TerryS
(Another SW) | | Posted: Jun 08, 2013 - 17:47 | |
Saw him perform this while inside a large vinyl ball rolling it around the stage. His daughter,, not Tony, was on bass that time. Superb.
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unclehud
(now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | | Posted: May 27, 2013 - 08:41 | |
unclehud wrote:"Don't talk back
Just drive the car
Shut your mouth
I know what you are
Don't say nothing
Keep your hands on the wheel
Don't turn around
This is for real."
Still chilling, even after so many years. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that's what I told both my sons as I taught them to drive. |
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ziakut
(Slightly North of Obvlivion) | | Posted: May 23, 2013 - 15:15 | |
The bass hook with the drums make this song groove. I like the edginess of the lyrics. I appreciate this song far more these days than I used to.
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DigitalJer
(Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) | | Posted: May 14, 2013 - 10:21 | |
unclehud wrote:"Don't talk back
Just drive the car
Shut your mouth
I know what you are
Don't say nothing
Keep your hands on the wheel
Don't turn around
This is for real."
Still chilling, even after so many years.
chilling is right...you sure said it |
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unclehud
(now 50 feet above the planet in Boston) | | Posted: Apr 26, 2013 - 00:20 | |
"Don't talk back
Just drive the car
Shut your mouth
I know what you are
Don't say nothing
Keep your hands on the wheel
Don't turn around
This is for real."
Still chilling, even after so many years.
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crischu
(Germany) | | Posted: Apr 13, 2013 - 03:58 | |
Like it!  |
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sajitjacob
(Christchurch NZ) | | Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 20:26 | |
Just echoing former member (aka Laz', aka Romeo) and keeping her at the top, where she belongs.
Cynaera wrote:
Actually, I agree with Art_Carnage, after having listened very carefully to the words. Not sure about the killing/buryingthebody part, but I think the rest of it is pretty darned accurate. I think "digging in the dirt" is metaphorical, not literal - perhaps carrying out a grisly, violent act in order to come to grips with abuse as a child, or something.
Whatever it's about, it's a scary and unsettling song, but I love it anyway.
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sajitjacob
(Christchurch NZ) | | Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 20:22 | |
My wife won't read this, she's too busy making me a sandwich.
boober wrote:That's how I talk to my wife...."shut your mouth,keep your hands on the wheel" (God I hope she doesn't read this)  |
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Lazarus
(Bethany) | | Posted: Mar 21, 2013 - 20:21 | |
Cynaera wrote:
Actually, I agree with Art_Carnage, after having listened very carefully to the words. Not sure about the killing/buryingthebody part, but I think the rest of it is pretty darned accurate. I think "digging in the dirt" is metaphorical, not literal - perhaps carrying out a grisly, violent act in order to come to grips with abuse as a child, or something.
Whatever it's about, it's a scary and unsettling song, but I love it anyway.
Miss you so much, Cynaera...love this song... |
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blotto
(127.0.0.1) | | Posted: Feb 09, 2013 - 15:00 | |
One of my favorite PG songs. awesome and edgy.
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jnrburgers
| | Posted: Feb 03, 2013 - 05:13 | |
I'm sure in an interview one time that PG suggested that this song was about counselling sessions whilst his marriage was breaking up. This whole album was about his feelings about his relationship and therefore, his first 'love song' album.
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oldviolin
(Esse Quam Videri) | | Posted: Feb 02, 2013 - 22:36 | |
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jmkate
(nearly under a stack of books) | | Posted: Dec 21, 2012 - 09:45 | |
Melodic, yet threatening? Threatening, yet melodic? Peter can send your eyebrows towards your hairline...
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boober
(KC,Mo) | | Posted: Nov 07, 2012 - 06:40 | |
That's how I talk to my wife...."shut your mouth,keep your hands on the wheel" (God I hope she doesn't read this) |
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BigIslandBlues
| | Posted: Oct 19, 2012 - 16:33 | |
A great song from a fabulous album and the video was totally amazing and unlike any others at the time.
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joelbb
| | Posted: Oct 16, 2012 - 00:28 | |
Love PG, but this one has more than a whiff of misogyny.
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rdo
(DC) | | Posted: Aug 17, 2012 - 16:20 | |
sirdroseph wrote:I have never heard this one before.  Really? That's odd. It gets played about a million times a week here. Of course I think you and I learned math at the same school, so I have trouble with arithmetic. I have this issue with adding extra digits to numbers, so like the number 3 becomes 300. 50 becomes 50,000,000. It's a problem for us I guess. |
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t00lur
| | Posted: Jun 28, 2012 - 01:29 | |
yeah indeed.. shut your mouth please
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MiracleDrug
(Earth) | | Posted: Jun 15, 2012 - 15:24 | |
On_The_Beach wrote:
Put your hands where we can see them, and back away from the keyboard . . . slowly . . .
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oídos_abiertos
| | Posted: May 01, 2012 - 20:16 | |
theralph wrote:Waifs Sundirt to Gabriel digging in the dirt. I submit a better segue you will not find. . But notice that Peter is singing about a different kind of "dirt" than the Waifs.  |
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oídos_abiertos
| | Posted: May 01, 2012 - 20:13 | |
stunix wrote:the video included the sexy petit woman from "allo allo" with the spech impediment.
.... Francesca Gonshaw what kind of speech impediment? |
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theralph
(Gainesville, Virginia) | | Posted: May 01, 2012 - 20:12 | |
Waifs Sundirt to Gabriel digging in the dirt. I submit a better segue you will not find.
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stevendejong
| | Posted: Apr 25, 2012 - 11:10 | |
t00lur wrote:yet another PG song to rate it a solid 1
If this is a "solid 1", then what do you have left for the Rihannas of this world, and what for and all those other countless overusers of Antares Autotune? Just sayin', although I get why people give songs low marks here on RP, it seems a bit of an over-reaction to rate a song a "solid 1". |
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stunix
(Wales, UK) | | Posted: Mar 12, 2012 - 12:25 | |
the video included the sexy petit woman from "allo allo" with the spech impediment.
.... Francesca Gonshaw
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Euskadita
(MX) | | Posted: Mar 12, 2012 - 12:20 | |
t00lur wrote:yet another PG song to rate it a solid 1
PG Considered as a master of music and I simply can't stand it, either |
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ScottN
(Condo in Gaza full time now. Thank TFSM I saw the divot where the landmine was placed.) | | Posted: Feb 09, 2012 - 18:16 | |
Peter Gabriel had, imo, some very dark places within himself and he frequently visited them in his songs.
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wolfkiss
| | Posted: Jan 08, 2012 - 22:15 | |
You all have been watching too much Dexter.
The song is much more likely about a bad break up describing that horrible moment trapped in the car having to get one's hands dirty "digging in the dirt to find the places where we got hurt"...or something like that. It's about a 'we', not some solipsistic killer. Psychopaths don't care how others feel.
Maybe not as dramatic as some crazy killer guy, but much more relevant and much more in line with the lyrics.
Cheers.
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unclehud
(300 feet above the planet) | | Posted: Dec 20, 2011 - 15:06 | |
Wasn't this in a Miami Vice episode? I always thought it was a carjacking, sure, but I figured it was just your everyday, run-of-the-mill Miami drug culture kidnapping. "This is for real ..." to assure the driver that his visions of immortality will soon stop.
Don't remember the music video, but I do remember a magazine article where he said this tune was written to reconnect with his daughter. Wikipedia says this, but what do they know?
The video is largely an exploration of the issues in his personal life at the time - the end of his relationship with Rosanna Arquette, his desire to reconnect with his daughter and even the self healing he was looking for in therapy.
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sirdroseph
(Yes) | | Posted: Nov 25, 2011 - 06:29 | |
I have never heard this one before. |
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terrapin52
| | Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 20:03 | |
Peter Gabriel is like a miracle drug for angry young men like me. :P
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