🎵 Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill REACTION

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  • @straycatttt2766
    @straycatttt2766 2 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Always brings a tear to my eye with the line, “‘Son,’ he said, ‘grab your things. I’ve come to take you home.’”

    • @nealm6764
      @nealm6764 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The days when your father could save you from whatever trouble you were in by coming to get you to take you home, and imparting words of wisdom on you.

    • @motodork
      @motodork 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@nealm6764 Such true words.

  • @jeremygray1331
    @jeremygray1331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    For us Genesis fans at the time, this was a significant moment. Gabriel leaving behind “progressive” rock for something different but, as it turns out equally artistic and creative and then moving on to a career which would reach the heights of pop music (the album “So”) and then “world music”. He is easily one of the most important and influential artists of the past 50 years.
    Plus when he was young he was a skinny androgynous handsome lad and is now a somewhat portly bald guy. So he was perfect object lesson for my daughter when she was obsessed with the stars of her youth “hey, I would say, they will end up looking like your dad in a few years so calm down. “

    • @pmoran7971
      @pmoran7971 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Very true, but too much going on his life at that time

    • @laurabrevitz3944
      @laurabrevitz3944 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @carlossaraiva8213
      @carlossaraiva8213 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The second part of your post is brilliant because its so true. The same can be said for the guys obsessing with pretty female stars, as they too will end up looking like mom and for them might even came sooner.

    • @Unclesmokey314
      @Unclesmokey314 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@carlossaraiva8213 as a child I was in love with Stevie Nicks.... I wouldn't hit it with a brick today. 🤣

    • @alex-E7WHU
      @alex-E7WHU 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Unclesmokey314 hahahaha 👍

  • @laurakali6522
    @laurakali6522 2 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    “I was feeling part of the scenery, I walked right out of the machinery”. The words I sang to myself as I left a corporate job after 25 years.

    • @marcillioficino4663
      @marcillioficino4663 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's about time. Now live a little.

    • @richdiana3663
      @richdiana3663 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I managed to avoid the corporatocracy in my life but I fear for my descendants.

    • @guidosarducci
      @guidosarducci 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ❤ Congratulations. I did that 11 years ago. Absolutely left a 'lucrative' yet "pain in the ass" job in IT solely for some peace of mind. They even send me a few dollars every month, and I don't even work for them anymore...LOL!

    • @roberttompkins6489
      @roberttompkins6489 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I feel the same as a long-time educator

    • @JazzDrummer1946
      @JazzDrummer1946 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I'm right there with you. I left Solomon Smith Barney after 9/11 (I was in building 7 lobby when the first plane hit). I went full-time into my side job, vending machines. I was "reborn."

  • @bevil4aday
    @bevil4aday 2 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    Peter Gabriel's music is loaded with metaphors and emotional verses. His music is truly timeless. I would recommend Shock the Monkey.

    • @surlechapeau
      @surlechapeau 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      their reaction to Shock The Monkey linked here - th-cam.com/video/5RHWsIOHgUo/w-d-xo.html

    • @revwillyg6450
      @revwillyg6450 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I've always listened to lyrics, even as a kid. I remember puzzling over Peter Gabriel's songs in the back of the car, trying to figure it all out. Lol. Still haven't really

    • @MySandstrom
      @MySandstrom 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      MTV played the shit out of that video back in the day...

    • @gpili
      @gpili ปีที่แล้ว

      This is about a person who is examining his life and not happy where he is and making a decision to make a change.

  • @haveuforgotten
    @haveuforgotten ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gabriel has said of the song's meaning, "It's about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get ... It's about letting go."

  • @KevinPugh-hq8rc
    @KevinPugh-hq8rc ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If I recall well Peter Gabriel went to a boarding school called charterhouse school - so when it says "get your things, I've come to take you home" ... it might well mean that at end of term, the joy of going back home to his family as a young boy

  • @paulhenderson8201
    @paulhenderson8201 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    A song explaining the inner conflict of a great artist feeling part of the machinery (the band Genesis)...who wanted to go back to his creative roots as a solo artist. Solsbury Hill was an actual place Gabriel visited to find inspiration or do some soul searching.

  • @Cadinho93
    @Cadinho93 2 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Peter Gabriel was the original Genesis singer, after Lamb Lies Down he left and Phil Collins took over.
    The song "Solsbury Hill" is about the point when he left Genesis, it's about his Father (The Eagle) coming to pick him up from the hotel he was at as he couldn't deal with the in-fighting in Genesis anymore and needed to get out for his own sanity. There is a lot to the song that is yet to be explained fully if Peter Gabriel ever does!
    Watch the version of "Solsbury Hill" from The Real World Live video, where the stage revolves and they are all walking on it, but going nowhere, except Peter Gabriel who is cycling around the stage. He always tried to make the shows an experience you would remember!

    • @matthewdropco
      @matthewdropco 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was watching one of those professor of rock things, and I think another reason that he left Genesis was that he felt that it started to become to formulatic for him maybe? That they became very popular and he felt that they would continue to do what made them sell lots of hit record, and not take more chances creatively. It wasn't till I was in my late teens maybe that I found out he was the singer before Phil. I like both incarnations, and i'm finally getting around to explore the Gabriel version.

    • @hp697c
      @hp697c 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There wasn't any infighting within the group. They actually knew Gabriel was leaving the group long before he did. The entire group felt that there songs had taken a cookie cutter form of what they knew would sell and were afraid to change what was extremely popular. They all felt like they were just another cog in the machine. Gabriel decided he was going to leave the group so he could feel like he was expressing himself. It was an extremely scary decision because he was giving up guaranteed success for something he wasn't sure would even work. Even though the rest of the band felt the same as him they decided to continue Genesis because it was extremely successful and they didn't want to walk away from that. They all would eventually take up side projects but they still stayed together as Genesis.

  • @markfeggeler3479
    @markfeggeler3479 2 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    An amazing song that is largely about his decision to leave the group Genesis. What an artist! It’s also a good idea not to lend much meaning to his videos. They frequently are their own thing separate from the song.
    Another great song from PG is San Jacinto.

    • @johnmavroudis2054
      @johnmavroudis2054 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Great song.

    • @Scary__fun
      @Scary__fun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I took the closing of the video as the music industry being an assembly line of cabbage (which is slang for money), but him choosing love (whether it's with a partner or just doing what he loves) and weirdness/creativity rather than keep doing the same thing with Genesis.

  • @brokervc1
    @brokervc1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Peter is one of the greatest writers this song means so much to me about dropping out of the bull that's going on world wide, and I was even there on Solsbury hill.

  • @michaelkuske
    @michaelkuske ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "That's my empty silhouette, who close their eyes but still can see"..."Today I don't need a replacement. I tell them what the smile on my face meant."
    100% is #1 on my funeral song list.

  • @ericfilmsf8429
    @ericfilmsf8429 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Brad encroaching on Lex territory by nailing the vibe of the sound of the music first this time! 👏

  • @charleswindsor1184
    @charleswindsor1184 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Simply, a lovely song.

  • @youraccount7003
    @youraccount7003 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He was experiencing a profound spiritual awakening.

  • @RobertJohnson-hq6jq
    @RobertJohnson-hq6jq ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Greatest Peter Gabriel song

  • @13_13k
    @13_13k 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Brad and Lex --- here are the lyrics to Solsbury Hill
    Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
    I could see the city light
    Wind was blowing, time stood still
    Eagle flew out of the night
    He was something to observe
    Came in close, I heard a voice
    Standing, stretching every nerve
    I had to listen, had no choice
    I did not believe the information
    Just had to trust imagination
    My heart going "Boom-boom-boom"
    "Son", he said
    "Grab your things, I've come to take you home"
    To keep in silence I resigned
    My friends would think I was a nut
    Turning water into wine
    Open doors would soon be shut
    So I went from day to day
    Though my life was in a rut
    'Til I thought of what I'd say
    Which connection I should cut
    I was feeling part of the scenery
    I walked right out of the machinery
    My heart going "Boom-boom-boom"
    "Hey", he said
    "Grab your things, I've come to take you home"
    Hey, back home
    When illusion spin her net
    I'm never where I wanna be
    And liberty, she pirouette
    When I think that I am free
    Watched by empty silhouettes
    Who close their eyes but still can see
    No one taught them etiquette
    I will show another me
    Today I don't need a replacement
    I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant
    My heart going "Boom-boom-boom"
    "Hey", I said
    "You can keep my things, they've come to take me home"
    Source: Musixmatch
    Songwriters: Peter Gabriel
    Solsbury Hill lyrics © Real World Music Ltd

    • @Johnny_Socko
      @Johnny_Socko 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      In context I can totally see how this was about his decision to leave Genesis.

    • @zimbo65a
      @zimbo65a 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brad and Lex aren´t deaf,that´s not the problem.
      and by the way....Brad and Lex don´t read comments.

    • @13_13k
      @13_13k 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@zimbo65a ---- they also don't need a someone speaking for them.
      Kick rocks Troll

    • @Johonnac
      @Johonnac 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@zimbo65a Sometimes they do read comments, actually….

    • @zimbo65a
      @zimbo65a 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@13_13k you are right,Mr Speaker.

  • @johnnygizmo4733
    @johnnygizmo4733 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great lyrics. Emotional is the bomb.

  • @flibber123
    @flibber123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I think it's a melancholy emotion. "stepped right out of the machinery" and "I've come to take you home" signifies to me the end of something important but also hopefully the start of something better.

  • @shatterquartz
    @shatterquartz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I consider myself privileged to have seen Peter Gabriel live during his Secret World 1993 tour. It was an extraordinary experience.

    • @darcyhans2693
      @darcyhans2693 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I also feel the same way - got to see that concert(and front row seats when our original seats far in the back were not there because of a mess up😎), Vegas when he did the entire ‘So’ Album, and when he toured with Sting : D

    • @joelhammond4162
      @joelhammond4162 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jealous, I was too young and dumb at the time to appreciate the greatness of it, whilst I was standing firm on my classic rock and 80s hard rock/metal foundation. At least, we have recordings that captured the brilliance of that moment in time for me to experience and enjoy, though not live and in person. I always did like the song. I play guitar and appreciate the instrument and that opening acoustic rhythm grabbed me immediately and never let go. It took me more time to appreciate the subtle intricacies of the percussion and the depth of meaning in the lyrics. Truly a brilliant artist. It is easy to see and understand now why he would collaborate with an artist like Kate Bush. I’ll be gentle on myself and say shallow rather than dumb. Fortunately, at least in this sense, time and experience changes us all.

    • @gemma3954
      @gemma3954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You’re so lucky. I’ve watched shaking the tree on TH-cam of that live tour and just seeing it recorded though a screen is an amazing dare I say a spiritual experience!! It must have been 🤬 awesome to have been there!!
      I’ve seen other reactors react to shaking the the tree live on that tour and it’s the best!! I’ve asked Brad & Lex to do it but unfortunately they only did the lyric video so totally missed out on that amazing vibe. I wish they would do it, they’d love it. But never mind I tried.

    • @captainamerica6829
      @captainamerica6829 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Secret World: Actually the version you need to listen.

  • @davidcarrington3016
    @davidcarrington3016 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was on top of Solsbury hill only 2 weeks ago on a beautiful early spring day, fantastic views overlooking Bath/Somerset.❤️👍

  • @shanna9650
    @shanna9650 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's about making a change in life...and finding self discovery.. ... and the anxiety involved in the process.

  • @leighfoulkes7297
    @leighfoulkes7297 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For me, this was just his farewell song to Genesis. A pretty big band in the 1970's and at its peak (well, it was pretty big under Phil Collins too) but his heart was telling him to leave.

  • @midkingsteve
    @midkingsteve 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    These lyrics are so amazing. Because they're packed with imagery and metaphor but they're not rand or vague. They're have a real meaning. Many artists struggle with the balance of storytelling with plain language and ambiguous metaphor. This hits it right in the middle. They can be applied to your own feelings about any kind of change or separation from something, like a breakup, but they also exactly fit what he is talking about for him, which was leaving his former band and breaking out on his own. ::chef kiss::

  • @davidstobie2751
    @davidstobie2751 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    emotion is what art is.

  • @Wv8675
    @Wv8675 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great song one of the best songs ever actually

  • @CaptainNemo1701
    @CaptainNemo1701 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Solsbury Hill overlooks Bath, England, the 'city lights' in the song. Peter Gabriel's recording studio Realworld, is located a few miles to the east of Bath in the village of Box.

  • @ws3764
    @ws3764 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dang....our Brad is really growing right before eyes👍

  • @saverioc2929
    @saverioc2929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a song about the hardships and success of leaving the band GENESIS. He said "today I don't need a replacement" who ended up being Phil Collins. The music sequence is the opposite of what Genesis did and It's also off timing. Which is amazing that it works musicly and that it became a big hit at the time. You should watch this song performed live he changed it up and made it better. PG has always been one of my fav musical artist. He truly makes you feel the music and it also takes you to a space and place like no other artist can. Other songs “San Jacinto” “Biko” “I Don’t Remember” “Lead A Normal Life” “Lay Your Hands On Me” "the Book of Love" He truly is an amazing artist.

  • @elframo
    @elframo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Truly one of the great songs.

  • @mycoccoon
    @mycoccoon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    On Solsbury Hill and its accompanying video.
    Peter Gabriel has said, “It’s about being prepared to lose what you have for what you might get, or what you are for what you might be. It’s about letting go.”
    The song reflects Peter’s leaving of the band he co-founded, Genesis, hence the lyric:
    “I was feeling part of the scenery
    I walked right out of the machinery”
    Peter goes on about the title:
    “Solsbury hill was right above where I was living in Bath at the time. It was a place I liked to go to sit and think. There’s a lot of local legend attached to it. In one story, King Bladudd, who was allegedly the ninth King of England, went to Greece to study under Pythagoras, returned to set up the first British Druid School near Bath, and built seven temples on the seven hills around the city. On Solsbury Hill, which is this strange sort of flat triangular shape, he is alleged to have built a temple to Apollo, where he died trying to fly like an eagle from the top of the temple.”
    (This is apparently the origin of the line “Eagle flew out of the night, it was something to observe”)
    Peter made a video for it in the time period it came out (1977), but when he put out a collection of his videos entitled “Play”, (2004) he had added in footage from a short film someone he knew did called “Cabbages”.
    Why?
    Well, when he left Genesis, he made a press release in 1975 that said in part:
    “As an artist, I need to absorb a wide variety of experiences. It is difficult to respond to intuition and impulse within the long-term planning that the band needed. I felt I should look at / learn about / develop myself, my creative bits and pieces and pick up on a lot of work going on outside music. Even the hidden delights of vegetable growing and community living are beginning to reveal their secrets. I could not expect the band to tie in their schedules with my bondage to cabbages.”
    During the recording of the last album Peter did with Genesis, “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway”, his first daughter Anne had a traumatic birth. Complications kept her in the hospital for two weeks, uncertain if she was going to live. Peter drove many hours back and forth, driving himself crazy to be there for his daughter.
    At the new place he’d moved to, he’d decided to grow a small crop of cabbages, and that if he could nurture those cabbages to a full and happy life, he could be a nurturing person for his kids. Growing them was symbolic for him.
    So in the video, we have the Cabbage Farmer, who is clearly supposed to be Peter. There is even a reference to his 1992 song “Steam”, (“Give me steam, and how you feel could make it real”) when the Cabbage Farmer makes a cup of tea.
    The marriage procession of the Cabbage Daughter represents Peter as a successful father who nurtured two fantastic girls into great women, Anna and Melanie.
    Hope this helps to understand what seems a quirky song and video without some background information. With the background, it is rather sweet, I think.

  • @ThatsMyStuffYouBledOnTrevor
    @ThatsMyStuffYouBledOnTrevor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    “I walked right out of the machinery /
    My heart goin “Boom! Boom! BOOM!”
    For Peter Gabriel, leaving the comfort and ceaseless success of Genesis must have been a pretty huge deal. Like deciding to be born. Most people dont have the weight of a decision like that in their hand - external forces tend to force them in a particular direction. But when those external forces are personal, and not easily explained to the fans or public, that has to be a pretty gut-wrenching thing to feel like you have to do.
    Good for him, and good for all of us. We got this inspirational song about moving on to the next step, and double the fantastic music from him and former Genesis bandmate Phil Collins. Plenty of talent to around there, glad we could enjoy.

  • @kurtisschilk1218
    @kurtisschilk1218 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Great song! Peter Gabriel wrote this when he left (The Band) Genesis.

  • @stewartcohen-jones2949
    @stewartcohen-jones2949 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Solisbury Hill is a real place. I used to live at the bottom of it many years ago.

  • @bryanforis1839
    @bryanforis1839 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great songs and great music songs live

  • @MS-jc9sy
    @MS-jc9sy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    One one hand a pretty simple song with an uncomplicated tune, 3 verses and no chorus. But on the other hand, you dive into the lyrics and realize it's extremely deep.
    "When illusion spin her net
    I'm never where I wanna be
    And liberty, she pirouette
    When I think that I am free
    Watched by empty silhouettes
    Who close their eyes but still can see
    No one taught them etiquette
    I will show another me
    Today I don't need a replacement
    I'll tell them what the smile on my face meant
    My heart going "Boom-boom-boom"
    "Hey", I said
    "You can keep my things, they've come to take me home"
    The meaning in these lyrics make it a top 5 song for me, one that makes me pretty emotional

  • @ollwynaspinall1991
    @ollwynaspinall1991 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This hits home with me played this at my brothers funeral 😢but great song 👌🏻🎶❤

  • @13_13k
    @13_13k 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's nice to see Brad get the emotional side of a song.
    This is a song about reflection as Brad suggested.

  • @jlutzudrums9142
    @jlutzudrums9142 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Je suis fan de PETER GABRIEL
    merci beaucoup Brad & Lex
    BEAUTIFUL SONG

  • @iainweller452
    @iainweller452 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Peter Gabriel is an amazing song writer, check out his song “Biko” a powerful song about anti-apartheid activist Steven Biko.

  • @ericwilliams1031
    @ericwilliams1031 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This song is about him leaving the band Genesis. He went for a walk up Solsbury hill in England to get some fresh air and clear his mind and this song came out of that.

  • @willfromyadkinville
    @willfromyadkinville 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    he is such a brilliant artist! listen to his everything! you will not be disappointed!

  • @jamielandis4308
    @jamielandis4308 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When I’m home this song makes me feel warm and cozy. When I’m away, it makes me homesick.

  • @jamesaaron7211
    @jamesaaron7211 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    In your eyes, secret world tour, one of the best live performances ever. Absolutely do that, if not reaction just for yourselves. This song is incredibly interesting, very introspective, nailing the idea of being in deep conflict, feeling the need to make a change that no one around you gets.

  • @neilmartin99
    @neilmartin99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Didn't really like this song much when I first heard it but it has definitely grown on me over the past few years.

  • @bishopswoodcrafts
    @bishopswoodcrafts 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    you two ought to react to the video "peter gabriel solsbury hill live dna". it's a MAGNIFICENT compilation of this song performed live over the years. It really shows the vibrancy of Peter Gabriel and the band in concert. It's a MUST.

  • @johnshatzko4153
    @johnshatzko4153 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Peter Gabriel is a true musical genius and pioneer of the music video. The one you watched on the stream was one of the first true music videos 1977.

  • @Wv8675
    @Wv8675 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I use to be obsessed with this song in high school great song

  • @crystalvision1111
    @crystalvision1111 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I had on my bucket list that when I finally went to England I would go to Solsbury Hill and play this song at the top. I did it a few years ago. I love this song :)

  • @cmc8375
    @cmc8375 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    There is a brilliant live version of this, with Peter at his extravagant best... almost like a circus! 💙🎶✌️

  • @goatslunch6991
    @goatslunch6991 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    For this was always about finding that perfect moment and time. Feeling nothing but joy and then you get that tap on on the shouder and the fleeting wonderful turns back into the daily.

  • @jamesclark4523
    @jamesclark4523 ปีที่แล้ว

    Peter Gabriel’s music is grossly underrated. Listen to “ don’t give up.” An absolute masterpiece.

  • @dtaylor77
    @dtaylor77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like that these reaction videos remind me of songs and artist that I have not listened to in a while. Now listening to Peter Gabriel The Book of Love.

  • @BeatlesFan1975
    @BeatlesFan1975 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This song IS happy

  • @aks4204
    @aks4204 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Pete Gabriel is great!
    Saw him in concert & he is amazing live.

  • @surlechapeau
    @surlechapeau 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Brad & Lex, you’ll love his “Steam” and “Biko!!! “Solsbury Hill” was his first solo hit single (in the UK).

    • @A_Drift...
      @A_Drift... 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Add "San Jacinto," "I Grieve" and "The Rhythm of the Heat" too.

  • @robforzese5496
    @robforzese5496 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One of the best odd time signature songs ever….. this one is in 7/4

    • @guggie
      @guggie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All except the “come to take you home” parts that are all 2x 4/4. It’s brilliant!!

  • @SteveInTheOC
    @SteveInTheOC 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved this song so much back when. Thank you.

  • @PhantomOfTheMall
    @PhantomOfTheMall 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Solsbury Hill is a real place not far from where Peter lived that he’d go to walk/hike…to clear his head, etc. While on this particular walk, he had an epiphany! He was nervous about venturing out on a solo career having just quitting Genesis. He was looking for an answer and he got one.

  • @DLMaston1
    @DLMaston1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Brad this truly is a happy song. And Lex, it certainly is a break up song too but a happy one! Those are suppose to be "happy/joyful noises" at the end. It tells the story of Peter Gabriel leaving his original band, Genesis and going out on his own. What a great song from a brilliant artist. Hope y'all liked it!!

  • @atomicpunk520
    @atomicpunk520 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this song
    P.Gabriel what a talented - creative lad
    when he went solo all he could do was turn out hit after hit

  • @otakumagnet8106
    @otakumagnet8106 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Peter is one of the best live performers. If you react to a live video of his, you will love it.

    • @allensnyder8294
      @allensnyder8294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes the live version is amazing ! The round stage and he is riding the bike !

  • @barbaraclegg1622
    @barbaraclegg1622 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this song as having older sisters I grew up listening to there taste in music which includes Peter Gabriel

  • @carlossaraiva8213
    @carlossaraiva8213 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Two things about this song:
    1 - It is about Peter Gabriel breaking up from Genesis. The part of the lyrics about his friends expecting he would turn water into wine seems to me the band expected Gabriel to come up with great songs again and again, a hard task even genious struggle with.
    2- Solsbury Hill is where Stonehedge is located.

  • @LaserRanger15
    @LaserRanger15 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I don't' know what you call it, but the rhyming every other line in the song, is so clever. This is a fantastic song. This is about him leaving Genesis way back when, though for years I thought it was about aliens picking him up from Earth, lol.

    • @paulhagger3895
      @paulhagger3895 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's called an ABAB rhyme scheme

  • @Chris.Davis.2
    @Chris.Davis.2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love Peter Gabriel's music.

  • @dennislockhart7678
    @dennislockhart7678 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can't hear this song without thinking about England...it has that sound...and my late wife who I met there...sweet sorrow.

  • @bobsmith253
    @bobsmith253 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This song is about changes in one's life. He went from a well known band, Genesis, for his solo act.

  • @QuantatativeStealing
    @QuantatativeStealing 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The lyrics are a direct reflection of his leaving of Genesis..."feeling part of the machinery"
    Long tours being planned and having a sick baby made his choice for him.
    He wrote about wanting to grow cabbages(video) and "go senile in the sticks" in a autobiography of his I read many years ago.

  • @blackskyfire
    @blackskyfire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love that off-kilter beat. Count it out--one and two and three and four and...--and you see it's in 7. Gives it such a cool feel.

    • @IntoTheWhite04
      @IntoTheWhite04 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Much like a lot of genesis stuff

  • @s.mcpherson6354
    @s.mcpherson6354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    You guys should re-do *In Your Eyes* --but do the live version under the dome. That was a great tour live, and it's a brilliant version of that song that is even better than the album version you did. And unless you've seen him live, like Bowie, it's really hard to capture who and what Gabriel is.

    • @laramr1
      @laramr1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do Jeffrey Gaines' version

    • @ronparsons8786
      @ronparsons8786 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please do this

  • @davidpaulk5658
    @davidpaulk5658 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think it's about spiritual ascension and upon death graduating from this place and reality. The lettuce harvest is biblical and the ending" you can keep my thing They've come to take me home". Beautiful.

  • @toddmarryatt443
    @toddmarryatt443 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My first out door Arena concert. Peter Gabriel opened for David Bowie. Amazing.

  • @Bekka_Noyb
    @Bekka_Noyb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ♥ this!

  • @davidstobie2751
    @davidstobie2751 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    all praise the Cabbage Queen

  • @bsstyle123
    @bsstyle123 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    song is about breaking free of the chains that hold you down, i love the end when goes crazy, just shows his freedom after leaving genesis and being true to his own art.

  • @TrianglesAndCircles
    @TrianglesAndCircles 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    ...grab your things, I'm going to take you home...like a mother to a son wounded in battle...the trees were so beautiful to me. True story.

  • @gablen23
    @gablen23 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "Mercy Street" from the great album "So" is a beautiful (and sad) piece of music, I highly recommend it!

  • @paulchristman6934
    @paulchristman6934 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    peter Gabriel= legend!

  • @chrisdunaway2562
    @chrisdunaway2562 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of my favorite Peter Gabriel songs!! Another great song is Games Without Frontiers

  • @ahjaanhugh
    @ahjaanhugh ปีที่แล้ว

    I have posted in the past, 77 days of music in my library and the was the song I chose as my ring tone.

  • @davidneil7064
    @davidneil7064 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    For Peter Gabriel videos, you should always use the one that Gabriel made (which you did here), because he made them as mini movies for MTV (back when MTV showed videos and meant something). They were often quite artful, cinematic, and yes, thought provoking (and sometimes confusing). A lyric only video will just dilute the theme.

  • @danielmcgregor8803
    @danielmcgregor8803 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Spiritual awakening.

  • @stevemccormack9948
    @stevemccormack9948 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    To me it's always been a song of escape, like Goodbye Yellowbrick Road. He was feeling part of the greenery, he stepped right out of the machinery... And was free.

  • @micv5149
    @micv5149 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    These two never get symbolism, they are so literal, just think a little deeper.

  • @lucblanchard4116
    @lucblanchard4116 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This song is extremely nostalgic for me. Parents used to play this when we’d have friends and family over. One of my favourite songs!

  • @DaveF.
    @DaveF. 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Solsbury Hill is indeed very pretty, and the city (Bath) looks lovely from it - or, at least, it did before they built the by-pass through it in th 90's. Never seen an eagle up there though.

  • @revwillyg6450
    @revwillyg6450 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So glad you got to Solsbury Hill! Loved this song since childhood. ✌️

  • @rogerbarrett9920
    @rogerbarrett9920 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember buying his first album 45 years ago and absolutely loved this song, I still have it and also the following 5 albums that he made. Always a superb song writer and performer.

  • @nedeast6845
    @nedeast6845 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was in a pub in Bath one night getting beers for me and my friend, and this guy was there also getting beers, I made small talk with him as you do in a pub in England while waiting for beers,, and when i returned to my friend he said "you know who that was?" I said no, and my friend said "Peter Gabriel" and i was like, ok, cool:)

  • @scatton61
    @scatton61 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this tune....

  • @sixbladeknife44
    @sixbladeknife44 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hits me right in the feels every time 🏹

  • @LukelearMissile
    @LukelearMissile 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So awesome to see you doing some more Peter Gabriel. His work always comes across as deep, thoughtful and artistic. I like to imagine if his songs were photographs, they'd belong in a gallery.
    I'd love to recommend two very different songs:
    Red Rain
    I Grieve

  • @rk41gator
    @rk41gator 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was Peter's first big solo hit. Gabriel is explaining what was in his head when he left the rock band Genesis. He was happy. The cabbages are about going 'home' to his wife and new born to raise cabbages on his farm (a metaphor typical of Gabriel). He then came out with his own album with this song on it. He sang this to his DAD who 'took him home' (encouraged his leaving the rock band world). After he left, Genesis did the song "It's Yourself"; and then Peter's best friend in Genesis, Tony Banks, wrote the lyrics to Genesis' Mad Man Moon which basically asks Peter 'Why did you leave'? (the song is yet another metaphor). It is about a fellow who chases mirages in the desert looking for something better beyond the horizon. You might feature this medley of both. Very unlike Solsbury Hill, they are still both good tunes with Phil Collins singing...... th-cam.com/video/GgNjiU4PogI/w-d-xo.html
    If you don't want the whole enchilada, here is a link to only Mad, Man Moon......th-cam.com/video/UkVY3lJsBAA/w-d-xo.html

  • @jamesaugust7498
    @jamesaugust7498 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I feel it's about chasing a destiny. When you figure out what it is, go for it.

  • @doreybain
    @doreybain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Lex did get it right. It was about a breakup and a new beginning. Peter Gabriel, for all his faults, stages the best concerts and has a long list of great songs. He is at least as clever and creative as any performer who's ever taken the stage.

  • @thorncraft3235
    @thorncraft3235 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It sounds to me like Peter Gabriel had another worldly experience up on that hill, “to keep in silence I resigned, my friends would think I was a nut” and then the reference to a biblical experience “turning water into wine” and if he spoke about it his career would be over “open doors would soon be shut” and he tried to continue as normal but could not, that’s when he knew things had to change and his new life began with him severing the connection from his old life “the band” and him following his true path, that experience on that hill changed his life & showed him his true self, which set him free. 🥰 I have always felt a warmth of love from Peter Gabriel & he expresses that warmth & love in his music. 💯% ♥️✌️

  • @pablovandyck
    @pablovandyck 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is a very intriguing song. It is written in 7/4 time, but the lyric in each line concludes on the 1 downbeat. Fascinating.

  • @keithsaulsbury4304
    @keithsaulsbury4304 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    this song has such a vibe to it.

  • @scottlang7271
    @scottlang7271 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I appreciate that music means different things to different people, but I will never forget the first time I really heard the lyrics to this song. I have never felt more elated and thoroughly frightened at the same time at the thought of an eagle talking to me, telling me it's time to go "home" (ascend to heaven, maybe?).

  • @khaotical9699
    @khaotical9699 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    face it, we watch these for lex's reaction :g: and her smile on this is wonderful.