POLL WITHOUT FRONTIERS: peter gabriel's peter gabriel albums

i expect the third one wins, but they all have their high points.

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ts: peter gabriel (1) vs. peter gabriel (2)

fuckin love all of them, but i think i have to go w/ 3. tho 1 burns like a motherfucker

yeah the first one especially starts and ends well. the second one does too (starts well in particular -- "on the air" to "d.i.y.").

The melted face one is his best ever album, so it has to be that one.

I have a soft spot for 4. He overegged it in the end, but the basic ideas were great.

1. Melted Face (3)
2. Wet Car (1)
3. Security
4. The lame 2nd one

1. 3
2. 4
3. 1
4. 2

debut

3 > 1 > 2 > 4

I like the fact that there are two threads that are just called Peter Gabriel.

It was cool how Gabriel tried to reinforce the eponymous idea by just putting his name on the spines of all of his reissues in 2002 in that same typeface (along with a bit of the cover art), even for the ones that had titles.

Is there a thread on artists with multiple self-titled albums? Maybe this one comes closest. Excluding people who just used numbers, there's Caetano Veloso and I think a bunch of other '60s Brazilian artists.

My ranking would probably be the same as Roger's.

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I would say 3 >> 4 > 1 >>> 2

He's going to hold me together tonight...again. I worship him even more than Brian Eno, and that's saying something.

It's a shame (1982) only got one vote. I still like (1980) more, but the margin between them is razor thin.

For a long time this would have been the third record, but nowadays I find I'm increasingly coming back to his fourth - I love the emphasis on rhythm and epics on that record, and I love the production on it. So is probably my favourite overall, though.

man, is "Shock the Monkey" the first single to go top 40 in America to use Fairlight CMI synths?

Probably something by Trevor Horn. Frankie goes to Hollywood? Owner of a Lonely Heart?

"Shock the Monkey" charted in late '82/early '83, so no!

someone rich! Stevie?

This toned down version of Here Comes The Flood is fripping amazing imho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUwwfLszU4w

Yeah, even Fripp believes that this is the definitive version of Flood

Stevie's "Happy Birthday" (1981) has a Fairlight but it wasn't released as a single in the US oddly

xp I agree with that. When I recompiled my own version of Shaking the Tree, I swapped out the 1990 re-recording (to be fair, a good recording) and replaced it with that exact same one from the original version of Fripp's solo debut.

Fripp's Water Music I is also essential to that version of Flood, which may have been why PG chose to rerecord it for Shaking The Tree. It was the next best thing...