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Originally posted by efoman2 efoman2 wrote:

I'm a bit confused. Genesis is such a popular band on this site, and rightly so. But when it comes to their frontman, one of the most colorful stage performers, one of the most creative composers, one of the most innovative artists, and one of the most successful musical pioneers in the history of music....nobody has anything to say. Peter Gabriel and his music are a "one off" experience. There is nothing else like it. And the fact that he has had chart success only makes his story more astounding, because his music, when compared to other music on the charts, was some seriously weird crap!!  
Yet his albums get fairly mediocre ratings on here. The threads get largely ignored.  It doesn't affect my personal life or anything, but....I just don't don't get it.
Gabriel is an "other-worldly" experience...in a good way. His music has "progressed" more than anyone's. Surely that has to be as important and vital as someone singing about knights and playing in pointlessly convoluted time signatures.

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I think people don't respond to his solo career because it isn't the archetype prog music he was making before. Unfortunately some people can only listen to that stuff or the music that emulates it to the point it's boring.

Exactly!

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Mostly the first and third albums; the songs from those.
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I've been loving PG's music these days.

Love to do an updated top 10. (No order. )


1) rhythm of the heat
2) Wallflower
3) the humdrum
4) Biko
5) The Tower That Ate people
6) Sky Blue
7) sledgehammer
8) Growing Up
9) signal to noise
10) this is the picture
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There are so many great PG songs, from his first 3-4 albums, but I'm going to settle on one.

It was about 1977 and I was in high school.  The world was a horrible miasma of Bee gees, Sherbet, disco, Abba, Fleetwood Mac and such.

Then one night on the telly there is this guy jerking up an escalator wearing a hockey mask (which in hindsight  he borrowed from John Cale), and he's screaming about passion and stuff that actually made me feel something.

So
 
1. Modern Love
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Solsbury Hill
Moribund the Burgermeister
Here Comes the Flood
White Shadow
Modern Love.
Red Rain
Biko
Family Snapshot
Not One of Us
And Through the Wire

....lots of others, but those 10 initially spring to mind. Car and Melt are near perfect albums... even Excuse Me brings a smile to my face!
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Solsbury Hill
In Your Eyes
Games Without Frontiers
Biko
Don't Give Up
Red Rain
Shock the Monkey
Big Time
Mercy Street
San Jacinto
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A few that I really enjoy from Pete's solo career

Solsbury Hill
Shock the Monkey
In Your Eyes
Biko
Games Without Frontiers
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^Glad to see a few of us (3) with The Family and the Fishing Net not only on our list, but as number 1. It's an ignored song in discussions, but it has lots of changes in its arrangement like Old Genesis while combining with it a world music sound. I've always regarded it as Symph Prog with a different vision, fabulous track.

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My top 4 make up half of the album Security and half of my top 10 are from that album:

1. The Family and the Fishing Net
2. San Jacinto
3. Lay Your Hands on Me
4. Wallflower
5. Family Snapshot
6. Blood of Eden
7. Biko
8. Here Comes the Flood
9. Intruder
10.Rhythm of the Heat
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1. The Family and the Fishing Net
2. Of These, Hope
3. The Rhythm of the Heat
4. San Jacinto
5. The Feeling Begins
6. Lay Your Hands On Me
7. I Have the Touch
8. Biko
9. Solsbury Hill
10. Games Without Frontiers

Honorable mention: Mother of Violence
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To choose only 10 was rather difficult for me. So I'll try:

1. San Jacinto (Plays Live)
2. White Shadow
3. Here Comes The Flood
4. Waiting for the Big One
5. Downside Up
6. Signal to Noise
7. Lay Your Hands on Me
8. This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds)
9. The Tower That Ate People
10. Secret World
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1. Modern Love
2. Down The Dolce Vita
3. Games Without Frontiers
4. Biko
5. Intruder
6. Moribund The Burgermeister
7. San Jacinto
8. That Voice again
9. The rythm of the heat
10. On The Air

I seem to be the only one around that thinks that Modern Love is an amazing song.
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Some of my favorite Peter Gabriel tracks:

Digging In The Dirt.
Mercy Street.
Exposure.
Darkness.
Zaar.
Quiet Steam.
Signal To Noise.
At Night.
Passion.
Intruder.
Dressing The Wound.
Lead A Normal Life.
The Drop.
My Body Is A Cage.



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1. San Jacinto
2. Humdrum
3. Wallflower
4. Mother Of Violence
5. I Have The Touch
6. I Go Swimming
7. Secret World
8. Come Talk To Me
9. Only Us
10. Lead A Normal Life
11. Biko
12. White Shadow
 
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1. Solsbury Hill
2. San Jacinto
3. Moribund the Burgermeister
4. Washing of the Water
5. On the Air
6. Exposure (Robert Fripp album version)
7. Family Snapshot
8. Red Rain
9. Digging in the Dirt
10. White Shadow
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1. Solsbury Hill
2. Moribund the Burgermeister
3. Don't give up
4. In your eyes
5. Mercy street
6. Family Snapshot
7. Secret world
8. Here comes the flood (16 golden greats version)
9. San Jacinto
10. Red rain
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No ranking, except #1 Games Without Frontiers.
Red Rain, On The Air, It Is Accomplished, Sledgehammer, No Self-Control, Here Comes The Flood, Moribund The Burgermeister, Lead A Normal Life, San Jacinto.
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1. The Family and the Fishing Net
2. Moribund the Burgermeister
3. Here Comes the Flood
4. Games Without Frontiers
5. Sledgehammer
6. Down the Dolce Vita
7. Biko
8. Kiss of Life
9. Solsbury Hill
10. Slowburn
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Down the dolce vitta
Moribund the burgermeister
Here comes the flood
On the air (Live)
Not one of us (Live)
Biko (Live)
San Jacinto (Live)
Shock the monkey
Red rain
Digging in the dyrt

Not particular order
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Originally posted by progbethyname progbethyname wrote:

 
Darkness


Good pick! I love that he revisits the big Mellotron sound; although I believe it's actually a synth on this track.
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