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Intruder 
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Posted: August 14 2006 at 04:29 |
A true artist....Gabriel just keeps getting better! His latest record is as dense and deep as anything he's ever recorded.
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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rupert
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Posted: August 11 2006 at 10:20 |
 Jmoog wrote:
Possessed wrote:
You want to know how I really feel?
Peter Gabriel peaked with Genesis on The Lamb. Everything else he did solo is OK but cannot compare with his time in Genesis. |
Unfortunatley I have to agree with this assessment. I love Peter Gabriel but with a handful of exceptions I don't think he was ever as good as a solo artist as he was with Genesis.
Just my two cents. |
I cannot agree, honestly, Gabriel's fourth album is very strong, as was, in a rather commercial way, SO, and UP is really a masterpiece I see up there with the old Genesis...
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Jmoog
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 14:53 |
Possessed wrote:
You want to know how I really feel?
Peter Gabriel peaked with Genesis on The Lamb. Everything else he did solo is OK but cannot compare with his time in Genesis. |
Unfortunatley I have to agree with this assessment. I love Peter Gabriel but with a handful of exceptions I don't think he was ever as good as a solo artist as he was with Genesis.
Just my two cents.
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gong
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 13:51 |
great artist Peter Gabriel is an awesome brand name now, so, very,very long time ago, he left Genesis 'cause it was nothing more than his personal band.
i like old Genesis so much, of corse!,my fav is Trespass album.
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GPFR
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 12:17 |
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Peter Gabriel is Great!
Then: Each genesis album he was with just kept getting better and better until he finaly peeked on The Lamb, my fav. Gabriel Era album. Absoulutley amazing lyrics and vocals on his part.
Now: Up is an effin brilliant album! I never really cared for much else of his work, Except for PG 1/3.
"Signal to Noise"=Perhaps the most Brilliant song ever!
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Possessed
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 12:05 |
You want to know how I really feel?
Peter Gabriel peaked with Genesis on The Lamb. Everything else he did solo is OK but cannot compare with his time in Genesis.
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rupert
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Posted: August 03 2006 at 11:20 |
Peter is simply great, he was great with Genesis and later on, solo, though I think of his first two solo-albums as "not mature" ( I love the fourth, So, Us/Secret World Live and, especially, UP, which sums it up together ). A brilliant artist. 
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Raff
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Posted: August 03 2006 at 00:58 |
Time for some blasphemy now...  I readily admit to preferring PG's solo output to what he did with Genesis (with the exception of SEbtP, one of my all-time favourite albums). I saw him live in 1983, and he was awesome - he'd just released his fourth solo album, my favourite, which contains some of his best tracks, such as "San Jacinto" and "The Family and the Fishing Net".
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Teaflax
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Posted: August 02 2006 at 17:47 |
The Lost Chord wrote:
discontempt.
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Interesting coinage. What's it supposed to mean?
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Philéas
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Posted: August 02 2006 at 17:33 |
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I have only listened to Peter Gabriel's three first albums. I really
like them. I have the fourth aswell, and will check it out soon.
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A B Negative
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Posted: August 02 2006 at 11:02 |
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I love the first four PG albums (and Plays Live) but So isn't as interesting. Red Rain is a superb song, and I really like Sledgehammer, but I can't stand Don't Give Up. I can't remember any of the other songs, that shows how much of an impression they made. After So there hasn't been anything to get me interested again.
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Dragon Phoenix
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Posted: August 02 2006 at 07:53 |
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My all-time favourite artist.
Best albums: So, PG4, PG3, Up (all ***** for me)
Best songs:
Biko
Blood of Eden
Darkness
Don't give up (with Kate Bush)
Family snapshot - live
Father, Son
Growing up
Here comes the flood
I grieve
In your eyes
Mercy street
No way out
Red rain
San Jacinto - live
Signal to noise
Sky blue
Suzanne
The rhythm of the heat - live
Wallflower
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Losendos
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Posted: August 02 2006 at 07:47 |
PG has enormous artistic creativity and integrity . One of few artists not victimised by the 80s
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How wonderful to be so profound
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cuncuna
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Posted: August 01 2006 at 23:57 |
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Peter Gabriel took the necessary step to avoid finding himself doing the same thing over and over again. I respect that, since a true artist is always questioning the meaning of Art. On the other hand, mr. Banks...
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¡Beware of the Bee!
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rushfan6588
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Posted: August 01 2006 at 23:47 |
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if youre looking to discover what all peter has to offer i suggest the Hit compellation...gives a solid overview of his career not only from a comercially sucessful standpoint but also songs that he personally selected as favorites
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If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice.
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Mongo
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Posted: August 01 2006 at 23:42 |
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A true artist.
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"The options are ever fewer on the ground these days" Fish
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Cristi
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Posted: August 01 2006 at 13:12 |
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Peter Gabriel is an amazing musician, inspired and most important a non-comformist. The P. Gabriel era Genesis was genious (still is because people still enjoy and love the music). What else can I say? Gabriel is an artist thet never disappointed me, I love his music which is always a challenge to the one who listens.The 1969-1974 works of genesis are timeless.
Edited by Cristi - August 01 2006 at 13:14
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Posted: July 27 2006 at 15:07 |
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Of his solo material, I only have III, So, Us, and Up, but I must say that Us and particularily Up are absolutely stunning albums. Us is almost world music at times featuring Manu Katche on percussion and is an album about relationships according to the liner notes. It has a lot of beautiful songs, but a couple of turds (Namely Steam) IMO, the best song on it is Only Us (with TL putting his very magical touch of gold on bass)
Up is just as beautiful, but in a different way. It is his best album and also almost stands up to his 70's era Genesis periood (but not quite) The best songs on it for me are Darkness, My Head Sounds Like That, Signal To Noise, and The Drop (the latter being the most beautiful song PG has ever written)
PG as an artist has covered a massive range of sounds and styles and kept the quality up throughout 4 decades
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Iron throated monsters are forcing the screams;
Mind and machinery box-press our dreams
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mgallard
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Posted: July 27 2006 at 14:25 |
Chicapah wrote:
It's hard for me to name that many artists who have kept the quality of their work at such a high level for so many decades like Peter has. |
Gabriel is one, Hackett another... hard to think of others... Mogens
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Chicapah
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Posted: July 27 2006 at 14:08 |
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It's hard for me to name that many artists who have kept the quality of their work at such a high level for so many decades like Peter has. He has stayed true to himself all the way through. I recently re-viewed a concert that aired on the Disney Channel from his "US" tour in the late 80s and it still holds up extremely well. He is one of a kind and we have been fortunate to have had his music enlighten us for so long. I hope someday to see him in person.
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