Peter Gabriel

A lost opportunity that Peter never released that many solo albums.

Although I guess the Rated PG compilation has already made use of that idea

ITT pitch your concepts for horrible '70s album titles/covers in the style of I've Got My Own Album To Do

The Minneapolis tribute band PG-13 has, on their Shows page, a 2021 gig called Let's Take The Boat Out (on a boat).

Ooh ooh! I know!

In the spirit of From Genesis to Revelation, Gabriel could release a greatest hits collection but with every song redone with explicit lyrics. Call it From PG to R.

Jerking off on Solsbury Hill...

Something in me, white and sticky
All the time it's getting stronger...
I feel it in my head, I feel it in my toes
I feel it in my c**k, that's the place it goes

In your butt
The light, the heat
In your butt
I am complete

But not F**k the monkey, that's a bridge too far

I grieve is great but y'all sleepin on no way out

woah I need to check out PG-13

I grieve is great but y'all sleepin on no way out

No Way Out is extraordinary. Upthread I mentioned how the music and lyrics of I Grieve add to one another, the same might be said for the riff of No Way Out hammering the realization of 'what happened' in. The sequencing of these two ultra powerful songs makes perfect sense as well and even add positive resolution to the sad theme.

^^ OTM the sequencing puts the songs in conversation in a way that enhances both

+ in a body of work not lacking for good lyrics, I find analogy of goldfish:bag::spirit:body deployed here just exceptional. indelible shit. also a really beautiful contribution from Tony Levin... and then that riff

Listening to the second album this morning -- my first in more than a decade -- I still think it forces Gabriel into unbecoming drag. Given rock 'n' roll arrangements, he bellows, which means even good tunes like "D.I.Y." and "On the Air" sound like affectations.

The quieter things like "Mother of Violence" come off best. I'm glad he got this phase out of his system; or, rather, learned what his limits and strengths are. The punk-influenced guitar things on Melt are vast improvements.

PG2 feels like stuff that had to get worked out, but yeah for sure.

3 was really such an inspired shift

speaking of bad investments, wasnt womad funded by the mob or something?

Vastly disagree with that (Alfred's) take on PG2. That album is a direct continuation of PG1 with some kind of eclectic/eccentric rock sound to it that is nowhere as avant-garde as, say, Beefheart or Zappa, but not exactly conventional mainstream either, which I find makes for a unique and highly interesting sound with many great pieces. It may not have a Solsbury Hill butbon the whole I think the songs are much better than on its predecessor. White Shadow and Flotsam & Jetsam in particular rank among my all-time fave PG songs but there is not a track on there which I dislike. If there is anything I mind about the album it is that songs like Animal Magic and Perspectice are a bit sameish in regards to the opening tracks. PG3 on the other hand sounds far more conventional/mainstream, which is probably also why I find it less interesting myself (although very good).

The jagged, abrasive arrangements on III put it over for me. I hear how "No Self-Control" and "Not One of Us" are not dissimilar to similar rock songs on II, but I cringe hearing his I'm-in-character-now voice on, for example, "DIY."

I'd say that the third album is more "theatrical" than the second, in that it's a change from presenting the tracks as songs to setting them as small movies with sampled sound effects and expressionistic backgrounds. I see Scratch as his only really "song-based" record (rather than based on sound or concept); I basically agree with Valentijn's assessment.

I think this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_All_Odds_(soundtrack)

might be the only time Phil Collins successfully ethered PG

I never knew about this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO6fAJcN89k

it's solid!

who is that singing the chorus?

Sinead

oh duh!

The quieter things like "Mother of Violence" come off best.

Agreed. I like PG best when he underplays, which he's done less and less of over the years. The only song on Up that really works for me is "The Drop."

I see Scratch as his only really "song-based" record

Check out a little album called So.

You can't spell SONG without SO

II is a fine album but I could do without Perspective and Animal Magic which I think are pretty rubbish. Indigo, White Shadow, DIY, mother of violence are wonderful.

“Perspective” has some of my favorite lyrics ever— “Oh Gaia, if that’s your name, treat you like dirt but I don’t want no blame”.

wow i did not know about that willie/sinead cover, thanks much for that!

New album and European tour in the works:

https://petergabriel.com/news/i-o-the-tour-announced/

lol it's actually finally coming out?

The new album should be called "$/$".

I suspect for a lot of boomers, 2023 will be the year of "use it or lose it."

in disbelief that this is happening. torn between biting the bullet and getting london tix and waiting for a US tour announcement. I don't have a job right now so waiting probably best

I say this as a fan, bit I'm going to suggest that this will not be a hot ticket.

Though maybe things are different in Europe, who knows.

Pretty sure there will be a really nice live video that I can watch on my own couch with my own wine and snax

Could there be a more Peter Gabriel-y album title than i/o ?

Yes, "Peter Gabriel."

I like to think that the guy in Vampire Weekend is singing "It feels so unnatural, Peter Gabriel 2"

lol that's what I've always thought and I will not be convinced otherwise

Yes, "Peter Gabriel."

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, November 8, 2022 9:43 AM (forty-three minutes ago)

lol unavoidable

Could there be a more Peter Gabriel-y album title than i/o ?

he's stuck with that as the title for this album for like 20 years, I'm surprised he actually went through with it

also have always heard the VW song that way

in disbelief that this is happening. torn between biting the bullet and getting london tix and waiting for a US tour announcement. I don't have a job right now so waiting probably best

Thanks for bumping the thread, I don't think I would have heard about this otherwise. My wife and I were just talking last night about a summer trip that could include a London stop (we want to see the Hilma af Klint show at the Tate), so I just went ahead and bought some cheap seats for the June 19 show.

PG is high on my list of longtime faves who I've never seen perform. Pretty psyched about it, regardless of what the new album is like.

I've mentioned before that I did see him on that dual tour with Sting in 2016 or so, and he was still pretty good! They both were, honestly.

I've seen him 5 times, I think (an amnesty show in 88/89, twice on the Us tour, again at a festival after Us, and then not again until the Back to Front So tour). I still kick myself for not going to the Growing Up shows and the Sting tour; don't regret, per se, skipping the orchestral ones though, as I find those albums a dire slog.

Miami was the last stop on his Secret World tour and it remains a top fiver.

yeah those shows blew my mind. the video release doesn't really capture how great they were.