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Peter Gabriel: Us

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Label: Real World Records
Released: 1992
Time:
 51:57
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Peter Gabriel, Daniel Lanois
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.petergabriel.com
Appears with: Genesis, Tony Banks, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, Tony Levin, David Rhodes
Purchase date: 1992
Price in €: 16,99



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[1] Come Talk to Me (Peter Gabriel) - 7:04
[2] Love to Be Loved (Peter Gabriel) - 5:16
[3] Blood of Eden (Peter Gabriel) - 6:35
[4] Steam (Peter Gabriel) - 6:02
[5] Only Us (Peter Gabriel) - 6:30
[6] Washing of the Water (Peter Gabriel) - 3:50
[7] Digging in the Dirt (Peter Gabriel) - 5:16
[8] Fourteen Black Paintings (Peter Gabriel) - 4:36
[9] Kiss That Frog (Peter Gabriel) - 5:16
[10] Secret World (Peter Gabriel) - 7:01

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Peter Gabriel - Bass, Harmonica, Percussion, Keyboards, Programming, Triangle, Vocals, Producer

Kudsi Erguner - Flute
William Orbit - Programming
Hossam Ramzy - Tabla
Richard Blair - Keyboards, Engineer
David Bottrill - Programming, Engineer, Digital Editing, Mixing
Bill Dillon - Guitar, Electric Guitar
Brian Eno - Keyboards,
Tim Green - Tenor Saxophone
Reggie Houston - Baritone Saxophone
Darryl Johnson - Percussion, Drums
Manu Katche - Drums
Caroline LaVelle - Cello
Daniel Lanois - Guitar, Vocals, Shaker
Tony Levin - Bass
Marilyn McFarlane - Vocals
N'Diaye Rose Doudou - Drum Loop
Leo Nocentelli - Guitar
Sinéad O'Connor - Vocals
Renard Poche - Trombone
David Rhodes - Guitar
Lakshminarayana Shankar - Violin
Ayub Ogada - Vocals
Babacar Faye - Diembe
Gus Isidore - Guitar
Levon Minassian - , Doudouk
Chris Ormston - Bagpipes
Doudou N'Daiye Rose - Loops

David Bottrill - Recording and Mix Engineer
Richard Blair - Additional Engineer
Brian Eno - Extra brainstroming

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LP: UK Real World/Virgin PGLP 7: (2-LP)
Cassette: UK Real World/Virgin PGMC
CD: UK Real World/Virgin PGCD 7



Us marks Peter Gabriel's first (non- soundtrack) studio effort since 1986's So and -- more importantly -- his most introspective and self-analytical work since leaving Genesis in 1975. Gabriel has done much to promote international music in recent years through his Real World record label, and he calls in a fistful of I.O.U.'s for Us. The sessions included guest musicians from Armenia, Turkey, Senegal, Moscow, and Egypt. The most distinctive imports are exotic percussion sounds which percolate subtly throughout the recording. At the same time, progressive rock fans will recognize such names as Brian Eno, Peter Hammill, and Tony Levin. Daniel Lanois contributes his trademark multi-textured production, and Sinead O'Connor adds emotionally sympathetic background vocals. The sexy, funky Steam and the seething rage of "Digging In The Dirt" are what you'll be hearing on the airwaves and seeing on "Much Music" -- be warned, however, that these are not necessarily characteristic of the rest of Us. Intensely personal portrayals of love, longing, loss, and the dark emotions they can generate permeate more atmospheric pieces such as "Blood Of Eden," "Only Us," "Washing In The Water," and "Secret World." Complex moods and psychological layers match enigmatic performances that require a little time and effort to work their magic. "Digging In The Dirt," in contrast, is a devastatingly naked confrontation with Gabriel's inner-self. All the layers are stripped away: "Something in me dark and sticky ... Digging in the dirt/To find the places I got hurt/Open up the places I got hurt." Gabriel makes group therapy a fascinating place to spend an hour and, thankfully, never loses sight of those rays of hope that pierce through from the other side.

Roch Parisien, Copyright © , All-Music Guide



"The most distinctive imports are exotic percussion sounds which percolate subtly throughout the recording. Intensely personal portrayals of love, longing, loss and the dark emotions they can generate permeate atmospheric pieces such as "Blood of Eden", "Only Us", "Washing in the Water" and "Secret World". Gabriel makes group therapy a fascinating place to spend an hour."

All-Music Guide ***



Nun, Peter Gabriel war noch nie ein schneller Arbeiter -- aber daß er seine Fans fast sieben Jahre lang auf einen Nachfolger von So warten ließ... wäre ein starkes Stück gewesen, wenn dabei nicht so ein starkes Stück herausgekommen wäre. Us feuerte in Deutschland von Null auf Eins in den Album-Charts, in Amerika auf Platz zwei -- und die erste Single "Digging In The Dirt" wurde (auch wegen des Videos) ähnlich euphorisch gefeiert wie sieben Jahre zuvor das legendäre "Sledgehammer". Bei all der lauten Begeisterung ging etwas unter, daß Us eigentlich ein sehr ruhiges und sehr emotionales Album ist, bis dato mit Abstand das persönlichste des Engländers: Peter strippt seine Seele blank. Es wirkt oft peinlich, wenn ein Musiker über Gruppentherapien und Scheidungen singt, aber Gabriel schafft es irgendwie, auch Stücke wie "Secret World" oder "Come Talk To Me" nicht pathetisch, sondern einfach aufrichtig klingen zu lassen. Musikalisch vereint Us all das, was der Meister bis dahin gelernt hatte: Den irren Pomp der frühen Genesis, die Weltmusik von Passion und populäre, charts-taugliche Melodien à la So. Und schließlich: "Blood Of Eden" hat mehr verdient als einen ewig vernichtenden Vergleich mit "Don't Give Up". Us wächst beim Hören. Und wächst. Und ...

Michael Ebert, Amazon.de



Der elegant und trickreich mit Ethno-Sounds gespickte So-Nachfolger brachte Gabriel das zweite Mal in die Leser-Top 50 - eine Würdigung seiner musikalischen wie multimedialen Aktivitäten.

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Über anderthalb Jahrzehnte liegt der Tag zurück, an dem Peter Gabriel bei Genesis seinen Abschied nahm. Die Entscheidung scheint aus heutiger Sicht konsequenter denn je. Anno 1992 agiert Phil Collins mit und ohne seine Rumpf-Genesis als Entertainment-Tycoon mit einer Medienpräsenz, die selbst bei wohlwollenden Beobachtern Überdruß-Gefühle weckt. Gabriel pflegt derweil die Aura des Kulturmenschen, der jeden Rummel verabscheut. Leidenschaftlich engagiert er sich für die Musik der dritten Welt und die Menschenrechtsanliegen von Amnesty International. Nun hat es der Pedant trotz seines vollen Terminkalenders als "Real World"-Impresario doch noch geschafft, das überfällige neue Gabriel-Rockalbum fertigzustellen. Und es steht außer Frage, daß dieses Werk eines Ausnahmemusikers auch Ausnahmemusik enthält. Sechs Jahre liegen zwischen "So" und "Us", und die Ereignisse der Zwischenzeit hinterließen ihre Spuren in den neuen Songs. Eine Art Real-World-Allstar-Band mit Musikern aus Moskau, Kenya, dem Senegal, Indien oder der Türkei entwirft mit Gabriel und seiner Kerngruppe (David Rhodes, Tony Levin, Manu Katché) ethnisch bis artrockig getönte "Songlines" - so nennt der Brite Lieder, die durch verschiedene Kulturlandschaften reisen. Katalysator von Gabriels Imagination ist wie bei "So" der Franko-Kanadier Daniel Lanois, der in der Musik seiner Partner Tiefe und Ausdruck fördert - siehe Brain Eno, die Neville Brothers, U2 oder Bob Dylan. Einen Knaller wie "Sledgehammer" sucht man auf "Us" vergebens - am ehesten hat noch der siebenminütige Eröffnungssong "Come Talk To Me" Ohrwurmqualitäten. In der Mehrzahl sind die neuen Klangskizzen etwas spröder, etwa das rockig-aggressive "Digging In The Dirt" oder "Fourteen Black Paintings", das Gabriel als Fortsetzung seines "Passion"-Soundtracks konzipiert hat. Es braucht viel Konzentration, um die Reichtümer zu entdecken, die in dieser Musik schlummern. Das Lenois- typische, schillernde Klangbild mit rockenem Baß, komplexer Perkussion und glitzernden Gitarrenläufen hilft dabei.

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 L y r i c s


Come Talk To Me

The wretched desert takes its form, the jackal proud and tight
In search of you, I feel my way, though the slowest heaving night
Whatever fear invents, I swear it make no sense
I reach through the border fence
Come down, come talk to me

In the swirling, curling storm of desire unuttered words hold fast
With reptile tongue, the lightning lashes towers built to last
Darkness creeps in like a thief and offers no relief
Why are you shaking like a leaf
Come on, come talk to me

Ah please talk to me
Won't you please talk to me
We can unlock this misery
Come on, come talk to me

[Chorus 1:]
I did not come to steal
This all is so unreal
Can't you show me how you feel now
Come on, come talk to me
Come talk to me [x2]

The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone
From nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one
You lie there with your eyes half closed like there's no-one there at all
There's a tension pulling on your face
Come on, come talk to me

Won't you please talk to me
If you'd just talk to me
Unblock this misery
If you'd only talk to me

[Chorus 2:]
Don't you ever change your mind
Now your future's so defined
And you act so deaf and blind
[And you act so deaf so blind]
Come on, come talk to me
Come talk to me [x2]

I can imagine the moment
Breaking out through the silence
All the things that we both might say
And the heart it will not be denied
'Til we're both on the same damn side
All the barriers blown away

I said please talk to me
Won't you please come talk to me
Just like it used to be
Come on, come talk to me
I did not come to steal
This all is so unreal
Can you show me how you feel now
Come on, come talk to me
Come talk to me [x2]

I said please talk to me
If you'd just talk to me
Unblock this misery
If you'd only talk to me
[Chorus 2]


Love To Be Loved

[Aaaaahi, byeeee]

So, you know how people are
When it's all gone much too far
The way their minds are made
Still, there's something you should know
That I could not let show
That fear of letting go

And in this moment, I need to be needed
With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked
In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted
'Cause I love to be loved
I love to be loved [x2]
Yes, I love to be loved

I cry the way that babies cry
The way they can't deny
The way they feel
Words, they climb all over you
'Til they uncover you
From where you hide

And in this moment, I need to be needed
When my self-esteem is sinking, I like to be liked
In this emptiness and fear,
I want to be wanted
'Cause I love to be loved
I love to be loved [x2]
Oh I love to be loved

This old familiar craving
I've been here before, this way of behaving
Don't know who the hell I'm saving anymore
Let it pass let it go let it leave
From the deepest place I grieve
This time I believe

And I let go [x2]
I can let go of it
Though it takes all the strength in me
And all the world can see
I'm losing such a central part of me
I can let go of it
You know I mean it
You know that I mean it
I recognize how much I've lost
But I cannot face the cost
'Cause I love to be loved

Yes I love to be loved
I love to be loved
[x3]

I love to be loved
I love to be loved
Yes I love to be loved


Blood Of Eden

I caught sight of my reflection
I caught it in the window
I saw the darkness in my heart
I saw the signs of my undoing
They had been there from the start
And the darkness still has work to do
The knotted chord's untying
They're heated and they're holy
Oh they're sitting there on high
So secure with everything they're buying

[Chorus:]
In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
We wanted the union
Oh the union of the woman
The woman and the man

My grip is surely slipping
I think I've lost my hold
Yes, I think I've lost my hold
I cannot get insurance anymore
They don't take credit, only gold
Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see
You hold so tightly in your hand
And all the while the distance grows between you and me
I do not understand

[Chorus]

At my request, you take me in
In that tenderness, I am floating away
No certainty, nothing to rely on
Holding still for a moment
What a moment this is
Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I can hear the distant thunder
Of a million unheard souls
Of a million unheard souls
Watch each one reach for creature comfort
For the filling of their holes

In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of Eden
We wanted the union
Of the woman and the man

In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man

In the blood of Eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man

In the blood of Eden
We've done everything we can
In the blood of Eden
Saw the end as we began
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
It was all for the union
Oh, the union of the woman, the woman and the man.

[extra lyrics from the "film mix"]

The blood of eden keeps running through me
running through my veins
the blood of eden keeps rushing through me
when I'm sure there's none that remains
the blood of eden keeps running through me
I can feel it in my bones
that blood of eden keeps rushing through me
taking back what it owns


Steam

Stand Back!
Stand Back!

What are those dogs doing sniffing at my feet
They're on to something, picking up
Picking up this heat, this heat

[Chorus 1:]
Give me steam
And how you feel to make it real
Real as anything you've seen
Get a life with this dreamer's dream

You know your culture from your trash
You know your plastic from your cash
When I lose sight of the track
You know the way back
But I know you

You know your stripper from your paint
You know your sinner from your saint
Whenever heaven's doors are shut
You kick them open but
I know you

[Chorus 2:]
Give me steam
And how you feel to make it real
Real as any place you've been
Get a life with the dreamer's dream

Stand back!
Stand back!
Can't you see I've lost control I'm getting indiscreet
You're moving in so close 'til I'm picking up
Picking up this heat, this heat

[Chorus 1]

You know your green from your red
You know the quick from the dead
So much better than the rest
You think you've been blessed
But I know you

You know your ladder from your snake
You know the throttle from the brake
You know your straight line from a curve
You've got a lot of nerve
But I know you

[Chorus 2]

Everybody nosedive
Hold your breath, count to five
Backslap, boobytrap,
Cover it up in bubblewrap
Room shake, earthquake
Find a way to stay awake
It's going to blow, it's going to break
This is more than I can take

Oh yeah, I need steam
Feel the steam all around me
Ah you're turning up the heat
When I start to dream aloud
See you move your hands and feet
Won't you step into this cloud of steam
This steam

[Chorus 1]

Help me yeah
Ready to steam out the log jam
Stir crazy from the freezer to the boil
Water's bubbling, it's b..b..b..bubbling
bubbling [x4]
like it's coming to a boil
Give me steam, lady
Give me steam around me now
Aah coming alive [x2]
Said give me some steam


Only Us

Only Us [x3]

It wasn't in the words that kept sticking in their throats
It wasn't with the angels in their quilted coats
These battered wings still kick up dust
Seduced by the noise and the bright things that glisten
I knew all the time I should shut up and listen
And I'm finding my way home from the great escape

[Chorus:]
The further on I go, oh the less I know
I can find only us breathing
Only us sleeping
Only us dreaming
Only us

I hear you calling me
Yes I hear you calling me
Home from the great escape
Yes I can read you loud and clear

The further on I go, oh the less I know
Friend or foe, there's only us

[Chorus]

I'm coming home again, home again
And I hear you calling me home again
I am coming home again

Only us [x8]


Washing Of The Water

River, river carry me on
Living river carry me on
River, river carry me on
To the place where I come from

So deep, so wide, will you take me on your back for a ride
If I should fall, would you swallow me deep inside

River, show me how to float
I feel like I'm sinking down
Thought that I could get along
But here in this water
My feet won't touch the ground
I need something to turn myself around

Going away, away towards the sea
River deep, can you lift up and carry me
Oh roll on though the heartland
'Til the sun has left the sky
River, river carry me high
'Til the washing of the water make it all alright
Let your waters reach me like she reached me tonight

Letting go, it's so hard
The way it's hurting now
To get this love untied
So tough to stay with thing
'Cause if I follow through
I face what I denied
I get those hooks out of me
And I take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side
Kill that fear of emptiness, loneliness I hide

River, oh river, river running deep
Bring me something that will let me get to sleep
In the washing of the water will you take it all away
Bring me something to take this pain away


Digging In The Dirt

Something in me, dark and sticky
All the time it's getting strong
No way of dealing with this feeling
Can't go on like this too long

[Chorus:]
This time you've gone too far [x3]
I told you [x4]
This time you've gone too far [x3]
I told you [x4]

Don't talk back
Just drive the car
Shut your mouth
I know what you are
Don't say nothing
Keep your hands on the wheel
Don't turn around
This is for real
Digging in the dirt
Stay with me, I need support
I'm digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
Open up the places I got hurt

The more I look, the more I find
As I close on in, I get so blind
I feel it in my head, I feel it in my toes
I feel it in my sex, that's the place it goes

[Chorus]

I'm digging in the dirt
Stay with me I need support
I'm digging in the dirt
To find the places I got hurt
To open up the places I got hurt

Digging in the dirt
To find the places we got hurt
[x7]


Fourteen Black Paintings

From the pain come the dream
From the dream come the vision
From the vision come the people
From the people come the power
From this power come the change


Kiss That Frog

[Aah, yeah]

Jump in the water

Sweet little princess
Let me introduce his frogness
You alone can get him singing
He's all puffed up, wanna be your king
Oh you can do it
C'mon [x6]
Lady kiss that frog

Splash, dash heard your call
Bring you back your golden ball
He's gonna dive down in the deep end
He's gonna be just like your best friend
So what's one little kiss
One tiny little touch
Aaah, he's wanting it so much
I swear that this is royal blood
Running through my skin
Oh can you see the state I'm in
Kiss it better, Kiss it better
[Kiss that frog]

Get it into your royal head
He's living with you, he sleeps in your bed
Can't you hear beyond the croaking
Don't you know that I'm not joking
Aaah, you think you won't
I think you will
Don't you know that this tongue can kill
C'mon [x6]
Lady kiss that frog

Let him sit beside you
Eat right off your plate
You don't have to be afraid
There's nothing here to hate
Ah, princess you might like it
If you lower your defence
Kiss that frog, and you will
Get your prince [x2]
[Huh!]

Jump in the water, c'mon baby jump in with me
Jump in the water, c'mon baby get wet with me
Jump in the water, c'mon baby jump in with me
Jump in the water, c'mon baby get wet [get wet, get wet]

Kiss that frog, lady kiss that frog [x4]

Jump in the water, c'mon baby jump in with me [x3]
Jump in the water, c'mon baby get wet
[get wet, get wet] [x6]


Secret World

I stood in this sunsheltered place
'Til I could see the face behind the face
All that had gone before had left no trace

Down by the railway siding
In our secret world, we were colliding
All the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of?

So I watch you wash your hair
Underwater, unaware
And the plane flies through the air
Did you think you didn't have to choose it
That I alone could win or lose it
In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of?

In this house of make believe
Divided in two, like Adam and Eve
You put out and I recieve

[Chorus:]
Down by the railway siding
In our secret world, we were colliding
In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of?

Oh the wheel is turning spinning round and round
And the house is crubling but the stairways stand

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame
Whatever it is, we are all the same

Making it up in our secret world [x3]
Shaking it up
Breaking it up
Making it up in our secret world

Seeing things that were not there
On a wing on a prayer
In this state of disrepair

[Chorus]

Shh, listen...

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