Peter Gabriel (1978 album)

Infobox Album
Name = Peter Gabriel
Type = studio
Artist = Peter Gabriel


Released = start date|1978|6|3
Recorded = start date|1977|11–end date|1978|2, Relight Studios, Hilvarenbeek, The Netherlands and The Hit Factory, New York
Genre = Progressive rock, experimental rock, hard rock
Length = 41:29
Label = Charisma
Atlantic (US & Canada)
Producer = Robert Fripp
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:difqxqy5ldte link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/petergabriel/albums/album/103500/rid/6210126/ link]
*Robert Christgau (B-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=peter+gabriel link]
Last album = "Peter Gabriel" (1977)
This album = "Peter Gabriel" (1978)
Next album = "Peter Gabriel" (1980)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = 2002 reissue cover

"Peter Gabriel" is the second solo album by the British singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, released in 1978. The album is the second of four with the same eponymous title. Guitarist Robert Fripp served as producer, whose influence on the album is evident in the use of Frippertronics on the track "Exposure." The album did not sell as well as the first "Peter Gabriel", but reached #10 on the UK charts.cite web |url=http://www.everyhit.com |title=UK Top 40 Hit Database |accessdate=2008-08-24 ] "Mother of Violence" was written by Peter and his first wife Jill Gabriel.

This album is often referred to as "Scratch", referring to the album cover by Storm Thorgerson.

This album was originally intended as part of a loose trilogy with Fripp's "Exposure" and Daryl Hall's "Sacred Songs".

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Gabriel, except as indicated.
# "On the Air" – 5:30
# "D.I.Y." – 2:37
# "Mother of Violence" – 3:10 (Gabriel, Jill Gabriel)
# "A Wonderful Day in a One-Way World" – 3:33
# "White Shadow" – 5:14
# "Indigo" – 3:30
# "Animal Magic" – 3:26
# "Exposure" – 4:12 (Gabriel, Robert Fripp)
# "Flotsam and Jetsam" – 2:17
# "Perspective" – 3:23
# "Home Sweet Home" – 4:37

Personnel

*Peter Gabriel – vocals, organ on 11, piano on 3, synthesizer on 5 7, backing vocals on 1 4 7 10 11
*Tony Levin – bass on 1, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, Chapman stick on 2 4 9, string bass on 6, recorder arrangements on 6 9, backing vocals on 1 4 7 10 11
*Sid McGinnis – electric guitar on 1 4 7 8 9 10 11, acoustic guitar on 2 3, steel guitar on 3 4 5 6 9 11, mandolin on 2, backing vocals on 7
*Larry Fast – synthesizer and treatments on 1 2 5, 7 10
*Robert Fripp – electric guitar on 1 3 5 10, acoustic guitar on 5, Frippertronics on 8 [Fripp's instrumental credits were inexplicably removed from the 2002 remastering of "Peter Gabriel II".]
*Bayete – keyboards on 2 4 6 7
*Roy Bittan – keyboards on 1 3 5 6 10 11
*Jerry Marotta – drums, backing vocals on 1 4 10 11
*Tim Capello – saxophone on 10 11
*George Marge – recorders on 6 8 9
*John Tims – insects on 3

Charts

Album

Notes

External links

*MusicBrainz release|id=ab464d4a-5292-42b7-8588-43750d9ce40a|name=Peter Gabriel (Scratch)