PETER GABRIEL (1 car) 1977 UK CHARISMA MINT
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PETER GABRIEL (1 car) 1977 UK CHARISMA MINT
PETER GABRIELPeter Gabriel
1977 UK CHARISMA (CDS 4006) FIRST PRESSING OF PETER GABRIEL'S DEBUT SOLO LP
BEAUTIFUL COPY, LOOKS UNPLAYED AND AS-NEW THROUGHOUT
PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE SMALL HATTER LABELS
MARTIX: CDS 4006 A//2 T 1 3, CDS-4006 - A / CDS 4006 B//6 T 1 1 3, JAMF, CDS-4006 - B RE-1, SD - 36 - 147 - B (crossed out) REI
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN A MATT COVER “Printed by James Upton Ltd., England ”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL PRINTED INNER SLEEVE
Peter Gabriel tells why he left Genesis in "Solsbury Hill," the key track on his 1977 solo debut.
Majestically opening with an acoustic guitar, the song finds Gabriel's talents gelling, as the words and music feed off each other, turning into true poetry.
It stands out dramatically on this record, not because the music doesn't work, but because it brilliantly illustrates why Gabriel had to fly on his own.
Though this is undeniably the work of the same man behind The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, he's turned his artiness inward, making his music coiled, dense, vibrant.
There is still some excess, naturally, yet it's the sound of a musician unleashed, finally able to bend the rules as he wishes. That means there are less atmospheric instrumental sections than there were on his last few records with Genesis, as the unhinged bizarreness in the arrangements, compositions, and productions, in tracks such as the opener "Moribund the Burgermeister" vividly illustrate.
He also has turned sleeker, sexier, capable of turning out a surging rocker like "Modern Love."
If there is any problem with Peter Gabriel, it's that Gabriel is trying too hard to show the range of his talents, thereby stumbling occasionally with the doo wop-to-cabaret "Excuse Me" or the cocktail jazz of "Waiting for the Big One" (or, the lyric "you've got me cookin'/I'm a hard-boiled egg" on "Humdrum"). Still, much of the record teems with invigorating energy (as on "Slowburn," or the orchestral-disco pulse of "Down the Dolce Vita"), and the closer "Here Comes the Flood" burns with an anthemic intensity that would later become his signature in the '80s.
Yes, it's an imperfect album, but that's a byproduct of Gabriel's welcome risk-taking -- the very thing that makes the album work, overall.
Side A:
Moribund The Burgermeister (4:16)
Solsbury Hill (4:20)
Modern Love (3:35)
Excuse Me (3:18)
Humdrum (3:22)
Side B:
Slowburn (4:35)
Waiting For The Big One (7:16)
Down The Dolce Vita (4:40)
Here Comes The Flood (5:52)
LABELS: MINT
An immaculate set of labels.
No spindle traces or any signs the record has ever been played
VINYL Visual: MINT
Pristine factory-fresh playing surfaces which are unmarked and like-new
VINYL Audio: MINT / NEAR MINT
Apart from a few light background ticks on "Here Comes The Flood" - nothing really - the set plays beautifully with nothing else to fault
SLEEVE: MINT
As crisp, clean, sharp and fresh as the day it was made
INNER SLEEVE: MINT
Again, as-new
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Tracked)
*IMPORTANT NOTE FOR EU BUYERS: If EU members are buying multiple records please add them to your basket THEN request total from me so I can create ONE order (and apply post discount) and not multiple orders which will have to be posted separately with no postal discount
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £25.00 (International Tracked)
DUE TO THE CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES I WILL ONLY BE POSTING ONCE A WEEK ON FRIDAY
Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any 1292 (GS 8.3.6 (1292))
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