#472 - Peter Gabriel, 'Solsbury Hill' (1977)

 

I know Peter Gabriel from his 80s MTV songs and early Genesis, but I'm not sure I know this song.  The RS blurb says it's often used in TV/Films, so maybe I'll recognize it.   Based on my (admittedly shallow) knowledge of Gabriel's work, I don't expect it to be boring.


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Yeah, I've heard this song.  I don't think I ever realized it was Peter Gabriel. As expected I didn't find it boring.  The first verse or two is pretty conventional but things are slowly added to the arrangement that I really like.  It builds without hitting you over the head with it.  Nice!



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  1. RonDecember 3, 2021 at 9:41 AM

    If I ever had the patience to do a Top 500, this song would be a lot higher than Rolling Stones' ranking. I'm a really fanatical fan of Peter Gabriel and have been since "Shock the Monkey" (and the album "Security") shocked my system back in 1982. I eventually went back to his 1970s Genesis work and fell in love with albums like "Foxtrot" and "Selling England by the Pound". For me, his third LP simply called "peter gabriel" (like the prior 2 albums) with the melted face cover is my favorite, but the first (car windshield cover), "Security", "So" and "Us" were only just a smidge behind.

    The great Steve Hunter (Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, 1st solo on Aerosmith's "Train Kept A-Rollin'") played the awesome acoustic. Robert Fripp played electric on a lot of the songs from "car", so I assume he's on this one as well somewhere in the mix. Peter played his flute/recorder like he usedta do back in his Genesis days.

    This song is always a highlight of any PG show I've seen.

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