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Glad you like Gabriel's Young cover, Jerry.
The Gabriel covers album was originally supposed to have a sister album of other artists (including many of the ones whose songs Gabriel covered) doing covers of Gabriel songs. Unfortunately, the sister album has been delayed indefinitely, so it's ended up looking like an ordinary covers album.
I also suspect it all started out as something of a stopgap because, after almost 10 years, Gabriel still hasn't completed the official follow-up to "Up."
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quote:Originally posted by Jerry: What is the world is he doing releasing a cover album, though?
That's what a legion of Peter Gabriel fans have been asking for the past year, as well.
He hasn't released a full-fledged studio album in 8 years (with 10 years between that and his previous release), despite supposedly having written hundreds of songs in the meantime, and he suddenly comes out with a covers album. Which is, incidentally, going to be followed up by an album of re-arrangements of his own material in the same style.
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quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lass: Ah, the same answer in two different styles.
I'm sure there's something deeply significant in the fact that you went for mentioning the follow-up with other artists' covering Gabriel's work, while I went for the mention of Gabriel's follow-up covering his own work.
Meat for the future cyber-archeologists, no doubt.
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Fun one. I haven't listened to any Siouxsie in years. I forgot how wonderful she is.
Jab, thanks for posting your picks. Both are very nice. Cash and Strummer covering Marley... Can it get any more real than that? I was driving home from work with my carpool buddy the evening of the 9/11 attacks. The local dj played "Redemption Song" to mark the event. My buddy cried. It's a moment I'll always remember.
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quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lass: Siouxsie & the Banshees cover Bob Dylan & the Band??
Actually, it's more likely they knew the song from the hit psychedelic-pop version by Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger.
I'm pretty sure I read an interview with her where she said that was the case. I believe she also said that they didn't know it was a Dylan song when they recorded it.
quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lass: Siouxsie & the Banshees cover Bob Dylan & the Band??
Actually, it's more likely they knew the song from the hit psychedelic-pop version by Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger.
I'm pretty sure I read an interview with her where she said that was the case. I believe she also said that they didn't know it was a Dylan song when they recorded it.
If that's the case, I'm not entirely surprised. Somehow I just can't imagine the teenage Susan Dallion listening to Dylan and/or the Band as she dreams of being a world-conquering pop star. That's not a slam against Dylan or the Band, it's just that Siouxsie's generation was much more into the unholy trinity of Iggy-Bowie-Reed.
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