Peter Gabriel Solo

I love Peter but I'd have to concur... saw him on the So tour and again at an Amnesty International show and he was rather clunky, and the music didn't have the depth I'd hoped for either.. but that goes for almost every artist. The Secret World Live set, however, sounds fantastic

The Lost Chord wrote: A B Negative wrote: The first 4 studio albums and Plays Live are superb. So has a couple of songs I like but the following albums don't interest me at all.   I used to feel the exact same way, until i decided to throw on Us...and by god, its my favorite album now, despite the sometimes "gay 80s" sound it has, it is amazing! "digging in the dirt, stay with me i need support..." amazing melody

Exactly what is "gay 80s" and why is that a bad thing?

*cough*YAWN......*cough*

The Lost Chord wrote: A B Negative wrote: The first 4 studio albums and Plays Live are superb. So has a couple of songs I like but the following albums don't interest me at all.   I used to feel the exact same way, until i decided to throw on Us...and by god, its my favorite album now, despite the sometimes "gay 80s" sound it has, it is amazing! "digging in the dirt, stay with me i need support..." amazing melody

Gabriel is great and always will be.



Phil Collins however....I think we all know the sh*tty things he's done.

The man stands alone in a world full of copycats.  Say what you will about him but his music is always challenging and innovative.  And his "hits" were the result of the public finding him, not him writing something he thought would be a "chart-topper."

Peter Gabriel is as close as it gets to my having a hero in life! I have pretty much bought every one of his albums as they have come out, and aside from PG2 which is really pretty poor, everything else he has done has been from commendable to truly outstanding. My favourite album has to be PG4, for me the only one of his albums which feels like a whole from beginning to end and without any flaws, his earlier releases were let down by at least one below par song, and in the case of PG2, over half the album!
Of his more recent work, Up is probably my favourite, although Passion, the soundtrack for Martin Scorsese's film "Jesus Christ" is awesome.

I love all of his albums, especially So!

In the seventies, I completely identified with PG. I loved Genesis, and when his first solo album came out, I thought it was a masterpiece. But the third and fourth were even greater. PG going avant-garde, wow!

Then, at the end of the seventies, I twice saw him live. Each time he was unbearably arrogant, and the way he moved about on stage was incredibly clumsy. My idol turned out to have clay feet! When his solo albums got more commercial, I rather lost interest. Although I must admit there are a couple of fine tunes on each of them, there is a lot of irritating nonsense as well. For example, I can't bear 'Sledgehammer'. Everytime they're playing it in a shopping mall or so, I make straight for the exit.

More generally, I got fed up with the pathos in PG's voice as well. And to make things worse, it seems PG was closely involved in one of the greatest pseudo-cultural fiascos in recent British history: the Millenium Dome, one of Tony Blair's most reviled projects! Alas, how the mighty are fallen...

let's not forget 'So' was one of the most mind-blowing albums, when listened to as a whole, in pop history.







Edited by Atavachron - March 04 2007 at 22:11