Rank Gabriel's albums...
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Topic: Rank Gabriel's albums...
Posted By: The T
Subject: Rank Gabriel's albums...
Date Posted: March 07 2007 at 13:43
I only have 4 of P. Gabriel albums,  , but I'll start by ranking them in order of preference:
1. Up - progressive rock, art rock without doubt. A mature piece of art.
2. So - underrated, I don't see where the "pop" accusations come from (other than slegdehammer maybe, and Big time, but even those songs are good pop)
3. 3 ("Melt"), slightly overrated for me, is good, but there are some tracks that look like fillers to me.
4. Us - weak, very weak. In this case I couldn't go against the flow, it's a weak album. This is the pop one , more so than SO.
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: March 07 2007 at 16:24
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1. Peter Gabriel 3 - Melt 2. Peter Gabriel 4 - Security 3. Secret World Live 4. Up 5. Plays Live 6. Peter Gabriel 2 - Scratch 7. Passion. 8. Peter Gabriel 1 - Car 9. Us 10. So 11. Ovo 12. Long Walk Home 13. Birdy ------------- 
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: March 07 2007 at 21:49
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2 Security UP 3 Passion So Us 1 |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: March 08 2007 at 08:21
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Don't have Up, but I know most of the rest well. My fave of his is the Shaking The Tree best of, but anyway..
3
Us
So
4- Security
Passion
2
1
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 08 2007 at 08:25
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: March 08 2007 at 08:28
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- 4 (Security) - Up - 3 (Melt) - Plays Live - Shaking the Tree - So |
Posted By: Maga
Date Posted: March 13 2007 at 00:15
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i hate them all! lol im kidding please dont attack me ------------- "be honest and unmerciful" |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 22:27
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I only really care for 2 of them - Gabriel's 3rd one, in my opinion, ranks with his best work in Genesis, & So is as good as "modern" serious rock gets. The rest, really it's pick & choose. None held me in thrall from beginning to end. |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 22:30
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3 Up Plays Live 1 Security So 2 Us Can't put OVO on there yet as I haven't listened to it enough... ------------- 
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Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 22:57
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3 - One of the best albums ever recorded (not overrated).
1 - Amazing considering this was the first thing he did after Genesis. He took a completely new direction from the start. Security - Almost as good as 3 Up - Probably the densest thing I have ever heard. It takes a while to open up. So - Almost as good as Security Us - Yeah, he was a bit off his game on this one, but still a very good album. 2 - Transitional, and contains some very good music. I just get a bit bored by the end. No matter what, I wouldn't part with any of them. ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: March 19 2007 at 11:58
3 (Melt) and well thats all i got and im not planing to buy anything more since its his best i feel the other stuff is probobly not worth it i liked it when i bought it very much but got fast tierd of it.
If i however buy anything more it will probobly be 4. (but first i must buy all 40+ Peter Hammill solo albums wich i find much more intresting, i got everything up til and including "silent corner and empty stage" so far, next stop "in camera".  )
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Posted By: tuxon
Date Posted: March 19 2007 at 23:36
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basicaly it's not very good really. still enjoy I, Melt an So though, OVO was quite nice ------------- I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT |
Posted By: pianoman
Date Posted: March 21 2007 at 17:43
I only have Up (which is very good by the way ) and SO (which is okay)
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Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 12:15
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3
1
2
Plays Live
4 (Deutsches album)
4
I had So but I only liked a couple of songs, it should have been called So-So! It put me off listening to any of his subsequent albums.
I have the German language version of 4 which I prefer to the English version. ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 21 2007 at 20:10
------------- What? |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: June 23 2007 at 19:09
| Up is my favorite, then Passion. Haven't heard the others in a while so I can't rank them at the moment. |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: June 24 2007 at 01:33
| The first four albums, from which Plays Live gets its material, are his best. Saw him live in LA at the Greek Theatre in the early 1908s. The man was (is still?) quite the showman! Made me wish I had been old enough to see him at some European venue when he was touring with Genesis in those early years... |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: July 02 2007 at 12:36
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3
4
So
1
Passion
2
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: July 02 2007 at 12:42
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4
3
Us
Up
1
Ovo
2
So ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: July 02 2007 at 14:40
| I've always felt Gabriel's output had the pattern good album, poor album, good album poor album etc. |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: July 02 2007 at 14:42
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So
Up
4
1
3
2
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Posted By: An old fart
Date Posted: July 02 2007 at 14:43
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1. Us (Am I the only one to appreciate this most? I think it's his best album as a whole musically and easiest to relate to lyrically as it's all about human relationships, especially love)
2. 4 (maybe the most experimental, hated it first and sold it forward, but gave it a new chance a little later and grew to like it more and more over the years) 3. So (I have some kind of a love/hate relationship towards this one, some tracks suck, some are fine, some ok) 4. Up (A very welcome "comeback" album, makes me anxious for the next one, I/O (?), to be published later this year - or in Gabriel's case, could be delayd until the end of the decade. The rest of them, not in any specific order, but 2 and Long Walk Home are the worst of them. ------------- "Make tea, not love" |
Posted By: DethMaiden
Date Posted: July 08 2007 at 00:04
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So
Up
Us
Yeah I need more.
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Posted By: Floydian42
Date Posted: July 20 2007 at 01:25
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Out of the ones I have, here's the order: Up Passion So Security Ovo Us |
Posted By: progcabaretdoll
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 03:37
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Peter Gabriel (1980)
Up
Peter Gabriel (1977)
Peter Gabriel (1978)
Gotta get myself Security, So and Us.
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Posted By: efoman
Date Posted: September 15 2007 at 01:43
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Passion
3
Plays Live
So
4
1
Birdy
2
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