It’s not an exaggeration to state that Peter Gabriel’s SO blew up the late eighties, not least due to the astounding Aardman animated music video for Sledgehammer.
But for someone more used to normal contemporary albums of the time, the song structures and tracks on SO really blew me away. They flowed from heavily melancholic songs to bounce up and down hits, with Peter’s voice guiding us, expertly through the journey.
A true masterpiece.
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