Thursday, 9 April 2015

I think it's going to rain today, Peter Gabriel

Where do you start with Peter Gabriel?

It's puzzling at first to find someone who has nurtured such diverse musical talents doing a covers album.

But then you realise it makes perfect sense, and this track shows what he can do.  Randy Newman is the best composer you've never heard of - an astonishingly prolific man.  And in Peter Gabriel's hands this sad song becomes deep and dark.  Don't listen to it more than twice a day.  And seek out the rest of the album, Scratch My Back, for other melancholy.




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