Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live
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Free Music Review: Live music is better for me
Hit: 5 Stars
Some groups strain so hard to come up with something creative and complicated when they are in a recording studio that new songs often sound more cluttered to me than a performance live before an enthusiastic audience, which helps listeners identify the high points. I often thought that musicians like to play the same song longer than new music is expected to be when new tunes are packaged in an album. I have a learning curve that requires a certain amount of time before I can get into new music so that I hear it as a presence that it echoes with anticipation in my mind. A set that comes with two discs is perfect for me if it comes with a few long songs on disc 2.
Great on all of the reasons mentioned, disc 2 of `Secret World Live' provides the songs `Digging In The Dirt,' `Sledgehammer,' `Secret World,' `Don't Give Up,' and `In Your Eyes.' I'm glad I had the opportunity to become familiar with MTV videos of `Sledgehammer' and `Digging In The Dirt' back when a rotation of familiar music videos was one of the best things I ever watched TV for. Now listening to this brings back a lot of the pleasure. Disc 1 has concert versions of the new songs I wanted to get anyway eventually, so getting this all together made a tremendous amount of sense to me, and it still does.
Free Music Review: Gabriel at his peak
Hit: 5 Stars
I've followed the Gabriel/Genesis/Collins/Banks/Rutherford phemomenon since 1976 (thanks to a great family, the Rosens of New Jersey, who introduced me to the best music to come from England since J, P, G & R)--This is Peter at his peak--the staging is unique and puts you right on stage with the band--Paula Cole, Tony Levin--masters themselves, jamming alomg with the rest of the fantastic band. The live versions of Pete's songs, especially Steam, Red Rain, Sledgehammer (which I didn't even care for much as a studio song),and especially Secret World are different from and in my opinion superior as live performances.
Only drawback: not a DVD--the sound is superior hi-fi---but still, we all have gotten used to the "Skip" and "Forward" buttons. Oh well.
To my eyes (ears), that have seen at least 50-150 concerts on video/DVD, this is in the top 5. A masterpiece to me (I just saw his new tour and he is still fantastic--looking forward to *that* DVD)--I couldn't reccomend it highly enough.
Nice going, Pete, Paula, Tony, and all the rest of you guys (especially Peter's ingenious tape loops--especially Secret World--perhaps the best "loop" I've ever heard).
Ian Schneider
New York City
Free Music Review: Peter knows you already have his first live album!
Hit: 5 Stars
You'd be surprised how many acts who've been around long enough to do more than one live album seem to forget they have old fans when they do the new live set. I bought this with a sigh of relief--there's only one repeat from the "Plays Live" set: "Solisbury Hill". Everything else is from "So", "Us", "Birdy", "Passion", plus rarities "Across the River" from the "Music & Rhythm" benefit album and "Shaking the Tree" (the title track and duet with Youssou N'Dour from the "hits" set). Maybe "Red Rain" is played a tad too slow, but after all, he did the same thing with "No Self Control" on "Plays Live". Paula Cole's duet with him on "Don't Give Up" is more Whitney Houstonish, as opposed to Kate Bush's catch-breath emotional appeal--but his touring bass man has gotten Tony Levin's indispensible third-harmony hook down pat, as well as the reggaeish coda. This album satisfies me not only as the avid Gabriel fan, but also as the baseball card collector who used to hate getting "doubles" of the same card. And you don't have to o.d. on bubblegum either!Free Music Review: Please buy this CD and also the DVD of the same concert. You won't be sorry!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I am a long time Peter Gabriel fan from the early days (I went to the "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" show when he was still the driving force behind Genesis). As musical taste and life priorities change I had really not followed his career for a number of years and just recently viewed the DVD at a friends house. The next day I purchased both the DVD and CD and feel compelled to write a combined review for both items, if only to answer some of the low star reviews it has received in the past (obviously not too many as you can see from the high star overall).
This concert is wonderful the musicianship & staging are astounding, and the vocals angelic (aka Paula Cole!). I would recommend it to any rock, progressive and roots music fan. The African influenced rhythms, melodies and dancing (DVD) bring the kind of joy that compells you to get up and move. There are also fun rocking versions of old favorites that get the crowd energy going. It is total fun with cerebral message and lyric.
I could go on and on but I won't say any more, other than to encourage you to buy this CD and also the DVD, they are both wonderful!
Free Music Review: Eternal
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm sorry for the woman who got converted from country music by this album, because there ain't nothing in the world wrong with Travis Tritt and Reba McIntyre, but if this album brought her to the other side of the fence, it was the right one. I'm probably not the only person in the world who really discovered Peter Gabriel when MTV played the "Sledgehammer" video about 500 times a day for about six months, but once I started exploring I was hooked. I envy the people in Italy (of all places) who saw this show -- I agree with the previous reviewer about the magnificence of "In Your Eyes", and I would add "Don't Give Up" to the jubilation -- I suppose Kate Bush can't travel with Peter Gabriel, and I sort of missed her ethereal voice on the song, but the female backup did just fine, too. The bottom line is that Peter Gabriel is one of the true greats of 20th century music, and this live album showcases him at his very, very best.