17-02-2014, 09:45
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PETER GABRIEL "peter gabriel" aka "3" aka "melt" cd,1980
album chart action: #1 UK, #7 CAN, #22 US, #29 AU
singles chart action:
"games without frontiers".......#4 UK, #7 CAN, #44 AU, #48 US
"no self control"....................#33 UK
"biko"..................................#38 UK
"i dont remember".................# 107 US.
this is the first of my xmas gift card purchase posts...
ive already listened to this one three times now in my car whilst driving around...
Gabriel's sound has certainly grown on me a lot since i bought this one(thanks to Jerome's recommendations!)
this guy is "out there" at times and quite eclectic musically...
im hearing lots of different instruments on this album that one wouldnt normally hear on a rock album....great refreshing stuff IMO.
the album is pretty hard for me to describe other than what ive written above, the simplist thing to say is that "its peter gabriel"...that sums it up!
lots of guest artists on here from former partner in crime Phil Collins thru Kate Bush and Steve Lillywhite, strange to see in the linear notes that one Paul Weller turned up to play guitar on track #6...i checked out my PW biography, and yes, its the same Weller!, Gabriel must have liked what he does on guitar becasue the track sat around four months for The Jam to finish a European tour for Weller's bit!.
best track here for me is "biko", about the death in custody of anti-aparthied activist Stephen Biko in South Africa in 1977...love the african drums,chants etc on this one, its almost eerie,haunting and forelorn, with out a doubt one of the greatest songs ever written and put to music perfectly!
loving half the songs on here, dislike two...the first one is an instrumental(start) and the second one(lead a normal life), i simply dont like it!
apart from that, a very,very good album which "allmusic.com" describes as Gabriel's "greatest album by a longshot" and they give it a perfect 5/5 in their scoring!
me, im getting there, i almost love this album,looking foreward to "4" coming out from the pile now!
I LIKE THIS ALBUM
worst track: start
best track: biko
tracks:
1. intruder **
2. no self control ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uju0dUOzr8 live 1987
3. start *
4. i dont remember **
5. family snapshot ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChnjZoqSvUw live 1987
6. through the wire ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUuJO2axdNE audio w/lyrics
7. games without frontiers ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYUGXuTNsic video
8. not one of us **
9. lead a normal life *
10.biko ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLg-8Jxi5aE live 1986
3s=5
2s=3
1s=2
rating: 2.3 or a converted 4/5
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.