Down The Dolce Vita is one of my favourite tracks he ever did. Kind of a forgotten track these days...
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His second album will be out any day now...Peter Gabriel's First Solo Released 40 Years Ago This Week!
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
One where I played it and instantly cringed at that big arrangement on the intro- it's too much for me. The song itself isn't too bad.
I'd say most of the album is forgotten these days, actually. After the early 80s did he play anything from it other than 'Solsbury Hill' and 'Here Comes The Flood'? Those are the only two tracks which have appeared on his best ofs too. And 'Here Comes The Flood' never even appears in this version, it's always that later vocal/piano one. I think the original one works just as well, proof it's a great song I guess.
The second album has fared even more poorly in retrospect. But then I only find it half-good anyway.
C'mon... No love for Moribund?
Currently attempting to catch up on all of the chaos in the Market Square.
I mentioned it in passing and I love it- a big production number with lots going on, and great chord changes. It's kind of Gabriel's farewell to the sound he had within Genesis...'White Shadow' (at a push) is one of the only other songs on his solo albums which I could ever see on a Genesis album.
New Video Released Today of Solsbury Hill Live (DNA)
From PeterGabriel.com: This montage of live performances includes
footage from Rockpalast (1978), Live in Athens (1987),
Secret World Live (1993), Growing Up Live (2003),
New Blood Live (2011) and Back To Front (2013).
https://youtu.be/WeYqJxlSv-Y
Kind of a fun memory-trip with that video. Worth a listen and a smile.
In the video, it's interesting to see how PG changed over the years. My wife's favorite
version of PG is the Secret World Live one. He was in his 40's, mature, but was still
hanging on to his boyish good looks. We saw him on that tour in Dallas. Tony Levin,
on the other hand, does not seem to change with time. He's either a vampire or a Highlander!
Love that song. I was on a school cricket tour in Cambridge in '77 and Solsbury Hill was on the Jukebox in the pub we sneaked off to. I kept putting on Moribund (the b-side) and it kept getting stuck, so the funny instrumental bit after 'I will find out' kept playing on and on and on. Eventually the landlord asked me to stop playing it!
the original version of Here Comes The Flood is my favorite PG song.
It's ALL about Humdrum. (I mean, I like the whole record, but Humdrum is really stunning.)
The album was a shock to me at the time, and I had to learn to listen past some of the production choices and, I suspect, a not exceptionally good pressing (original US pressing). But for sure a great bunch of songs and a decisive new beginning.
Here is a Rolling Stone article (with video links)
listing 20 great Peter Gabriel deep cuts. Has numerous
B-sides from through-out his solo career. Enjoy!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...-1980-20160630
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