Peter Gabriel 1 (Remastered)

Rating

Album: Peter Gabriel 1 (Remastered)
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Moribund the Bürgermeister	More Info...	0:04
2)	Solsbury Hill	More Info...	0:04
3)	Modern Love	More Info...	0:03
4)	Excuse Me	More Info...	0:03
5)	Humdrum	More Info...	0:03
6)	Slowburn	More Info...	0:04
7)	Waiting for the Big One	More Info...	0:07
8)	Down the Dolce Vita	More Info...	0:05
9)	Here Comes the Flood	More Info...	0:05

Performer Notes

Personnel includes: Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush (vocals); Robert Fripp (guitar); Roy Bittan, Larry Fast (keyboards); Tony Levin (bass); Phil Collins (drums); Dick Wagner, Jim Maelen, Steve Hunter, Allan Schwartzberg.
Recorded at The Soundstage, Toronto, Canada.
Digitally remastered by Tony Cousins (Metropolis).
Personnel includes: Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush (vocals); Robert Fripp (guitar); Roy Bittan, Larry Fast (keyboards); Tony Levin (bass); Phil Collins (drums); Dick Wagner, Jim Maelen, Steve Hunter, Allan Schwartzberg.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
In 1977, two years after leaving Genesis, Peter Gabriel emerged as a solo artist with the first of three records entitled PETER GABRIEL. He was anxious for a change of musical direction, but after years of fronting one of the foremost art-rock outfits of the era, he hadn't exactly lost his taste for the dramatic. On his own, Gabriel was free to explore his own personal obsessions. Consequently the work is rife with images of isolation, paranoia, and the apocalypse. Aided by the London Symphony Orchestra and the cavernous production of Bob Ezrin (Kiss, Alice Cooper), the record reaches dramatic peaks of symphonic rock.
Musically, Gabriel was clearly in experimental mode. The collection opens with the cheery yet menacing "Moribund the Burgermeister" (which sounds like a twisted fairy tale), followed by the hit "Solsbury Hill," a lilting acoustic ballad which obliquely addresses Gabriel's departure from Genesis and is an enduring fixture on FM radio. "Modern Love," with its larynx-shredding vocal, rocks as hard as anything Gabriel ever recorded. The just plain odd "Excuse Me," Gabriel's sole foray into barbershop quartet territory, has old-world charm, and "Here Comes the Flood" is Gabriel at his doomiest.

Professional Reviews

Entertainment Weekly (7/12/02, pp.84-5) - "...Reveals a surprisingly logical progression...Gabriel sharpens his writing and expands his sonic scope with every release..." Rating: A

Q (6/02, p.137) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...[Gabriel's] music holds up rather well..."

Mojo (Publisher) (6/02, p.126) - "...Quaintly raced off shouting...that it was different [than Genesis]..."

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