Solsbury Hill

[Music] [Applause] climbing up my socks for you I can't see the city light wind was blowing times too Kiko flew out of the night to observe the boys stretching every nerve [Music] have no choice [Music] sure [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] in silence I designed - why [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] to that bottom part outside which connections I should [Music] [Music] [Music] oh gee [Music] where [Music] [Applause] [Music] tell [Music] [Music]

Channel: Peter Gabriel - Topic

Views: 1,080,217

Rating: 4.6453748 out of 5

Keywords: Peter, Gabriel, Solsbury, Hill

Id: NNMR5MCpYGU

Length: 4min 22sec (262 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 25 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

80s Genesis apologists who use the "Gabriel went pop too" line totally miss the point. Invisible Touch isn’t a bad song because it’s a pop song, it’s a bad song because it’s garish, unimaginative, generic, and suffers from a severe beauty deficit. Solsbury Hill is a good pop song because it has a beautiful melody, tasteful instrumentation, a soulful vocal performance and poignant, meaningful lyrics. If you think that this and Invisible Touch are equal in quality just because of a shared genre classification, who's really the "prog snob" here? ;)

Don’t get me wrong, the trio Genesis did have a few great songs here and there (invariably when Tony took the reins), but Gabriel’s solo career with its blend of emotionally substantial pop, progressive genre-blending and revolutionary sonic experimentation will always be the true spiritual successor to classic Genesis in my eyes, however different the two may be.

[u/Zaptagious]

I love this song

[u/drkesi88]

Seriously - one of the greatest songs of the 20th century. Fight me.