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Peter Gabriel 1: Car (Remastered)

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First masterwork down, plenty to go...

I was skeptical when I ran out of old Genesis albums to work through, afraid that Peter Gabriel would have completely moved on from the epic progressive rock he made with his former band. And he did, but he did it in all the right ways. Peter Gabriel (Car) set the bar for the rest of his work, and ensured that he was as artistically creative and restless as ever.

The album starts off with the intense "Moribund The Burgermeister", which retains the flavor of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, while alloting more room for experimentation than Peter ever had before. Next up is the classic "Solsbury Hill", a track that explained at last Peter's reasons for leaving Genesis. On the rest of side 1, Peter dabbles in punk rock ("Modern Love"), barbershop quartet-esque material ("Excuse Me"), and an odd amalgamation of Spanish music and prog rock ("Humdrum"). Side 2 opens up with "Slowburn", a stirring rocker that again evokes Lamb-like images through its sheer firepower. "Waiting For The Big One" is oddly jazzy, whereas "Down The Dolce Vita" comes off as a fusion of an operatic film score and more driving rock. "Here Comes The Flood" is the final track, and the perfect way to end the album. It is amazing in it's ability to conjure up images of the end of the world, and though Peter would later rearrange it into an acoustic version (he dislikes the version here), it lacked the power and beauty of the version found here.

This album is essential, and is the perfect gateway into the brilliant solo career of Peter Gabriel. It is essential listening.

Great Record.

Peter Gabriel's first album is truly magnificent. Experimental, but also pleasing to the ear, Gabriel always finds the balance necessary between what's easy to hear and what takes that extra effort to listen beneath the surface.

A classic

This album has always been great for me. A wide variety of styles. The opening track has all the strange artistic brilliance that Peter made famous in Genesis. I LOVE it. Solsbury Hill is just one of the best songs ever recorded. The rocker Modern Love is great and this version of Here Comes The Flood is the original recording and still my favorite above the remakes. All the other tracks are great too.

Biography

Born: February 13, 1950 in London, England

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

As the leader of Genesis in the early '70s, Peter Gabriel helped move progressive rock to new levels of theatricality. He was no less ambitious as a solo artist, but he was more subtle in his methods. With his first eponymous solo album in 1977, he began exploring darker, more cerebral territory, incorporating avant-garde, electronic, and worldbeat influences into his music. The record, as well as its two similarly titled successors, established Gabriel as a critically acclaimed cult artist, and...
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