Peter Gabriel's "UP"

UP is my favorite Peter Gabriel. I think it's his best. Every song is incredible with my favorite being Signal to Noise.

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There are some excellent songs, some good songs, some pretty good songs.  Give the guy credit for not just churning out pop drivel like many of the artists his age.

Nice and dark, something Peter Gabriel has always been good at I believe.

Simply my favorite Gabriel album... The DVD from that tour is also one hell of a treat !!!

progcabaretdoll wrote: Production-wise, it's excellent but Gabriel's voice in this album is abit less than stellar. BUT I've seen the Warm-up Tour clips on youtube, his voice sounds better than ever! Hopefully I/O comes out sooooon.   I like all the songs on Up except More Than This  (urghhh/blah mediocre pop song) and also, I actually thought The Barry Williams Show is one of his better songs on the album.

Oh, whats wrong with more than this?

mystic fred wrote: great album - that first track is a bit of a shock though   thought my stereo had freaked out first time i heard it!

V.Good. Similar in feel to 3 & 4 (Dark and cold...ish)

I like the first half of the album. But I usually get annoyed about 90 seconds into The Barry Williams Show and turn it off.

progcabaretdoll wrote: Floydian42 wrote: progcabaretdoll wrote: Production-wise, it's excellent but Gabriel's voice in this album is abit less than stellar. BUT I've seen the Warm-up Tour clips on youtube, his voice sounds better than ever! Hopefully I/O comes out sooooon.   I like all the songs on Up except More Than This  (urghhh/blah mediocre pop song) and also, I actually thought The Barry Williams Show is one of his better songs on the album. Oh, whats wrong with more than this?   I find it a really mediocre/generic pop song, I'm sorry but this ditty seems to be more appropriate for a Backstreet Boys album. "More than this, more than this, more than this.." repetitive and annoying. And what happen to his vocals? He sounds as if he's tired singing. Believe me if I said I tried liking it but I always end up hating it.    Luckily, there's only one bad song on Up.

I can see where you'd get at it being a Generic tune, but I think it works. The sound is complete, which is good for me since the openness of "My Head sounds like that" which had potential, but I think was the worst song on the album. Nothing happened! It didn't even build, and I think the vocal was definitely worse then anything in More Than this. I think trying to keep everything complex and needing to pay attention to everything going on is bad for an album. Now and then you need a break. But even still, there are plenty of filling subtleties that I enjoy. And the repetetive "More Than this" I think was a good ending, with the slowly building music in the background. Worked with the meaning.