Peter Gabriel is an English singer-songwriter, musician and humanitarian activist who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career, with Solsbury Hill his first single. It hits me deep, and never lessens its impact. The lyric “ I come to you defenses down, with the trust of a child“, from the song Red Rain, always brings me to tears.The lyrics from In Your Eyes, especially these – without a noise, without my pride, I reach out from the inside – also gets me every time. Both songs, and lyrics, are so intimate and vulnerable and beautiful, and at the same time, heartbreaking. Lyrically, Peter’s songs slay me, especially in some of his more personal seeming songs. I started to listen to older albums, and started to discover his earlier music, finding favorites in the exploration I also found myself quite taken with the “ feels like a break-up album” album, Us (or maybe it is because I was going through a break-up when it was released, and I played it obsessively). It is definitely one of my all-time favorite albums.Īfter So, I didn’t stop. I really should do a Quintessential Album Feature on the album So because I love every, single song on it, and have played it, and owned multiple copies of it, since it was first released. I’m sure it was Shock the Monkey that introduced me to Peter Gabriel (so heavily played on MTV when I was a teenager), though it would be the album So, and the movie Say Anything, that would grab hold of my attention, and find me falling hard for his music. Peter Gabriel :: My Favorite Artists/Bands
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