Plays Live (Highlights)

Plays Live (Highlights) Artist: Peter Gabriel
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 606949327026
EAN: 0606949327026
ASIN: B000065VCR


Release Date: 2002-05-07

Plays Live (Highlights)


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Tracks:

  1. I Have The Touch
  2. Family Snapshot
  3. D.I.Y.
  4. The Family And The Fishing Net
  5. I Go Swimming
  6. San Jacinto
  7. Solsbury Hill
  8. No Self-Control
  9. I Don't Remember
  10. Shock The Monkey
  11. Humdrum
  12. Biko

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great live album from Peter.......2007-03-18

The sound of this double live cd is amazing, of course, it has been enhanced in studio but the "live" feeling of beeing there is preserved.
Many songs are far better in their live version on this cd when compared to the studio ones. To name a few, "The Family Snapshot", "D.I.Y", "The Family and the fishing net", "San Jacinto", "Solsbury Hill" and "Hundrum"
The voice is incredible and the sound just shake everything in the house.
Great live performance to remember this magic concert for the Security Tour.

5 out of 5 stars The Great Homily.......2007-03-11

This album is the pinnacle of live albums in the prog rock genre.
This work is the work that all live- recording since, compare themselves to.
Gabriel along with old school peers like Bowie were and still are masters of the Live-performance. And the new breed of masters, like Tool, learned it all here.

3 out of 5 stars An intriguing but often bland live album.......2006-10-21

So far, Peter Gabriel has released two live albums. The first is PLAYS LIVE, which features songs from Gabriel's first four albums (all of which were self-titled, though they have all been given frequently-used nicknames: CAR, SCRATCH, MELT, and SECURITY). The second is SECRET WORLD LIVE, which features songs from Gabriel's fifth and sixth albums, SO and US, as well as a few tunes from other Gabriel recordings. PLAYS LIVE was recorded in 1982 during the SECURITY tour, and released the following year. After the live recording, Gabriel took the recordings into his studio and tweaked them a little. Is this irritating? A little, but it seems more unnecessary than irritating. (At least Gabriel freely admits to tweaking the tunes in the CD booklet.) Regardless of the tweaking, PLAYS LIVE is a lively album that presents some very interesting - and occasionally superior - performances of Gabriel faves.

None of the live performances are bad, though "Solsbury Hill" does lose a lot of its strength when infused with synthesizers. Most of them are quite good, and a few are superior to their studio originals. One such song is "Intruder". The live version adds a little weirdness to the tune, but takes out much of the chillyness from the studio version; still, the PLAYS LIVE version is probably the best. Also, the live version of "The Family And The Fishing Net" is considerably better than the studio version.

Inexplicably, the rest of the songs lose much of their power when performed live. The only other song that really sticks out is "I Go Swimming", available exclusively on this CD. "I Go Swimming" is one of Gabriel's most fun songs and possibly one of his best. What really keeps PLAYS LIVE going is the interesting arrangements of the Gabriel faves - different instruments, new instrumental sections, lyrics sung differently, etc. Still, none are really knockouts, save for the aforementioned tunes.

If you're a big-time Gabriel fan, you'll want to check out this CD. Otherwise, spend your money purchasing his studio albums. PLAYS LIVE is consistently intriguing, but it often feels bland and rarely excites. (Steer clear of the HIGHLIGHTS version, released in 2002 as part of the remastered Gabriel catalogue. The HIGHLIGHTS version deletes six of the album's tracks, most of which were among the best on the album.)

5 out of 5 stars Uplifting and disturbing.......2005-06-10

This live CD by Peter Gabrial is quite amazing. It is a collection of his very best performances from this tour. The songs are all highly spiritual yet sometimes dark in tone. That is the genius of this collection. If you want to be inspired in a new way I highly recommend this CD. It is uplifting and disturbing at at the same time.

2 out of 5 stars Great live album butchered by editing........2005-03-18

Do yourself a favor-- spend the cash and get the unedited Japanese version. "Plays Live" was originally 85 minutes too long, slightly too much for a single CD. The choice to chop four songs ("The Rhythm of the Heat", "Not One of Us", "Intruder" and "On the Air") is really quite irritating, in particular because "The Rhythm of the Heat" and "Intruder" are two of my favorite cuts from this one.

Having said that, let me talk a bit about the music-- its a really great great record, like I said, a good bookend to Gabriel's first four albums-- the set is pretty evenly spread between "3" and "Security", with a few songs from the first two albums. The performance is top notch, on the highlights disc, "San Jacinto", "No Self Control", and "Biko" are my favorite cuts, but the whole thing is really quite good.

The Gabriel band of the era, David Rhodes, Tony Levin, Larry Fast and Jerry Marrotta, by this point were incredibly tight and superbly replicate the studio material, but shake things up enough to keep things interesting.

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