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With the tribal beat intro to the opening track, "Moribund The Bergermeister," the incredibly talented Peter Gabriel made his introduction to the music world as a solo artist. After leaving the band Genesis in 1975, partially due to exhaustion, and partially to spend more time with his family, among other reasons, Peter Gabriel took a couple of years off from the music business before roaring back in 1977 with his very first solo album. Simply called "Peter Gabriel" (or "Car" or "Rainy Windshield"---see cover art), it's an excellent debut from a musical genius with a long, fruitful solo career ahead of him. This is the album that features Gabriel's first signature tune, "Solsbury Hill," partially about his departure from Genesis (certainly the second verse, featuring "I was feeling part of the scenery/I walked out of the machinery", directly addresses it). It also features the lovely "Here Comes The Flood," another Gabriel staple, as well as the humorous barbershop-quartet number, "Excuse Me," the grand cocktail-jazz piece, "Waiting For The Big One," another fine ballad in the form of "Humdrum," and the great orchestral rocker, "Down The Dolce Vita." Gabriel's singing & songwriting is world class, and the sound, especially on this new remastered edition, is excellent.Peter Gabriel already made a name for himself as the lead singer for Genesis, and God bless him for his amazing years with the band. But with his 1977 debut solo album, it was time for Gabriel to spread his wings and forge his own musical path. Boy, did he ever. :-)

This is definitly not the real PEtere Gabriel album - Peter tried here to define his own style and was not really sure what to play - therefore we have so many styles and different tracks here....This is as far most eclectic Peter's album...

It starts with strange and a bit funny "Moribund the burgmeister" (wow,what a title....) with wierd sound effects and creepy melody..later we are entering the typical Peter's world music area ("solsbury hill", a huge hit - not really world music, but most simmilar to things that Peter was doing later), Solid rock songs (Wonderfull "Modern love" and a bit queen sounding like "Slowburn"), Disco ("Down the dolce vita" with annoying long section in the middle),Blues ("Waiting for the big one" sounding a bit like Pink floyd at the end) and wodewil anthem (amusing "Excuse me").

Peter lost himself here a bit.i am sure he had a concept but he simply didn't know how to put everything to sound solid...After almost thirty years from premiere it sound chaotic,eclectic and a bit annoying...But at the end we get two classic songs here -Wonderfull and cheerfull "Solsbury hill" and pathetic poetic rock "Here comes the flood"...