Peter Gabriel - Soft Dog

[MrRobbem]

merci c'est tout bon !! 

[rosscreuswell]

@draceena Do you happen to know if that is Shankar on violin (same dude that play violin on Echo and the Bunnymen's classic song "The Cutter"?

[rosscreuswell]

Thanks for uploading this... sounds fantastic. You obviously took very good care of your records. The only 12" I ever found (used, of course) with the "Soft Dog" flip side was in really bad shape.

[wedgeworld1701]

Been wishing this would come out on a bonus gabriel disc of rare songs. Along with Biko Remix, Here Comes The Flood in German, I don't Remember (single version, very dif from the album), Slowburn with a different intro from the Mobile Fidelity LP, and a few others. I have them all copied from LP to CD but I want "pure' versions.

[TeeStall]

i played this at 33 rpm, and it sounded so sinister. I then discovered i had the wrong setting, corrected my error and was so disappointed with the normal speed

[hazeywolf]

@TeeStall used 2 dig this, clash's sean fynn & acdc 's hells bells @ 33 -

[swerdco]

Awesome Post. I too thought know no one would ever know this song. Thank you. Had not heard for years!

[didaho]

This tune was the B-Side of Shock the Monkey 45. That's back when we had these things called "records" I was a bartender in a little red neck burg called Croton. I used to delight in playing it over and over just to annoy the old red necks there. I love this song!

[chironboy]

Can't thank you enough for posting this!!

[ItsComingToTheBoil]

I always thing that listening to this song is like ahving an opium induced dream-hallucination. Not that I know what an opium dream feels like...But well I dig this song. It's so atmospheric. Unfortunately a less-known classic.

[adamtzsch]

Curtains?

[adamtzsch]

Fantastic post! Thank you.

[somercet1]

Ah, Fripp makes anything better.... Thanks!

[chinatree1]

Thanks for this Draceena, great stuff from PG. Even better turned up loud!

[oobleckboy]

Does it actually end abruptly. I thought that I had a cut off digital version.

[ghellogm]

@oobleckboy My version doesn't end like this, in fact, it has one final drum beat

[Rubberchix]

Is this not the instrumental version of a version with proper lyrics?

[Survivor2002]

I haven't been able to listen to this track in YEARS, because I didn't have a turntable. I remember how weird this was when I first played the SHOCK THE MONKEY B-side, and then I couldn't stop playing it! Cool to know that I wasn't the only one who dug it. Or had even heard of it, for that matter.

[sconeofark]

Yeah!

[Radharc]

The melody is also the basis for "I Go Swimming"

[GumbyTheBorg]

Yeah, that was the B side of Shock the Monkey single. That's the weirdest thing though, I was just thinking about this song and how I thought no one would know what it is. Hehe, weird.