Let me just say i am one of the orgers here who HATES when the word genius gets thrown around here... but got damn after completing Peter's discography i have to say he is a musical genius!!!!

His albums are so full of imagination, life, world music, essentric rhythms etc.

I would say in the early 80's him, the talking heads, Prince etc. Were really just making this amazing fucking music that would later change the game int he music world for ALL genres

I have to say so far Melt is my favorite of his! but that is bound to change... either way who are fellow fans? what are favorite songs? albums?

One of my favorite artist of all time.

Would I call him a genius? No.

That said, this guys material is just great in my opinion.

I love his work.

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Games without Frontiers is still probably my favorite...

A few of my other favorites...

I Have the Touch (original album version)

In Your Eyes

Wallflower

The Rhythm of the Heat

Biko

Don't Give Up (with Kate Bush)

Sledgehammer

Shock the Monkey

Big Time

Kiss That Frog

San Jacinto

Digging In The Dirt

Mercy Street

Solsbury Hill

Kiss of Life

Steam

Red Rain

Soft Dog

I also love this tune, especially the Single version that he and Nile Rodgers produced:

Peter Gabriel - Walk Through The Fire

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paligap said:

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Games without Frontiers is still probably my favorite...

A few of my other favorites...

I Have the Touch (original album version)

In Your Eyes

Wallflower

The Rhythm of the Heat

Biko

Don't Give Up (with Kate Bush)

Sledgehammer

Shock the Monkey

Big Time

Kiss That Frog

San Jacinto

Digging In The Dirt

Mercy Street

Solsbury Hill

Kiss of Life

Steam

Red Rain

Soft Dog

U peeking at my list?

He created one of the great albums of all time:

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Passion: Music For the Last Temptation Of Christ (1988): For my it's modern pop music's "answer" to A Love Supreme. An important album in that it is credited with expanding the profiles of artists like Youssou N'Dour. A beautiful, towering achievement.

Graycap23 said:

U peeking at my list?

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guess so!

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namepeace said:

He created one of the great albums of all time:

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Passion: Music For the Last Temptation Of Christ (1988): For my it's modern pop music's "answer" to A Love Supreme. An important album in that it is credited with expanding the profiles of artists like Youssou N'Dour. A beautiful, towering achievement.

Now this one I could never quite get into.

I went to the Live on Letterman show 2 years ago. Peter + orchestra. It was fantastic:

He was one of my all time favorites during the early to mid 80s. I still like him a lot but don't listen quite as much.

Melting Face & Security are my two favorites, both feel like complete & fully realized LPs that sound utterly unlike anything else. They're both pretty perfect - no lousy tracks, a lot of deep weirdness but also a strong sense of melody and a radically different way of thinking about rhythm. (Ever notice there are no crash cymbals on either one of those albums?) He's trying to get beyond the sound of guitar, bass, drums and keyboards, and does so to really amazing effect.

Just thinking about that tom tom fill that brings No Self Control to its climax (right after the "swarm of bees" line) has my heart racing a little bit. That Phil Collins was useful for some things, playing drums for Gabriel is definitely one of them.

I quite liked Up, would like to hear what comes next. Also really enjoyed that tour, but skipped his last two where he was doing older material.

Graycap23 said:

namepeace said:

He created one of the great albums of all time:

[img:$uid]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1e/Passion_Cover_Artwork.jpg/220px-Passion_Cover_Artwork.jpg[/img:$uid]

Passion: Music For the Last Temptation Of Christ (1988): For my it's modern pop music's "answer" to A Love Supreme. An important album in that it is credited with expanding the profiles of artists like Youssou N'Dour. A beautiful, towering achievement.

Now this one I could never quite get into.

I think I found the album at just the right time, it's now essential for me. I'd liked the music when I first saw the movie, but only bought the album years later.

I love Peter Gabriel's music. My favourite albums are Foxtrot and The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway from the Genesis period, and Peter Gabriel II.

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It's difficult to choose some songs, but "White Shadow", "Mother Of Violence" and "Digging In The Dirt" come to mind now.

His musical evolution is probably the most creative of any modern artist. The dude just knew when to go to the next level time and time again.

namepeace said:

Graycap23 said:

Now this one I could never quite get into.

I think I found the album at just the right time, it's now essential for me. I'd liked the music when I first saw the movie, but only bought the album years later.

Its easily one of the top 10 discs of my whole collection. Its just plain beautiful.

Graycap23 said:

namepeace said:

He created one of the great albums of all time:

[img:$uid]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1e/Passion_Cover_Artwork.jpg/220px-Passion_Cover_Artwork.jpg[/img:$uid]

Passion: Music For the Last Temptation Of Christ (1988): For my it's modern pop music's "answer" to A Love Supreme. An important album in that it is credited with expanding the profiles of artists like Youssou N'Dour. A beautiful, towering achievement.

Now this one I could never quite get into.

I can agree with that! while i do love it now... it took me months probably before i really i guess ''got it'' so to speak.

But really listening to his albums it makes me even happier to realize that artists like him and Prince were just very creative artists that knew how to make these sounds and ideas come to life in a great way.

I also have been listening a lot to The Talking Heads lately and i feel there albums bounce off each other in terms of that weird, eccentric vibe.

Have him or Prince ever mentioned each other?

I'd nominate In Your Eyes as one of the most overrated songs in music history.

2freaky4church1 said:

I'd nominate In Your Eyes as one of the most overrated songs in music history.

Sadly i can not totally disagree man...

Gabriel has a huge collection of great songs and In Your Eyes has always just been good to me but nothing more...

i think the attatchment to Say Anything is why it is so loved in music history.

2freaky4church1 said:

I'd nominate In Your Eyes as one of the most overrated songs in music history.

Thats only because of this stupid movie.

I Am slowly getting into Gensis the Gabriel years! i do love a lot of what i am hearing but...

Some of it is long and at times a little pretentious it will take me a little while to get through all of it and appreciate it.

aardvark15 said:

My favorite album by him is Peter Gabriel :p

Which one number 1?

Gunsnhalen said:

aardvark15 said:

My favorite album by him is Peter Gabriel :p

Which one number 1?

Probably the same as you, Melt.

Gunsnhalen said:

I Am slowly getting into Gensis the Gabriel years! i do love a lot of what i am hearing but...

Some of it is long and at times a little pretentious it will take me a little while to get through all of it and appreciate it.

Prog rock is supposed to be long. You can get the debut, From Genesis To Revelation, which is short, 1960's "flower power" style songs. The first 2 albums are when Anthony Phillips was in the group. Anthony left the group because he had really bad stage fright. Steve Hackett & Phil Collins join on the 3rd album, and this lineup is considered the "classic" one.

Never really dug him.

MickyDolenz said:

Gunsnhalen said:

I Am slowly getting into Gensis the Gabriel years! i do love a lot of what i am hearing but...

Some of it is long and at times a little pretentious it will take me a little while to get through all of it and appreciate it.

Prog rock is supposed to be long. You can get the debut, From Genesis To Revelation, which is short, 1960's "flower power" style songs. The first 2 albums are when Anthony Phillips was in the group. Anthony left the group because he had really bad stage fright. Steve Hackett & Phil Collins join on the 3rd album, and this lineup is considered the "classic" one.

Idk about that... it depends on who you ask but many people think of Peter's lineup as ''classic'' so it varies person to person.

Their flower power songs are not something i wanted to hear often i really like Selling By The Pound and most of Foxtrot. As someone who has listened to dozens of prog rock albums sometimes it suffers from utter pretentiousness like many do and it will take time to fully digest it all.

Gunsnhalen said:

MickyDolenz said:

Prog rock is supposed to be long. You can get the debut, From Genesis To Revelation, which is short, 1960's "flower power" style songs. The first 2 albums are when Anthony Phillips was in the group. Anthony left the group because he had really bad stage fright. Steve Hackett & Phil Collins join on the 3rd album, and this lineup is considered the "classic" one.

Idk about that... it depends on who you ask but many people think of Peter's lineup as ''classic'' so it varies person to person.

Their flower power songs are not something i wanted to hear often i really like Selling By The Pound and most of Foxtrot. As someone who has listened to dozens of prog rock albums sometimes it suffers from utter pretentiousness like many do and it will take time to fully digest it all.

It's the same lineup. Peter, Mike Rutherford, & Tony Banks were in the group from the beginning, so when Phil & Steve joined, that is the "classic" one, at least by prog fans. Others might say the more popular 3 man version from the 1980's is it. Anthony Phillips (with the checkered shirt) has released solo albums and various Genesis members have participated on them, including Phil, who wasn't in the group at the same time as Anthony. Mike & Tony are the only members in all lineups.

Gunsnhalen said:

I Am slowly getting into Gensis the Gabriel years! i do love a lot of what i am hearing but...

Some of it is long and at times a little pretentious it will take me a little while to get through all of it and appreciate it.

You might like The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, the last Genesis album with Peter Gabriel, whose songs are shorter and (just a little) less pretentious.

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"So" (obviously, the hit album) is my favorite Peter Gabriel album.

Also "Plays Live" (from ca. 1983) is brilliant..

lazycrockett said:

His musical evolution is probably the most creative of any modern artist. The dude just knew when to go to the next level time and time again.

I'm probably with you, although Prince and Bowie would be strong competitors in that race.

By the way, an album of covers of Gabriel songs called And I'll Scratch Yours will be published later this year. It was conceived as the follow-up to Gabriel's own album of orquestal covers, Scratch My Back, published in 2010.