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]

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.

[reddragdiva]

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

[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.