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washing machine · **Posted:** Mon November 12, 2018 5:09 am

Listening now. Melt-era Gabriel fills a gap I’ve long suspected exists between Eno/Fripp, Berlin-era Bowie, Iggy’s The Idiot, Talking Heads and Adrian Belew.

I never knew. :shock:

washing machine · **Posted:** Mon November 12, 2018 5:31 am

Just when this album starts to settle into background noise, “And Through the Wire” struts into the picture.

Edgy riff. It almost feels cheesy and by the numbers, save for the uneasy feedback rings floating around the open spaces.

bada · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 5:53 pm **Posts:** 12082

Yeah great song.

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47328

I have a great association of listening to Peter Gabriel a lot during a road/camping trip with friends in 1995 from South Carolina to the Grand canyon, Phoenix and back. I moved to Phoenix 3 months after that trip.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Mon November 12, 2018 10:18 pm

washing machine wrote:

Listening now. Melt-era Gabriel fills a gap I’ve long suspected exists between Eno/Fripp, Berlin-era Bowie, Iggy’s The Idiot, Talking Heads and Adrian Belew.

I never knew. :shock:

I will forever picture Reed just sitting around his house suspecting there are connections between Peter Gabriel and Berlin-era Bowie.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Mon November 12, 2018 10:19 pm

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

I have a great association of listening to Peter Gabriel a lot during a road/camping trip with friends in 1995 from South Carolina to the Grand canyon, Phoenix and back. I moved to Phoenix 3 months after that trip.

Something about his music is really transformative, and it definitely makes for great music on a long drive.

washing machine · **Posted:** Mon November 12, 2018 10:39 pm

tragabigzanda wrote:

washing machine wrote:

Listening now. Melt-era Gabriel fills a gap I’ve long suspected exists between Eno/Fripp, Berlin-era Bowie, Iggy’s The Idiot, Talking Heads and Adrian Belew.

I never knew. :shock:

I will forever picture Reed just sitting around his house suspecting there are connections between Peter Gabriel and Berlin-era Bowie.

You should picture me sitting in my office, scowling at this post.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Mon November 12, 2018 10:41 pm

clean up that mess on your desk!

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washing machine wrote:

Listening now. Melt-era Gabriel fills a gap I’ve long suspected exists between Eno/Fripp, Berlin-era Bowie, Iggy’s The Idiot, Talking Heads and Adrian Belew.

I never knew. :shock:

i knew i'd find some good connections in this thread

washing machine · **Posted:** Mon November 12, 2018 10:49 pm

tragabigzanda wrote:

clean up that mess on your desk!

Birds in Hell · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 9:38 pm **Posts:** 15139

Man, Gabriel still sounds in fine voice in these live videos from a few years ago:

(Largely the same band as his 70s/80s records too, including King Crimson's Tony Levin on bass - who's played on what seems like almost everything.)

E.H. Ruddock · **Joined:** Tue January 01, 2013 2:48 pm **Posts:** 47328

So fucking good

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Wed July 24, 2019 1:22 pm

Thanks Ruddo, that’s an intense one. His more recent stuff is sort of headed back into Melt territory.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Thu February 06, 2020 8:17 pm

tragabigzanda wrote:

Finally listened to 2002's Up last night, it's awesome. Some similarities between this and The Downward Spiral, Bowie's Outside, and others of that ilk. The arrangements are super proggy, along the lines of his first solo album, but with much more modern sounds. Awesome headphone album.

tragabigzanda wrote:

I'm also gonna add that Up is the closest album to Melt, in that it's heavy on dark industrial sounds.

Listening to Up a bit more lately. Man the first half of the album is fantastic. I'm having trouble latching on to the back half, but I'm not sure if it's because the material is weaker, or just because the album is sort of dense and fatiguing.

surfndestroy · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 2:21 am **Posts:** 2870

This has inspired me to listen to Growing Up Live. Is a new album for me.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Thu February 06, 2020 8:42 pm

is it just live tracks from Up?

surfndestroy · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 2:21 am **Posts:** 2870

tragabigzanda wrote:

is it just live tracks from Up?

Pretty decent variety of tracks. Going back to the first album for Solsbury Hill and lessor known tracks like Here Comes The Flood. Light on albums 3 and 4.

AndySlash · **Posted:** Fri February 07, 2020 12:06 am

nice to see up getting some love. i feel like i can't listen to that album unless i listen in one sitting (and with headphones), but i do go to sky blue, more than this, and signal to noise every once in a while if i need a fix. i remember buying up at target on the day it came out, then seeing one of the first shows of the growing up tour a few months later. there's some good stuff on the ovo and long walk home soundtracks that came out around that time, too. all things considered, that was a pretty 'prolific' period for him given his output over the last 30 years.

loved that he brought the blind boys of alabama on tour with him.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Wed December 02, 2020 7:53 pm

I’m coming around on the idea that Security might be his best record. It’s got the prog-rock tendencies of his first two albums, the paranoia and experimentation of #3, and its just starting to get into the world beat vibes of So and Us.

Need to get this on vinyl.

warehouse · **Joined:** Sat January 05, 2013 3:34 pm **Posts:** 4363

'digging in the dirt' randomly came on the radio. i forgot how great this song is, i probably havent heard it in 20 years.

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