"PAUL PETERSON" wrote: > > The new Peter Gabriel album is magnificent, and like Joni's new album is being > ignored by the music press. Rolling Stone listed it as the year's biggest > disappointment. Like Joni's album it is angry, complex, heartfelt, and > impossible to pigeonhole. Like Joni's music, it takes a few listens to 'hear' > the music. The arrangements and rhythms are incredibly rich, the lyrics deep > and wise. Even the CD booklet reminds me of Joni's album in that it includes > a gallery of photographs which relate to the songs. Like OVO before it, this > is musicmaking on a genius level that the U.S. appears to be unable to > appreciate. Check it out. > Couldn't agree more with you Paul. I've been a fan since the mid-70's. I believe PG's solo artistic and commercial masterpiece was SO in 86. The releases after SO failed to touch me as much, perhaps I didn't take time to search for the inner world but I found them less accessible and less creative. However, with this new album UP, it is as good as SO IMHO, and its beauty and emotions overwhelmed me on the 1st hearing (and thereafter). Of course this album is very different, but a climax in its own right. Why Rolling Stone is disappointed is beyond me. One of the best 2002 releases in my book. PG IS PRESENTLY TOURING THE U.S, hope you can catch him.
PS: Would love to trade for a concert of this UP tour, if you know where there is one. PPS: Just a little anecdote: SO's big hit in the U.S. was Sledgehammer. In France it was Don't Give Up. Appropriate titles when you think of it. Laurent
