Three legendary artists gone solo to present naturally amazing songs!! Thanks for watching! 🥰

Chris Squire, the greatest show on earth. RIP 👑🎶🙏🎶👑

It is too hard for me to pick a favorite. I like each of them for different reasons. It's like asking a Mom (with multiple children) who her favorite is.

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24 күн бұрын

Or me trying to pick my favorite Depeche Mode song! 😁 I knew all 3 songs would be great and that you would like them!

@reneelyons6836

23 күн бұрын

And you were right. It took me 10 years to figure out that I like Genesis just a wee bit more than Yes.

Love it - a great track, classic Peter Gabriel African inspired sounds!

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24 күн бұрын

I'm so excited for Peter's solo discography! Better get him on here more often. Thanks for watching!

@mattleppard1964

23 күн бұрын

How about his third solo album, PG3 (“Melt”) as a full album? You get PG, Phil Collins on drums, Tony Levin, Robert Fripp, Kate Bush… And PG3 is where the gated drum sound that Phil used on “In the Air Tonight” originally came from. There is not one cymbal on the whole thing - very un-Genesis. “Games Without Frontiers” was also a minor hit ❤

Hey Brandon! Mr Squire was the GOAT!! Chris, I miss you my brother. 🙏🕊🕊🕊😎

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24 күн бұрын

Thanks for stopping by today Jeff. I know your love for Chris runs deep! And we got him twice in 1 week on the channel!!

@mattleppard1964

23 күн бұрын

Hey Jeff! Such a jazzy funky number 😊

@jeffschielka7845

23 күн бұрын

@@mattleppard1964 Great album! I wish Chris did five more!!!👍😎

@lesblatnyak5947

23 күн бұрын

🎶👑🎶

@jeffschielka7845

23 күн бұрын

@@lesblatnyak5947 👍⭐️😎

Chris's Fish Out of Water is a wonderful album. Hope you get around to the rest of it ❤

Great that you reacted to "Had a Dream"!!!! Also, Peter Gabriel!!!!!

I love Had A Dream. Just a great song. Had a dream it was war and they couldn't tell me what it was for, but it's something they could lie about. Something we could die about...

I saw Roger a few years back live at an open air festival. He was fantastic. Played Had a Dream as well, and especially Child of Vision! His voice didn't lose anything of its power and I was especially surprised what a great pianist he is.

First track: kinda Yes meets Steely Dan. Love the polyrhythms.

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24 күн бұрын

I can hear that. Thanks for tuning in my friend!

The whole "Eye of the storm" album from Roger Hogdson is such a masterpiece ❤ As powerful as Supertramp in the seventies 👌

I really liked your solo battle! I have to agree with you by choosing “Mercy Street” as the favorite. I’ve got all three of these albums, and they all have more great songs on them. I can’t remember if Peter played “Mercy Street” live when I’ve seen him. I did see the So tour twice.

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24 күн бұрын

Thanks! Finally was able to get to this idea, but many more....Wakeman, Banks, Hackett, Rutherford, Knopfler, Gilmour, etc! Awesome, wish I had seen Peter live in my concert days.... excited for the rest of the week...😀

Love, Love this theme!! Can’t go wrong with your picks. How about some Tony and some incredible keyboards on An Island In the Darkness, a 17 minute epic. Thanks Brandon for another great show!!

Peter Gabriel's "So" is one of the fundamental nuclear-warhead impactful albums of the 1980s, along with U2's "The Joshua Tree", Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms", and Paul Simon's "Graceland". In the wrong hands, "So" would be called an "irregular" album, but it ended up being just "diverse", bound together with a superglue of unwavering quality. It's definitely a masterpiece that I never get tired of listening, and "Mercy Street" is one of the highlights of an already brilliant album. I suggest that you look up the cover of "Mercy Street" by *Ritchie* on KZread. The mononymous Ritchie is an English singer who went to Brazil on vacation in the 1970s and ended up never leaving. He had a very successful career in Brazil in the 1980s, including a platinum record, singing in flawless Brazilian Portuguese (he does have a thick accent when talking). It seems that he has now become a producer and music teacher in Rio, but he still performs occasionally, and some years ago he made a performance in which he sang this absolutely beautiful cover of "Mercy Street" in his native language. Before his own solo success, Ritchie was a member of *Vímana* (VEE-mah-nah), a short-lived Brazilian prog-rock band that was never popular, it was a cult/niche thing that only released one record, but at one time included ex-Yes member Patrick Moraz (who took over the band with diva antics and led to its demise) and is still remembered as a landmark band. Two other band members, Lulu Santos and Lobão, became very popular successful artists in Brazil in their later careers. Lulu is still very popular, while Lobão lost a lot of popularity due to his recent support to extremist far-right politicians.

I'm new to the channel, thank you algorithm. Liked, subscribed, and bell rung. I like your laid back, analytical, and measured style, and of course your taste in music.

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21 күн бұрын

That's so awesome to hear! Welcome to the channel Martin 🙂 I'm glad you enjoy my reaction format. I've done over 600 videos every day for the last 1.5 years. If you take a look at some of my past selections, can you imagine the mind-blowing musical journey I've had here so far? It's like basically every day is a musical gift to me. It's been such a ride and hopefully a long road ahead still. Again, thanks a million for your support...

Second track: wonderfully atmospheric. Really reminded me of "Keep Talking" by Pink Floyd. It doesn't have the call-and-response structure, but the harmonic feeling, and the despondency. And like all Peter Gabriel, of course, incredibly well produced.

"Mercy Street" easily wins for me! I'm a long time Gabriel fan and if I had to pick my 3 favorite albums he's been on it would be the early Genesis albums Nursery Crime and Foxtrot and his 4th solo album.

Try the 92 live version from US tour of Mercy street, Peter had added a longer haunted keyboards intro that made the song even more sublime and emotional. From Roger, try Only because of you from the same album.

Miriam Stockley does a brilliant version of Mercy Street. 🙂

Wish Chris(RIP) Squire had more solo works. Per usual, a clinic on how to play bass. Forgot about that tasty sax on " Seven " Mercy Street is part of Peter Gabriel's most " commercial " album(some of PG's fans prefer his earlier works to " So "--a mistake, IMHO). Mercy Street is superb, to understate Had A Dream is from Roger Hodgson's In The Eye Of The Storm album. Excellent, as is the album. Two more musts from that album: In Jeopardy Only Because Of You

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24 күн бұрын

Glad you could revisit these wonderful songs today! I will add your votes for those 2. Thanks for being first today! 🥇

@louise_rose

23 күн бұрын

Chris Squire and Peter Gabriel - such class acts both as musicians, as songwriters and as people. I couldn't begin to explain how much the work of Genesis, Yes and Pink Floyd between 1970 and 1977 has meant for my understanding of music - I began listening to these bands towards the late 1970s (except some songs by the Floyd which I had encountered already around 1975-76) and it was really like doors opening on to a wide landscape...I've continued liste.ning to this day and this includes the solo work of people like Gilmour, Squire, Phil Collins, Jon Anderson and Peter Gabriel💗💗

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16 күн бұрын

You've had a superb musical life journey!!

When thinking about songs for your show, I always forget the vast and variegated catalog from Peter Gabriel. You could do nothing but Gabriel songs, and be sustained for a year or so...or at least a damn long time. When he left Genesis, his work had the better trajectory, only getting better and better, generally. This song was inspired by the personal and confessional works of tragic bipolar, suicidal poet Anne Sexton, who wrote a play titled Mercy Street and a poem titled "45 Mercy Street".

Great idea, Brandon. And it starts strong! Now, as it is not a question here of judging artists, but of compositions, then here is my ranking: 1. “Lucky Seven” 2. “Mercy Street” 3. “Had A Dream (Sleeping With The Enemy)” Thanks.

Third track: A very Hodgson track. Thinky lyrics, like School or Logical. Presumably one that got left off of "Famous Last Words." Great bouncy rhythm, and a typically Supertramp middle 8 (Mary, can you hear me), very much like the middle 8 in Soapbox Opera (Mary, please tell me what I'm living for). The "B" verse (I don't care what the future brings, give a damn about anything) has some fabulous chord changes. But it really wants, is crying out for, a Helliwell sax solo. Some Davies-Hodgson call and response would be lovely too (maybe in that "B" section). This really would have fit well on Crisis or especially Quietest Moments. You could swap out "Loverboy" and I'd be happy.

I had SO on cassette. Played the bejeezus out of it. Great album. Have you already picked all your solo artists snd songs? Is it strictly a Patreon choice?

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Next time PG on the channel will have to be the song Secret World. I know you've recommended it! Oh, this was a 1 time idea this week. "Gone Solo Battles" will be back in the future, as there are many more artists to get to. Each day will be something different this week. And the ideas are not connected to Patreon at all. Just different video ideas that I've been wanting to try 😊

If this is going to be a regular thing, maybe we should have a battle of the ages! Roger Waters Vs David Gilmour Vs Richard Wright Vs Syd Barret Vs Nick Mason! Battle of the Pink Floyd solos! Let's get ready to rumble!!!!!!!

Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street. It had to win this battle. So is such a fantastic album but from the moment I bought it and played it, this was the track that stood out to me. It is a track you can immerse yourself in and surrender being haunting and hypnotic. He is so clever at creating soundscapes from which to develop his lyrical ideas. After Genesis, I feel his voice matured and was better then ever. I cannot even grasp why someone would categorise this as one of the most depressing songs ever.

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Was SO hoping you'd love this specific Gabriel song 😊 Great mini analysis! It was this one or Secret World. And I believe we can thank NME Magazine for that "depressing" description....

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The review was mostly positive. Here is some more of it: NME listed the song as one of the "10 Most Depressing Songs Ever", describing it as a "beautifully produced number" featuring Gabriel's "usual sensitivity". They concluded "it isn't until you're a few listens in that you understand how devastating the whole thing is."

@79BlackRose

24 күн бұрын

@@retroreactions.... ​ @retroreactions.... Thanks. Secret World is also fantastic. Once you have done the audio of that, you must watch it privately from the official Secret World Live video where he adds fascinating theatrics to the song. I went to this concert also and to this day it is so memorable. ...OK, it is forgivable when you hear the other comments.

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24 күн бұрын

Sounds like a plan.. In Your Eyes from that tour has also been highly recommended by a few here!

@79BlackRose

24 күн бұрын

@@retroreactions.... It is very popular, although it is not one of my favourites.

Roger Hodgson's entire album "In The Eye Of The Storm" is the kind of album that must be listened to from start to finish. Every song there is unique. I prefer Peter Gabriel's album "IV".

Great selection of songs, but Chris wins hands down. One of his best tracks. That first album is perhaps (and for me) the best of the band’s solo albums of that year 😊 He sounds a lot like Jon, and of course he and Jon in harmony is key to the classic Yes sound ❤ He was a proper choirboy. The Gabriel song is good, but it’s not one of his I return to much. I enjoyed it here, but he’s done tons of better songs.

I'm with you on this. Mercy Street was definitely the better song. The whole album So is great. Lucky Seven was good. I think the most appealing part of it was the time signature. It's unusual so it makes a song stand out, like Money or Them Bones. But that last song, I have to say, irritated the sh*t out of me.The combination of Roger Hodgson's voice and the piano...I just hated it. Now I'm going to go listen to something to get it out of my head. Lol 🖖🏽💜

His voice and the rhythm was very 'Do it again' by Steely Dan. Gabriel always class. I perhaps expected too much from Roger Hodgson, bit disappointed TBH.