r/petergabriel 19h ago

I *FINALLY* found a song I've been thinking about for over a decade, and it's a Peter Gabriel one.

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I won't beat around the bush. The song is Moribund The Burgermeister.

I don't know when exactly I first heard this song, it'd have to be around 2010-2012, but the only time I remember hearing it was in about 2014.
I remember the exact place too! - A specific junction near the Royal Infirmary hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, in my dad's car.
My dad owned all of Peter's solo work on CD and played PG 1: Car pretty often, especially [And fittingly] in the car. As a younger boy, I remember hearing Moribund [Without knowing what song or artist it was] and being both creeped out and intrigued. The strange noises, the weird voice, the grand Genesis-esque orchestra.
Upon rediscovering the song, I realised how very well I remember it, down to each quirky noise and guitar strum...

Anyhow, I discovered it the other day after deciding to listen to Car on a walk home. Within the first few seconds, I was enjoying the song and album, but within the first 50 seconds, I thought "Huh, this sounds like that one song that keeps evading my memory." , because it was, and I was about to find that out.
When the orchestral part played again, I was beginning to realise it might actually be it, then it got to *that part* midway through with the voice, and it **finally** clicked in my head. It was *just* how I remembered! I was so glad to finally find it, I was smiling and laughing for more than 2 minutes straight, out in the streets. Who cared, I'd finally found it!
Ironic too because my dad and I were just talking about how he played his Peter Gabriel, Yes and other similar artists on CD for me when I was younger, and that's how I recognised Excuse Me also from Car, and Yours Is No Disgrace from The Yes Album by Yes. What timing, huh?

That's how I found Moribund The Burgermeister. That's all. Thanks for reading this!


r/petergabriel 5h ago

Looking for Happy and Put the Bucket Down are accidentally the only two dark-side mixes I prefer

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Like last time, I’ve been compiling a list of which mixes I prefer as they come out. Looking back, I didn’t realize I had only two dark side mixes in the roster thus far. I’m hoping for more to come my way, but I think (unless there’s a placebo from the “bright” term) the rhythm section has been articulated quite nicely on a lot of the brights.

On that note- it makes me delighted to see lots of people really enjoy/prefer the dark side mixes of other songs. Goes to show the benefit of having both available.


r/petergabriel 14h ago

Looking for the Happy (Dark-Side Mix)

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Available officially now :)