Peter Gabriel: Plays Live 1983

 

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and human

rights activist. He came to prominence as the original frontman of the rock band Genesis. He left the band in 1975 and launched his solo career with a hit debut single entitled "Solsbury Hill". After Gabriel released four successful studio albums (all entitled Peter Gabriel), his fifth studio album, So (1986), became his best-selling release; it is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the US. A 2011 Time report said "Sledgehammer" was the most played music video of all time on MTV.
                               

GENESIS

Peter Gabriel combines the theatricality of his time as the leader of Genesis in the early '70s with widely

appealing sounds and songwriting, making him an international star with the credibility of a cult hero. With his eponymous debut solo album in 1977, he explored dark, cerebral territory, incorporating avant-garde, electronic, and worldbeat influences into his music. 
                         

Stylistically, Gabriel's music has been alternately described by music writers as progressive rock, art rock, art pop, worldbeat, post-progressive and progressive soul. According to Rolling Stone journalist Ryan

Reed, Gabriel has developed in all as an "art-rock innovator, soul-pop craftsman, [and] 'world music' ambassador" over the course of his career, while music scholar Gregg Akkermann argues that, despite his progressive rock origins, he has "managed to attract fans from across the spectrum: prog rock, alternative rock, world beat, blue-eyed soul, dance music, the college crowd, the teens, Americans and Europeans" More broadly, AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine says Gabriel emerged during the 1980s as "one of rock's most ambitious, innovative musicians", as well as "an international pop star".
                     

In "Plays Live" the immediacy of the stage performances wasn't lost in the process, and that emotional

edge and intimacy give songs such as "Solsbury Hill," "I Don't Remember," and "Shock the Monkey" a sharper, deeper resonance than their studio renditions, fine as those are. It's that side of the performance that makes this release well worth owning, for anyone enamored of Gabriel's voice or songs, even if nothing here wholly supplants the studio originals. And the band -- Tony Levin (bass, stick, backing vocals), Jerry Marotta (drums, vocals), David Rhodes (guitar, vocals), and Larry Fast (keyboards) -- is in excellent form as well. 
                      

Peter Gabriel – Plays Live
Label: Geffen Records – 4012-2
Format :2 x CD, Album, Reissue, Oct 1987
Country: US
Released: 1983 
Genre: Rock
Style: Pop Rock, Prog Rock, Art Rock
                             

CD1.

                        

01. The Rhythm Of The Heat    6:26
02. I Have The Touch    5:18
03. Not One Of Us    5:29
04. Family Snapshot    4:44
05. D.I.Y.    4:20
06. The Family And The Fishing Net    7:22
07. Intruder    5:03
08. I Go Swimming    4:44

Flac Size: 225 MB

CD2.

                         

01. San Jacinto    8:28
02. Solsbury Hill    4:40
03. No Self Control    5:02
04. I Don't Remember    4:20
05. Shock The Monkey    7:40
06. Humdrum    4:03
07. On The Air    5:20
08. Biko    6:50

Flac Size: 251 MB

LINE - UP

                         

Producer, Vocals, Synthesizer, Piano, Words By, Music By – Peter Gabriel
Synthesizer, Piano – Larry Fast
Chapman Stick, Bass, Backing Vocals – Tony Levin
Drums, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Jerry Marotta
Guitar, Backing Vocals – David Rhodes
    

NOTES

                            

Recorded by Le Mobile on Autumn 1982 Tour of the United States and Canada.

Peter Gabriel - Birdy 1984 on Urban Aspirines HERE

    

O.S.T : Birdy : Peter Gabriel 1984

Birdy is a 1984 American drama film directed by Alan Parker (Pink Floyd - The Wall ) and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. It is based on the novel of the same name by William Wharton, although the film is set in the Vietnam era and not during the Second World War.

Two teens, Birdy (Modine) and Al (Cage), become friends at school and serve in Vietnam. Birdy has long been disturbingly fixated with birds and his Vietnam experiences push him over the edge: returning from the war, he is hospitalized for a psychiatric assessment and Al tries to reach him before he'll be separated from Birdy, leaving him alone and lost. As the story develops, flashback scenes show their lives as teens in a working-class neighborhood of Philadelphia in the United States in the 1960s, and their developing friendship and viewpoints.

This soundtrack is Peter Gabriel's first foray into movie scores but it is a really good soundtrack that stands on it's own.
The movie itself is just amazing and the soundtrack perfectly fits in the weird tone of the movie.
Be warned: The soundtrack is very gloomy and may leave you depressed.

As some are aware of, five of the songs life up parts of tracks from Gabriel's third and fourth CDs and the album label arns that this record contains no lyrics. The remaining seven are extraordinarily haunting and beautiful.

The best of the original tracks is "Floating Dogs" which is a very scary but beautiful track that becomes a very twisted trancy piece.
Do not let the fact that this is overshadowed by "PassioN". "Birdy" is a really excellent score and should be included in any Gabriel fan's collection.

TRACKS

Side One

01.At Night 2:38
02.Floating Dogs 2:55
03.Quiet and Alone 2:30
04.Close Up (from "Family Snapshot")  0:55
05.Slow Water 2:51
06.Dressing the Wound 4:06

Side Two

07.Birdy's Flight (from "Not One of Us") 2:58
08.Slow Marimbas 3:21
09.The Heat (from "The Rhythm of the Heat")  4:41
10.Sketch Pad With Trumpet and Voice  3:05
11.Under Lock and Key (from "Wallflower")  2:28
12.Powerhouse at the Foot of the Mountain (from "San Jacinto")  2:19

Format : Vinyl LP
Made in : Greece
Label : Charisma - Virgin Records
Year : 1984

MP3 @ 320 : Size : 81.3 MB
Flac  :  Size : 170 MB