PETER GABRIEL III (melt): An EXCITING sonic adventure
Channel: Simon Mas
Date: 2023-12-08

Could music executives completely misjudge an album and drop an artist, only for that album to sell hundreds of thousands of copies?

That's exactly what happened between Atlantic Records and Peter Gabriel's third solo album, also known as "Melt".

But "Melt" is also the album in which the genius of Peter Gabriel started to really shine. A fusion of African influences and New Wave sonorities. A tour de force that had its producer, Steve Lillywhite, calling it "the most exciting thing I've ever worked on."

Join me in the discovery of how this album came to be, and of how it changed 1980s music with its drum sound. We'll analyse classics like "Intruder," "No Self Control" and "Biko", while sharing behind the scene stories and explaining technical details. 


***CHAPTERS***
00:00 Introduction
00:44 Background
05:23 Music analysis
10:09 Listening suggestions
11:19 Conclusions

#petergabriel #rockhistory #1980srock


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***SOURCES***
Easlea, Daryl. Without Frontiers: The Life & Music of Peter Gabriel (London: Omnibus Press, 2013)

Hill, Sarah. "From the New Jerusalem to the Secret World: Peter Gabriel and the Shifting Self" in Peter Gabriel, From Genesis to Growing Up (London: Ashgate, 2010)

Owsinski, Bobby. The History Of Gated Reverb.
https://bobbyowsinskiblog.com/gated-reverb/