It seems a video hasn't been made for the complete album of "So", here's the trailer for "So". (Yeah, I don't remember a CD having a trailer before either.)
But to hold you over here's the video for the complete CD of Peter Gabriel's "1978" self-titled CD. It seems his first four CDs were all self-titled. But to differentiate the 4 CDs, each had a self-title. This specific CD's subtitle is "Scratch". The "Peter Gabriel (Scratch)" CD is the second of those four self-titled CDs. The below video only has 889 views at the time of the writing of this blog, let's push it over 1,000 views. My thanks to James Birchall for creating the following video.
The track list for "Peter Gabriel": (as you can see this CD doesn't have any of Gabriel's "hits" on it, but that doesn't mean its not a great CD.)
1 "On the Air"
2 "D.I.Y." (It seems Gabriel and his producers were using "D.I.Y." (do it yourself) before it broke into everyday language.)
3 "Mother of Violence" (Peter Gabriel, Jill Gabriel)
4 "A Wonderful Day in a One-Way World"
5 "White Shadow"
6 "Indigo"
7 "Animal Magic"
8 "Exposure" (Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp)
9 "Flotsam and Jetsam"
10 "Perspective"
11 "Home Sweet Home"
On to "So", it was released on May 19, 1986. I listened to my iTunes this morning, I've been listening to songs based on how long ago they were played. I pretty much had already decided to do a greatest CDs of all-time blog today. When Gabriel's "I Have The Touch" played I thought of "So", although "I Have The Touch" isn't on that CD. "Touch" was last played on my iTunes July 26th, 2012. To think I used to be really far behind!
"So" with that inspiration in mind, I started writing a blog about "So". "So" is Gabriel's sixth solo CD. Gabriel first made an impression on the world of music when he was in Genesis. He recorded 7 CDs with Genesis, culminating with "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway". This was the Genesis before Phil Collins took more control over the band, which was probably partially due to Gabriel leaving the band. Collins took the band a lot more mainstream after the experimental feel of Genesis' first 7 CDs. I read once that Gabriel would only rejoin Genesis again if they could perform "Lamb" again.
I'm listening to "Lamb" on Rdio now, I'll give you my thoughts on it when I have listened to it a time or two. It has a few good songs on it, but overall only a decent CD. For what it's worth: it does remind me a lot of Pink Floyd's "The Wall" in music and lyrics though.
"So" was Gabriel turning to more of a mainstream sound, at least as much as Gabriel would do. He doesn't create a lot of mainstream music, in fact he might be as famous for his world music as for his 80's hits. "So" went on to sell over 5 million copies in the US and indeed it was his peak in mainstream music, which again is only one of the many kinds of music Gabriel dabbles in. Gabriel took advantage of the relative newness of MTV by creating some stunning videos. "Sledgehammer" is one of the more memorable videos of MTV's first 10 years.
Gabriel also works on film scores, writing music for such films as "Birdy", "The Last Temptation of Christ" and "The Long Walk". The music for "The Long Walk" is particularly haunting:
1) "Red Rain":
2) "Sledgehammer":
"Sledgehammer" (Live):
Who would have thought there would be another song titled "Sledgehammer" that wasn't a cover of Gabriel's classic. Fifth Harmony's "Sledgehammer" is a perfectly good song, it's also a completely different genre.
3) "Don't Give Up" (with Kate Bush):
4) "That Voice Again":
"That Voice Again" (Live in 2013):
5) "Mercy Street":
7) "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)":
From the not very good "Say Anything", this is one of the most classic scenes in any 80's movie:
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