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

[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.