PETER GABRIEL: 1977 SOLO DEBUT 2002 QUIEX PRESS MINT

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Dec 9, 2010 Sold Date

Nov 29, 2010 Start Date

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PETER GABRIEL: 1977 SOLO DEBUT 2002 QUIEX PRESS MINT

BEST YOU WILL HEAR, UNPLAYED, HEAVY GF SLEEVE w/INNER

PETER GABRIEL

LIMITED EDITION US 'REAL WORD/CLASSIC RECORDS PRESSING ON 200g QUIEX VINYL OF PETER GABRIEL'S 1977 SOLO DEBUT LP - DELIVERING THE FINST AUDIO YOU ARE EVER LIKELY TO FIND ON VINYL, AS QUIEX PRESSINGS DELIVER JUST THAT - SILENT PLAYING SURFACES AND THE WHOLE LP SOUNDS SENSATIONAL THROUGHOUT WITH NOTHING TO FAULT - THIS COPY IS UNPLAYED (apart from my one careful play-grading) DELIVERING FLAWLESS MINT AUDIO THROUGHOUT

Pressed on virgin 200 gram high-quality vinyl from Classic Records as part of their 'Quiex-SVP' series and using the original master tapes, the album has been re-mastered under Gabriel's direction; allowing every conceivable detail and nuance of the original recording to be translated to this pressing.
The result is arguably the best sounding release of this album ever available.
As usual, Classic have lovingly presented the album in a deluxe package featuring a high quality very thick card gatefold sleeve (with the single leaf fixed insert and die-cut '1') complete with inner sleeve

THE PLASTIC OUTER COVER (WITH QUIEX STICKER) HAS BEEN OPENED BUT IN MY OPINION THIS COPY HAS NEVER BEEN PLAYED - ALL COMPONENTS ARE IN MINT CONDITION

Peter Gabriel tells why he left Genesis in "Solsbury Hill," the key track on his 1977 solo debut.
Majestically opening with an acoustic guitar, the song finds Gabriel's talents gelling, as the words and music feed off each other, turning into true poetry.
It stands out dramatically on this record, not because the music doesn't work, but because it brilliantly illustrates why Gabriel had to fly on his own.
Though this is undeniably the work of the same man behind The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, he's turned his artiness inward, making his music coiled, dense, vibrant.
There is still some excess, naturally, yet it's the sound of a musician unleashed, finally able to bend the rules as he wishes. That means there are less atmospheric instrumental sections than there were on his last few records with Genesis, as the unhinged bizarreness in the arrangements, compositions, and productions, in tracks such as the opener "Moribund the Burgermeister" vividly illustrate.
He also has turned sleeker, sexier, capable of turning out a surging rocker like "Modern Love."
If there is any problem with Peter Gabriel, it's that Gabriel is trying too hard to show the range of his talents, thereby stumbling occasionally with the doo wop-to-cabaret "Excuse Me" or the cocktail jazz of "Waiting for the Big One" (or, the lyric "you've got me cookin'/I'm a hard-boiled egg" on "Humdrum"). Still, much of the record teems with invigorating energy (as on "Slowburn," or the orchestral-disco pulse of "Down the Dolce Vita"), and the closer "Here Comes the Flood" burns with an anthemic intensity that would later become his signature in the '80s.
Yes, it's an imperfect album, but that's a byproduct of Gabriel's welcome risk-taking -- the very thing that makes the album work, overall.

Side 1: Moribund The Burgermeister / Solsbury Hill / Modern Love / Excuse Me / Humdrum
Side 2: Slowburn / Waiting For The Big One / Down The Dolce Vita / Here Comes The Flood

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