The song and video are a perfect match for each other, you can't think of the video and not hear this song. Likewise you cannot hear the song without thinking of the video. Perfect in every way.
When I was younger I just appreciated the stop frame animation and the music, now I am older I relate much more to the theme of the song/video.
If there's one thing that seems to work against Peter, it's that he takes a really long time to release a new album, otherwise he continues to surprise.
Great clip. Just think about how it was hard to cam all real grass and mushrooms growings with the same acteur' positions. The CG sucks. All modern clips sucks.
This is so lovely. Love the videos expression of the lyrics. I have seen this video many times as youngster - but only now, today when i'm adult, I understand all of the metaphors .... guess you have to be in the dirt to understand it :-)
Gabriel said about writing 'Digging in the Dirt' with 'The Source Weekly' in 1990 : 'It was a challenge.I mean the dexterity of rotatable and censorious view on prolixity has given me a new outlook in my perihelion vision on emotions.After a while it became certain that the servility of one's worries only finalizes the grotesque excitability achieved only through literalistic and level-headed approach to heritability and peculiarity of said angle on life.In other words , it was sanctified.'
The song was inspired by his marriage and subsequent divorce and his coping with it by going to a therapist. The imagery is representative of his handling his issues within the context of his marriage. Look at the scene where he swings the paper near the woman's face to kill the fly while taking his eyes off the road. The song is deeply personal about his own experiences and how they affected his life, particularly his relationship with his wife.
I believe the premise of the song is child abuse its wat I first thought when I saw it when it was first released in 92' Brilliant track & video, becuse wether its about a wasp, a man, or a child being abused, it made me think of all three & then some!! Altho being a child in a pedo sponsered catholic school system where NO-ONE saw ANYTHING in Ireland in the 70/80's, its easy to see why I put 1+1 together & get 2 or as I like to call it the priest sandwich!! FUCKIN FILTH!!!!
@IrishWidowMaker I believe it was from the breakup of Peter Gabriel & his wife/GF? at the time. It seems to me that "digging in the dirt" has the meaning of "examining the deepest places of the soul, where things come from". So what the singer is trying to do is get to the bottom of what has caused the partner in this song to have "gone too far" and endangered the relationship. But too,the song to me is about all of the abuse he's suffered, buried it, turned it into aggression and anger.
@BillGtrMan Exactly. To me, this video represents a sort of Post Traumatic injury, suffered from his own father, thereby causing him to become abusive himself, while still seeking the support of those he's hurt.
Brilliant and insightful. I find just listening to this song highly therapeudic. I suppose all people have been hurt in their past....some more than most, I know I have. Something happens and those past evils invade the present. Sometimes the wounds are opened on purpose and sometimes accidently. Some old wounds will never and some heal with time and support. I have been through some horrible shit and I don't think my wife appreciates that. She doesn't get that there are old wounds.
This really is an amazing video from a creative genius. The song was supposedly written after Gabriel's failed marraige and also his failed relationship with R.Arquette (whom I believe he left his wife for). He went into therapy to finally look at himself and his own issues; and I am assuming he needed to examine his relationships with women in general? (that's just a guess).
one of the most powerful music videos ever he once said the last time he cried was when he was working on this and a snail dug its teeth into his eyelid
This isn't one of his better videos, but Lady Gaga just plain puts me to sleep. Man do I miss Gabriel and the videos he let us see. Its too bad we don't have people like Peter in our current day and age to entertain us.
We do, but times and tastes have changed. If you ask me, blame it on modern media/communication and its impacts on society, and of course on neoconservatism.
What makes you think that I am a "leftist"? Conservatism has never been supportive of creative and innovative art of any genre, has it? So it does not make me a leftist to point out this correlation.
And if you had minded to ask or put some thought into it yourself before replying, you'd know that what I wrote was no babbling but makes sense.
@Abaddon133 as an artist myself, I will now point out your failed use of stereotype. My wife is also an artist, and more conservative than I. Just because the left likes to pretend that art belongs to it exclusively does not make it true in the least.
I didn't say that people with conservative morals and views can't be artists, and probably very good ones at that, too. What I was saying is that conservatism as a political ideology is unsupportive and in more radical cases opposed to quality and, most of all, variety in art and freedom of art.
So much talk about art these days focuses on the purely technical, and while that is vitally important, technical tricks without any real content are total bullshit and a snooze. What about the themes in this song/video? Anger, repressed desire, sex, childhood trauma, misunderstanding, murder, decomposition, transformation, metamorphosis (a favorite theme of Gabriel's, re: Cuckoo Cocoon), resurrection, and healing to name a possible few? What's it all about eh?
@TheEmbrace1 I like hearing people finding their own meaning in songs. PG's explanation of Sledgehammer is very down-to-earth - it's all about sex! I mention it only cos I find the contrast amusing :-) Of course, sex is a cosmic concept & the icons of birth, life, death, Universe are all there in the video so I'm sure the philosophical / transcendental were not far from Peter's mind. I think this song is more earthy, animalistic, primal than the more ethereal/spiritual we are used to from PG
@looseSpark Referring to Sledgehammer at the end of my last comment. Digging in the Dirt has it all: philosophical, transcendental, ethereal, spiritual, earthy, animalistic, primal etc. etc. that's what makes it so awesome and powerful!
..., simply amazing the value that Peter Gabriel has brought to music ..., or rather the arts as a whole; I can find Peter Gabriel music to match most of the valuable passages of my life ...
This song, and the album that it's on, was done after Peter Gabriel just got through a painful divorce. You can definitely tell what was going through his mind as a result of this tumultuous event from this song and video. The rest of the album is excellent by the way.
@FelstoneNick My psych proof cited this song as an example of psychoanalysis. He said freud and co. looked into the childhood for allot of the problems that people encounter mentally. So it means that they were "digging through the dirt" (past unconscious) "He feels it in his head and in his sex" very fruedian. When people feel anxiety the unconscious is trying to bubble up. Hence "this time you've come to far" The opening in the dirt and "don't turn back the car" are ex. of defence mech.
@Guitarstring187 also "Mercy Street" it is a tribute to the Poet Anne Sexton. She became famous for her poerty not intentionally but as therapy to combat her depression. Extraordinary people seem to understand each other. 45 Mercy Street shows as you mentioned some defense mechs...BTW awesome harmony with the guitars in this song
peter walked to the beat of his own drum and is one of the best song writers and musicians ever this song here proved that let alone his imagination why making videos thanks peter
The US album is the only PG album i've never really gotten around to hearing in its full length - I just love the others so much, i don't want to experience his relationship issues. But i guess i'll ultimately have to listen to it sometime.
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I personally think Peter looked SO SO SO hot in the secret world live tour, which was after this... maybe its the goatee thing, or maybe he just got sexier with age, :)
I love the fact that francesca gonshaw is in this video & then after that she pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth ( i.e. now behind the camera & painting ) & also not surprised to learn that this video won a grammy as a collaboration between peter gabriel & francesca
vagrantblues i agreee whole heartedly..its not just the film clips that have deteriated its the music as well..i think growing up 80s 90s listening to that particular genre of music was pure and well never see or hear anything like that again in our lifetime anyway
I was online editor for this video. 24 hours solid back in '92 armed with just three Betacam machines and a GVG 100. 12 layers going on in some places. That's a lot in a linear tape suite!
@londislagerhound I worked set lighting on many rock videos in the 90's and it seems like the money for projects like this are just not there any more. I remember Janet Jackson "IF" was 9 days of shooting. Video (film) projects like that seem to be gone. Am I wrong? What the hell happed.
@ENCOMAN It's pretty awesome you got to work in the industry at that time dude, it really was a special time. I think these types of productions have gone the way of the dodo because the content distribution has changed so dramatically. I was a teenager at the time and music videos had big time premiers on MTV, which was really, other than the radio, the only medium for presenting these works. Now the internet has usurped that and the money outlay is probably too much for such a diffuse medium
@londislagerhound If your comment is really true than Thank You. This has always been one of my favorite Peter Gabriel songs and the video is freakin' cool as SHIT. The good kind of SHIT!!!
The song and video are a perfect match for each other, you can't think of the video and not hear this song. Likewise you cannot hear the song without thinking of the video. Perfect in every way.
When I was younger I just appreciated the stop frame animation and the music, now I am older I relate much more to the theme of the song/video.
dougiedocious 1 week ago
If there's one thing that seems to work against Peter, it's that he takes a really long time to release a new album, otherwise he continues to surprise.
Nightmike1989 2 weeks ago
_ - Qué marca es el Reloj? Omega?
_ - Y la caida de la bebida lentamente . . .
christianjacob77 3 weeks ago
"You stoopid woomaaan!!!"
MirrorSymmetry 3 weeks ago
Francesca Gonshaw is beautiful!
herminioli77 1 month ago
I believe the song is about relationships between a man and a woman. Getting 'dirty'
refunked 1 month ago
Great clip. Just think about how it was hard to cam all real grass and mushrooms growings with the same acteur' positions. The CG sucks. All modern clips sucks.
jkclvjfdojgfpg 1 month ago
His music videos are weird as hell aren't they.
Buttnut105 1 month ago
You’d have to be pretty pissed off to do what he does to the apple at 3:27. But hey at least he hits the mirror and then the apple instead of her.
19pkatet 1 month ago
What a great vibe musically omn this track. Very original and organic yet ultra cool.
MrVeesworld 1 month ago
The woman is Maria from "Allo allo"
recklesspjrn 1 month ago
i used to confuse him with pet shop boys...........
airflind100 2 months ago
welcome to hell
pride4037 2 months ago 2
Isn't that David Gilmour with lipstick on at 01:18?
StonepostInstitute 2 months ago
@StonepostInstitute muito parecido mas não é o Gilmour sorry
mas parece quando jovem
HitaloFloyd 2 months ago
peter is still kicking ..
TheBug08 3 months ago
Totally forgot how freaking creepy this video is. Insanely great song though...
10splitter 3 months ago 5
He wrote this song about being in Therapy ...
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This is so lovely. Love the videos expression of the lyrics. I have seen this video many times as youngster - but only now, today when i'm adult, I understand all of the metaphors .... guess you have to be in the dirt to understand it :-)
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@akvavitten exactly how i felt .. new things to discover in this video as you grow older .. classic
TheBug08 3 months ago
what a handsome man
TheDancingKing92 4 months ago
yea haaha wow eh
StrattenKlein 4 months ago
3:57 Cannabis?
hugojrivas 4 months ago
Excellent bass lines!
hugojrivas 4 months ago
remembver my mom listenign to this when i was like 9 or 10 lol im 21 now great song
StrattenKlein 4 months ago
As I have said.....I have dirt and my wife has stuck with me ,,,, I have been hurt I know i hurt my wife ,,,,,thqnk god i i didt go 2 far...
cutta1966 4 months ago
reminiscent of an early drawing critique, where I was taught about misogyny.
kazicimir 4 months ago
13 bees voting
garbidz 4 months ago
@garbidz They where hornets
fjl05 4 months ago
And now I know where the idea for Black Hole Sun came from.
OrchidAkuma 4 months ago 3
It's too bad no one makes music worth a fuck any more.
Capburger 4 months ago 3
@Capburger Actually, plenty of people do. But unfortunately, it's not popular anymore, so you have to dig a bit to find it! ;-)
lplohmann 4 months ago
I have a 2 year old grandson and this time hes gone too far!
Rawbie100 4 months ago in playlist Rawbie100's Favorited Videos
Peter used to be such an angel :(
Simple816 4 months ago
Francesca Gonshaw is a goddess. Love her forever.
jablonsky67 4 months ago
Digging in her skirt....Find the places I got hurt!!
GrubSlayer 5 months ago
PUAJ!!!! Pause at 1:17!!!
animalsoflife 5 months ago
wow
edrepard 5 months ago
love this song
christopherdjkriss57 5 months ago
PAUSE AT 3:20...ITS MICHAEL JACKSON MAN!!!!!!!
atcred3 5 months ago
Gabriel said about writing 'Digging in the Dirt' with 'The Source Weekly' in 1990 : 'It was a challenge.I mean the dexterity of rotatable and censorious view on prolixity has given me a new outlook in my perihelion vision on emotions.After a while it became certain that the servility of one's worries only finalizes the grotesque excitability achieved only through literalistic and level-headed approach to heritability and peculiarity of said angle on life.In other words , it was sanctified.'
oxytrebor 5 months ago
@oxytrebor yea, totally agree
owenbb505 5 months ago
@oxytrebor yea, totally agree
owenbb505 5 months ago
best video
satyamrasa 5 months ago
Absolutely LOVE this video and song!
InfamousShroom 5 months ago
Interesting vid.
madder66mortem 5 months ago
Hi Peter
Lost the car
Dirt is still left
fair suport i got hurt to
we got together
all but you
SuperMitchell57 6 months ago
Great song, unbelievable video, probably the best one ever made, The guy is super talented thats' for sure. love this song...huichol53.......
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TrilobiteFilms 6 months ago
The song was inspired by his marriage and subsequent divorce and his coping with it by going to a therapist. The imagery is representative of his handling his issues within the context of his marriage. Look at the scene where he swings the paper near the woman's face to kill the fly while taking his eyes off the road. The song is deeply personal about his own experiences and how they affected his life, particularly his relationship with his wife.
Netriderceo 6 months ago 2
Terrific video - even better song!
doubleder 6 months ago
Cannot believe this is 20 years old.
mskj444 6 months ago 46
@mskj444 that makes 2 of us it kind of scares me since its about time passin and desperation
still havent found my strawberry girl who would save me..
blankitsan 4 months ago
@mskj444 and his last great pop song, unfortunately.
MrManfly 3 months ago
I believe the premise of the song is child abuse its wat I first thought when I saw it when it was first released in 92' Brilliant track & video, becuse wether its about a wasp, a man, or a child being abused, it made me think of all three & then some!! Altho being a child in a pedo sponsered catholic school system where NO-ONE saw ANYTHING in Ireland in the 70/80's, its easy to see why I put 1+1 together & get 2 or as I like to call it the priest sandwich!! FUCKIN FILTH!!!!
IrishWidowMaker 7 months ago
@IrishWidowMaker I believe it was from the breakup of Peter Gabriel & his wife/GF? at the time. It seems to me that "digging in the dirt" has the meaning of "examining the deepest places of the soul, where things come from". So what the singer is trying to do is get to the bottom of what has caused the partner in this song to have "gone too far" and endangered the relationship. But too,the song to me is about all of the abuse he's suffered, buried it, turned it into aggression and anger.
BillGtrMan 5 months ago
@BillGtrMan Exactly. To me, this video represents a sort of Post Traumatic injury, suffered from his own father, thereby causing him to become abusive himself, while still seeking the support of those he's hurt.
InfamousShroom 5 months ago
"Digging In The Dirt " always sounded to me in a Tears For Fears' way, but with Gabriel's own peculiar music.
CheviCamaroSS 7 months ago
This always reminds me of my ex. He was/is a nasty person. I feel sorry for the woman he's "killing" now. Poor soul.
haastaboozia 7 months ago
Maria is this where you have been hiding from the german army
rfkvam 7 months ago
Peter easly has the greatest music videos i have ever seen there really good.
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@ToothlessSnakeable THEY'RE really good. As in THEY (apostrophe to replace the A) RE
GuyWithGuitars1 4 months ago
This video reminds me of a salvia trip I had.
TrainingStream 7 months ago
Brilliant and insightful. I find just listening to this song highly therapeudic. I suppose all people have been hurt in their past....some more than most, I know I have. Something happens and those past evils invade the present. Sometimes the wounds are opened on purpose and sometimes accidently. Some old wounds will never and some heal with time and support. I have been through some horrible shit and I don't think my wife appreciates that. She doesn't get that there are old wounds.
belugafishgod 7 months ago 3
nojento as lesma na cara dele
TheRealAcirGomes 8 months ago
I already liked that song at the age of 12 and still do it at the age of 30 ;-)
dertobirockt 8 months ago 3
awwwwhhh yeaahhhhhh
sanjurodog 8 months ago
Awesome song.
k90751 8 months ago
Wow. Thanks Peter.
Thunder029 8 months ago
Been there done that.
asp030 8 months ago
This really is an amazing video from a creative genius. The song was supposedly written after Gabriel's failed marraige and also his failed relationship with R.Arquette (whom I believe he left his wife for). He went into therapy to finally look at himself and his own issues; and I am assuming he needed to examine his relationships with women in general? (that's just a guess).
SomethingReal1119 8 months ago
I wonder how phil would have song this song?????
tiedupsmurf 8 months ago
one of the most powerful music videos ever he once said the last time he cried was when he was working on this and a snail dug its teeth into his eyelid
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one of the most powerful music videos ever
triponmylove 8 months ago
Heh, I'd always rock out to this when I was little. One of my favorite songs.
Daedalus1776 9 months ago
a wasp landed on my arm while I was watching this...
TheEocene 9 months ago
Get goosebumps every time I hear this song, an absolutely timeless masterpiece.
dubwakewic 10 months ago
One of the greatest songs ever written.
aanti2000 10 months ago 2
2:28
Yummy.
davidkul1 10 months ago
Got to love the Freudian influence. See my earlier posts to see why.
Guitarstring187 10 months ago
Music does not need to have a message or say anything - However, the best music usually does.
joefox499 10 months ago 2
Maria! How could you ever love anyone but your sweet Rrrrene Arrrtrios?
yesspaz 10 months ago
classic
zythepsarian 10 months ago
This song was my milkfood when i was child, and i still love it .
nexulezbobule 10 months ago
I knew this song and video was going to be a hit back when I first heard it around 1993.
Mowac 10 months ago
I love this song and this video.
Peter Gabriel a genius!
insulinoma 11 months ago
that strawberry is so coolio!!!!
jellyfishstampede 11 months ago
Moral of this story : don't keep fruit on your dashboard
pegasusgiraffe 11 months ago
are those weed plants at the minute 3:55?
tercerintento 11 months ago
This isn't one of his better videos, but Lady Gaga just plain puts me to sleep. Man do I miss Gabriel and the videos he let us see. Its too bad we don't have people like Peter in our current day and age to entertain us.
TheGames32 11 months ago
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We do, but times and tastes have changed. If you ask me, blame it on modern media/communication and its impacts on society, and of course on neoconservatism.
Abaddon133 10 months ago
@Abaddon133 oh jeez louise, take your tired leftist babble somewhere where it may still have a shred of relevancy.
TheFearlessFreep 9 months ago
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What makes you think that I am a "leftist"? Conservatism has never been supportive of creative and innovative art of any genre, has it? So it does not make me a leftist to point out this correlation.
And if you had minded to ask or put some thought into it yourself before replying, you'd know that what I wrote was no babbling but makes sense.
Abaddon133 9 months ago
@Abaddon133 as an artist myself, I will now point out your failed use of stereotype. My wife is also an artist, and more conservative than I. Just because the left likes to pretend that art belongs to it exclusively does not make it true in the least.
TheFearlessFreep 9 months ago
@TheFearlessFreep
Failed attempt to prove anything, my friend.
I didn't say that people with conservative morals and views can't be artists, and probably very good ones at that, too. What I was saying is that conservatism as a political ideology is unsupportive and in more radical cases opposed to quality and, most of all, variety in art and freedom of art.
Abaddon133 9 months ago
@Abaddon133
What I wanted to say was rather "diversity in art", not variety. Slightly wrong choice of words, just came to think of that just now.
Abaddon133 9 months ago
@TheFearlessFreep Yes because bringing political slant into a conversation about a music video is so totally relevant.
ChildrenofAmory 9 months ago
I don't understand he's hitting a woman!
projectus2 11 months ago
@projectus2 He was swinging at the insect, not the woman. He scared the woman in the process, though.
rebelsun 2 months ago
So much talk about art these days focuses on the purely technical, and while that is vitally important, technical tricks without any real content are total bullshit and a snooze. What about the themes in this song/video? Anger, repressed desire, sex, childhood trauma, misunderstanding, murder, decomposition, transformation, metamorphosis (a favorite theme of Gabriel's, re: Cuckoo Cocoon), resurrection, and healing to name a possible few? What's it all about eh?
acbulgin2 11 months ago
Gotta love the slow motion apple smash at 3:25 :)
19pkatet 11 months ago
fans of this song...my friends band did a cover of this that is dope. search "traverser - peter gabriel cover"
jontheliar 11 months ago
we all should dig in the dirt to find the places we got hurt
neferchan 11 months ago 2
appreciate the great video etc but not enough is being said about the great song...!
morrisdracula 1 year ago
I hear you oo9firefox....quality music must be sought out these days
Alexandernero666 1 year ago 2
Truly brilliant video making.
Okoa 1 year ago
This has to be one of the single most creative videos I have ever seen. I remember seeing it for the first time and just being floored by the work.
submethod 1 year ago
one of his best!
ekj12388 1 year ago
Pretty powerful stuff. Anyone recovering from addiction or some underlying issue can relate.
HanginWithSnakes 1 year ago 24
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Like (almost) ALL of us?
Giselle62 1 year ago
Can always count on a cool base line ,in his songs ......
thegrinchesbro 1 year ago
Julian assange's theme song....
PALLADINARC 1 year ago
We're in 2011, and this is yet one of the best videos ever made.
nanakruppa 1 year ago 83
@nanakruppa Thats because art has been removed from all aspects of music
wipemysmile 10 months ago
Him and his ex's Jill Moore and Rosanna Arquette. He went into therapy; hence the digging in the dirt
ETHANNAH1902 1 year ago
Who are the two nasty old people?
Landrew0 1 year ago
feel thanks to this we got Gil Grissom :P
PatrynXX 1 year ago
@TheEmbrace1 I like hearing people finding their own meaning in songs. PG's explanation of Sledgehammer is very down-to-earth - it's all about sex! I mention it only cos I find the contrast amusing :-) Of course, sex is a cosmic concept & the icons of birth, life, death, Universe are all there in the video so I'm sure the philosophical / transcendental were not far from Peter's mind. I think this song is more earthy, animalistic, primal than the more ethereal/spiritual we are used to from PG
looseSpark 1 year ago
@looseSpark Referring to Sledgehammer at the end of my last comment. Digging in the Dirt has it all: philosophical, transcendental, ethereal, spiritual, earthy, animalistic, primal etc. etc. that's what makes it so awesome and powerful!
looseSpark 1 year ago
Pure genius.
lodyzao 1 year ago
..., simply amazing the value that Peter Gabriel has brought to music ..., or rather the arts as a whole; I can find Peter Gabriel music to match most of the valuable passages of my life ...
kthyregod 1 year ago 3
9 people don't talk back and just drive the car.
StripTheSoul83 1 year ago
Pure genius. I pity those who didn't grow up in the 80's....
edmonton67 1 year ago 3
@edmonton67 So true :~)
CosmikDebrisFZ 1 year ago
peter gabriels bst song and video för sure
ShareTheSphere 1 year ago
This song, and the album that it's on, was done after Peter Gabriel just got through a painful divorce. You can definitely tell what was going through his mind as a result of this tumultuous event from this song and video. The rest of the album is excellent by the way.
ytreffarb 1 year ago
Who is the girl in the video ?
tomyzbz 1 year ago
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Francesca Gonshaw, actress
Kasiaaa321 1 year ago
great
MagdalenaFz 1 year ago
great song !
azzuro79 1 year ago
such an amazing song
Andreasleon27 1 year ago 2
Shut your mouth
Don't talk back
Just drive the car
DlABL0GlCAL 1 year ago
this song is about psychoanalysis.
Guitarstring187 1 year ago
@Guitarstring187 explain please... I can kind of uunderstand where your coming from, but I'm not sure.
FelstoneNick 1 year ago
@FelstoneNick My psych proof cited this song as an example of psychoanalysis. He said freud and co. looked into the childhood for allot of the problems that people encounter mentally. So it means that they were "digging through the dirt" (past unconscious) "He feels it in his head and in his sex" very fruedian. When people feel anxiety the unconscious is trying to bubble up. Hence "this time you've come to far" The opening in the dirt and "don't turn back the car" are ex. of defence mech.
Guitarstring187 1 year ago 3
@Guitarstring187 also "Mercy Street" it is a tribute to the Poet Anne Sexton. She became famous for her poerty not intentionally but as therapy to combat her depression. Extraordinary people seem to understand each other. 45 Mercy Street shows as you mentioned some defense mechs...BTW awesome harmony with the guitars in this song
RanchoCoral 1 year ago
Utterly Underrated
IPman77 1 year ago
peter walked to the beat of his own drum and is one of the best song writers and musicians ever this song here proved that let alone his imagination why making videos thanks peter
paverdanut 1 year ago 3
peter walked to the beat of his own drum he doenst emualte any one is one the best song writer musicians of his era and ever for that matter
paverdanut 1 year ago
The US album is the only PG album i've never really gotten around to hearing in its full length - I just love the others so much, i don't want to experience his relationship issues. But i guess i'll ultimately have to listen to it sometime.
1992 was after all my year of birth.
OleVanDole 1 year ago
There is more emotion and skill in this video, let alone the song itself, than most "musicians" could ever hope to put on display today.
Its been a long time since the song was made and I hope you found what you were looking for Peter.
Nikkodemis 1 year ago
I was 13 years old when I first heard this. Still makes my hair stand on end!
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Tommygun1028 1 year ago
one of his greatest!!! one of the first videos i've seen on mtv and i loved it
Ameise141282 1 year ago
Change TV now ! Please go back 2 90"s :'(
gowashgo 1 year ago 2
van Fu no
adobmusic 1 year ago
I am trying to translate this song to Polish and would like to know what does it mean: "As I close on in".
ogniwko 1 year ago
I personally think Peter looked SO SO SO hot in the secret world live tour, which was after this... maybe its the goatee thing, or maybe he just got sexier with age, :)
titagula 1 year ago
Heal
ThexBorg 1 year ago 3
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ogniwko 1 year ago
@ogniwko What do you mean my friend??
ThexBorg 1 year ago
@ThexBorg
What exactly do you want me to explain?
ogniwko 1 year ago
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please search for these here on YouTube
ThexBorg 1 year ago
I love the fact that francesca gonshaw is in this video & then after that she pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth ( i.e. now behind the camera & painting ) & also not surprised to learn that this video won a grammy as a collaboration between peter gabriel & francesca
brucewayne909 1 year ago
He is a genius....
Hawkman80465 1 year ago
This is my favorite song of Peter Gabriel
tupolevtu124 1 year ago 2
This is probably my favorite song from the album.
electric926 1 year ago
One of my favourite PG- songs. So much intensity !
AlGoreFan 1 year ago
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tboysalot 1 year ago
Love this song. And Peter Gabriel's videos are always a treat to watch.
aliciabrissou 1 year ago
fascinating video and song
UnfamiliarPlace 1 year ago
vagrantblues i agreee whole heartedly..its not just the film clips that have deteriated its the music as well..i think growing up 80s 90s listening to that particular genre of music was pure and well never see or hear anything like that again in our lifetime anyway
akjd123 1 year ago
True art! Unfortunately most of today's videos or songs are pointless, empty...
VanDarNessa 1 year ago
retards.
xcetecx 1 year ago
I was online editor for this video. 24 hours solid back in '92 armed with just three Betacam machines and a GVG 100. 12 layers going on in some places. That's a lot in a linear tape suite!
Directed by the genius that is John Downer.
Truly innovative
londislagerhound 1 year ago 55
@londislagerhound I worked set lighting on many rock videos in the 90's and it seems like the money for projects like this are just not there any more. I remember Janet Jackson "IF" was 9 days of shooting. Video (film) projects like that seem to be gone. Am I wrong? What the hell happed.
ENCOMAN 1 year ago
@ENCOMAN It's pretty awesome you got to work in the industry at that time dude, it really was a special time. I think these types of productions have gone the way of the dodo because the content distribution has changed so dramatically. I was a teenager at the time and music videos had big time premiers on MTV, which was really, other than the radio, the only medium for presenting these works. Now the internet has usurped that and the money outlay is probably too much for such a diffuse medium
phuturephunk 1 year ago
@londislagerhound If your comment is really true than Thank You. This has always been one of my favorite Peter Gabriel songs and the video is freakin' cool as SHIT. The good kind of SHIT!!!
czarman01 1 year ago
@czarman01
Yeah, it's true. BBC editor until 2008
londislagerhound 1 year ago
@londislagerhound Nice...props to you, Sir. Great work, great video.
JiffySpook 1 year ago
@londislagerhound Great work, i salute anyone who worked with linear editing back in the day.
Was a big hassle in all honesty.
OleVanDole 1 year ago