peter gabriel - We Do What We're Told (Milgra - So

[fsol13]

God bless the Fairlight CMI.

[ALucas73]

This one and Mercy street send chills down my spine. Listen to them at 3 in the morning with the lights out. Then play Somewhere down that Crazy River by Robbie Robertson.

[22hawkinse]

Good song, very scary thought though. Milgram's results scare the hell out of all of us I think. And knowing about the experiment I cant help but hear this as a very sinister kind of song.

[esox4809]

a hidden classic ;-)

[gabri3logiatx]

the great PG

[tod4y]

What does the Milgram's 37 mean? Never found out.

[Corvid]

@tod4y Look up the "Milgram experiment".

[tod4y]

@Corvid Oh thanks! Thank you.

[bulldozerblitz]

Remember this from Miami Vice i use to fancy the pants off Don Johnson.

[Hirsch3050]

Einer der mit besten Musiker der Welt , nur blöd seit Claudia Fischer hat er knacks bekommen. 

[seyranili]

Yes, in the past the people have done only what they were told to do. today, some can't make a difference between right and wrong. they do waht they were told.

[ComTomson]

alltimeBEST

[cosmicrider287]

hauntingly beautiful music.

[robthehero15]

milgrimmms studiess

[Chrissss1990]

I have been studying psychology for 3 weeks now and this is the second time one of my textbook mensions one of Peter Gabriel's songs! =)

[adamtzsch]

@Chrissss1990 Good old Stanley.

[dirtydiaper79]

Miami Vice, Season 3, "Forgive Us Our Debts"......TV never was...and never will be, that good again!

[davewoodring]

we do what were told. don't question authority be a good little sheeple(: bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhh! some power trip took out the video of chemtrails being done to all of us.

[Dannyvirk]

milgram's 37 we do what we're told we do what we're told we do what we're told told to do we do what we're told we do what we're told we do what we're told told to do one doubt one voice one war one truth one dream

[MrNotbadyou]

The last two songs of So aren't as great as other parts of the album, but still hold up well enough. This track is one of them, Peter Gabriel's creativity at work yet again.

[waypor1]

@MrNotbadyou He is singing about the affects of transgression which is the undercurrent of capitalism

[purpledynasty]

@waypor1 Your "explanation" is wrong on so many levels. There is no transgression implied, spoken, written or sung, nor is their any endorsement or indictment made of ANY economic system. Nice attempt at vilifying capitalism though.

Unfortunately, the perceived transgressors of the collective of socialism have always been dealt a MUCH worse penalty than the 63% in Milgram's study - see the Killing Fields and Stalin's Purges for examples in recent history.

[waypor1]

@purpledynasty You are simply mistaken, transgression is all about control such as was your comment attempting to seduce me to your own view, you first must truly understand what transgression means which is simply a form of control due to the fact that people share no common understanding to the effects of comparison or one up man ship, being deeper than the superficial nature of most peoples understanding...Transgression is the root toall repression when people buy in. Physical mental duress

[waypor1]

@waypor1 Measuring to an external authority is a distraction forming an identity which no one sees but the self, it is the illusion thats all there is to it, the thing is that being told rather than learning by our own curiosity rather than because we have to in order to comply to the Egonomic Machine as a transfer of our forage occupation, economics is all about force in the compliance to the law countering the principles of our nature.

[pinksynth]

I don't know why everyone keeps talking about Miami Vice. Neither the title nor information of this video mention it. Anyway, I just love Peter Gabriel. He's a musical genius.

[kezanddaz1]

Peter Gabriel wrote this song in reference to the Milgram experiments, where 40 people were instructed to give electric shocks to others x he carried it out after studys of war criminals under the hitler regime ! x

[aureliaAlviana]

@kezanddaz1 it's not 40, but 37. yes, it is because he wanted to study why millions of Germans blindly obeyed orders in the mass slaughter of the Jews during world ward II.strange,but that's what alws happened when ppl r under the power of the ruling authority.i studied this for my learning and the learner subject.

[adamtzsch]

@kezanddaz1 Who gives a fuck about Miami Vice, right?

[lapinkusta]

I just heard this song on Miami Vice (as already suggested by others in this discussion, the exact episode is: season 3, episode 11: 'Forgive Us Our Debts'). Just as jeffsmonte described, this song was so entrancing that I had to look it up and hear it again.

[superjet113]

I love this song too... but SOOOOO much more could of been done to it. Its just getting started...

[MrsLecter666]

I've always loved this song.

[wynboniface]

The Chocolate War was just on. Great movie, and I especially like how they made use of this song.

[Villagejonesy]

@wynboniface I LOVED the Chocolate War. Ifind it very poignant to this day.

[cosmicrider287]

haunting then and now.

[jeffsmonte]

MIAMI VICE. Thats where ive first and only herd this song. The episode featuring this song absolutely is amazing, and this song is entrancing.

[MrBillyLaw]

@jeffsmonte

Hell yeah! Same here. Miami Vice !!

[smiledsteelydan]

i remember that episode well........."Forgive Us Our Debts"

was the first time i heard this aswell....chilling....

[Xubelo]

@jeffsmonte - I feel so sorry for Crockett in that episode - the first time he gets it wrong.

[racookster]

@jeffsmonte Miami Vice sure did make the most of Genesis members, didn't it?

:D

[blap200]

@jeffsmonte Me too and I went out and bought PG album. Pure class.

[ThisNamesClass]

@jeffsmonte totally agree. The song fitted in well with that episode. One of the top 3 Miami Vice episodes for me, coming from a big Miami Vice fan too

[sawyerg13]

@jeffsmonte forgive us our debts is the episode and for my money it was one of the 1st occasions where the good guys didn't win on a cop show Manipulation at its best great episode...

[AJM0072]

at school when this song was first released - look now at Iraq and Afghanistan and yup we do what we're told - One war one dream - laters

[NacodaLupine]

Ugh, tell me about it.

But the scariest thing about it is that it's based on a real experement!

[jrfuent]

i never saw the chocolate war so I don't know what any of you are talking about BUT i do remember watching an episode of Miami Vice, that TV show in the 80s with Don Johnson and in the episode, Crockett and Tubbs have a death row prisoner released but it turns out he duped them. he really was guilty and the Miami guys felt really dumb and this was the song that was played at the very end of that episode. It will always remind me of that.

[leandromaggio2]

This episody is GREAT !

the best !

[saberblock]

That episode was the precursor to one of the best downward spiral/main character story arcs in TV history. Miami Vice really had something special about it.

[mayitpleasethecourt]

what was the arc, was that sonny losing his memory, or a different thread for his character - it's been too long for me

[PampersPete]

saberblock might be talking about Sonny losing his memory but he/she might also mean Down For The Count 1 & 2 as well.

[WoodedAcres]

@mayitpleasethecourt

The episode was "Forgive us our debts" with Guy Boyd as the bad guy(Frank Hackman) In a later episode he killed Crockett's wife.(Sheena Easton)

[Xubelo]

@WoodedAcres - you fucking idiot - stop spoiling Miami Vice for people who're only up to Forgive Our Debts.

[durpadoo]

@Xubelo No such thing as spoilers for shows that are 20 some years old.

[Xubelo]

@durpadoo - I was 1 when that episode aired. Boy are you stupid!? And if I haven't seen it - it's a spoiler. Ever heard of looking back and catching up?

[durpadoo]

@Xubelo Man, you just want a reason to be pissed at someone. Calling me a boy, and stupid. Might wanna get put on some meds.

[jeffsmonte]

You are right on the money.

[freelancer1912]

The Chocolate War is an amazing movie. I recommend that you watch it. This song plays at the most intense parts.

[Madskillsphats]

thanks so much for posting this!!!!! :D

[kryptiea]

Same here i remember the chocolate war.

[bogartzen]

THE MILGRAM EXPERIMENT

- began in july 1961 ...

[fskoti]

awesome song

[bamadawgsc]

Makes me think of The Chocolate War!

"No, I'm not going to sell the Chocolates."

[submissivelover]

yeah me too, i think that "the chocolate war" is a really under rated movie

[submissivelover]

thank you so much for putting this up, i am in love with this song. its so solitude endusing, wouldnt you agree

[Dannyvirk]

cheers mite, for puting it up

[megamarillion1]

***amo!***