Chives

All albums by Veruca Salt. I just wasn't feeling the music and I didn't feel comfortable with it on my hard drive.

Salami

Peter Gabriel 3 (Melt) - Peter Gabriel - 1980

"Games Without Frontiers" is possibly the worst song of that whole decade. It is really, really horrible. That crap about "whistling tunes we piss on the goons in the jungle" is just so shameful I can't bear hearing that album ever again. The rest of it doesn't rise above insipid. I strongly advise anyone else who bought that album out of reverence for Genesis sell it on Ebay immediately.

Howard the Duck

wha? PG3 is one of his best solo albums

about Games - don't you understand "satire"?

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Salami

Listen man, there's a difference between good "satire" and name dropping dictators and imagining them as little children playing with bonfires. That's just insipid. If he wanted to ridicule them, he shouldn't have portrayed them as innocent children, because that doesn't make them evil. I recommend sitting down and listening to those lyrics thoughtfully and impartially, and just think about the concept. "War without tears"? Don't you think that kids would be more likely to shed "tears" than adults? I suppose there had to be something to rhyme with "frontiers", but that's no excuse. It doesn't make sense whatsoever. I can't think of anything more contemptible than an album filled with half-understood political nonsense.
And apart from those laughably clumsy inarticulate verses, don't you just hate the way that he got Kate Bush to sing "jeux sans frontiers" in that repulsive breathy gasp? It gets stuck in my head for ages.

There, the above paragraph is objective proof that "Games Without Frontiers" sucks.

For all that, I still think "Solsbury Hill" is a good song (if a little overplayed), and Peter Gabriel is still an interesting person (despite being an awful rock star).

Howard the Duck

one man's blah blah is another man's solid gold

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Salami

Yep. I personally love "Solsbury Hill" no matter what the internet says.
And yes, I do seem a bit full of venom at times. What came over me?