Peter Gabriel - The Rhythm of the Heat
(Feb 02, 2006 - 12:19) | meghan89 wrote: You know I've always felt that PG wanted to be in a rock opera.
Been there. Done that. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
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Imogen Heap - Clear The Area
(Jan 26, 2006 - 16:15) | UltraNurd wrote: Sneaker Pimps -> Massive Attack -> Imogen Heap...
Great set! Those songs sound like they'd be roughly the same genre, but I'm not really sure what genre they'd be. Can anyone help me not be dumb?
Most likely "trip hop"... which includes other bands such as Portishead, Morcheeba, and Hooverphonic... sometimes I'll hear Bjork thrown in there.
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Peter Gabriel - Quiet Steam
(Jan 15, 2006 - 19:18) | CliffRockyMountain wrote:
Digging in the dirt. Other Gabriel b-side gems:
* Curtains (BigTime cds)
* Mercy Street live (  On the Secret World live E.P)
* Blood of Eden, in the version it appears in the Wim Wender movie Until the end of the world (Blood of eden cds)
Good stuff! I'll keep my eye out for those.
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Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours
(Dec 22, 2005 - 21:35) | jah_blessed wrote: I now realize that the two girls in the lyrics are sisters.
"And once again, a tear fell from her mother's eye."
Actually, I'm pretty sure it's the same girl.
16 years old, she hates life, tries to commit suicide, but "didn't succeed... thank the lord..."
2 years later, at age 18, she "fell in love with everything... found new life in Jesus Christ"... and then she gets hit by a car and killed.
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Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
(Dec 22, 2005 - 02:22) | Darrooon wrote:
Yep. It captures a time, and a place. Where is H. Flowers these days?
Heh... I looked him up once when I first noticed how cool the bassline in this song is... Apparently, he's almost exclusively playing jazz now and doesn't ever want to hear another click-track again, heh...
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Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
(Dec 20, 2005 - 22:07) | I see lots of ppl talking about the sax solo, but HELLO, what about Herbie Flowers' amazing portamento bass? Simple, but perfect.
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Peter Gabriel - Growing Up
(Dec 08, 2005 - 22:04) | Egrey wrote:
PG's "Us" album is a gorgeous album, his best in my book.
So I was eager to listen to "Up". I bought it, gave it a few listens and. . .it was so-so. Needless to say, I was disappointed because I expected something that matched his previous work.
I couldn't agree more about Up. That and 4/Security are my two favorites, hands down. However, Up is now a fairly close third (probably tied with Passion, although they are completely different albums)
I was initially a bit disappointed, too. I think perhaps my expectations (building up for 10 years) got in the way a bit... and I think that this album, like lots of Peter's work, is challenging, takes some work to get under the surface.
Wadro13 wrote:
He is very fond of the Korg Triton.
One of the great things about the Triton is the built in polyphonic modeling synth. I got to play with the Prophecy (Korg's first version of this...monophonic) when it was brand new... for many many hours... and I now own a Z1, which was their first polyphonic version. Man, amazing stuff.
Wadro13 wrote:
PG4 (Security) is the best work he's ever done. It is also the first album ever to be done 100% digital!
Read above.. I'm with you on 4/Security.. It's not the first 100% digital album, though. That would technically be Ry Cooder's Bop Til You Drop which was record direct to digital tape in like 79 (no mixing) and so later when it was released on CD, it was fully digital. A couple of other albums that were recorded and mixed digitally also came out before Security, such as Rush's Signals. He was definitely an early adopter, though.
I'm not too pleased with the sound, though. I think perhaps that digital technology just wasn't mature enough yet. The album has always sounded very flat to me. The remaster helps some, but if you have bad source material, there's only so much you can do.
shakitten wrote:
"Growing Up" and "Signal to Noise" are completely eargasmic to me, and the rest of the album stands firm, as well. Hate to disagree, folks, but UP is a 10 in my book.
Signal to Noise ROCKS!!! Often leaves me dancing and jumping around my house like a maniac...
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Jimi Hendrix - 1983.. (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
(Nov 27, 2005 - 00:32) | One of the great all-time sets:
12:37 am - Jimi Hendrix - 1983.. (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
12:32 am - Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
12:28 am - Jeff Beck - A Day In The Life
12:24 am - Beatles - All You Need Is Love
12:20 am - Michael Penn - No Myth
12:17 am - Eels - Grace Kelly Blues
I'm really hoping 1983 doesn't cut off before Moon, Turn the Tides...
Wow, this song is so amazing. Been an absolute fave since first heard it.
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Dead Can Dance - The Carnival Is Over
(Nov 20, 2005 - 20:27) | allisonscola wrote:
Yeah, well, my boyfriend had put it on a mixed tape for me! And I liked it... She wasn't the one for you.
Well, I guess I wasn't the one for him... He broke up with me... his loss! See below. :)
Kinda ironic. My g/f and I broke up like 5 days after I posted that. So.. yeah.. I guess she wasn't the one for me... *shrug*... I guess the Dead Can Dance thing shoulda warned me...
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Pink Floyd - A Pillow of Winds
(Nov 06, 2005 - 17:51) | shakitten wrote: Oh! Can we play this whole album all the way through?
Bill, pretty please????
I LOVE this...
Actually, that's a really good idea. I'm with kitten here.
How about it?
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Blind Boys of Alabama - Amazing Grace
(Nov 04, 2005 - 12:27) | overplayed? Somehow I hadn't heard it yet.
My g/f has been a Blind Boys fan since we first met like 10 years ago... I never got into 'em until I saw 'em open for Peter Gabriel... WOW.
Amazing Grace... I've heard great and terrible and far too many versions... but this is just fine w/me.
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Dead Can Dance - The Carnival Is Over
(Nov 04, 2005 - 12:04) | YEAH!! I love this song! Have for many, many years now! Thanks!
... I put this on a mix tape for my g/f... she said she didn't like it... and it sounded like Tony Bennett or something... -sy-
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Peter Gabriel - Quiet Steam
(Nov 03, 2005 - 22:47) | RabbitEars wrote: I was so psyched when I found this version of this song. This one an 8, the other a 2. BTW, not sure that this is a remake - this version may have come before the commercial pap.
I like the other, actually, but this one blew my mind when I first found it in the early days of napster... I now own the single it's on (I forget what single it is, though.. heh)
Original: 5.5
Quiet: 8
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Tears For Fears - Woman In Chains
(Nov 01, 2005 - 20:33) | Faithful_Fool wrote: Bad Mans song had special meaning too.
Badmans Song = ultraexcellent! ... When I saw T4F on the Elemental tour, they closed their encore with it... truly breathtaking... I uploaded it to the LRC. Voting is currently at 11-5. Cross your fingers.
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Talking Heads - Listening Wind
(Oct 29, 2005 - 00:02) | dookie wrote: I came to this recording years after its release. But it will remain with me for life. It doesnt get much better than this.
Same here. I actually first heard the Geoffrey Oryema version, and didn't know it was a cover until my g/f told me so... and played the original for me.
Both are unique & brilliant.
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Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
(Oct 28, 2005 - 21:05) | NeilBlanchard wrote: This album came out (on vinyl) in ... 1985! Make that 20 years...
Yup... of course, some like me didn't hear it until some years later. I first heard it like 12 or 13 years ago, when I randomly picked up a Dire Straits compilation... until then, I always thought of Dire Straits as just "that band that did Money for Nothing and that song about baseball" (I used to think Sultans of Swing was about baseball.. Babe Ruth and all, y'know.. heh)
So, when I picked up the CD... this beauty, Telegraph Road, and Private Investigations jumped right out at me and made it on to many mix tapes and the like.
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Seal - Human Beings
(Oct 24, 2005 - 08:39) | Rafter101 wrote: See Seal live if you ever get the opportunity. He is a truly humble, incredibly gifted individual. When playing live, his songs slow down to a heartbeat level, allowing the audience to drink slowly and savor carefully. Well worth the reasonable ticket price.
Funny... when I saw him live (tour for the 2nd album), he rocked out. It was an amazing show.
As for humble, most certainly... I had an opportunity to watch him tape an interview segment for a radio show and then meet him afterwards (the day before the concert, I think)... He could have just rushed out of the studio like most sane celebrities would, but he stuck around for a good 15 minutes or so and chatted with the 6 or 7 of us there... very warm, friendly, thoughtful guy...
IMHO, though, his albums have been progressively worse... and I haven't seen him tour since. I can't for the life of me understand why almost all of the Seal here at RP is from his last 2 albums, and I'm doing my best to rectify that via the LRC.
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Joan Osborne - One of Us
(Oct 21, 2005 - 11:53) | raelic wrote: Ack, no more Joan O...please. Enough to make me switch RP off and then I forget to re-tune in and miss good stuff. :(
Yeah, songs like this are what the LRC is for, as far as I'm concerned... I mean to provide something else to listen to... although I suppose its intended purpose of filtering out the garbage also applies.
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Peter Gabriel - Lovetown
(Oct 19, 2005 - 09:47) | DocGuy wrote:Why I listen to RP:
5:16 pm - Peter Gabriel - Lovetown
5:12 pm - Sophie Zelmani - Hard To Know
5:05 pm - Air - La Femme D'Argent
4:58 pm - The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
Hey.. checkitout.. this kicka** set again:
9:46 am - Peter Gabriel - Lovetown
9:42 am - Sophie Zelmani - Hard To Know
9:35 am - Air - La Femme D'Argent
9:28 am - The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
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Joseph Arthur - Can't Exist
(Oct 16, 2005 - 21:34) | thewiseking wrote: good luck seeing this knucklehead live.
Hmm.. when I saw him live ('02 or '03, I think), he put on a great show.. even got to sorta meet him before the show.. he commented on my Peter Gabriel shirt.. or rather kinda pointed and nodded.
My only complaint was with the venue.. I'm not much into the overcrowded club thing...
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Peter Gabriel - Biko
(Oct 15, 2005 - 01:41) | Mugro wrote:
And a month later, the dj STILL likes the order. As the saying goes, if it ain't broke, then don't fix it!!!
5 more months go by... same set... and it's a damn good one at that:
1:34 am - Peter Gabriel - Biko
1:29 am - Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
1:25 am - Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
1:19 am - Bob Marley - Get Up, Stand Up
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Moby - My Weakness
(Oct 14, 2005 - 22:21) | Sobient wrote: If I'm not mistaken, this was used in an x-files episode where Mulder finds his Mother (or looks into a parallell universe where she might exist).
7/10.
Hmm... I was thinking it was his sister, but yeah... I'm thinking of a scene with a group of ghostly looking people (children?) in the woods...
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Depeche Mode - Waiting for the Night
(Oct 11, 2005 - 01:13) | jah_blessed wrote: Thanks for adding my upload to the playlist! Hope y'all enjoy it. Great tune from one of my all-time favourite albums. Best listened to while standing on a hilltop overlooking a forest with the sun setting in the summer evening sky.
Nice upload. This has been a fave for many years now.
Outstanding.
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Emerson Lake & Palmer - From The Beginning
(Oct 08, 2005 - 00:56) | I just bought this and Blue Moods (thanks to Nature Boy, which by the way is incorrectly listed as being on Kind of Blue)...
Impulse buys... baaaaad. :)
Quite likeable!
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Miles Davis - Nature Boy
(Oct 08, 2005 - 00:42) | GaryG wrote: Actually it's from 1955's Blue Moods.
Yeah.. that totally threw me off... I have Kind of Blue, and ain't never heard this beautiful song before... I thought maybe it was a bonus track on a remaster or something...
Thanks, though! :)
Most Excellent!
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Pearl Jam - Indifference
(Oct 07, 2005 - 00:25) | Oh man! Can't believe I missed this. Probably my all-time fave PJ song. Most excellent.
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Sophie Zelmani - Once
(Oct 05, 2005 - 12:14) | darkhorse969 wrote:
me too..says may be corrupt... hell.. if thats the criteria....
Haha... well, hopefully it's just something minor. Hate to see RP go down again just as b & r are recovering from the attack of the brazilian script kiddiez.
NM... looks like we're back in business. 
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Tears for Fears - Break It Down Again
(Oct 05, 2005 - 10:48) | Best T4F is Seeds of Love (album) as far as I'm concerned, but they had a great run up to this album. I saw them on this tour at Universal (now Gibson) Amphitheater. Great show.. much better than I expected.. and they closed the encore w/Badman's Song... That just rocked.
Quite likeable! 
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Peter Gabriel - Lovetown
(Oct 04, 2005 - 17:45) | Why I listen to RP:
5:16 pm - Peter Gabriel - Lovetown
5:12 pm - Sophie Zelmani - Hard To Know
5:05 pm - Air - La Femme D'Argent
4:58 pm - The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
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The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
(Oct 04, 2005 - 17:01) | Switched over from the LRC just to catch this tune. One of very few Smiths songs I like (and I doubt I'm alone in that)...
Quite likeable.
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Blur - Song 2
(Oct 04, 2005 - 16:07) | Am I alone here? Am I the only one pained to hear this on RP after having to endure it several times a day on commercial radio, mtv, tv commercials, etc. for years?
Sucko-barfo. :puke:
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Peter Gabriel - Signal To Noise
(Oct 03, 2005 - 23:14) | dearjohn wrote: I can't seem to get tired of this CD, especially this song. It's got a depth and cinematic quality to it that most modern music lacks.
"cinematic" Hmm... Maybe that has something to do with why I love this song so much.
Outstanding. 
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Gooding - Elysium
(Oct 03, 2005 - 20:13) | Some great sounds, no doubt.
But that synth beat is making me want to rip my ears off.
Always love to hear the Games Without Frontiers mix, though... :)
Ho Hum. 
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Geoffrey Oryema - The River
(Oct 02, 2005 - 17:08) | Yup. This is a gorgeous track. Great album, too. Spread through all my friends/family like a virus a few years back, so I now know very few people who don't own it.
The last track, Nomad, is a beautiful acapella piece. I should prolly send it on up.
And to all of ya' who don't like it, are your ears broken or something? :)
Most Excellent. 
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