peter gabriel - [untitled] (melt)

[rone]

This album has some groundbreaking soundwork for the time, which mostly survives to this day without sounding dated.  I'm more familiar with his newer work, so this album was a bit surprising in that it wasn't as, well, poppy.  "Games Without Frontiers", a track that i've heard on the radio for a long time, showed more depth when i was able to listen to it more closely and on something better than my car's radio.

Comments

[marknau.livejournal.com]

Good album. I have a classic mis-heard lyric from that song.
As it turns out, the chorus does NOT include the phrase "she's so popular."

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

as much as I've heard that song, the word 'popular' ... never would have crossed my mind for what it being sung there.

Not with the 'F' sound at the start of that. Or 'S' or something. Definately a soft sound, not a hard stop glottal thing. I suck at the description of sounds.

[marknau.livejournal.com]

I admit it sounds silly. But I just pulled it up to hear it again, and they really *pop* out that first syllable, so it takes on a P sound.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

It wasn't until I heard the 5.1 remix on the DVD "Play" that I recognised the voice was Kate Bush's and she was singing "Jeux Sans Frontiers" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeux_Sans_Frontieres)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

It sounds like "She's so funky, yeah" to me.

We sang it

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

"she's so fronty-aired" and imagined her breasts inflating.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

That's what I always heard there, too.

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

Gabriel has always been a good slightly-under-pop listen.

I prefer everything he did to what his former band ended up doing. Save Mike and the Mechanics. But, basically, anything that was Genesis related that had no Balding Fucktard Drummer? Yeah, good. Balding Fucktard Drummer? Could someone hurry up with the bludgeoning to death please?

Hmm I need to attempt to destroy some of his songs.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Heh, did you see the South Park Ritalin episode, where they totally bash Phil Collins?

I will forgive Phil Collins whatever crap he puts out because of "I Wish It Would Rain Down on Me". Because that song is fucking awesome.

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'd forgotten that episode had that in it.

Mainly because it had the AWESOME "TIMMY AND THE LORDS OF THE UNDERWORLD" in it.

Who are so much better than Phil Collins. So. Much. Better.

Eh?

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

You'd throw out THIS ALBUM because Phil played on it? (The most interesting thing that Rone neglected to mention is that Peter took away all his cymbals and made him play ONLY drums.)

You'd throw out the meat of the Gabriel-era Genesis catalog, from Nursery Cryme to the fucking Lamb Lies Down, because Phil played on it?

Philistine.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i read about that on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Gabriel#The_.22untitled_era.22). Fripp also tried to convince Bruford to eschew cymbals in the `80s incarnation of King Crimson.

[tronpublic.livejournal.com]

No high hat during the Three of A Perfect Pair tour.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Thank god. It's so overused.

Re: Eh?

[cheesetruck.livejournal.com]

No.

I would, instead, bitch about Phil. A lot. A whole lot. In fact, I'd bitch so much that those with limited intelligence and no class would think that I'd throw out whole albums that he'd played on.

[tronpublic.livejournal.com]

I think A Trick of the Tail rocks! I also like the Seconds Out versions of the Gabriel era stuff better than the originals.



...still waiting for the Lamb Lies Down 5.1 SACD to be released.

[reddragdiva]

See, Gabriel started sucking when they made him put titles on his albums. So was entirely down to the US record company.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

What, not Security?

That title

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

was added as a compromise only after the album was released. It came on a separate sticker, even, with only the same old "peter gabriel" on the actual album cover and disk labels. The German version didn't use the title at all; it was simply "ein deutsches album" (vs. the earlier "deutsches album").

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I'm mostly familiar with Gabriel's later stuff, "So" and afterward, which to my mind has not aged well. I've got the double "Secret World Live" album which I thought was pretty great when I first got it, but it now just seems pompous and irritating. I think my tastes have changed and I don't know if it's in a good direction.