gjeeg
(Syracuse, New York) | | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 09:16 | |
I do feel Phil borrowed instrumentation, arranging, voicing, sound effects, staging and more from Gabriel, Hackett, Banks and then added his own songwriting (or vice versa;) anyway - always felt he took liberally from all he'd learned in Genesis.
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Paul_Skybreakers
(Amsterdam, the Netherlands) | | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 09:12 | |
Overplayed. And boring.
Also, Peter Gabriel's voice sounds like someone scratching a blackboard with his fingernails.
And although I'm sure if he means well with his lyrics, it just doesn't help.
sorry everybody   |
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tiggers
| | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 09:09 | |
rtkmusic wrote:interesting: the faux popcorn intro is highly reminiscent of a Phil Collins hit...
Seeing as Phil Collins didn't have any solo hits until after this track was released I am not sure what you mean. If, however, you mean that some Phil Collins hit sounds like this then you maybe right.
Let's face it Gabriel has a lot more talent than Collins and I am being way too kind there 
BTW Phil Collins played the surdu on this track as far as I know. |
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gjeeg
(Syracuse, New York) | | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 09:08 | |
The power of music to shake the world.
Peter came a long way from Supper's Ready to Biko
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AvoidingWork
(Home of Big Boy #4004) | | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 09:08 | |
lophrequa wrote:
Nabla wrote:
there should be plenty of Simple Minds here.. someone please upload, mine's on vinyl
This should solve that problem.
(click here)http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/90a0/
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Kishori
(Austin, TX .... far far from decent pizza .....) | | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 09:06 | |
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bronorb
(Wisconsin) | | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 09:04 | |
Saw him do this in concert around 1986-87. Probably the closest I've ever come to a religious experience.
Seriously.
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xc_para_puravida
| | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 09:04 | |
Another act of consciousness. Gabriel's brilliant homage to right-minded insurrection. A 10 even if judged strictly on content.
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NeilBlanchard
(Greater Boston area, Massachusetts) | | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 09:03 | |
Three 10's in a row!
Peter Gabriel - Biko
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground
Keep 'em coming, Bill! Thanks.
Neil
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Pyro
| | Posted: Dec 20, 2007 - 09:02 | |
rtkmusic wrote:interesting: the faux popcorn intro is highly reminiscent of a Phil Collins hit...
Collins stole the lick from Gabriel. (Seriously!) |
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lattalo
(Bear Tooths) | | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 16:06 | |
dmax wrote:
Hey. Can we stick to criticizing the music instead of the critic?
Sorry got a little carried away there....... |
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(former member)
(Shadow Valley Condos) | | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 14:43 | |
lattalo wrote:
You Sir are an idiot!
Hey. Can we stick to criticizing the music instead of the critic?
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lattalo
(Bear Tooths) | | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 14:33 | |
jehahn wrote:If this is the sound of genius... I think I'd prefer to hear more music from idiots.
Blech. (And just because it's about someone who deserves songs written about him doesn't make the song itself genius.)
You Sir are an idiot! |
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rtkmusic
(SoCal) | | Posted: Oct 18, 2007 - 14:29 | |
interesting: the faux popcorn intro is highly reminiscent of a Phil Collins hit...
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lophrequa
(the very edge of the land) | | Posted: Aug 16, 2007 - 18:19 | |
Nabla wrote:
there should be plenty of Simple Minds here.. someone please upload, mine's on vinyl |
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horstman
(Syracuse, New York) | | Posted: Aug 16, 2007 - 18:08 | |
Master of the political statement
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themotion
(acrobatic nonsense) | | Posted: Jul 16, 2007 - 05:53 | |
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Nabla
(Cork (Ireland)) | | Posted: Jul 16, 2007 - 05:50 | |
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wookie
(Pleasanton, CA) | | Posted: Jul 16, 2007 - 05:48 | |
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MartiniSlacker
(Morrison, CO) | | Posted: Jun 30, 2007 - 15:55 | |
A true classic. So many memories.
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MTlady
| | Posted: Jun 14, 2007 - 20:05 | |
and some of us prefer RP, for very obvious reasons!!! Love it!!!  |
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quesarah
(Minneapolis, MN) | | Posted: May 30, 2007 - 13:39 | |
Good song, love PG generally. Even that "Solsbury Hill" thing.
But I have no better place to put this story. Hope you enjoy it in the spirit I'm posting it. :}
From http://www.independent.ie/unsorted/features/ah-the-glory-of-music-stardom-686545.html
Mark Hollis
English new wave synth band Talk Talk were inexplicably popular in Eastern Europe in the 1980s. But that didn't stop them getting stopped by East German custom officials and being strip-searched.
Frontman Mark Hollis was taken by officials into a clinical room where he was gruffly informed that he would be given a full body search.
Hollis was told to assume the position, and bending over, he heard the snap of rubber glove being administered to a hand.
"So," said the cold German steely voice from behind him, "you're in a pop band? There is one question I wish to know the answer to."
Hollis tensed and said he would help any way he could. The probing finger was slid in. As it reached in as far as it would go, and quite possibly as uncomfortably as could be, the customs officers asked the question he had been building up to during the whole experience.
With his finger firmly ensconced in a pop star and with no trace of emotion whatsoever he simply asked: "Do you know Peter Gabriel?" |
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bullitt
(Prison Planet) | | Posted: May 30, 2007 - 08:25 | |
My first 10 rating! What a moving song, almost brings me to tears... and the live version, forget it!
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Nabla
(Cork (Ireland)) | | Posted: May 30, 2007 - 08:24 | |
Surely, it's good, but I prefer the more modern version of Simple Minds... A matter of taste, of course. Very good topic!
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dixiedeb
(Augusta, GA) | | Posted: May 30, 2007 - 08:24 | |
What a great set of music!!! Those songs all bring back memories...
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renlat
(Montreal, Canada) | | Posted: May 30, 2007 - 08:22 | |
What a mix Bill!!!
Perfect way to make me forget about that Naive thing from Talking Heads...  |
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steeler
(Gone) | | Posted: May 30, 2007 - 08:20 | |
Illuminating. Inspiring. Incredible.
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cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.) | | Posted: May 14, 2007 - 12:21 | |
I remember when South Africa was just on the verge of revolution. I said then it was like Ike and Tina Turner when they intro'd 'Proud Mary' "See there's two ways we can do this song: we can do it easy, and we can do it HARD". I thought then the time for the 'easy' way had passed in South Africa, and the revolution was gonna be HARD.
I am happy to say I was wrong. South Africa still has a LONG way to go, but they managed to end apartheid with a minimum of bloodshed.
And Peter Gabriel, God bless him, was making political music about obscure martyrs long before their causes made front page news.
Peace Y'all.
c.
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bokey
(Wastin' away in Filialdutyville) | | Posted: May 14, 2007 - 12:19 | |
jehahn wrote:
Blech. (And just because it's about someone who deserves songs written about him doesn't make the song itself genius.)
Dingdingding-we have a winner. |
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tapatia
(Over the hills and far away...) | | Posted: May 14, 2007 - 12:16 | |
 RIP Stephen Biko. |
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