Peter Gabriel OP10

Here Comes The Flood
On The Air
I Go Swimming
Not One Of Us
Biko

I Have The Touch
Kiss Of Life
Wallflower
That Voice Again
Mercy Street

Come Talk To Me
Digging In The Dirt
Secret World
No Way Out
More Than This

I remember an extended mix from a Sledgehammer 12" that had an extraordinarily haunting and beautiful intro that I can still remember even though I haven't listened to it since 1988.

Accepting all I've done and said
I want to stand and stare again
Til there's nothing left out...
Ohhh it remains there, in your eyes
Whatever comes and goes
I will hear your silent call
And I will [fine, I can't remember this part, but it's been almost 20 years!]
Until I know I'm home again.

It only goes downhill from there, which is to say, segues into the album track. I feel that I've heard it somewhere else as well, but I have no idea where. Did it ever make a CD release?

love I get so lost, sometimes
days pass and this emptiness fills my heart
when I want to run away
I drive off in my car
but whichever way I go
I come back to the place you are

which at times I've felt was really nice ... however maybe just compared to rest of the track which is pretty fucking awful.

Solsbury Hill
Humdrum
No Self Control
And Through The Wire
Family Snapshot
Not One Of Us
San Jacinto
Wallflower
Red Rain
In Your Eyes

I'm very curious about this Fripp version of Here Comes The Flood. Is it radically different than the debut album version?

ahhhh, google...

My 10:
1. I Have the Touch
2. Digging In The Dirt
3. Shock The Monkey
4. Sledgehammer
5. Mercy Street
6. This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds)
7. In Your Eyes
8. Come Talk To Me
9. Blood Of Eden
10. Oh, okay, I guess I'll say Solsbury Hill even though I think I've been overexposed to it to the point that I can't hear it very often

[Q] I heard a really cool version of In Your Eyes. What was it?
This one is frequently asked! It was probably one of these:

In Your Eyes [special mix] (7:14) - from various singles
In Your Eyes [live] (8:45) - from Say Anything promo
In Your Eyes [live] (9:32) - from Before Us promo

The two live versions are both edited from his PoV concert video. All of the above versions have extra lyrics.

[Q] So, what are these extra lyrics to In Your Eyes?
These are the extra lyrics:

[at the beginning]
Accepting all I've done and said
I want to stand and stare again
Til there's nothing left out, oh
It remains there in your eyes
Whatever comes and goes
I will hear your silent call
I will touch this tender wall
Til I know I'm home again

[at the end]

Accepting all I've done and said
I want to stand and stare again
Til there's nothing left out, oh
It remains there in your eyes
Whatever comes and goes
Oh, it's in your eyes

And yeah, on "Here Comes The Flood" Fripp/Gabriel > Gabriel/Fripp

i kinda lost interest in PG after SO but got the Hits compilation and am rally curious about his outside work. this site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gabriel_discography lists a whole bunch of guest appearances and soundtrack songs. which ones are good? what would a PO10 of those look like?

"Walk Through The Fire" is a pretty good song, if not particularly memorable. "I Go Swimming" is alright I guess, but I only know the version on Plays Live. I'm kindof interested in hearing the OVO album now since I discovered this wonderful song:

Some of "Up" is great - the opening track "Darkness" is great, kicks you in the head after a quiet start. I love it. "Barry Williams Show" is shite though.

I'll resist telling my "Peter gave props directly to my bf for his Shock the Monkey remix" story for the 12398493th time.

as far as the soundtrack/guest stuff goes:

Party Man is also pretty tight. the comments on this youtube homebrew are lol

xpost there's one other Frasier / Buchanan track on Ovo called 'Make Tomorrow'. not as wonderful as 'Downside-Up', but glad I heard it, the rest of the album is pretty bland

Darkness (from 'Up')
Digging In The Dirt (from 'Us')
Bashi-Bazouk (from 'Digging In The Dirt' single)
My Head Sounds Like That (from 'Up')
Downside-Up (from 'Ovo', Elizabeth Frazier, vocals)

Biko
Here Comes The Flood
I Have The Touch
The Rhythm Of The Heat
Games Without Frontiers
Big Time
Intruder
San Jacinto
I Don't Remember
Red Rain

xpost my post was strictly a post-So list. It's been years since I've needed to put on III or Security but I can still listen to the first two anytime

I'll try and pick 10 tho I really need to give the older stuff a much closer listen

That Voice Again
Darkness
Digging in the Dirt
Red Rain
More than This (the Elbow remix version)
Games without Frontiers
We do What We're Told
I Don't Remember
Downside-Up

...and that thing he did with Liz Fraser on the Millenium concert, I forget what it's called :|

"I Grieve" is a lovely (if sentimental) song that always surprises me whenever I stumble across it. I also love the Massive Attack remix of "Games Without Frontiers." And most of "Up" is pretty dark, challenging stuff that I don't think he got credit for upon its release, probably because "Barry Williams Show" sucks so hard.

"I Grieve" is maybe a little less sentimental than you think... the bridge is pretty explicitly called out as a fantasy at the end.

Up is a flat-out amazing record if you just remove "Barry Williams"

The goldfish gets me every time.

I guess the problem with BWS is it was meant to be some kind of pastiche of - was it televangelists? - and perhaps the stylistic choice was on purpose because of that but ick.

The "Growing Up" live DVD from that era is awesome, I love it when he does crazy wire work and things.

You mean the stuff about the dream? I'm not sure what to make of that. If he dreamed whatever loss he's singing about, then why does he need to grieve? Or was his dream that life carries on and on and on, and he's relieved that it does?

(x-post)

@Josh my read's always been that the uptempo "life carries on everywhere in everything" break is undercut by as the song returns to its theme. and the "news that truly shocks" verse is pretty inspired lyricizin'

@Trayce less televangelists than jerry springer (et al)... but Springer was always already a parody of the po-faced Povich style, and was already on the wane well before Up finally came out, so it just has the feel of something that's been getting stale in the can too long. Guess he just felt he needed to throw something in that sounded like a single?

Hmmm..

did i dream this belief?
or did i believe this dream?
now i can find relief
i grieve

I'd equally read that as asking "was their whole existence a dream?" and the relief thing being that they are at peace, maybe? Like, the death of an aging, very ill parent or somehting? I never really gave those lines thought in that way.

yes. it's ambivalent. negative capability and all that.

Anyone remember the proposed virtual reality theme park Gabriel was going to build in Spain (I think?) with Laurie Anderson and Brian Eno?

big ideas

How did I never do this?

1. "I Have the Touch"
2. "No Self-Control'
3. "I Don't Remember"
4. "Shock the Monkey"
5. "Family Snapshot"
6."Biko"
7. "Mercy Street"
8. "Digging in the Dirt"
9. "Intruder"
10. "Games Without Frontiers"

I'm fond of "Love Town," maybe the last good song he wrote.

top 10 PG songs (not counting shit from passion):

10) lead a normal life
9) shock the monkey
8) red rain
7) here comes the flood
6) dont give up <3 kate bush
5) in your eyes
4) games without frontiers
3) biko
2) mercy street
1) solsbury hill

― max, Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:36 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

top 10 tracks on passion:

10) wall of breath
9) it is accomplished
8) zaar
7) lazarus raised
6) of these, hope (reprise)
5) sandstorm
4) open
3) a different drum
2) bread and wine
1) passion

― max, Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:42 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think i switched out shock the monkey for san jacinto later

Could've sworn I'd done this.

10. Mother of Violence
9. Here Comes the Flood
8. San Jacinto
7. Moribund the Burgermeister
6. Solsbury Hill
5. Not One of Us
4. I Don't Remember
3. Wallflower
2. Family Snapshot
1. Humdrum

Yeah, I distinctly remember you doing this, Noodle. I think there was another thread I started along similar but more specific lines or something.

Since everyone else forgot to include it.

1. "Sledgehammer"
2. interest wanes

I loved "Sledgehammer" at the time, but it just hasn't aged well for me.

I forgot to follow up on my original request. I went ahead and sifted through his post-"So" work and realized he's put out a wealth of one-off and compilation tracks. I reconfigured the otherwise good "Hit" best-of by removing the stuff up until "So" (because you should have it all anyway) and came up with this much improved version:

Disc 1:
1. A Different Drum
2. Here Comes The Flood (new version)
3. Love To Be Loved
4. Steam
5. Washing Of The Water
6. Lovetown
7. I Have The Touch (Robbie Robertson mix)
8. Father, Son
9. The Tower That Ate People (Steve Osbourne mix)
10. Cloudless
11. Growing Up (Tom Lord-Alge mix)
12. More Than This (radio edit)
13. Signal To Noise
14. The Drop
15. Burn You Up, Burn You Down
16. Downside Up (live)

Disc 2:
1. Blood Of Eden (soundtrack mix)
2. Summertime
3. Party Man (with The Worldbeaters)
4. Suzanne
5. In The Sun
6. I Grieve (soundtrack version)
7. That'll Do
8. Nocturnals
9. When You're Falling (Afro Celt Sound System)
10. Games Without Frontiers (with Massive Attack)
11. Animal Nation
12. Darkness
13. The Book Of Love (soundtrack version)
14. Down To Earth
15. Whole Thing

Here's 25 of my favorites.

that's a great selection

except it's 'walk through the fire'

Unless you meant 'And Through The Wire'

Does the opening of Kanye's Feedback off TLOP sample the creepy Fairlight from San Jacinto? Homage? Coincidence?