Description
Peter Gabriel’s impact on the music world is unparalleled. Included here in this DVD collection are the often outlandish video clips that have accompanied Gabriel’s music over the years-18 visually stunning videos that capture a truly remarkable career. Track Listing:
Father Son
Sledgehammer
Blood of Eden
Games
I Don’t Remember
Big Time
Lovetown
Red Rain
In Your Eyes
Don’t Give Up
The Barry Williams Show
Washing of the Water
Peter Gabriel – Play: The Videos
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#1 by Kurt Harding on April 17, 2010 - 8:28 pm
Guess I wasn’t paying much attention when I grabbed this off the shelf. I thought I was going to get a Peter Gabriel concert, instead I got a collection of some of Peter Gabriel’s most mainstream work combined with some of the hokiest, amateurish videos I have seen since the early days of MTV when such dreck, because it was novel, was interesting for a short time. Perhaps I should have read the title!
There’s nothing wrong with the music if you are looking for a Peter Gabriel’s greatest hits type collection containing “safe” songs. But don’t expect to hear any of his more innovative work. This is strictly background music for a party, because most people will know the songs and be energized by them, but no one will actually have to listen.
If you are a big fan of Gabriel’s, I would recommend that you play some of his CDs instead of this. The videos are exceedingly lame and really not worth the time needed to view them. Now that I own this dog, I will listen to it sometime again, but with the TV off!
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by THE NORB on April 17, 2010 - 10:04 pm
I must admit I am not much of a music video person. I would rather watch an entire concert performance or hear the songs in context of an entire album. As far as PG is concerned, his first four albums are his best besides his work with Genesis of course. But since these albums have not been released in surround, I am anxious to hear the tracks from these albums in surround. Unfortunately, this is the only way we can hear them so far!
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by Gernot Ziegler on April 18, 2010 - 12:26 am
Innovative videos, simply !
Being a computer graphics researcher, I have to say though that Peter Gabriel recruited the wrong fellows every time he touched computer animation
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by A. Deutsch on April 18, 2010 - 1:35 am
To truly understand the artistry that is peter gabriel, this is a must… also, the growing up tour video is a must
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by o dubhthaigh on April 18, 2010 - 2:19 am
Mind you, I like Gabriel’s music and have found in many instances, like the concert supporting US, that he taps a major root in the psyche of anyone sorting out exactly the pickle they are in. So, when you get a collection like this, you can’t help but donning the Freudian beard and glasses and wondering where the electrodes were placed on that monkey. Sure, most of it is entertainment, but with Gabriel, there is also that element of lifting the curtain so that you see behind the Wizard of Id’s mask.
The music herein has been effectively remastered and I suspect remixed, as I noticed keyboards and percussion treatments on several songs that I’m sure I never heard before. Gabriel’s most touching video is the one for FATHER AND SON, his most ridiculous BLOOD OF EDEN, perhaps the funniest five minutes of film you’ll ever watch, and all credit goes to Sinead. The most embarrassing is the video with Kate Bush, not that I wouldn’t mind trading places, but, it is a bit overwrought, like the song itself.
You gotta give Gabriel credit for the very high standards he maintained throughout his video career. Unlike Bowie, whose SOUND AND VISION videos are often really stupid, Gabriel was always looking to draw the viewer in first and then create a psychological disturbance. He’s damned good at it. My mother always thought his music was perfect for Halloween, not in an Alice Cooper way, but as part of that Anglo-Celtic tradition that reveres the plight of souls set adrift from their mooring in this world. Before we leave our bodies, Gabriel often sings about what ropes are coming undone. The videos enhance that.
Still in all, both as a video and as a tune, BARRY WILLIAMS should have been left on the cutting floor. ‘Twas a tune that did not singing and a film that needed no shooting.
The rest has enough material to keep a symposium of shrinks busy for years.
Enjoy.
Rating: 4 / 5