Peter Gabriel has had some big hits, but I was never a fan of many of them. Okay, any of them. Again, not saying he isn’t talented, it’s just that his music isn’t for me.
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Biggest hits weren’t for me either. But loved: „Biko“, „Games without Frontiers“, „Salsbury Hill“ also solid.
I’m with you. A very good friend in college said, “If you like John Lennon, you’ve got to listen to Peter Gabriel.” I did not invest the time then. From the songs you’ve mentioned that I have heard, I do not feel I missed lots. Catchy. But kitschy.
“But you can’t judge someone just by their pop hits.”
But there has to be a catalyst.
“But what if his whole body of work is tremendous?”
I’ll never know: if I didn’t have the energy to invest then, I won’t now.
I was never a John Lennon fan but always liked Peter Gabriel a lot. Even the early Genesis stuff.
I was just telling my son the other day when I talked to my friends about the songs I had to describe the album cover because he never named them until much later.
Sledgehammer and Big Time didnt do much for me. Maybe because i didn’t like the videos for them.
Sledgehammer so much better as music itself, not a video – man did you nail that.
You bet your life………………..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soSdSZGFl1A
I introduced “Shock the Monkey” to my kids. They found it funny.