When is Peter Gabriel not Peter Gabriel??

I thought this might be of interest to Peter Gabriel fans. I heard this song on the car radio years ago in Boston and was convinced that it was sung by Gabriel, so I went crazy to find the album it was on, including the early self titled albums and Gabriel's movie sound tracks, but no luck.

Edited by RayRo - November 06 2015 at 13:47

Burdon.

dr wu23 wrote: Well...I know that album from the old days because I liked the Animals and Sky pilot and Monterey are on it. But it does sound a little like an early Genesis track that could have been on the very first album Genesis To Revelation.

I must admit that I've never heard the first Genesis album and it seems to be regarded as a "turkey". Even here on PA it seems. Does anyone on PA recommend the album From Genesis to Revelation? 

"Genesis To Revelation" their first album, a great debut and a terribly underrated album. Peter Gabriel's voice immediately grabs you and takes you into a world full of wonderful and beautiful songs filled with imagery and relaxing moods. If you're going to compare, the sound and style of this debut album it is somewhat similar to the Moody Blues if any. Considering they were only 17 or 18 when they made this album is quite an impressive collection of songs filled with a certain naivete and innocence, yet beautiful.
But don't judge this album by what Genesis became, but as the beginning of an incredible and successful musical journey.

Rando wrote: "Genesis To Revelation" their first album, a great debut and a terribly underrated album. Peter Gabriel's voice immediately grabs you and takes you into a world full of wonderful and beautiful songs filled with imagery and relaxing moods. If you're going to compare, the sound and style of this debut album it is somewhat similar to the Moody Blues if any. Considering they were only 17 or 18 when they made this album is quite an impressive collection of songs filled with a certain naivete and innocence, yet beautiful. But don't judge this album by what Genesis became, but as the beginning of an incredible and successful musical journey.

Well, I'll definitely give it a try. My father was a big Moodies fan and the song Legend of a Mind  from their second album used to scare the Bejesus out of me. A six year old hearing "Timothy Leary's dead. No, no he's outside looking in" is probably why I have a very cautious but guarded attraction to Prog Rock today.

When he is...

Rando wrote: "Genesis To Revelation" their first album, a great debut and a terribly underrated album. Peter Gabriel's voice immediately grabs you and takes you into a world full of wonderful and beautiful songs filled with imagery and relaxing moods. If you're going to compare, the sound and style of this debut album it is somewhat similar to the Moody Blues if any. Considering they were only 17 or 18 when they made this album is quite an impressive collection of songs filled with a certain naivete and innocence, yet beautiful. But don't judge this album by what Genesis became, but as the beginning of an incredible and successful musical journey.

I don't think that's really the case at all.. I agree with Son of Tiresias; there are many little hints of later Genesis (the little snippet/ riff which later became 'Twighlight Alehouse' for instance) and they were very young and lots of the production decisions were taken away from them by Jonathan King (such as the string arrangements). I think that despite what many think about From Genesis to Revelation, it was an important and necessary step in their development, if only in part that it made them realise that they only really wanted to make the music that they wanted to make.

People told me how much they didn't like the first Genesis album, and you know what, I never really gave it a chance until about two days ago (and I have liked the band since the late 70s).   It's good pop for the time period.  

I love to talk about the Proto-Prog period.

I am going to use some of the following for an article I'm writing on some Proto-Prog subjects: 

It's one thing when a Proto-Prog band throws in a little bit of classical on top of a language that is still almost entirely blues based.  So far, that seems to be what the Collectors are doing.  I have just heard of them now and the blues harmonica is putting me off.   It's another thing when most of the structure of their music is in a classical direction or the combination of both which we call Prog.  It doesn't really matter if they are writing it all themselves (1^st King Crimson) or are using another living person working with them (Axelrod with the Prunes) or just doing a rock version of a classical work (A Lover's Concerto by the Toys).  It still gives a very different feeling from listening to an album that has a moment or even more of classical, but then the rest of the vibe comes back to blues-based rock.