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Topic: Favorite...
Posted By: Parker
Subject: Favorite...
Date Posted: August 05 2005 at 23:46
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Whats your favorite Peter Gabriel song (as a solo artist) and why. For me it has to be Biko because its very intricate with many things going on like bagpipes in the background ,afican voices for the lower bass sound, and a very good melody. -Parker ------------- Former Username -The Prog Man "The Carpet Crawlers heed their callers: You've got to get in to get out" |
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Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: August 05 2005 at 23:47
| Definitely Red Rain.....so much emotion in one song |
Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: August 05 2005 at 23:48
ooooooo Im a senior member now yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 00:04
| 'Wallflower' Don't know if you would describe this song as a ballad or not but it certainly touches the softer side of my emotions! Can't remember which album it's on though? |
Posted By: Parker
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 00:07
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On the album 'So' ------------- Former Username -The Prog Man "The Carpet Crawlers heed their callers: You've got to get in to get out" |
Posted By: Parker
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 00:08
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Nver mind I thought you were talking about Red Rain
------------- Former Username -The Prog Man "The Carpet Crawlers heed their callers: You've got to get in to get out" |
Parker wrote:Posted By: Hierophant
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 00:16
| Solsbury Hill without a doubt. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 01:24
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I like Solsbury Hills because he's telling why he left Genesis especially in this parragraph but does it with great music: To keeping silence I resigned Biko because of the great sound, and many more. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 17:12
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have you guys heard PG's contribution to Robbie Robertson's song "fallen angel", he lended some of the best backing vocals I ever heard. This song features Manu Katche on drums and is close to songs like "In your eyes" or "that voice again". ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 17:17
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BIKO. The greatest political prog song ever. I feel like going out and making racists pay everytime I hear that song.And sometimes I do.... September '77
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 17:39
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For me We Do What We're Told on So, because of the great way he translated the Stanley Milgram experiment, one of the most important psychological experiments, into fantastic music (and lyrics). |
Posted By: transend
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 19:16
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EASILY TWO songs, but can never pick between the two! SIGNAL TO NOISE - from 'Growing up live' MAKE TOMORROW - from 'Ovo' |
Posted By: Scrambled_Eggs
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 21:37
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"Family Snapshot" for me. I like how it slowly builds up then crahes down to almost silence for the last minute of the song. Very nice use of the saxophone as well. ------------- And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime. I never said I was frightened of dying. |
Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: August 06 2005 at 21:51
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Solsbury Hill Signal To Noise Sledgehammer Games Without Frontiers ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/kingofbizzare/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 07 2005 at 01:26
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There are so many masterpiece songs... For the moment I'll choose The Rhythm Of The Heat,because I picture it as my last moments of living and the drums extrordinary finish as my first moments of death... ------------- 
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Posted By: beterdedthnred4
Date Posted: August 07 2005 at 01:54
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Wallflower: I never hear anything about it, but I love the song's great melody and emotional climax. (Its on 4/security by the way) |
Posted By: Guillermo
Date Posted: August 07 2005 at 01:58
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I`m not a fan of every Gabriel`s solo album, but I like some of his songs: -"Humdrum" (great arrangements and feeling), and "On the Air" (same) ("Plays Live" versions). -"Here Comes the Flood" (an emotive song, very good arrangements), (PG 1977 album). -"Games Without Frontiers" (good lyrics and video) (PG 1980 album). -"Wallflower" (is it a love song? I don`t know; sung with feeling, good arrangements) (PG 1982 album). -"In Your Eyes" (very good lyrics and arrangements), "Mercy Street" (Gabriel`s most emotive performance of a song, more on the "POV" concert video; great!), "Don`t Give Up" (great lyrics), "Sledgehammer" (funny) ("SO" album). -"Steam" (a funny song, and the video too) ("US" album). -"The Barry Wiliams Show" (a good critic to the fad of the "reality shows" on TV around the world; but the video has a lot of "blood") ("UP" album).
------------- Avatar: Photo of Solar Eclipse, Mexico City, July 1991. A great experience to see. Maybe once in a lifetime. |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: August 07 2005 at 02:00
Solsbury Hill and Here Comes the Flood ------------- 
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: August 07 2005 at 09:06
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Intruder! ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 07 2005 at 13:33
| What about "Don't give up"? Great lyrics, fantastic singing and it has Kate Bush as well! |
Posted By: krapulax
Date Posted: August 07 2005 at 14:16
| red rain and down the dolce vita |
Posted By: bertburt
Date Posted: August 07 2005 at 14:53
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Mother of Violence Lead a Normal Life Both very haunting and atmospheric to me.... |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: August 07 2005 at 15:04
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My all-time favourite artist. So many masterpieces (all 10/10 songs): San Jacinto and of course that fantastic duet with Kate Bush ------------- Blog this: http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 00:34
Yes that is the song ... and the verse that does it for me ... my blood boils when I hear it rounding up the Top 5 ... Solsbury Hill, Red Rain, Games Without Frontiers and Sledgehammer ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 01:35
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without genesis: Sledgehammer another favorite of mine is the Musical Box, "play me that song" oh I will play it. ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 01:39
Biko is a bit cheesy for me...But I don't say it isn't grand... -------------
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 02:48
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me to. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 03:38
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Gabriel's later solo material has passed me by, somewhat, but for sheer power, emotion and atmosphere, I'd go for 'San Jacinto' or 'Rhythym Of The Heat'. ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 03:50
Agreed! 
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Posted By: Bilek
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 05:57
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Should be any long song (probably the longest!) with the exception of those in Passion (not bad, but in a different vein) I have to check on my PG knowledge, though. It's been a quite long time... I can say my fave album is Up, with Us coming close behind... I haven't listened to OVO though... ------------- Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret: Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!) |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 06:30
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Biko a breathtaking masterpiece! ------------- 
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: duffman
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 07:29
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mine is Intruder I like the ambiance ------------- I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us have... very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad... |
Posted By: Ray Lomas
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 07:42
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I just love Peter Gabriel's solo work I just can't decide which of his songs would be the best. Anyway, my favourites are:
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Posted By: Chipiron
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 07:43
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For me, too. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 14:51
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Is it a cover of the famous song by Leonard Cohen ? And which album is it from ? ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 15:10
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Signal To Noise because of : _Mesmerising Percussion _The vocal soloing. _The Melodies _The symphonic finale |
Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 15:23
It is, and it comes from the album Tower of Song, which includes Cohen covers by artists such as Sting, Tori Amos, Don Henley and Suzanne Vega. A mediocre album, but a great version by PG. ------------- Blog this: http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
Posted By: TURK182!
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 15:43
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"Digging in the dirt" on US It's time to... ------------- "A Flower!!!" "If you go down to Willow farm, you look for Butterflies..." |
Posted By: Syntharachnid
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 16:25
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There's quite a few, and none that stand out head and shoulders above the rest, Peter was very consistant in quality. Moribund the Burgermeister Solsbury Hill Humdrum Waiting for the Big One Here Comes the Flood Intruder Family Snapshot Games Without Frontiers Biko The Rhythm of the Heat San Jacinto The Family and the Fishing Net Wallflower Red Rain That Voice Again In Your Eyes Mercy Street We Do What We're Told Darkness Secret World Sky Blue Downside Up The Barry Williams Show More Than This Digging in the Dirt Animal Nation Signal to Noise I have more favorites than non-favorites! ------------- 
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