulled the trigger on Chicago

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

L-R: Don Johnson, Peter Gabriel, Tony Levin

the best Genesis lineup imo

Needs more Glenn Frey

I dunno, I was never a fan of the “Glennesis” era of the band tbh

Wrapped up in some powdered wool-I guess I'm losing touch.
Don't tell me I'm dying, 'cause I ain't changed that much.
The only sound is water drops, I wonder where the hell I am

"Do it just the way we planned
You be cool for twenty hours and I'll pay you twenty grand"

I'm sorry it went down like this
And someone had to lose, it's the nature of the business

Glennesis, roffles

You can check out of the home by the sea any time you like, but you can never leave

There's gonna be a heartache tonight, o lord

Glennesis rules

Yeah but what about Don HenEsis?

This is the end of Don HenEsis

All she wants to do is dance (and she can't)

Selling Laurel Canyon by the Pound

Lulz

Desperadomino

For context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yiihxkda8sQ

classic ep. so many terrible line readings

Okay I was pretty happy with "DesperaDomino" until I remembered this is a Gabriel thread, so I ought to focus on Gabriel/Eagles confluences, as opposed to Genesis/Eagles confluence.

Here's the best I could come up with:

"Biko, sweet darling, you get the best of my love"

In Your Lyin' Eyes?

^ very good, bravo Josh

shock the peaceful easy monkey

And a new one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9DLlv7FuYs

Per Bandcamp mailout:

The song features Soweto Gospel Choir, who were recorded at High Seas Studios in South Africa.

'The older I get, I probably don't get any smarter, but I have learned a few things and it makes a lot of sense to me that we are not these independent islands that we like to think we are, that we are part of a whole. If we can see ourselves as better connected, still messed up individuals, but as part of a whole, then maybe there's something to learn?'

I can't explain what exactly but something in his singing lines reminds me of Mia by Gorki (former Flemish band, RIP Luc De Vos 2014)

While I'm not super-excited about any of the individual images accompanying these songs (or the songs themselves, for that matter), I do appreciate how PG is emphasizing the work of the respective artists by discussing them in his Full Moon Club videos. It's as if he decided to do this instead of making traditional music videos, which seems like the right move at this point (more dignified, dare it be said).

iirc each of the songs on Us got a respective commissioned artist interpretation.

I'd forgotten that — I dig out Us about once a decade.

A little late but:

The Rhythm of the Heat Is On

So we have what could be 1/3 of the album out so far and i imagine I'm not alone in being well... probably satisfied, not disappointed per se, but I have the feeling that we haven't yet hear THE song from this album. Each album has them and they aren't always the single or most popular song; I'd say Mercy Street, Here Comes the Flood, Indigo, Intruder, Family and the Fishing Net, Washing of the Water, Signal to Noise....I just don't feel like we've gotten that yet from this album. I like all of this stuff, but I'm worried I haven't heard the 'singular' song from this album yet.I guess if one isn't forthcoming it would be the Court, and while I like that, it's a bit short of the goal.

yeah… I stan pretty hard but nothing has grabbed me yet.

This guy has synched the audio from Plays Live to a couple of horrendously shitty audience videos of the 1983 tour and it's STILL amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwh5D4mwIQI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LveARHkcYmk

plus "the outtakes" - tracks played on those three audience videos not on Plays Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wUKkOcLqCY

Here's a pretty aggro one from 1978 where everyone seems to be on speed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GcPPiF3l7I

many great moments on those first two albums - too bad they're not appreciated as much as the later stuff

i fuckin loved and still love plays live

it's fun enough to sorta see that facepaint from the cover in action

And another new song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca-cyvU8P04

this is good as hell

fun fact: the saxophonist in the above 1978 video went on to be the super buffed saxophonist in Lost Boys

Not bad. It has a lot going on but the mix is uncluttered.

New tour is on!

SETLIST SPOILERS

SETLIST SPOILERS

SETLIST SPOILERS

SETLIST SPOILERS

SETLIST SPOILERS

May 18, Krakow

Washing of the Water (acoustic version)
Growing Up (acoustic version)
Panopticom
Four Kinds of Horses
i/o
Digging in the Dirt
Playing For Time (new version)
Olive Tree (world premiere)
Home (world premiere)
Sledgehammer

- intermission -

Darkness
Love Can Heal
Road to Joy (world premiere)
Don't Give Up
The Court
Red Rain
Unknown new song
What Lies Ahead
Big Time
Live and Let Live (world premiere)
Solsbury Hill

- Encore -

In Your Eyes

- Second encore -

Biko

Hmm. Any word on the staging?

I am very disappointed he is not coming to Atlanta. A road trip may be in order.

XP Pretty straightforward, it looks almost like a bandstand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9y2YIaTZSs

Hmm. Maybe he needs to refill the coffers. In the past (esp. on the Us and Up tours) the staging was cool as shit, but probably pretty expensive. I heard the So:Redux tour was minimalist but still looked pretty cool. The tour with Sting was simple but effective. This looks fine.

That big circular thing above the stage reveals itself as some sort of screen, like Pink Floyd but no, he's not floating about in a tank of amniotic fluid or projected as a giant hologram, towering over the audience.

Ten songs from i/o huh

Hmm. Maybe he needs to refill the coffers

Ticket prices were especially high for MSG so I was expecting something elaborate to justify the cost.

I’d also red Lepage was involved again so I was expecting something Us level given the size of the arenas, but apparently he was just consulting, he didn’t do a big design. Screens and projections are fine but absolutely everyone does them now.