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Posted: November 19 2012 at 14:11
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
Biko.
The bass, the pipes, everything is perfect, and his vocal interpretation is powerful
Iván
In a live context, Ivan, I would utterly agree with you. I have seen him perform this a number of times, and the togetherness of the crowd is always guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine.
From the album, though, Family Snapshot has always been my favourite. I think the main reason why is that, as with much of my favourite music, it resonated with me on a deeply personal level. At the time of release, my parents, having got back together after a separation (which involved me leaving my home in Essex for Shropshire, a big move in Enlish geographical terms), were in the deaththroes of the marriage, and it was a very unhappy time for me as a petulant teenager.
That song is also beautifully performed, and still, to this day, hits the mark with me imagining myself as the young man dreaming of assassination and reasoning the act.
Joined: May 16 2009
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Posted: November 19 2012 at 14:49
Side One
Its all good. I nearly went for Jeux Sans Frontiers as it was a real brilliant demonstration of how you can make a brilliant pop record and not have to drop your trousers to achieve it. It got in the charts ffs. And I never thought at the time PG would ever go near them again.
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Posted: November 19 2012 at 15:35
Games without Frontiers.
I've not listened to this album for many years. I'll have to dig out my gramophone and vinyl copy..
I don't remember and Biko were also very good if memory serves. I bought the first three albums back in the day, but I was never a huge fan of Gabriels solo stuff. Someone posted the vbid for Shock the Monkey on another forum. I really like that song.
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Posted: November 20 2012 at 01:00
great album...a natural progression from II ( Scratch)- No self control with Kate Bush backing PG up in the vocals, ahead of it's time in many respects
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Joined: May 25 2011
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Posted: November 20 2012 at 01:45
akamaisondufromage wrote:
Dayvenkirq wrote:
^ Bees? Sorry, which one is that?
Lights come out
Stars Come Down
Like a Swarm Of Bees
*DRUMS*
... and all this time I kept hearing "like the swollen beads" (which is just far out there ). I really gotta check out the lyrics. BTW: I bet that *drums* bit was there to show how the stars hit the ground.
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Posted: November 22 2012 at 21:01
Roland113 wrote:
Dayvenkirq wrote:
^ I'm sorry; what do his parents have to do with his mental state?
I'm pretty sure that the one being assassinated is his brother, come back Mom and Dad is the 'least favorite' child trying to win attention from the more favored brother. In my mind, I never quite figured out if the song was to be taken literally or the passing fantasy of a child's imagination dealing with jealousy of an older sibling.
Family Snapshot wins my vote as well, though I had to think long and hard on 'Lead A Normal Life'.
All in all, this is a fantastic album.
I always thought of it as a child's fantasy, although it works both ways. It's just more powerful for me that way.
Family Snapshot gets my vote, too. One of the most complex and most beautiful songs on the album.
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Posted: November 23 2012 at 07:00
Roland113 wrote:
Dayvenkirq wrote:
^ I'm sorry; what do his parents have to do with his mental state?
I'm pretty sure that the one being assassinated is his brother, come back Mom and Dad is the 'least favorite' child trying to win attention from the more favored brother. In my mind, I never quite figured out if the song was to be taken literally or the passing fantasy of a child's imagination dealing with jealousy of an older sibling.
Family Snapshot wins my vote as well, though I had to think long and hard on 'Lead A Normal Life'.
All in all, this is a fantastic album.
I dont get any brother, from this song, its a lonely boy, but we dont know if there are other children in the family.
Could be a boys fantasy, but the line of thinking in the assassination, relates to me as adult thinking , seems more likely, than the last part is the assassin thinking back at his childhood after he let the bullit fly.
Come back Mum and Dad You're growing apart You know that I'm growing up sad I need some attention
He needs attention, not because the "brother" gets it, but because his parents are growing apart. May be a divorse, may be just a cold relation.
Edited by tamijo - November 23 2012 at 11:19
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Posted: November 23 2012 at 10:36
I only know Games Without Frontiers, I Don't Remember and Biko so I won't vote.
I'm not very impressed by the first two songs that I mentioned, and Games Without Frontiers leading the poll doesn't make me very curious about the rest of the album.
Biko is a great song, though, very impressive. Spine chilling.Very, very powerful!
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Posted: November 24 2012 at 11:56
Start? I listened a lot to the album when it was released, and I don’t remember that one. I can’t recall it at all – probably a good reason not to vote for it. It was hard to choose, but in the end I picked Lead a Normal Life, because it’s a fantastic song, because I sometimes sing it when I do the dishes, and because it only had one vote.
He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill)
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Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
). I really gotta check out the lyrics. BTW: I bet that *drums* bit was there to show how the stars hit the ground.
