Moribund the Burgermeister - Peter Gabriel

[feericka]

1rst track I heard as at the L.P. era we used to listen the whole album... Immediately I... kind of 'divorced' from ... the 4 Beatles! + classical, traditionnal ethnical musics i heard, then I progressed to.... progressive then neo progressive musics.

So strange : I bought the record because P.G. was on the cover of a rock magazine... wearing a scarf... He was the adult portrait of someone I knew at that time -wearing scarves too!- so I bought the magazine, red the chronicle, bought the L.P. !

[maxdog16]

a classic track

[ncf1]

Timeless, though-provoking, evocative melodic brilliance. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MUSIC?

[puck634]

GREAT SONG ! GREAT ALBUM !

[MrFoo1000]

Sounds like the Lamb era Genesis.

[MrDanielphenix]

Very close to the Lamb lies down...sounds like the suite of it...i will find out...(like the colony of slippermen)

I will find out....

[MrDanielphenix]

Very close to the Lamb lies down...sounds like the suite of it

[abendjelti]

c est genial c est du peter gabriel

[ThePeterats]

Peter à son meilleur !

[aqajahua]

Mr. Moribund is the best Burgermeister ever!

[tonewheeler76]

Peter at his best

[moco635]

"Mother you know your son..."

[TheAlienFan]

Perfection

[joensik666]

Thumbs Up If Jaisu Brought You Here! :D

[VaporealWerewolf]

i am still finding out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TheBoneidol1]

haunting and powerful at the same time..love this album ..thnx :)

[JonBlizzle2]

wowwwww "I WILL FIND OUT." Comes out of nowhere! Sooo crazy xD

[aqajahua]

Lovely song vibrating the progressive wonders of dear Peter Gabriel.

[siasti]

One of the most original and brilliant songs ever. Hear it once and you never forget it...

[Seanus32]

@siasti Very true, that :) It is almost as distinctive as it gets.

[CH3MIS7RY]

@metalrock90 too true...stay strong...music isn't dead yet.

[sumstuff46]

Pink Floyd , Roger Waters got ideas from PG? The Wall, has megaphone on vocals also, the wall in 1979

[gwxk]

Nothing beats the sound of analog synthesizers.

[crocodilewerewolf]

@gwxk uuuuuuuuuugh i knoooooooooooooow

[CH3MIS7RY]

i totally agree with other posters...it's criminal that this wasn't somehow incorporated into The Lamb.

[adamtzsch]

seminal

[beb2459]

So cool...so weird... you know, you look at his career vs. Phil Collins and PETER is still recording amazing music. Eff Phil! And keeping up with technology. Yet, this still sounds fresh after 30 years, and try making that statement about "Sussudio."

[beb2459]

So cool...so weird... you know, you look at his career vs. Phil Collins and PETER is still recording amazing music. Eff Phil!

[gowestward1]

@metalrock90 Exactly! Probably hated it beacuse it was too creative and every word and sentence didn't rhyme!

[pinkfloydinspace]

Sounds like something from the last Genesis album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway with Peter Gabriel. Kind of reminds me of Riding the Scree or The Colony of Slipperman. Only Peter Gabriel could write songs about aliens,mosters,and strange creatures and be a genius song writer for it. Best song Gabriel did after leaving Genesis along with Solsbury Hill.

[chud1able]

i have this on cd when it came out. made me a fan of peter gabriel.

chud1able

[lilsweeti13]

Very good thank you for posting :-)

[boz6969123]

GABRIEL WAS/ IS A GOD!!!! PERIOD!!!

[hersirirminsul]

perfectly strange thought strangely perect

[andrew19vato]

this is probobaly my favourite from his first album, the synths and the melody are fuckin perfect,

[Schapiku]

Life changing music...

[kidigus]

"You better go now, pick up the pipers, tell them to play

Seems the music keeps them quiet, there is no other way.

Ah, close the doors!

"We've tried potions and waxen dolls, but none of us could find any cures,"

Mother please, is it just a disease, that has them breaking all my laws,

Check if you can disconnect the effect and I'll go after the cause"

Who writes lyrics like this any more?

[DawnenAut]

You know- I keep imagining a strange, glorious Tim Burton-style animated film. Oh, how I'd love a peek into Mr. Gabriel's imagination <3 <3

[svagrod]

And there are still people that regret Gabriel left Genesis... LMAO...

[Mylillizards]

Thank you so much this is my favorite Peter Gabriel song

[wackadnaze]

What kind of car is that, thanks for uploading this, wow, Gabriel after Genesis, I wonder what they would have come up with if they had stayed together through the latter part of the seventies?

[octomonkey1980]

@wackadnaze according to wikipedia the car is a "Lancia Flavia" which was owned by Storm Thorgerson (a designer at Hipgnosis)

[anthonythirteen]

@octomonkey1980 Storm was also the designed of the 'Dark Side of the Moon' cover. Was anyone else freaked out by the picture on the back (PG's looking like a Midwitch Cuckoo???)

[TheRhione]

smart title :) reminds me of kate bush but the male version

[JoeyOMusic]

Thank you!

[minespatch]

Does anyone think of the electric light parade when listening this?

[JasonZarifis]

This song speaks of the so called 'Dancing Mania' that occurred in many medieval towns in the 14th century. People would dance maniacally until exhaustion. The only thing that would stop the erratic spams was music. Still a mystery apparently !

Fantastic topic and song.

[MoveOverCasanova]

@JasonZarifis

i have read about that "st vitus disease" too, but the title of the song and knowing gabriels wit it implies some more general meaning, don´t you think?

[onemarilynfan]

every song, with or without genesis was interesting, more like listening to a soundtrack to a play, just amazing, and nutster9000, ive always thought of the middle ages too, like ppl dying of the black death.

[MoveOverCasanova]

does anybody know what synth ( prophet 5?) / what sound effect

he played on this. I mean the one you can hear right from the beginning, that kinda sounds like "trembling and then sucked in".

i tried to copy it for decades now and was never satisfied.

any hints?

[oknwgsk]

@MoveOverCasanova

It's a kind of flange + chorus.

[MrNoodles88]

grande sound...peter è un genio

[pzolsky]

what car is that?

[DontQuoteMeBut]

"Lancia Flavia" owned by Storm Thorgerson.

[pzolsky]

the hipgnosis guy

thanks for the info

70s album covers were so cool

[nutster9000]

Good grief I've always wondered what it was. My all time favorite Gabriel track that I first heard when I was about 10 years old. Always makes me think of the middle ages and dungeons & dragons game books!

[miiwii93]

he's got such an unusual voice but its pretty awesome.

[ApollonianKing]

I can play this song on the Guitar, and it is not easy. LOL, very complicated.

[TeeStall]

upload a vid, that'd be awesome to hear it

[synthesist]

One of my favorite songs - about St. Vitus & St John's Dance and St. Anthony's Fire...plagues that hit europe in the middle ages where peasants would go insane and dance erratically - twisting and writhing from convulsion and seizures, psychotic hallucinations.

Peter must have used a little LSD to help inspire him for this song, LOL !

Great musicians already noted here but you forgot Larry Fast - Synergy on synths and programming...

The Synths and Peter made this song...

[jasonjarvis1988]

Bob Erzin great producer especially on this album,Lou Reeds Berlin and various Alice Cooper classics

[semaj20]

What a an original artist Gabriel was (is)

i think the rest of Genesis exept Hackett

just wanted to be on Top of the Pops.

[ivaraksnes]

@semaj20

Well, Genesis DID have some great progressive albums also after Peter left, before they went totally pop. A Trick Of The Tail, Wind And Wuthering and the live Seconds Out are all very good from a progressive point of view.

[gatolocoverga152]

...oh omg another hackett cocksucker !!!!



[alfamonk]

No style references, no shit, just crazy music ( iwill find out ) xxx

[Prigionierodellanott]

that was music!!!!!

[knuppel74]

@Prigionierodellanott this IS music : )

[stevelumpkins1]

actually dannymusic ..this song came out in the late 70s and was never heard on thr airwaves again after early 80s...phil collins didnt like that peter gabriel took early genesis with him.... the early Genesis was peter gabtiel after he left they become more popish than rock

[Wreven367]

I love the strangeness of the song. Its so cool! I'd like to thank my dad for introducing me to this stuff!

[ivaraksnes]

@Wreven367

Yeah :-) Wonderful strangeness that only an englishman can make!

[Dannymusic1999]

@Wreven367 your dad is a great man.

[EnigmaticEskimo]

@Wreven367 me too :D

[SparrowisSexy]

If and when I write the 'Peter Gabriel Opera' - this baby's opening the show. Or ending it :P

It's so epic and hilarious. I love it!

[ncf1]

my fave from the album and second all-time fave PG track.

[tubeyess]

First being?

[ncf1]

The Family And The Fishing Net is my all-time favourite. For me it's timeless.

[deathheim1]

Perfect!5*

[Dannymusic1999]

Wow... I haven't heard this since the late 80's and I can't help but think could this have been a genesis album? I think not.

[Delphi333]

I think it def. has shades of "Get 'Em Out By Friday" in a way....in terms of social commentary anyway. :-/

[ht949]

my fav peter gabriel song, next to bigtime :)

[synthpro]

This is a neat song! I like the way it starts out.

Thanks for posting.

[cyragon1]

I will find out.... bwa ha ha ha ha.. sinister

[SocialDeviant77]

My comment is important.

[anthonythirteen]

...And I acknowledge the importance of your comment.

[SocialDeviant77]

thanks!

[JasonJarvis88]

this is by the best song on pg's first album,then modern love and solsbury hill

[elefou]

I agree 100% ;) the second best for me on this LP would be "Humdrum" and then "Here Comes The Flood"