It's one of the most cringe-inducing LPs EVER.
'World Music' is utterly fucking bent. Peter 'Gay'briel likes it. QED.


EDIT so does Andy 'banned from the Isle of Man' Kershaw.


EDIT Fela Kuti is good - and some of the stuff Ginger Baker got up to with Tony Allen in Africa is stunning, look on YouTube. That's how to fuse African music with Western rock. Not with some fucking twee little nose-flute bollocks.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 11:44, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I don't consider it world music
there are some great moments of instrumentalism in it (guitar riff from diamonds on the soles of her shoes for example)

and I like his voice. it soothes me.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 11:47, Reply)

And is that a squeezebox on That Was Your Mother?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 11:52, Reply)

Oi
Keep my mother's box out of this.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:15, Reply)

Don't mess with Peter Gabriel
My mum'll find you and kick you head clean off!
(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Mon 11 Jan 2010, 11:52, Reply)

He's shit. Really, really shit.
He was shit in Genesis, who were shit. His attempts to distract people from how weedy and shit they were by wearing wacky costumes failed utterly.

Then he did some solo stuff, which was shit.

Then he got involved in 'world music' and the WOMAD festival, both of which are shit.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 11:58, Reply)

Bender
and he should be choked for crimes against humanity for his breakthrough track, 'Sledgebummer'. As it rode on the crest of a wave of goodwill purely because of the 'modern and wacky' video. Which was made by the guys who done Morph, incidentally.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:09, Reply)

HE WAS IN GENESIS FOR FUCKS SAKE!.
Guilty. Hang the flower-faced shite.

Edit - the Sledgahmmer video was a big rip off of Talking Heads.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:12, Reply)

honourable mention goes to Massive Attack
who managed to make a not shit version of Games without frontiers, which actually featured Gabriel on vocals
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:09, Reply)

Talk about polishing a turd...

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:27, Reply)

hahaha

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 11 Jan 2010, 12:31, Reply)