Dispatches from the Real World: A Peter Gabriel Thread

[washing machine]

Listening now. Melt-era Gabriel fills a gap I’ve long suspected exists between Eno/Fripp, Berlin-era Bowie, Iggy’s The Idiot, Talking Heads and Adrian Belew.

I never knew.

[washing machine]

Just when this album starts to settle into background noise, “And Through the Wire” struts into the picture.

Edgy riff. It almost feels cheesy and by the numbers, save for the uneasy feedback rings floating around the open spaces.

[bada]

Yeah great song.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I have a great association of listening to Peter Gabriel a lot during a road/camping trip with friends in 1995 from South Carolina to the Grand canyon, Phoenix and back. I moved to Phoenix 3 months after that trip.

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[tragabigzanda]

[washing machine]

Listening now. Melt-era Gabriel fills a gap I’ve long suspected exists between Eno/Fripp, Berlin-era Bowie, Iggy’s The Idiot, Talking Heads and Adrian Belew.

I never knew.

I will forever picture Reed just sitting around his house suspecting there are connections between Peter Gabriel and Berlin-era Bowie.

You should picture me sitting in my office, scowling at this post.

[tragabigzanda]

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Listening now. Melt-era Gabriel fills a gap I’ve long suspected exists between Eno/Fripp, Berlin-era Bowie, Iggy’s The Idiot, Talking Heads and Adrian Belew.

I never knew.

i knew i'd find some good connections in this thread

[washing machine]

clean up that mess on your desk!

[Birds in Hell]

Man, Gabriel still sounds in fine voice in these live videos from a few years ago:





(Largely the same band as his 70s/80s records too, including King Crimson's Tony Levin on bass - who's played on what seems like almost everything.)

[E.H. Ruddock]

So fucking good

[tragabigzanda]

[tragabigzanda]

[surfndestroy]

This has inspired me to listen to Growing Up Live. Is a new album for me.

[tragabigzanda]

[surfndestroy]

is it just live tracks from Up?

Pretty decent variety of tracks. Going back to the first album for Solsbury Hill and lessor known tracks like Here Comes The Flood. Light on albums 3 and 4.

[AndySlash]

nice to see up getting some love. i feel like i can't listen to that album unless i listen in one sitting (and with headphones), but i do go to sky blue, more than this, and signal to noise every once in a while if i need a fix. i remember buying up at target on the day it came out, then seeing one of the first shows of the growing up tour a few months later. there's some good stuff on the ovo and long walk home soundtracks that came out around that time, too. all things considered, that was a pretty 'prolific' period for him given his output over the last 30 years.



loved that he brought the blind boys of alabama on tour with him.

[tragabigzanda]

[warehouse]

'digging in the dirt' randomly came on the radio. i forgot how great this song is, i probably havent heard it in 20 years.