20 Kim W.

 

Favorite Album: A toss-up: between UP and PASSION.

 

Favorite Song: If I really had to pick just one and forgo all others for

the rest of my life, or else I would be cast into certain death, I would

have to say "In Your Eyes" but only because it's the one with the most

personal significance mixed up in it. More about that later. Speaking

strictly of musical integrity, you've got to be kidding when you say I

have to pick only one.

 

Favorite Gabriel-Era Genesis Album: The only one I've even heard is

FOXTROT.

 

Least Favorite Song: Probably something on side 2 of Car that I never

learned the title of anyway because I shrugged and skipped back to

"Solsbury Hill.

 

Favorite Music Video: "Digging In The Dirt". At the time it came out I

was involved with someone who was undergoing a serious bout of

depression; the song,s lyrics were already fairly significant in helping

me understand what my SO was going through. So when I saw the video,

and at the very end saw Peter finally lying peacefully in a field of

flowers and then saw the word "heal" pop up, I nearly cried.

 

Favorite Tour: SO. I was 16; my aunt got tickets for me, my friend

Sue, and herself and my parents. Sue and I sat right one row above the

floor, the folks sat way in the back. Blew us all away. Even my dad.

 

Favorite Collaboration: Laurie Anderson.

 

Favorite Non-Gabriellian Artist: Again, I can only pick one? Okay,

it,s a tossup between early Van Morrison, Dave Matthews Band, U2 and

certain Sting albums.

 

Favorite Pastime Between Album Releases: travel, working in the theater,

writing about politics and history.

 

Comments:

 

A story, actually.

 

One of my best friends is a guy I met our first year in college. During

the very first conversation we ever had, we found we both liked Peter

Gabriel and had both been to the very same concert date on the SO tour

one year previously. (He'd had better seats than I did, though.) It

took me to the end of that conversation for me to finally catch on that

about halfway through he had switched gears and was trying to pick me

up. After a few more weeks, flirting, I finally went out on a date with

him.

 

He became my first love.

 

A month or so after we began dating, the movie SAY ANYTHING was

released; and in it was one of the very best scenes on celluloid I have

ever seen, with John Cusack's character trying to win back the girl who

had left him by standing under her window at dawn with a radio and

blasting "In Your Eyes" at full volume. For him it worked. My guy

actually saw the movie with someone else, but reported back to me that

hearing "In Your Eyes" made him think of me. It became "our song."

 

Then he broke up with me. However, when he said he wanted to stay

friends, he meant it. So did I. And as it turned out, some time after

the breakup, once we were safely into the recovery and going through

smooth sailing with the friendship, we were doing something for a class

project and "In Your Eyes" happened to come on the radio. I started

singing along. So did he. We looked at each other and smiled. It was

still "our song.

 

To this very day, more than 12 years later, if you put me, him, and a

recording of "In Your Eyes" in the same room, you will still end up with

both of us singing along and smiling fondly. Thanks, Peter.

21 Erica

Favorite Album: A tie between Security, Passion and

US (SWL is also a really good one).

Favorite Song: Now THIS is a toughy (as I'm sure it is

for many people) - I have so many. Some of my

favorites are Blood of Eden (Live - "In the blood of

Eeeeden" :), I have the Touch, Zaar, A Different Drum,

Mercy Street has always been a favorite, Games Without

Frontiers, and on and on...

Favorite Gabriel-Era Genesis Album: I listen to

Selling England by the Pound on my way to work all the

time.

Least Favorite Song: There are no songs that I

dislike - just ones that aren't my favorites (and

there aren't a lot of those). I wasn't crazy about

Excuse Me or Start though.

Favorite Music Video: I'm partial to Steam - it makes

me laugh. Sledgehammer is also very good.

Favorite Tour: Ha! In my dreams! I was only 11

during SWL, which I have seen, but only on tape.

Favorite CD ROM: I don't have either of them - but

working on it...

Best Hair Era: The fluffy tousled So-era hair. He

also looks like a cute teddy bear now - you just want

to hug him.

Favorite Album Cover: Probably US. It's one of those

covers you have to kind of study to figure out what it

is - ("Is that a feather? A cloud of smoke? oh...wait -")

Favorite Non-Album Song: Me and My Teddy Bear or

Signal to Noise. While the Earth is Sleeping

(Sleeps?) is different, but good.

Favorite Collaboration: I love them all. He knows

how to work with artists that go so well with his

style - and his collaborations cover such a wide range

of music. If I had to pick though, I would say Youssou.

Favorite Non-Gabriellian Artist: I like a lot of

bands. Crash Test Dummies, Dire Straits, Collective

Soul, Natalie Merchant, Tom Petty, and R.E.M. are a

sampling.

Favorite Pastimes Between Album Releases: Watching

re-runs of Northern Exposure, traveling, reading,

playing with my dog, drawing, adding more teddy bears

to my collection, and filling up my computer's hard

drive with pictures, articles, ect. of Pete.

Best *Idea* For a Collaboration: *Idea*? Hmm... Tori

Amos, but she has already worked with him, hasn't she?

I would gladly get on stage and sing with him.

I Think the New Album Title Should Be...

PG-125+4#6?~^7 or Du Du (Okay - maybe not).

Comments: PG rocks my world.

 

22 Kenneth Hawkins

Favorite Album: III

Favorite Song: Red Rain

Favorite Gabriel-Era Genesis Album: Selling England By the Pound

Least Favorite Song: Taboo

Favorite Music Video: Sledgehammer

Favorite Tour: So. I saw it three times in upstate NY.

Favorite CD ROM. Haven't delved into these yet.

Best Hair Era: 1972 long hair without the reverse Mohawk; or now.

Favorite Album Cover: Passion.

Favorite Non-Album Song: currently it's Downside/Up. Usually, Across the River, No More Apartheid, Strawberry Fields, or POV version of In Your Eyes.

Favorite Collaboration: with Robbie Robertson on "Angel"

Favorite Non-Gabriellian Artist: the Who.

Favorite Pastime Between Album Releases: Compiling between-album songs into killer tapes!

Best *Idea* For a Collaboration: sing Downside/Up with Sarah McLachlan

I Think the New Album Title Should Be... At Last.

Comments: I've been listening to PG since 1972 and he just keeps getting better. Love his rhythmic forays during the 80s but I'm really glad he is now exercising his gift for melody in the new material. Those newer to PG should definitely check out his Genesis material, especially the Lamb and Selling England. Like he said in the history tape, constant themes of creating atmospheres tie all his work together. Listening to the sounds and contemplating the themes behind OVO remind me a lot of what he was doing back in the 1970s!

 

23 Sherry Evangelista

Favorite album-Secret World Live, Us - they are experiences

Favorite Song-In Your Eyes, Shaking The Tree, Talk to Me

Least Favorite ??? does not compute

Fave video - Digging in the Dirt

Tour - Secret World - or the one I actually get to see live

Hair - early 90's

favorite cover - Us

best collaboration - Paula Cole

favorite non-gabriellan- Ozzy Osbourne, Sting, Elton John, Alanis Morissette,

Sophie B Hawkins....and on and on

Pastime- writing, listening to music, working a crappy 8 to 5 day job, caring

for family

my collaboration idea- Alanis Morissette

new album title - Go toward the light!

(abandon your titular gods and be free!)

 

Love you Peter!

Named my beagle "Gabe" after you!

 

24 Alan Howie

Favorite Album - They are all great- Lets go for the Rhythm of the Heat.

Favorite Song - Live - Solsbury Hill Studio - Wallflower

Favorite Gabriel-Era Genesis Album - Foxtrot

Least Favorite Song- I Grieve (because he always seems to feel sorry for himself)

Favorite Music Video - Kiss The Frog

Favorite Tour - China 1984

Favorite CD ROM - Don't have any CD ROM

Best Hair Era - 1971-1974

Favorite Album Cover - No 3

Favorite Non-Album Song - Another Day with Kate Bush

Favorite Collaboration - Working with Tony Levin and David Rhodes.

Favorite Non-Gabriellian Artist - Steve Hackett (does this count, if not #3 is Caravan)

Favorite Pastime Between Album Releases - Not holding one's breath, surf the Net

Best *Idea* For a Collaboration - I would like to see him working with Hackett, Banks, Rutherford, and Collins, but would settle for Sting or Natalie Imbruglia.

I Think the New Album Title Should Be GREED, especially if he goes on tour and charges $100 a ticket. Short and simple would be LATE, but that is 4 letters. We could use symbols like ++.

Comments: Do you think Peter will read this ? [Not bloody likely, unless a cocky magazine interviewer gives him a copy of the survey...--Ed.]

 

25 Julian Wolfe

Favorite Album: Peter Gabriel (1978)

Favorite Song: White Shadow

Favorite Gabriel-Era Genesis Album: The Lamb

Least Favorite Song: The Story of OVO

Favorite Music Video: Modern Love

Favorite Tour: Fluorescent Tour

Favorite CD ROM: Eve

Best Hair Era: '74-75

Favorite Album Cover: Peter Gabriel (1980).  I did a piece of artwork based on this album cover.  If you'd like a scan of this let me know.

Favorite Non-Album Song: Another Day in 1977

Favorite Collaboration: Robert Fripp

Favorite Non-Gabriellian Artist: David Bowie

Favorite Pastime Between Album Releases: Searching for what PG stuff I don't have, and being a missionary of Pete!

Best *Idea* For a Collaboration: Peter Gabriel and David Bowie, or Peter Gabriel and KISS.

I Think the New Album Title Should Be... Peter Gabriel (Self Titled)

 

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