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Essential? Peter Gabriel<\/h2>\n

Courtesy of Carsten Petersen – a grumpy and strange music geek<\/h5>\n
I am reviewing Peter Gabriel <\/strong>on\u00a0<\/strong>this site. You thought that the upcoming World Cup is the biggest story of the year? You are wrong! Or maybe I am just frustrated that one of my favourite players just got badly hurt yesterday and will not be able to join for Brazil. Get well, Marco!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Let me start this review by introducing the founder\u00a0of this site, Alejandro De Luna. He is cool. A ladies\u00b4\u00a0guy everywhere he goes. Wears sunglasses. Has the coolness factor of Stephen Segal. He likes punk music. He likes punks. He IS punk.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I am not. I am the opposite. The ladies don’t outright hate me anymore. This phase, fortunately, has been a part of the past 8 years now, and thats fine. Still, it could be better. I watch cartoons. I like to listen to music from video games of the 90s. I know absolutely everything about the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles \u2013 Michelangelo is the youngest by the way. I watch playthrough videos from old videogames. Other people play Play Station, I still play Sega Genesis. I listen to Progressive Rock. I am a geek.<\/span><\/div>\n
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And I like Peter Gabriel…<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Peter Gabriel<\/strong>, to me, has been a total hero since I listened to him on the Genesis <\/strong>record,\u00a0The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.<\/em> Hard to get used to it at first, his voice was just something special. And the lyrics? strange weird, cryptic, twisted…Just something special. One and a half year later, I listened to Peter\u00b4s<\/strong> Shaking The Tree<\/em>\u00a0Best Of compilation, and needless to say, I was drawn in. His songs were mostly dark but with the same wonderful knack and atmosphere of “The\u00a0Lamb<\/em>.”\u00a0Peter<\/strong> is mostly a storyteller. His songs \u2013 very often \u2013 tell stories from the first person perspective. I love that. He actually describes the surroundings from the view of the spectator step by step; it simply draws you into his world. He actually tells stories, he does not stick to mere metaphors, calling it a deep experience. This guy has something to say that you and me might not understand it, but I am pretty sure he does.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Peter\u00b4s<\/strong> first four albums did not have titles, simply sticking to “Peter Gabriel”<\/em> as the title for all four. His fourth album was therefore called “Peter Gabriel”<\/em>, or Peter Gabriel IV <\/em>(1982). Apparently, though, the American side of the music business got kinda sick of Pete\u00b4s<\/strong> eccentricities and decided \u2013 if not for that damn pussy called “Europe” \u2013 that if he wanted to stick to the market of glorious, World War II winning, stars and stripes sprinkled market of the U.S.A. (hell yeah!) he would just need a name. Therefore, the title,\u00a0Security,\u00a0<\/em>was chosen. I don’t know why they used that name and I doubt, anyone, including Peter<\/strong>, did.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Now finally to the album, to the music. Peter Gabriel <\/strong>had helped introducing a new sound with his preceding album, Peter Gabriel III <\/em>or Melt.<\/em> Along with Phil Collins<\/strong>, he introduced the Gated reverb sound \u2013 the kind of sound that makes this really loud, loud, crashing drum sound. Dark synths, minimalistic approach to the songs, dark lyrics, marimbas, piano, strange sound effects, you know the deal. With a song like “Biko”, Peter<\/strong> first showed his interests in African influences and rhythms \u2013 this is important to describe Peter Gabriel IV.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
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In order to go deeper in the new sound for the new album, Peter<\/strong> worked with the then new, so called Fairlight System or Fairlight CMI. This was a keyboard which could record all kinds of sounds. And to record as many sounds as possible, Peter<\/strong> would go out to places recording all kind of different sounds \u2013 including going the dumping ground. Yes, honestly…Say what you want about Peter<\/strong>, but when someone is willing to pour through garbage like a starving racoon all day, you just know, that he is gotta be passionate about music. He also hired a lot of African guest musicians to help deepen the foreign influences of the last record.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The albums theme? Isolation. All songs provide the feeling of being not quite part of this world, something that Peter Gabriel<\/strong> could always handle. The result? A strange, extremely dark, yet deeply exotic and colourful album.<\/span><\/p>\n

To be honest, I am in a pretty bad mood now. I honestly do not know how to keep going in this review. Its funny, Gabriel<\/strong> is my hero, but..I don’t know how to finish this friggin review! So, looking back on my first writing experience with that fancy Zappa<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>article, I will do a song by song description, cause really, I do not know how else to do the album justice. Relax, it is just 8 tracks, it ain’t no Trout Mask Replica<\/em><\/span><\/a>!<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Rhythm Of The Heat”: Ominous Intro, Gabriel\u00b4s<\/strong>\u00a0scream. The introduction to the album, and like in the friggin record, it ain’t your normal everyday eighties bullshit. Weird rhythms, Gabriel<\/strong> whispering and screaming out his lungs, brooding synths, terrifying atmospheres. It all explodes with a drum fiesta at the end.<\/span><\/div>\n
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