Bowie vs. Solo Gabriel

I love both Peter Gabriel and David Bowie, but I've gotta vote Bowie.

I only have Ziggi Stardust and Hunky Dory and none of Gabriel so i can not wote

but the two Bowie albums i have are pure genius, marvelus

Both Bowie and Peter Gabriel were great musicians of their time. Like you them or not, many musicians were influented by them. And if I really like some Gabriel works, I prefer Bowie, as greatest figure. He was very influential from early 70 till late 90, and just recorded long list of great works. Gabriel (solo) made some great work, but for years was more more important as Man in Music world, than real active musician.

One of my favourite ever prog artists.

Both brilliant but too different to compare. Both minimalist of late in terms of studio output but their contributions over the years beggar belief

This poll is affront on all things sane.....

Edited by Negoba - October 23 2009 at 20:13

I'm amazed at some of the replies here.

I was there when PG's solo career took off, he was one of my heroes, I totally adored his first solo album. The second one was disappointing, but with nrs. three and four he hit gold and YES, he seemed similar to Bowie at the time: equally daring, equally intelligent, equally using ideas from a wide variety of sources!

But PG's solo career never went through the same amazing trajectory Bowie's had in the 1970s. Whenever I think of that sequence, I'm in awe:

SPACE ODDITY-MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD-HUNKY DORY-ZIGGY STARDUST-PINUPS-DIAMOND DOGS-YOUNG AMERICANS-STATIONTOSTATION-LOW-HEROES-SCARY MONSTERS!

It's a ten-year high PG has never matched. (I rate ALADDIN SANE and LODGER a little lower but they're fascinating still.) And these days, Bowie's 1970s albums give me greater pleasure than PG's solo stuff.

P.S. Back in the late 1970s, PG may have derived the idea of recording an entire album in German from Bowie singing "Helden", but have any of you noticed that Bowie's recent "Never Get Old" is an almost 100% rehash (rather annoying, in my view) of PG's "Games without Frontiers"?

David Bowie made a good start with his first three albums. Hereafter he had his fine moments now and then. Peter Gabriel has his lesser moments, but I prefer most of his solo output above Bowie's.

Bowie is probably my favorite song writer of all time as well as a top 5 singer to me.  So it's pretty easy.

Rick Wakeman sites that David Bowie is the gratest musician and the person who have influend him moust as an artist more then any one else (to make it short Rick Wakeman sites Bowie as the gratest man he have EVVER playd for)

if you read interviewa by Rick you may notice him kissing Bowies feets in admiration (almoust)