If anyone was curious.. Peter Gabriel's 'Intrder'

A wise man also said, "Fear, she's the mother of violence", which may well apply in this situation. ..... but really i just wanted to post a Peter Gabriel song

Eddie sounds a lot like Peter Gabriel in this song.

My dad has this attachment to 50s rock and roll and he rightly believes everything in pop music was invented in the 50s and possibly the 60s.

I remember most of these songs (the british ones) coming out and me being fascinated by what could be done differently to what was then the mainstream. However pop quickly devolved through the 80s and I found myself meandering back in time, from late to early Talking Heads, from late to early Genesis and Floyd and Yes and Jethro Tull and Mike Oldfield and Fleetwood Mac, discovering the Beatles and the Beach Boys were actually good at some point, finding out Frank Zappa was a thing and discovering that yes, the guy who made late 20th century pop music up in his garage, with his searches for new sounds and writing his own music and lyrics was indeed one Buddy Holly in the 50s.

Anyway I found myself listening to a rather childish track by Basement Jaxx years later and could not quite put my finger on what made that one track work for me. All these bands that only have one really good track... Anyway what was going on was a Gary Numan sample.

So I went back and listened to some of this old stuff and I was really surpised that some of it still works.

But back in 1980 if you heard Numan, early Midge Ure Ultravox minus the ubiquitous title track of the album, Visage, or a couple of years later the Eurythmics you would hear a sound that was strikingly new and different.

Thinking back Peter Gabriels 3rd solo album (although itself very electronic) took me out of the electronic pop bandcamp and more into alternative rock. That and lucking into a friend who had an older brother who had all the old Genesis records also as sheet music including lyrics. That or David Byrne.

The main point is the music you like is the music you liked when you were 13.

You can find the Peter Gabriel bit here. Starts at the sixteen minute mark. https://videosift.com/video/Peter-Gabriel-South-Bank-Show-Making-of-Security

I had no clue that this shaped 80's music. It is from my favorite Peter Gabriel album.

I just remembered the name of the first Peter Gabriel concert I attended back in the summer of '83, Playtime 1988.

http://videosift.com/video/Peter-Gabriel-With-Genesis-Isolated-Vocals-From-Foxtrot

"Don't Give Up" (Duet With Peter Gabriel, 1986)

^vote for Peter Gabriel's music in the background.

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Fix for your Peter Gabriel, "In Your Eyes," video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kU8OJAOMbPg

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Peter Gabriel is a genius. he has consistently produced amazing music. If you haven't listened to his work with Genesis do so. It is amazing music, Foxtrot and selling England by the Pound are works of art.
I saw his first live show after leaving Genesis, it was one of the best live shows i have seen.


He was quite the visual artist for a while there, too.

Peter Gabriel is a genius. he has consistently produced amazing music. If you haven't listened to his work with Genesis do so. It is amazing music, Foxtrot and selling England by the Pound are works of art.
I saw his first live show after leaving Genesis, it was one of the best live shows i have seen.

That was very well done. I noticed the Peter Gabriel similarity when I first heard the song as well.