Once upon a time Peter Gabriel was a different person. He was strange. He was unusual. You didn't know where he was coming from, but you liked where he was going. Then over...
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Years have passed since Peter Gabriel infiltrated MTV with "Sledgehammer," many more since he created high art rock with Genesis' Selling England By The Pound or his own...
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Ten years is a long time, especially in pop music, but waiting ten years to deliver an album is a clear sign that you're not all that interested in the pop game anyway. Such...
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Peter Gabriel introduced his fifth studio album So with "Sledgehammer," an Otis Redding-inspired soul-pop raver that was easily his catchiest, happiest single to date....
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Nearly a full decade after the release of Us, Peter Gabriel finally returned with new music in the summer of 2002 -- but it wasn't a new studio album, it was the soundtrack...
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Released after Security brought Peter Gabriel a gold record and Top 40 hit, the double-album Plays Live summarizes his first four solo albums quite well. Though these...
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It comes as no surprise that Peter Gabriel has once again handed up something compelling. "Digging In the Dirt" is excellent in itself, even using the music as part of the...
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Passion is in actuality Peter Gabriel's soundtrack to the Martin Scorsese film The Last Temptation of Christ, retitled as a result of legal barriers; regardless of its name,...
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Garbiel's second solo album was produced by King Crimson's Robert Fripp--a friend and sympathizer--but the resulting collaboration seemed strangely flat sonically. And...
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The pairing sounds ideal -- the former front man of Genesis, as produced by the leading light of King Crimson. Unfortunately, Peter Gabriel's second album (like his first,...
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His third album--and first for Mercury Records, after Atlantic Records, his original label, deemed it too uncommercial--this catches Peter Gabriel precisely at the point ...
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Generally regarded as Peter Gabriel's finest record, his third eponymous album finds him coming into his own, crafting an album that's artier, stronger, more song oriented...
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The first solo Gabriel album to bear a title other than Peter Gabriel, this features the superb "Shock The Monkey," the video of which became one of early MTV's most ...
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Security -- which was titled Peter Gabriel everywhere outside of the U.S. -- continues where the third Gabriel album left off, sharing some of the same dense production and...
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Greatest-hits albums are a traditional way of buying time for artists between albums. Peter Gabriel's, entitled Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats, arrived in December...
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Gabriel's all-time best-selling album, this set includes "Sledgehammer," "Don't Give Up" (prominently featuring Kate Bush), and "Mercy Street," one of Gabriel's very best...
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A relatively straightforward single release from Mr. G, who serves up the original "Steam," plus a remix by Hank Shocklee and the Bomb Squad (notable for sampling "Slide" by...
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Incredibly debuting at No. 2 when it emerged--illustrating just how much the public had missed Gabriel--this artful collection was somehow missing the killer hooks...
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Six years after earning his first blockbuster, Peter Gabriel finally delivered Us, his sequel to So. Clearly, that great span of time indicates that Gabriel was obsessive in...
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Peter Gabriel 1/1/1977, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
Gabriel's first post-Genesis album was surprising merely because it didn't feature most of the instrumental diddling that had marred the albums of his earlier group....
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Peter Gabriel tells why he left Genesis in "Solsbury Hill," the key track on his 1977 solo debut. Majestically opening with an acoustic guitar, the song finds Gabriel's...
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A good but useless compilation of Peter Gabriel's first two solo albums. Revisited contains some wonderful music, but fans would be better served by the individual albums,...
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Peter Gabriel's work doesn't lend itself easily to compilations -- not because he didn't cut singles, since he made many terrific stand-alone singles, but because his body...
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