SO 80's! 🎵 Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer REACTION
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Special effects were intentional. No tweaking people. Revolutionary at the time. Stop motion animation dates back to the 1920's.
Some people say we’ve been dumbed down over the years, but that would be unfair wouldn’t it? 🤪🤔😤
@@andrewwright9378 sometimes i just shake my head and want the world to burn
I was gonna say.. are younger people not familiar with stop-motion??
@@macsfe9828 apparently brad isnt
Ray Harryhausen FTW
So funny you said Peter Gabriel sounds like Phil Collins. They were both members of Genesis, until Gabriel left and Collins, who used to be on drums, took his place as vocalist.
Fact’s 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Yup Yup!
Not sure either of them would like the comparison lol
Maybe they should react to Supper's Ready!
Phil continued to play drums with genesis until they split
Don't sleep on Pete. He is a legend in the game.
Right on Lisa!
Genesis " Lamb Lies Down On Broadway "
Solsbury Hill
@@SirWrecksy Games Without Frontiers - Steam - Not One Of Us
they dont care
At the time, Peter Gabriel was by far one of the most experimental Artists out there, sonically for sure, but also with his videos… this one is basically “stop motion”, which is a technique still used in movies like “Coraline”, ‘’Nightmare before Christmas”, or some of the early TOOL videos… it’s super time-consuming and for sure an Artform in its own right.
Yeah, I don't think that these two get around much. The animation is made from individual photographs with all the changes made between. Very time consuming and a very cool form of animation. A simpler method, we used to sketch onto notepads for fun back in school days and flip the pages to watch the animation happen.
The pinnacle of the art form is
the Wombles and I’ll fight any man that says different 😬
Yeah, the creativeness of the music video was completely wasted on them lol. They just thought it was bad 80's technology or bad special effects.
Peter said that he loved doing this video, but the worst part was the airplane part, they had to scrub off and re-paint his face numerous times and Peter said after a couple scrubbings it got painful.
@@madicelander …. it’s gotta be trippy for kids that grew up with digital editing to understand how low-tech this stuff was and how difficult and how much of an artform it is! 😅
This was the artistry back in the 80's. It was the MTv era. Wild zany and wak was the coin of the day. Peter Gabriel was the original singer of the band Genesis. This song won 9 Mtv music awards at the 1987 M T.V. music awards. He's quite an accomplished singer songwriter, producer.
Yes, post-absurdist societies have difficulty recognizing the fact that absurdism needed to be created/discovered, and that it was only discovered quite recently. For Gabriel's part, he pioneered his own sound and he is up there with the giants of music. They'd do themselves a favour by pursuing more of his work.
QUITE accomplished? ..........that's a serious understatement.
The bass line on this song is everything
The Great Tony Levin
Sexy beyond belief! All the girls lovin' on Peter back in the day.
@@PjRjHj So underrated.
You ever heard the saying “We’re standing on the shoulders of giants”? Errrr, I’m not convinced you guys get that. Not even the tiniest amount. Fun vid though.
All bass players just replied....
As soon as I seen the song in the title I knew Brad would be freaked out by the video. One of the most iconic videos of the 80's,
What doesn't Brad freak out on, he really needs thinker skin if you know what l mean, he always tries to make sense of the lyrics, just listen to the song if it's to much for you ears. ✌
@@emilymartinez6961 .... you do realize that differing personalities means different appraches, right....?? His approach to evaluating or gaging music is different than your... neither is wrong.
And it has nothing to do with "think skin" or "thin skin", it's just his approach to music... He grew up on hip hop, rap, and R&B, where the lyrics and the vocals were THE focal point of the song. There are no guitar riffs, guitar solos, or instrumental transitions in rap or hip hop unless it's sampled. The music in hip hop and rap is secondary, that's why the beats are almost all the same. He's learning new styles of music... it's exploration for him. He has to experience it in a way that HE can make sense of, not in a way that makes sense to YOU.
Also, I've never seen Brad "freak out"... he's always pretty stoic. I've watched probably half of their reaction videos, and I've never seen him "freak out".
People won't always like what you like, or get what you get.
@@smashleyscott8272 What Emily Means Scott is that Brad isn't a great listener of Rock or Pop music.
@@jimmorrison3756 ... it's new to him. This is a learned trait.
This video was made before CGI existed. Top 10 videos of all time. NEVER heard a negative word about it...EVER
It was a good video, but MTV ran it in such heavy rotation, I for one, got sick of it.
I disliked this video, and I grew up inthat era. I honestly know very few people who are fans of Peter Gabriel.
Interests and tastes are highly subjective.
@@chuckwilliams6261... WAY too much
CGI existed in '86. Watch Star Trek IV.
Not the reaction to stop-motion animation I was expecting; this was a very innovative and influential video at the time.
Not everyone likes that style... myself included.
This video was made by using 675,000 individual still photos, assembled into a moving collage. One thing to notice is that while the video is speeding along with stop motion effects, if you focus on Peter Gabriel's lip movements, they are totally in sync with the lyrics being sung... which puts them out of sync with the speeding video... genius level editing.
"Shock the Monkey" is an iconic one from the same era, similar style.
Peter Gabriel then went into a whole era of African-influenced stuff... I guess what you could call a different type of "Mandela effect" 😉
Paul Simon had a similar phase.
I like the German Version of Shock the Monkey
The "NELSON Mandela effect/affect"
This video is a complete Masterpiece. At the time it was released was absolutely crazy, but Peter Gabriel was always an experimental musician. Genesis with him was progressive rock. If you want to hear his more pop songs you have to react to In your eyes, Solsbury Hill or Don't give up. If you want more like Sledgehammer you could react to Steam, Shock the Monkey or Big Time.
Regards from Chile!
B&L, his "In Your Eyes", "Solsbury Hill" and "Games Without Frontiers" are next for you!!!
Shock the Monkey also
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@@James_Loveless All great songs! Mercy Street as well.
@@8moody1 - Mercy Street is tremendously creative, if you know what it is about.
Also "Digging In the Dirt"
The "Sledgehammer" video was commissioned by Tessa Watts at Virgin Records, directed by Stephen R. Johnson and produced by Adam Whittaker. Aardman Animations and the Brothers Quay provided claymation, pixilation, and stop motion animation that gave life to images in the song. Many of these techniques had been employed in earlier music videos, such as Talking Heads's 1985 hit "Road to Nowhere", also directed by Johnson. The style was later used in the video for "Big Time", another single from So.
Gabriel lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while filming the video one frame at a time.
It's " STOP MOTION " ( which isn't an 60s thing - it's about a hundred years old ) This was the age of MTV when videos were as important as the songs themselves
Stop Motion here was done by Aardman (Wallace & Gromit) if I recall correctly.
Peter Gabriel was half of the genius of the early "Genesis". Everything he did afterwards was musical genius in its own right.
Peter Gabriel is a certified weirdo and I mean that in the best of ways. I wholeheartedly agree with following up with "In Your Eyes" (especially the "Secret World Live" version that's been making the reaction video rounds -- for its sheer joy and celebration of music and culture) and "Don't Give Up" for (beautifully) getting deep into the weeds of sadness and loss of hope.
Gabriel is one of the most innovative musicians. His So album is a study of manic-depression. Manic songs like Sledgehammer juxtaposed with melancholy ones like Mercy Street and Don’t Give Up.
That’s so true-in the 80’s, they figured out all these techniques, and they def used them. This video was groundbreaking and won ALL the awards.
I think the song is great, but the video sucks.
they take out every 3rd frame to create the jerky motion, this was a cutting edge video in its time
Pretty sure they just did stop motion for the whole video.
@@RSpracticalshooting yes they did that too
The stop motion video was made by the same people that did Wallace and Grommit
Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park specifically animated the dancing oven ready chickens.
“Stop motion” technique was far from being a new high-tech video effect even in the 1980s. It has been around at least 100 years. It's a painstakingly slow and manual process of filming one frame, then make a slight adjustment to the items being filmed, and then taking another single frame. Takes a long time to do even a short video.
Think cartoons.
Think: one of the Christmas specials (Rudolph or The Year w/o a Santa Claus).
@@707Berto Wallace and Gromit :)
When this song comes on the radio, I can't help but to listen to. I never can change it! lol
You guys are so clueless. This music video was a revolution when it came out. At the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, the video won nine awards, setting a record that remains unbroken to this day.
Your right there was nothing like it at the time and quite genius the clip and music.Peter Gabriel is a great artist.
agree 💯 clueless 🙄
They’re trying … they didn’t grow up in that era so there’s a lot of things they don’t know … but they’re here listening to this music and keeping it alive
Go easy on them, they're only now discovering all this. They have no idea what things where like back then, we're in such different times, so they're doing the best they can to compare it to what they know, because that's all the reference they have. They would have no idea how innovative this was, came out b4 they were born.
Oh my God! I have to cancel my subscription to this reaction channel because these two never seem to understand any songs! Lex in particular never understands what the hell song is about it frustrates me so much!
Peter has a great catalog of hits. This, Games Without Frontiers, Digging in the Dirt, and Salisbury Hill.
Don´t forget Biko
And the greatest love song ever, In Your Eyes.
Solsbury Hill
@@countdoomiest I knew that wasn't the right spelling, but my damn phone switched it on me.
@@brianhetzer8421 Nights in White Satin is the greatest love song ever, but In Your Eyes is a damn good one too.
Peter Gabriel has an incredible catalog of outstanding songs both from his solo career and from his time as lead singer of Genesis. Two great songs are Blood of Eden (solo) and Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty (Genesis). Also, Phil Collins was the drummer for Genesis when Peter Gabriel was singer and later took over as lead singer when Gabriel left the band.
His first two solo albums are still among my favorite all-time records.
You guys should react to…
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
🎸🤘
In Your Eyes is one of my favorite songs of all times. Mercy Street off was also brilliant.
Peter Gabriel is the Genesis of the Phil Collins vocal sound…see what I did there?
I have noticed the similarities in their voices before (you can definitely hear it in "Solsbury Hill"), which I find interesting for several reasons. First, he's a baritone whereas Collins is a tenor, so it's almost like Collins is Gabriel at a higher register. Second, supposedly after he left Genesis they initially didn't even think of choosing Collins, their drummer, as the replacement, even though Collins had been singing professionally since childhood. Did Collins consciously imitate Gabriel when developing his pop-music style, or was it coincidental? Or did they choose Collins because they noticed the similarities in their voices?
Funny that she said he sounds like Phil Collins without knowing that they were in a band together. xD
Y'all have an absurd notion of the 80's. I love you, but every time you talk about it I'm like "what in the exact fuck are they talking about?".
Yea they spend way too much time trying to figure everything out, unnecessary just listen to the song & tell us what you think, we’re not trying to re invent the wheel.
Oh my God when they start pausing and trying to explain what they think the song means and they’re absolutely totally clueless that’s what I have to leave adios!
I grew up inthe 80s...the notions they have of the 80s seems pretty close to spot on.
@@BackyardEngineer334 .... trying to figure out what a song is about is part of experiencing the music for THEM, and there's nothing wrong with that.
@@Mckatt2 .... you do realize that all reaction videos do this, right....?? And often times it's done to avoid copyright issues here on TH-cam
It’s stop motion, he’s not physically moving in real time that way
Revolutionary video.35 years old and still looks cool and current. This won 9 MTV Awards.
The style of the video is stop motion photography. It is how they did clay-mation back in the day before Pixar and Disney had the ability to do 3-D animation.
Before he went solo Peter Gabriel was lead vocalist with Genesis when they were a prog rock band.
"Digging in the Dirt' is one of my favorite Gabriel tunes.
Yes...that’s one of my favs too! 🙂👍🏾
I don't know how anybody could watch this music video & not be incredibly impressed. It deserves so much more than being called a distraction.
A brilliant song, fabulous album, and a killer video. Nearly 40 years later and it still ranks in the top ten best music videos of all time. This video seemed to be on permanent rotation on MTV back in the days when MTV actually played music videos.
Audibly and visually the best the 80’s had to offer.
I would disagree... and that is what makes the world turn.
It's called stop motion animation guys.
And it dates back over 100 years. Not new technology in the 80’s.
I was completely oblivious to what the lyrics were about in this song when I was young! 🤣
Ha ha same. Also I thought Led Zeppelin's 'Custard Pie' was about food!
@@mikephillips8810 the innocence of youth! I didn't even think anything bad of that song (forget the name) where the lyrics literally say 'when I think about you, I touch myself!'
Now check out a couple of other songs of his: "Shock the Monkey" and "Lay Your Hands On Me"
I think they would like "Steam"or "Big Time".
It was mind-bending to see the reaction of someone seeing stop-motion effects for the first time, and not even knowing what that is...what we used for special effects before computer animation was feasible. I would never have guessed someone would think it was that creepy and that the person being animated was "tweaking"
Great song. Listen to “Biko” if you’re interested in a different side of Peter Gabriel. It’s an anthem to Steve Biko.
I doubt that they know who he is. The song was banned in SA during Apartheid, but shows like Miami Vice were allowed and hugely popular...get to the end credits of one episode, and those words came out of the tv speakers:
September '77
Port Elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual
In police room 619
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
The man is dead
@@dexstewart2450 If I have it right, Biko was part of the soundtrack and it played uncensored? Very powerful.
Brad was so creeped out by the music video🤣
He looks like that with every single video!
He looks like he never saw a music video before, look at those why dies in stunned stupefied expression that he has on his face constantly, let’s just has that the nine what the hell is going on I don’t know look about her
So glad to see one of you got it! Lex was smiling all the way through and that was the reason for making the video. The song is about sex (the first scene with the two eggs meeting up and fertilising...) This video was an iconic and ground-breaking introduction to show the extent to which special effects could be used, and at the time it won a number of awards for innovation. It's a master-piece.
One of the greatest music videos of all time. It’s stop motion, and intentionally exaggerated to have that Staccato movement. That’s the artistic intent. This just scratches the surface of great Peter Gabriel songs. “In Your Eyes”, “Solsbury Hill” and “Big Time” notable among them. (“Don’t Give Up” is my personal favorite.)
Gabriel is a very clever and witty lyricist and has covered a broad range of subjects. He's written a few with sexual innuendos, such as "Counting Out Time" from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway album when we was with Genesis. And "The Battle of Epping Forest" has a segment in which a clergyman is recommended an "Old-Fashioned Staffordshire Plate." I still can't figure that one out.
For Gabriel's sexual songs you've got to mention one of the most blatant, 'Kiss that frog', about oral sex. with lines that are very thinly veiled.
Gabriel wasn't tweaking. It was stop motion photography. He interviewed on BBC Radio 2 and said it took 16 hours to film certain sequences. He had to lay under a sheet of glass while each photo was shot one at a time taking 16 hours to complete. He said it was a very painful experience. It was a very innovative video for its time.
That’s Tony Levin on Bass. He has worked with EVERYONE.
I am not exaggerating.
Super funky and clever line. good call.
... well maybe a tiny bit of an exaggeration ...
Great song and great video. I'd recommend Peter Gabriel's "Big Time" as well.
And Red Rain
Criminally underrated song even tho it was big in the 80s
"Digging In The Dirt"
“In your eyes” secret world live tour is amazing. The vibe you feel just by watching and hearing it is unmatched. It feels spiritual. That’s just by watching the recording; imagine being there?
Brad & Lex please react to this. My parents saw this live so it’s not really my generation but it’s still magical. I can’t imagine you wouldn’t feel it too.
Peter Gabriel is a creative genius! His videos are but a taste of his creative brilliance. I've seen him five times.....the first time in 83.
After leaving Genesis in 1975, he launched a successful solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single.
Shock the Monkey,Games Without Frontiers,Solsbury Hill,In your eyes….
A true legend and kind human being…..
I saw the first-ever Top Of The Bill performance with 3,,000 others of Genesis in Croydon, S E London. 1972 :)
You want Gabriel Spectrum? "Shock The Monkey" - "Dont Give Up" (Kate Bush duet) Then trail back to his Genesis years....
this is one where you should pay attention to the video. Groundbreaking at the time.
His In Your Eyes live from the Secret World Tour is one of the best live videos I've ever seen. Great song and an amazing performance. Great job again guys!
You should check out some early Genesis when Peter Gabriel was the singer. Peter always had a flair for the bizarre. Some of those live videos from Genesis are legendary.
The experimental 80's...MTV master piece. Sometimes, the song doesn't need to be accessed, just enjoyed.
These two are so dopey sometimes. It’s called stop-motion. They often confuse an artist with that of the director ‘s vision along with that of the record label. This video won 9 MTV Music Video Awards in 1987.
I don't really set the bar very high for Brad, I celebrate when he "gets it" but don't ever expect him to. But yeah, it can be super frustrating sometimes.
@@jessiegarcia665 Agreed, but Lex is usually super switched on and comes out with some insightful shit so they kind of balance each other out.
Brad is dopey alot and he doesn't do drugs .
@@jessiegarcia665 He occasionally gets it but Lex never ever gets it! She is completely and totally clueless on so many things
@@jessiegarcia665 .... so, explain to me why it's frustrating to you when someone who has different life experiences than you, and probably from a different background, culture, era, and personality, doesn't automatically "get" what YOU "get". I personally dislike stop motion... I never liked this video. I grew up in the 80s. Wasn't my thing.
ALL of this is subjective, anyway, correct...???
This video was made when Asteroids and pong were still around. This was avant guard for our time. When the movie Superman with Christopher Reeves came out the tag line was you will believe a man can fly. The world was so different when we were young. You make me excited that I have lived through this time when the world has changed so much - I really feel like how cowboys must have felt who were born in the 1860's and looking at the world around them in the 1920's. So much concerns me in this world today and I so much enjoy watching you two - you give me hope in the current generation. :) High praise from a cranky old man.
Do ‘“In your eyes” by him - it’s one of the most beautiful joyful and simultaneously heartbreaking songs, it’s really an experience worth having.
This is a legendary clip! It was made in the old style technic of shot after shot of still pictures… old style animation. Regards from Israel
*The most-played video in MTV history. More than 'Thriller' or 'Billie Jean', more than 'Take On Me' or 'Smells Like Teen Spirit, more than 'Video Killed The Radio Star' or 'Paranoid Android'...the most-played ever (and never likely to be equalled)*
Seen quite a few of your reactions, Lex gets into it and is always positive. I like her reactions.
The lyrics in rock are like any kind of good art. It does not matter what the artist is saying, what they mean, what the piece is "about". It matters what you hear, what you think, and how the music or art as you perceive it changes in response. It's a live two-way conversation.
Well said!
Peter Gabriel steam, looks like he used all the video effects ever made at the time.
Love PG!! His song Solsbury Hill and Games without frontiers are great ones too✌🏼
She would have been so much fun in the " old days" get buzzed and party!!! Lex is a rocker, the reactions are priceless, love her
THIS VIDEO WAS THE HEIGHT OF MTV, Music TeleVision.
WE DIDN'T HAVE MUSIC ON THE INTERNET BACK IN THE '80's. MTV WAS NEW AND ALL THE RAGE. I WAS A SENIOR IN HIGH-SCHOOL WHEN THIS SONG CAME OUT. PARTY ON GARTH!!!
Other people have talked about how groundbreaking the vid as. I'll talk about the fact that Peter Gabriel is a genius.
A LOT of his music is very sensual or sexual. Very unusual in terms of sound. For example , listen to the first 3/4 of this song vs the end , where he takes it to church. It sounds like a crazy switch up , but he does it so well.
He is also a very early example of a mainstream white artist using "world music" inspirations , and did so intentionally and respectfully.
Yes, a pioneer of the WOMAD festival too
No....Phil sounds like Peter Gabriel
This was from the early days of MTV, back when they actually played music videos, one right after another. It was ALL ABOUT THE VIDEO in those days. This was a very popular song, filled with clever double entendres about sex. Peter Gabriel was one of the best musicians of the time. Lots of great songs by him, that sound very different. Some great collaborations, too.
Peter Gabriel use to be the lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis from 1967 to 1975. He had a succesfull solo career with hits like 'Solsbury Hill' , 'Here comes the flood' and especially 'Biko'.
This song was helpful to bring down apartheid in South Africa. You must also listen to 'Selling England by the pound", Genesis's best album (in my book)
Hey Brad and lex I said it before and I'll say it again I really think you guys should Google a particular singer or the whole band after you do a video to find out more about them. I watch a lot of your videos and I have noticed that you guys sometimes think that the music is recent but it's actually from 20 or 30 years before.
This video would have taken eons to make. Its stop motion ffs
I m impressed by Peter Gapriels voice it sounds like dangerous gangster but he looks like a desk clark never could do any harm to anybody . Terrific groove ! I found a few exiting live versions.
There is an absolutely transcendent live version of "In Your Eyes" out on the TH-cam somewhere. Highly recommend.
As soon as Brad did his, "He's tweaking. What would you do if you met someone like this in real life?" bit, I quit watching. Sometimes, Brad is too much of not being "there" enough. There are many who explained stop motion. All monster movies from at least the 40's to the 70's did stop motion. They've never seen the "Sinbad" movies? (The sailor, not the comedian)
Most of the iconic Christmas shows from the 50s and 60s where done with stop motion. These two think that there was no technology or Art before they where born.
So did I! That is the moment when I said that’s it no more of these two for me! This is probably the 10th reaction a video of theirs that I have seen and then everyone he looks like an absolute dope she is completely clueless they both look like errands I can’t watch this channel anymore
How old are you...?? What era did you grow up in...?? What were you exposed to in your formative years...??? What culture did you grow up in...??
☝all relevent factors in our understanding. I doubt very seriously that these two grew up watching the stop motion cinema that you're familiar with. I can promise you that very few people who grew up after the 80s have any real familiarity orexposure to stop motion. I was born in 75, grew up inthe 80s... and honestly, I don't particularly care for it.
@@MegaFoghornleghorn .... lol... really?? The technological advancement from 1990 to now is astronomical. The cell phone sitting in your hand right now would have been inconceivable in 1987 when this video was released. I look back on my childhood and marvel at how far we have come in the last 30 years. The pace of technological advancement in that time period blows the doors off the rest of human history. The tech in the 1980s is rudimentary in comparison.
I still find Gabriel a better singer than Phil…………… me ducking.
Gabriel is 100 times better than the lightweight Phil Collins.
absolutely. In Genesis he used to "play" (sing/dress up) characters right out of Charles Dickens by changing his voice or accent.
You're comparing Premiership with Sunday League
No argument from me, Phil was an excellent prog rock drummer, but he should have stayed behind the kit
You are not wrong.
Lex somehow channeled Phil Collins, who just happened to take over lead vocals from Peter in the band Genesis. Incredible intuition is what that is!
This album went 5 times platinum in the US and this video won 9 awards on the MTV video awards when that was a thing. It is also the most played video in their history which I just learned yesterday.
You guys should listen to Stone Temple Pilots!
This song is a masterpiece and I'm not a huge Gabriel fan. Also, if I remember correctly this is the most played video in MTV history.
metaphor
1: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money)
Ultimate mid 80s. Loved MTV when it was so fun and free spirited and goofy. You could just sit back and chill! Peter Gabriel is legend!
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Hey guys...watch Peter live... the song you would love is In your eyes. He is a very clued in artist. In your eyes.....live. You wont regret watching this performance or hearing this beautiful masterpiece. Stay safe. You guys ROCK.
This was a major hit. Peter Gabriel had a particular sense of humor. Listen to the music, forget the bells and whistles.
Peter Gabriel's creativity was legendary. At the time, these kind of video clips were top notch and fresh.
All the clips for this album were revolutionary, aesthetically in those days, mid 80s. The stop motion work was fantastic, so creative! I think he won some prizes for this videos...
This video, full of stop-action footage, blew doors and won awards back in the 80s.
In the 80’s all the artists we’re trying to out do each other to have their videos on MTV. They had to be really creative, and this video is a sample of it.
Peter Gabriel had always been a creative singer on the weird side 😂 He used to sing for UK prog rockers Genesis in the 70's w/ Phil Collins on drums... Gabriel would perform w/ elaborate costumes and
play strange characters ... Genesis' album 'Foxtrot' had a woman w/ a fox's head on the cover... Gabriel performed in a dress w/ a fox mask!
Peter Gabriel left Genesis in 1975... Phil Collins took over on vocals. Gabriel began recording solo albums in the 70's and established himself as a hitmaker in the 80's w/ cutting edge music and strange video visuals.
When i was a little kid this was my first ever contact with Peter Gabriel at all. That song and musicvideo and to me it always felt larger than life and like a shortfilm. The stop motion animation is what sold me to it because i always loved that. Especially such weird and trippy stuff that really makes you watch it in sheer awe and respect for all the hours it took to make. Then around 2000 or so, i found an east german Vinyl release of his 1986 album "So" which included Sledgehammer of course and my appreciation for his music grew even more. My second album of him was his 2002 Album "UP".
Lex expressing her joy at certain points just makes my night! LOL I love these reactions so much. Thank you.
This video came out in the prime of MTV when music videos were events unto themselves. So much fun when it hit.
Right?! Remember the "World Premiere Video" releases? People would literally plan to be at home ready to watch. The Thriller video release immediately comes to mind!
One of the coolest videos of the 80s!!! I remember seeing it as a kid and being blown away
Lex was so funny doing the chicken dance...😆
Keep listening to this man, he is a legend! He had the greatest videos in the start because MTV was big and new.
I'm so glad you reacted to the official video, and not a lyric video. I still don't know how they made this video so quickly, with no computer animation.
Another great song from the 80s - "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour
I prefer Open Letter to Landlord as a better if not their Best Song by Living Colour