"And through the wire, we push our tailor-made speeches. We get so strange across the border." He predicted the path that social media would take us on IN NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY.
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There are no weak songs on PETER GABRIEL 3. And we're not talking about mere adequacy, I'm telling you that every single thing here is a life-alteringly powerful track. He wrote a song about insanity and asylums, but lets you figure it out:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3mZPggXQ74 …
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And of course the funny thing is that Phil Collins, who was playing for him on this LP (for free! just out of friendship) took that ball and ran with it to create HIS single greatest solo song ever. You probably didn't even realize it was about asylums:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO1l2itfSs4 …
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Guess who sings the backing vocals on "Take Me Home"? Yup, Peter Gabriel. Repaying a favor? Or recognizing that game respect game? Either way, it's one of those lovely musical symmetries that being a Genesis fan affords you. Thank God these folks didn't end up hating each other.
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As I said, there's nothing weak on PETER GABRIEL 3. It's an album about insanity, obsession, racism, hatred, sexual violence, oh and also apartheid. As my friend said to me after I recommended it to him: "a great way to get your roommate out of the dorm."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bn75IYMWSw …
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And PETER GABRIEL 3 ends with one of the greatest political songs of all time. "Apartheid" is a foggy memory for you millenials nowadays. In 1980 it was a very real thing. Here is a song that never even approaches cliche:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsVieeccpQs …
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"Biko" is a song that should stagger any person with a sensitive appreciation of *art* to this day. It is both agonizingly direct, yet miraculously free of any sort of patronization. The lyrics, great as they are, almost yield to the visceral power of Gabriel's howls at the end.
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And then, that final drumbeat from Phil. Like a gunshot. Hope, despair, the end, a potential new beginning...what is it? Ambiguity. The best art lets you guess and doesn't jam a funnel down your throat to feed you the answer. This is a song that asked you to give your own answer.
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Of course, six years later on from that, Peter Gabriel would be trading blows with his ex-bandmates Genesis on both the Billboard U.S. singles and album charts and writing the song that was my first wedding dance w/Mrsoteric:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N6G0RVeFBQ …
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If you're a Gen X'er, you know "In Your Eyes" from SO (which was a massive smash hit) or even more likely from SAY ANYTHING. For me, it was one of those songs Mrsoteric & I had to haggle over...I feared it was too cliche, then I realized that nobody remembers anything anymore.
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That song is good enough to not care its a cliche. The classics are classics for a reason. It's one of a handful of songs played at basically every dance I attended in college.
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