Coincidentally, Mercury is now a sister label to Geffen after Mercury's parent PolyGram merged with Geffen's parent Universal Music Group in 1999. Records) reissued the album in 1983, after Mercury's rights to it lapsed, and marketed it in the United States until 2010, when Gabriel's back catalogue was reissued independently by Real World Records.
Geffen (at the time distributed by Atlantic sister label Warner Bros. Robert Fripp's guitar parts raised concerns that they were uncommercial.īy the time the album was released by Mercury several months later, Kalodner – now working for the newly formed Geffen Records label and having realised his mistake – arranged for Geffen to pursue Gabriel as one of its first artist signings. I went through some primordial rejection issues." I thought I'd really found myself on that record, and then someone just squashes it. They thought I'd had a breakdown and recorded a piece of crap . " Ahmet Ertegun said, 'What do people in America care about this guy in South Africa?' and 'Has Peter been in a mental hospital?' because there was this very weird track called 'Lead a Normal Life'. "Atlantic Records didn't want to put it out at all", Gabriel told Mark Blake. Upon hearing mixes of session tapes in early 1980, Atlantic A&R executive John Kalodner deemed the album not commercial enough for release, and recommended Atlantic drop Gabriel from its roster. The album was Gabriel's first and only release for Mercury Records in the United States, having been rejected by Atlantic Records, which had handled US distribution for Gabriel's first two solo studio albums and his last two studio albums with Genesis. Gabriel believed Weller's intense guitar style was ideal for the track. Paul Weller, who was recording with his band the Jam in a nearby studio, contributed guitar to "And Through the Wire". It was cited by Public Image Ltd as an influence on the sound of their third studio album The Flowers of Romance (1981), whose engineer, Nick Launay, was in turn employed by Collins to assist with his debut studio album, Face Value (1981). So significant and influential was the sound that it has been claimed by Gabriel, Padgham, Collins, and Lillywhite. "Padgham was my engineer when we did the Peter Gabriel album but I had been pushing and experimenting before with that like the Psychedelic Furs", on " Sister Europe", "all done before the Peter Gabriel album". When you listen, you can hear elements of this gated room sound, big compressed room sound that I did on the Banshees". Lillywhite explained: Gabriel "didn't want to use cymbals and I had been really experimenting with this ambience thing which actually started with Kenny Morris with the first Banshees' album. The distinctive sound was identified via experiments by producer Steve Lillywhite, Collins and staff engineer Hugh Padgham, in response to Gabriel's request that Collins and Marotta not use cymbals during the album's sessions. The 1980 Peter Gabriel album was when this effect first really showed its head in that form. "Intruder" has been cited as the first use of Collins's gated reverb sound. It's like being right-handed and having to learn to write with your left." įormer Genesis bandmate Phil Collins created the gated reverb sound on "Intruder".Ĭollins played on several of the album's tracks. did object and it took him a while to settle in. "So, when you tell them what they can't do, they get creative and say, 'Oh yes I can,' which is why I banned cymbals. "Artists given complete freedom die a horrible death", he explained to Mark Blake. Peter Gabriel hired his former bandmate in Genesis drummer Phil Collins for the recording sessions along with another drummer, Jerry Marotta. Some music streaming services currently refer to it as Peter Gabriel 3: Melt.
The album is also often referred to as Melt, owing to its cover photograph by Hipgnosis. In the US, the album was titled Peter Gabriel III. 4 hit and remains his joint highest-charting single in the UK) and the anti- apartheid protest song " Biko", which remembered the murdered activist Steve Biko. Gabriel also explored more overtly political material with the anti-war song " Games Without Frontiers" (which became a No. īuilding on the experimental sound of his previous self-titled studio album, it saw Gabriel embracing post-punk and new wave with an art rock sensibility. AllMusic wrote that it established him as "one of rock's most ambitious, innovative musicians". The album, produced by Steve Lillywhite, has been acclaimed as Gabriel's artistic breakthrough as a solo artist. Peter Gabriel is the third solo studio album by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel, released on by Charisma Records.
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