Peter Gabriel [Mercury, 1980]Peter Gabriel on Atco gives way to. . .Peter Gabriel on Mercury, replacing diy DOR with pessimistic art-rock minidrama, while side two opens with "Games Without Frontiers," about a different kind of internationalism, and closes with "Biko," about a different kind of Africanism. Either he misunderstands his own strengths or he underestimates his audience or both. B-
>>127735225PG is so pretentious it hurts. I do have to lol at the album after this one where Cuckgau accuses him of being an African music scene tourist.
>>127735407If PG didn’t come with the baggage of being an ex-prog rocker (or British), Cuckgau wouldve glazed everything he did.
>>127735437>glazedpeople need to stop using this word already
It's not that great aside from Intruder, which is amazing.
>>127735521and that song is just Midnight Rambler anyway
Nursery Cryme [Charisma, 1971]God's wounds, it's a "rock" (rock in quotes 'cos the singer seems to have the drummer a bit confused) version of the myth of Hermaphroditus! Or maybe it's the invocation to Old King Cole. C-
>>127735225not defend PG or anything but I have no evidence xgau can play Happy Birthday on any instrument so why care
>>127735703at least Fantano would be able to do that much
>>127735521I Don’t Remember is a banger
>>127735225critics are useless>>127735407>pretentiousopinion discarded. lazy criticism is even worse than regular criticism.>>127735703this. Q: how many people does it take to play the drums? A: 5. one to play and four to stand around talking about how it could be played better.
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