Plays Live (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Plays Live
Type = Live album
Artist = Peter Gabriel


Released = June 9 1983 (original)
May 7 2002 (reissue)
Recorded = November–December 1982, United States
1983, Bath, England
Genre = Progressive rock, experimental rock, new wave, world music
Length = 89:53 (original)
66:50 (reissue)
Label = Geffen (US & Canada), Charisma Records
Producer = Peter Gabriel, Peter Walsh
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1e881vfjzzha link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/petergabriel/albums/album/292065/review/6068034/plays_live link]
Last album = "Deutsches album" (1982)
This album = "Plays Live" (1983)
Next album = "Birdy" (1985)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = live


Lower caption = 2002 reissue cover

"Plays Live" is the first live and fifth album overall released by British rock musician Peter Gabriel. This album was originally released as a double album and longplay cassette, with sixteen songs and a running time of over 80 minutes. It was eventually reissued in as a double CD. When the Gabriel catalogue was remastered and released in 2002, a single CD version "Plays Live – Highlights" with only twelve songs and some significant track time alterations was released in the US while the full double-CD set, containing all the songs, was released in the UK.

The one original song—"I Go Swimming"—received airplay and made the US charts in 1983.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Gabriel.

Original release

Disc one

ide one

# "The Rhythm of the Heat" – 6:26
# "I Have the Touch" – 5:18
# "Not One of Us" – 5:29
# "Family Snapshot" – 4:44

ide two

# "D.I.Y." – 4:20
# "The Family and the Fishing Net" – 7:22
# "Intruder" – 5:03
# "I Go Swimming" – 4:44

Disc two

ide three

# "San Jacinto" – 8:27
# "Solsbury Hill" – 4:42
# "No Self Control" – 5:03
# "I Don't Remember" – 4:19

ide four

This side was recorded at Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas on December 4, 1982.
# "Shock The Monkey" – 7:10
# "Humdrum" – 4:23
# "On the Air" – 5:22
# "Biko" – 7:01

2002 reissue: "Plays Live – Highlights"

# "I Have the Touch" – 4:47
# "Family Snapshot" – 4:47
# "D.I.Y." – 4:05
# "The Family and the Fishing Net" – 7:38
# "I Go Swimming" – 4:54
# "San Jacinto" – 8:19
# "Solsbury Hill" – 4:41
# "No Self-Control" – 5:04
# "I Don't Remember" – 4:12
# "Shock The Monkey" – 7:10
# "Humdrum" – 4:21
# "Biko" – 6:52

Personnel

* Peter Gabriel – synthesiser, piano, vox
* Jerry Marotta – drums, percussion & b. vox
* Tony Levin – bass, stick & b. vox
* David Rhodes – guitar & b. vox
* Larry Fast – synthesiser, piano

Charts

Album

ingles

External links

*MusicBrainz album|id=9d897884-ac56-4edf-97e7-8ee450cd57c3|name=Plays Live (disc 1)
*MusicBrainz album|id=2ca6e817-ad3e-4ecc-a23f-511ee21f8dac|name=Plays Live (disc 2)