New album is called "Big Blue Balls"!!
― King Boy Pato, Monday, 10 March 2008 07:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Here Comes The Flood
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 28 February 2009 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn306/Floridian_20/GabrielCatII.jpg
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 28 February 2009 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 28 February 2009 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Peter Gabriel is even more heavenly than Brian Eno, and that's saying something.
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 28 February 2009 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Here Comes The Flood― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You)
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You)
Here comes the late-night revive of the borderline goth thread by drunken Bimble, amirite?
― ilxor, Sunday, 1 March 2009 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
hahahahah too right
― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 1 March 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
― Still More Goth Than Your Cat's Asshole (Bimble), Sunday, 1 March 2009 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
HCTF = epic
― cutty, Sunday, 1 March 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
whoa kate in the clip
― cutty, Sunday, 1 March 2009 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― mitya, Sunday, 1 March 2009 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
san jacinto KILLIN me right now
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 2 April 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
BLAST FROM THE PAST:
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Thursday, 2 April 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it just me, or does Pete look more than a little like Ed Helms in that HCTF clip?
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 2 April 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
SAN JACINTO SAN JACINTO
― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Monday, 6 April 2009 08:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Just to take me to heaven on that live album, goddamnit, wings, take me...take me there
― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Monday, 6 April 2009 08:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Solsbury Hill.
― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Monday, 6 April 2009 08:29 (fifteen years ago) link
HERE COMES THE FLOOD
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
"White Shadow" is awesome! Are there any other songs in this world where pedal steel sounds so epic?
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Thursday, 5 November 2009 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
not a rhetorical question btw
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Thursday, 5 November 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:04 (ten years ago) link
It's a good'n'.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
Sharing "your eyes" with a stranger at a bar
― calstars, Saturday, 27 September 2014 03:39 (nine years ago) link
It must be hard holding that jukebox up over your head.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 27 September 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
Someone tell Axl that it has been 12 years since the last Peter Gabriel album of original material.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 November 2014 14:30 (nine years ago) link
he said recently maybe he'll be done soon. yeah right!
― akm, Friday, 7 November 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
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/
― pilate is my cogod (Crabbits), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 00:58 (nine years ago) link
Aw he's a good guy
Birdy ost is my favorite pg album now. No words just vibes for miles.
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
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)
― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 14 December 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
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
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 18:27 (eight years ago) link
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.
― dinnerboat, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 18:48 (eight years ago) link
Riding Pernwaves
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link
Well then:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_OtfstmDgo
― doug watson, Thursday, 16 June 2016 15:05 (eight years ago) link
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."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
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
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 16 June 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
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).
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2016 16:43 (eight years ago) link
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.
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 16 June 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
can't bring myself to go see him with Sting this year, but yeah the So tour was amazing.
― akm, Friday, 17 June 2016 11:44 (eight years ago) link
i thought he'd done quite a lot to not be thought of in the same breath as Sting these days, ah well
― PaulTMA, Friday, 17 June 2016 11:57 (eight years ago) link
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.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 June 2016 12:26 (eight years ago) link
Huh? What tour was that? The boring orchestra tour behind the boring orchestra albums?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2016 12:33 (eight years ago) link
Growing Up Live, was it?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 June 2016 12:44 (eight years ago) link
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
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2016 13:22 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:07 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link
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.
― dinnerboat, Friday, 17 June 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link
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".
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 17 June 2016 18:13 (eight years ago) link
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.
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 17 June 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link
Us is tremendous and stands with his best work imo.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 17 June 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
This album is pretty great. I guess what happens when you take 22 years between records is that a lot of people move on and stop paying attention?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 01:48 (six months ago) link
There's at least a handful of albums I can think of that are like that, where I immediately enjoy them and wonder if I'm misjudging the quality, only to realize that it's been over a full decade, maybe even two, and it's likely the artist was able to stockpile or carefully sculpt an album's worth of solid material thanks to the extra time.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 02:47 (six months ago) link
I still don't know how to respond to this album
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 03:02 (six months ago) link
Which in and of itself is an intriguing response.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 03:56 (six months ago) link
is there like a dark and light album im afraid to get involved
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 04:01 (six months ago) link
I didn't get much out of the singles as they were released, but spending time with the album as a whole, I've come to look past some of the PG-in-a-can grooves and melodies and enjoy it for what it is. His late albums (from Ovo onwards) are a different beast from what came before, slower, more reflective, less experimental, more focused on the message than on chasing exciting sounds. I also think his self-production (or "perfectionism") tends to bury the musicians in murk. But accepting all that, his voice is still great, and some of these songs have grown on me: Four Horses, Love Can Heal, even This is Home.
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 13 December 2023 14:55 (six months ago) link
I really like that you can hear a lot of live Manu this time as opposed to the loop-heavy stuff
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 13 December 2023 17:05 (six months ago) link
was not expecting "road to joy" to sound so scritti politti
― ufo, Thursday, 14 December 2023 08:32 (six months ago) link
this is such a 90s-album-by-80s-star album
― ufo, Thursday, 14 December 2023 09:12 (six months ago) link
it's definitely better than i expected, though inconsistent and the tracks tend towards being longer than they need to be (though that's long been the case with him). very possibly his best in over 30 years regardless
truly do not understand the point of the two mixes and the release strategy didn't do him any favours
― ufo, Thursday, 14 December 2023 09:48 (six months ago) link
― ufo, Thursday, December 14, 2023 4:12 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
love this record but will begrudgingly admit that this is otm
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 14 December 2023 12:51 (six months ago) link
^^this
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 14 December 2023 13:02 (six months ago) link
it's like exactly the album he would have put out in 1997 or so
― ufo, Thursday, 14 December 2023 13:07 (six months ago) link
other things "road to joy" reminds me of: music from the spyro games, nine inch nails in a major key
― ufo, Thursday, 14 December 2023 13:30 (six months ago) link
"i'm afraid of americans"
― ufo, Thursday, 14 December 2023 13:33 (six months ago) link
There are a few songs on this album that definitely echo other Peter Gabriel records, or at least the last two. Again, probably because he reportedly started this one in 1995! As early as 2000 Gabriel was saying that "i/o" was supposed to be a quick follow-up to "Up."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 14:01 (six months ago) link
Especially interesting because Up came out in 2002.
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 December 2023 14:31 (six months ago) link
Yeah. People forget, Up came 10 years after Us, and people were complaining that *that* one was taking too long!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 December 2023 14:33 (six months ago) link
i think i slightly prefer the dark-side mixes but not enough to justify the gimmick.
― kissinger on my list (voodoo chili), Thursday, 14 December 2023 14:40 (six months ago) link
I'm just glad he didn't release it as this:
https://www.stemplayer.com
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 14 December 2023 14:48 (six months ago) link
wish it were a little weirder maybe, but this album is good! it's also poppier than I expected: I can remember many of the choruses after two listens
― Vinnie, Saturday, 16 December 2023 13:16 (six months ago) link
As fairly casual fan (I listened to So a lot when I was 8, and that’s about it) the songs here seem more interesting and accessible than anything else I’ve heard post-So
I’m not sure I get the “90s record” reference - it sounds more like a sheen-y 2010s album to me. It’s missing that “someone’s just heard NIN for the first time” vibe
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 16 December 2023 15:07 (six months ago) link
So as a record for eight-year-olds kinda jibes with my feelings about PG.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 25 May 2024 12:26 (one month ago) link
lol what
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 May 2024 12:45 (one month ago) link
Kids Bop version of Mercy Street
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 25 May 2024 15:44 (one month ago) link
in your daddy's arms
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 25 May 2024 16:26 (one month ago) link
what 8 year old wants to sing "we do what we're told to do"
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 25 May 2024 22:05 (one month ago) link
Not gonna happen in this century
― sawdust lagoon, Saturday, 25 May 2024 23:24 (one month ago) link
So I listened to So a lot when I was 8 or 9 because every kid loved the Sledgehammer video. And it was one of four CDs my parents owned (the others were Brothers in Arms, Equinoxe and Marriage of Figaro)
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 25 May 2024 23:50 (one month ago) link
All I remember about Peter Gabriel when I was a growing up was thinking he was the middle-aged guy who crooned "In Your Eyes." Later on when I found out he was in Genesis (who I associated with "We Can't Dance") and saw a picture of them back in the '70s with Gabriel in complete make-up and costume, it was like "wuuuut?"
― birdistheword, Sunday, 26 May 2024 17:14 (one month ago) link