Late Nite Music Club with Peter Gabriel
By David Neiwert Tuesday Nov 25, 2008 8:00pmI'm always tempted to run the famous Sledgehammer video just because it still seems fresh after all these years, but this is one of Gabriel's best (and most unappreciated) songs. It has a delicate, glassine quality combined with a lovely melody and raw emotive power that's pretty rare in rock music.
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My personal fave: Shock the Monkey.
YouTube's gone widescreen
but the widescreen is grainy as hell. Do you see the same thing?
I checked it on Daily Motion, same thing. One guy puts up a crappy copy and everyone else leeches it.
Seems the way of the world. :-)
but as most of the vids were uploaded in a different format, it doesnt matter
they are preparing for the corporate takeover of showing first run licensed stuff
trying to keep up with hula
Watching videos on Youtube and sluggish to open them now, and Firefox browser craps out.
Been happening the last couple of days.
I thought it was Spank the Monkey.
Feist - My Moon My Man
Just because I just watched Rick Mercer play roadie for her.
Just over at You Tube listening to all the Dionne Warwick hits.
Walk on by
Alfie
Don't Make Me Over
A House is Not a Home (fave)
Dionne and Burt Bachrach. Music to fall in love with all over again.
OK, here is a melody anyone can enjoy from that category:
Oasis
Peter Gabriel "Red Rain"
Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street - Live in Milan 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX7zIypE2FE
There in the midst of it, so alive and alone..words support like bone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvH127PFmcY&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WEHriALvuk
Games Without Frontiers
Here's an interesting PG cover I heard once a long time ago:
Don't Give Up - Willy Nelson & Sinead O'Connor
Been missing you in that abstract sort-of internet way. Good to see you.
Ha! Thanks...I haven't posted to LNMC in a while:) It's nice to be missed...
Dont Give Up - Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7aaynDhaVc
me too...beautiful heartfelt song by two incredibly talented people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXoAF_rBgR8&fe...
God Bless Peter Gabriel. He is the most human of humans.
I saw a funny interview with Peter Gabriel a few years ago. Apparently he had kids during his days with Genesis and his solo career. He was mentioning something about his 33 year old daughter coming to him like she did something bad, and showed she got a tattoo I think on her ankle.
It was almost like he didn't know it, but he must've been something of an intimidating father figure.
Digging in the Dirt
Good one! Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMwn_hnoS5Y&fe...
I did not believe the information
I just had to trust the inclination
This is the best use of Solsbury Hill ever!
Um, just got through watching that creepy piece of Kubrick masterpiece and was shivering in my bed looking up all of the resources for it when I saw your creepy vid.
Uh..thanks? ;)
That was hilarious. I thought for a minute it was the actual trailer.
peter gabriel - in your eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXRPm7faABo&fe...
You'll Say Anything, won't you? (grin)
Only with my ghetto blaster on my shoulders hanging out outside your window in the middle of the night in the sweet and uncertain mist of springtime!
Heh, heh.
Peter Gabriel - Burn you up burn you down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kGStXto_QE
Peter Gabriel: I Don't Remember
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reKN53JUpfo&fe...
tunes. Awesome live show as well.
Peter Gabriel - Here Comes The Flood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww9JS8dJ9fY&fe...
...I don't know any Gabriel fans who don't appreciate San Jacinto or think the 4th (Security) album isn't brilliant. Gabriel did a really smart thing, he didn't try and make the third album over again. Security has a feel and texture all it's own and the songwriting is different as well. I saw the Security tour in San Francisco in 1982 and it's still one of the best concerts I have ever been to. Want to know how relatively unknown he was then, I bought tickets two weeks after they went on sale and I was still halfway to the stage on the floor of the SF Civic. After So came out he did two nights in a row at the Oakland arena where most people didn't know that he So was his fifth solo record and not his first.
I remember when So came out, I was disappointed: it sounded so thin compared to Security. It took me a while, but I realized how great it was in its own right, just as Security was a change from previous Gabriel albums. (I thought the recent Up was a throwback to Scratch and Melt.)
When he toured in 2002, I bought the best seats I could afford and took my wife, who was not a huge Gabriel fan. But she walked out loving the concert--he and the fans had an obvious connection, and it was clear that Gabriel was having fun, something my wife doesn't see from many. If dancing through the crowd didn't make you smile, the giant gerbil ball would.
Listen to Stevie Wonder's "superstitious" then "sledgehammer". Am I nuts?
the music box
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfTx7i84yPo&fe...
he could turn the Greek myth of Hermaphroditus into a song, if you're into that kind of thing *wink*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExVBL0DNq98
Steven Biko!!!!!!!!
Peter Gabriel Biko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLg-8Jxi5aE
You can blow out a candle but you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch the wind blow it higher and higher
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
-The man is dead
The man is dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yts9QaoVP7Q&fe...
The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts and figures
and instructions for
dancing
But I
I love it when you read to me
And you
You can read me anything
The book of love has music in it
In fact that's where music comes from
Some of it is just transcendental
Some of it is just really dumb
But I
I love it when you sing to me
And you
You can sing me anything
The book of love is long and boring
And written very long ago
It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes
And things we're all too young to know
But I
I love it when you give me things
And you
You ought to give me wedding rings
And I
I love it when you give me things
And you
You ought to give me wedding rings
And I
I love it when you give me things
And you
You ought to give me wedding rings
You ought to give me wedding rings
Words are such powerful things.
Sphinx, I feel like I can confide in you. I haven't posted much lately. I'm still upset about what happened Sunday afternoon on Cernig's thread. A canuck made some comments and was promptly attacked by several posters. It was the ugliest thing I have ever seen at C&L and I hope it never happens again.
Not all of us have aggressive or dominant personalities. This site is becoming increasingly intimidating. Nobody wants to be bullied, especially when they are being polite and making reasonable comments. Even after this poster was verbally attacked, he/she remained courteous. If canuck is reading this, I apologize to you for not coming to your defense.
There, just getting that off my chest has made me feel better.
Anyway, a big thank you to Sphinx, David Neiwert and lafingas for all of the great tunes. Beautiful music always lifts the spirits!
Until next we meet ... cheers to all.
[Please flag posts like that, or let us know by email. John wants people to enjoy their time here, which, in part drove the decision to institute registration. We try, but can't read everything-Sitemonitor]
Don't be intimidated.
That's what I get for not checking back on the threads I've posted on!
Um, I'm not familiar with the post you are speaking of. I'll have to go and check it out. I wouldn't worry very much about it though. I've posted here for years and seen a lot of ugly things people have said in the heat of the moment to one another that have caused hurt feelings and even broken up some really close on-line friendship networks.
The site monitors usually have a good handle on it. If they didn't erase the things being said that you are referring to, it probably wasn't even considered anywhere near as over the top as things yelled at one another in the past. I have a temper and have been guilty of using it more than a few times on this site and later regretted it.
If the poster was being attacked and remained courteous than that's a great thing and says a lot more about him or her then it does about the "attackers."
It's hard to stay cool headed when you feel ganged up on.
Don't feel intimidated or bad about not speaking up! You are always a sweetheart and I'm sure you can think of the right wording to put a person in their place without resorting to rudeness. Of this, I have no doubt:) Most important thing is not to feel intimidated.
Don't ever hold back or stop posting because of something someone said that offended you here. There will always be people like that in blogland. (Personally, I like to get a little bit fiesty, myself ;) )
That means a lot to me (and others, too, I am sure). C&L is the best!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9r9sQ6PHOM
I just love those Norsk folk.. :)
Is FoxTrot, and this is the topper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzWdDCtC1IM
Although Nursery Crymes and Lamb Lies Down are awesome, too. For me, the Gabriel years with Genesis were the ultimate in that era of prog rock, and I'll always love him for it.
How can someone not like Peter Gabriel?
San Jacinto is one of my all time fave's.
Genesis, I know what I like(in your wardrobe)
Richie Havens. Lives in the Balance
Frankly, "SO" and "US" were both crap. Pop garbage. his first 4 records and Passion (especially Passion) completely overshadow both of those disasters. However, his record from 2002, "UP" is fantastic - easily equal to his earlier work. Moi, The Tweakerbelle, *highly recommends it*.
San Jacinto is one of my faves, as well. It's one of the few times a song actually made me tear up on first listening. Dead Brilliant.
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