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Peter Gabriel?

His soundtrack stuff, as pointed out earlier, is outstanding. He sounds nothing like Phil Collins and fancy not liking someone because they are posh/middle class/art school etc...

I suppose you hated Joe Strummer, too? :rolleyes:
 
Much of his music is outstanding, and let's not forget his innovative Fairlight work in the early early days of sampling.

His involvement in RealWorld is obviously to be commended, and after all he signed Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Peter Gabriel is one of the greatest musicians alive today, IMO.
 
For me he never topped Sledgehammer, which I love but 99% of his other songs are bland and you can’t dance to them.

Big Time is ok and Don’t Give Up, but otherwise nah.
 
As mega-thread-bumps go, slightly under 13 years is pretty annoying going ;) :hmm: :mad:

I used to be a big Peter Gabriel fan, but for whatever reasons, have scarcely listened to his things since before 2010 :confused:

Would have contributed positively to this thread back then, if I'd known about it :oops:

Went to WOMAD every year for many years (despite its expense) .... :) :cool:
 
teqniq said:
Found via Twitter:

www.rollingstone.com

Watch Peter Gabriel Re-Record 'Biko' With Artists From Around the World

Peter Gabriel has teamed with Playing for Change to create a new version of his 1980 protest classic "Biko."
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Still a really powerful song

It was banned in South Africa, where the government saw it as a threat to security. "Biko" was a personal landmark for Gabriel, becoming one of his most popular songs and sparking his involvement in human rights activism. It also had a huge political impact, and along with other contemporary music critical of apartheid, is credited with making resistance to apartheid part of western popular culture. It inspired musical projects such as Sun City, and has been called "arguably the most significant non-South African anti-apartheid protest song"
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Biko (song) - Wikipedia

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William of Walworth said:
As mega-thread-bumps go, slightly under 13 years is pretty annoying going ;) :hmm: :mad:

I used to be a big Peter Gabriel fan, but for whatever reasons, have scarcely listened to his things since before 2010 :confused:

Would have contributed positively to this thread back then, if I'd known about it :oops:

Went to WOMAD every year for many years (despite its expense) .... :) :cool:
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Dont like/appreciate a lot of his later stuff but I really did enjoy Scratch My Back (2010) which was an album of covers
 
editor said:
Impressive! What were you doing on the tour?
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Stage Carpenter. Don't know if you seen the show but it was an impressive stage set.
Designed by Robert Lapage, it went from a square stage out into the auditorium to a circular stage, connected by a conveyer belt.
It picked up awards for the best touring production in the industry awards that year.
The crew lived beneath the stage, masked by shark's tooth gauze in what was known as the secret world.
Good Times.
 
I like him and his music, not all of it though as his output is vast and varied. Thismorning we had the Passion, as recommended by OU (Ithanks) and then:



1980, hadn't listened to it for a long time, its got the gated drums and kate bush voice deep in the mix. shows loads of things that became mainstream sounds in the years after it.
 
I once listened to his first four solo albums as some mates had them on. They paused briefly as one of their mates had insisted they listen to the Incredible String Band's song Water. They hated it and promptly put Peter Gabriel back on -"turn that hurdy gurdy shit off and put Peter Gabriel back on". It was my first introduction to both ISB and PG's solo work and I remember nothing about PG's bland albums and I remember Water absolutely vividly. In fact I went straight out and bought Hangman's Beautiful Daughter. So for me Peter Gabriel is boring and forgettable and his fans have an aversion to anything even slightly out of the ordinary.

And for that matter I've never made it through the last album he did with Genesis (and the most PG album). It's one of the most tedious albums I have ever attempted to listen to. Being a prog rock fan by alignment, I have a soft spot for early Genesis, but I've got to admit they got better when Gabriel left.

I may revise these opinions, but his big hits don't inspire, including that song he did with Kate Bush so it may be a good while yet before I try him out again. The only thing that's tempting me is the fact he worked with bassist Tony Levin.
 
Big thread bump on Saturday - not the unlucky 13th !

Strangely, a friend had found that PG's good for quiet background muzak in a small cafe ...

Some of his stuff is actually better than that, and I quite like some of the early Genesis material.
 
teqniq said:
Foxtrot is probably my favourite early Genesis album. I don't uncritically like everything he's done though. Knotted wrt to Tony Levin the Secret World concert is worth a watch. This is probably my favourite track:

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Thanks for the thought, but honestly I don't see the appeal at all.
 
The album with biko and games without frontiers is pretty excellent. Saw him do biko at an anti aparthied rally in the 80s and it was spinetingling.
I think he has done enough to be foegiven for the prog crimes of genesis.
Decent bloke by all accounts as well.
 
I absolutely love 'So'. Got really strong memories of saving my pocket money when I was 13 and happily going to Woolworths to buy it, along with Paul Simon's Graceland. Got both of them on cassette still, and I dig them out every couple of years to listen to them. Never streamed them or anything, has to be the original tapes :D
 
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