Peter Gabriel Solo

*cough*prog related*cough*

The guys a genius, Up ranks in one of my all time favorite albums ever! Also, if there's any one live DVD to get, it's Growing Up. I can't get enough of it! With So, the guy had a way of bringing Commercial elements to his music without loosing his fan base. His voice is constantly getting better, his shows are exciting, his band is always both skilled and tight. And too top it all off he's got plenty of Fresh ideas left to express.

(The only Negatives: Sometimes I'm embarrassed to like the guy who wrote Animal Nation and Kiss that Frog )

What more is there to say?


Edited by Floydian42 - March 04 2007 at 20:57

Floydian42 wrote: The guys a genius, Up ranks in one of my all time favorite albums ever! Also, if there's any one live DVD to get, it's Growing Up. I can't get enough of it! With So, the guy had a way of bringing Commercial elements to his music without loosing his fan base. His voice is constantly getting better, his shows are exciting, his band is always both skilled and tight. And too top it all off he's got plenty of Fresh ideas left to express. (The only Negatives: Sometimes I'm embarrassed to like the guy who wrote Animal Nation and Kiss that Frog )What more is there to say?

Excellent. UP and GROWING UP are my favorite. I love what Gabriel did with UP and it is definitely my favorite from him. I can't wait for I/O to come out.

Gabriel is the chameleon of progressive and/or progressive related music. You really can't tell what he's going to do next.

I've got everything from So to Up, but am starting to delve into the early stuff. Picked up PG 1 last summer. Need to work on getting the others.

In a nutshell, I think the man is pretty much a genius and very eclectic. A lot of variences with him. It's just too bad he's not participating with the Genesis reunion with Hackett. I think that would turn the music world upside down.

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I own the album with "Steam," that's pretty sweet...it's also like a who's who of art rock (in case you've never looked at the "who worked on this album" bit).

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

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...

I love all of his albums, especially So!

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.

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."