Peter Gabriel - Steam
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- Опубликовано: 8 апр 2012
- The official Steam video. Directed by Stephen R. Johnson.
The second single from Peter's sixth album, US, was released in 1993.
The album US continued the now well-established Gabriel motif of mixing high technology with decidedly analogue contributions from musicians from West Africa, Egypt and Armenia. Reunited with Daniel Lanois as co-producer, Peter extends the hand of collaboration to Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, Brian Eno, Peter Hammill and Sinead O’Connor.
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Music video director: So, what did you have in mind?
Gabriel: EVERYTHING!
PG: I don't even need to ask the video director anything, got my own ideas.
Ну до чего классный клип и Питер Габриэль красавец и талант 2:49
"Let's try to do Sledgehammer again."
"Okay, but we have to do more acid this time."
This comment really made me laugh out loud!! 😂
Secretary after seeing this music video: "Mr. Director, how much acid did you take today?"
Director: "Yes."
maybe the great mistake Peter Gabriel did was leaving that marvelous band called Genesis.
This one didn't age nearly as well as "sledgehammer." The 80s were the absolutely refinement of the old film techniques in the last decade we were willing to pay for such things: Animation, animatronics, stop motion animation, claymation, etc. Though computer animation had been around for a while, it started to really be exploited in the late 80s early 90s. I remember when this music video looked state of the art but now it looks like silly by today's standards. It's a good case study to show someone the difference between a well executed concept and a showcase. Still better than I could do but interesting to see the difference.
@Super Shogun yeah, really, a whole gallon of acid
Who listen this great song in 2024?
I will always listen to this great peter gabriel song good on you 👍☯️🙏
Still Jamin Baby!!!
Me
Anyone who's seen Starlight Express.
Me over and over and over again
Peter Gabriel didn't make music videos... He made award winning music videos. 30 years later and these are still amazing.
Is never about the quality or the budget
Is how you use it
I don't like his new video from 1/23 , it's not bouncy like this one. To me it sounds like an early genesis track.
Preach it Mikey..🤯👍🍻
There are no musicians like this anymore.
@justinsnyder6256 There are but they're more independent and not mainstream, which just means more for us real music fans.
I love how even though the technology is dated, the sheer imagination on display still makes it fun to watch.
Well put.
It’s adorable. And so much lighter than some of his older work.
Untouchable
even though you are a fool
More fun to watch you needed to use your imagination.
Had the pleasure of being part of the onlooking crowd at the beginning. Great memories. 👍
Lucky!
What was it like?
Great memories. No social media so lose contact sadly. I'm in Love is The Law vid by Seahorses, I'm on pier (it's geffen record label staff, primarily and roadies with some family, not the public).
Wow! What a great memory!!💚
Wooow that's awesome Paul.
One of the greatest talents the UK has ever produced. That voice, no-one sounds like him!
Great song. Love this jam. Cool video too. Great lyrics. Great guitar work. Crank it up LOUD. 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Bowling alley screens when you get a strike:
Bowling alley screens when you get a strike:
@enid SAME BRO WTF
@enid yup same
Bowling alley Screens when you get a strike:
Love your animations and your good taste, man.
(Also, a G-Man version of 3:24 would be trascendental)
One of his best Song 🔥😜💕
That purple suit and platform shoes at the beginning are perhaps the most 80s thing ever. Love it!
Just one word ... GREAT !!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
"Peter, we have this amazing new animation technology for your next video."
Peter: "MAKE ME A TRAIN"
"What........?"
Peter: "PUT MY FACE ON A TRAIN!"
Cooper Stone Peter the tank engine
Is it odd that he looks even better as a train then he does as a human?
Ok, Now make me a chair!
Love the effects a train!! Yes!! So steam baby ...all aboard this crazy train ha ha lovin it.
PETER GABRIEL IS ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME
Peter Gabriel, while writing the Most Deep lyrics and music, is able at the same time write a "Pop mockery" melody, unequalled in energy
What a perfect song and what a great singer.Even at this very moment !
I fuckin love Peter Gabriel. I’m wasted cmon this is GOLD
Genius ! 30 years ago !!
Heard this song playing while I was grocery shopping. Had not heard this song in long time. What a GREAT song. Peter Gabriel is AWESOME 😂😂😂
Peter is one of the best artists of all time.
Yes.
👍👍🙂
In my senior year art class in high school we had a sub for 3/4s of the semester for some reason, and every day he would start class with a Peter Gabriel video. Class felt like there was something missing when the original teacher came back. I adored 75% of that class.
Why is everyone complaining about his music videos? Peter Gabriel's vids are so creative and and fun and some out the coolest music vids ever made!
+SealAngel This video looks like lazy crap compared to "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time."
+SealAngel I wouldn't call this video bad, but the poorly aged CG does make it look worse, than his other videos.
+Mihály Kobela Quite So...! but it's like how you have to put your mind set for watching a silent film. In the mid-80s, there were no cellphones, no laptops, hardly any desktops, the MacPlus & SE had no programs to run on it, there were barely any graphical interfaces, and Windows hadn't even been dreamt up yet! No internet! no, and video games were like Pacman... no www... the $$$$ they spent on making this? was phenomenal. It was so ground breaking at the time. The dancing fire and ice figures, even the decomposing singing head, was trippy and fresh then. It's hard to imagine such a world now, isn't it? But the song has funk and it's still fun.
+Replayability It does, because instead of using stop animation, they used very much in its infancy Computer Graphics. It was sooo new. And very expensive. No one knew what to use it for yet, so it was for playing around with effects at that time. No video games were 3D. And the internet was not yet invented, well, not for the laypersons like us. It was still a military thing.
+SealAngel Good point. I didn't even know until today the whack-asz shint Peter was doing with Genesis in 71 with Phil Collins. Geez louise that was bizzarre and surreal! Check into it. The concepts are unbelievable.
Ah, early 90s CGI. This actually won an award for visual effects!
Did you watch The Lawnmower Man?
wow...wayback machine activated...Jeff Fahey and Pierce Brosnan...cutting edge for that sliver of time +1
Yeah and why wouldn't it. It is superb and soooooo imaginative. Can you imagine making this on a windows 3.1 PC LOL
They didn't do it in a windows machine.
Most CGI of the time were done in various SGI systems.
ahh good ol' IRIX
Peter Gabriel is one of the greatest musicians of all-time with amazing videos in history!!! ✌️🎸
Hi I recommend a song called 'The Bond Villain' By Robert Nix
Who doesn’t love Peter Gabriel and his artsy videos? He has a great sense of humor for sure. ❤️
Me
When he headed genesis, he always wear costumes on stage. He is quite the showman. Even though they never took off until Phil Collins stepped up as lead,He was known for his zany costumes. Truly an artist
I don't mind the videos. I mind the hot garbage music (David Bowie's "Fame" + a guy who can't sing, like at all)
@@knob3887 then why are you here lol
@@davideckwright820 Genesis was Peter Gabriel in my eyes. I didn't care for them after he left
Yet another killer bass line. Along with Peter’s amazing vocals. A winning combination.
Thanks to Tony Levin!
Tony Levin featuring his Funk Fingers.
To add to the other commenters: Tony Levin of Prog rock staples King Crimson and Liquid Tension Experiment
@@EveryDooDarnDiddlyDay and surprisingly, bassist on Korn guitarist Head's first solo album lol
Tony Levin is one of my favorite bassists. His line on Gabriel's "Red Rain" is astonishing.
5:11 'this game is on Steam'
Happy 72nd birthday to Peter. 2/13/50
This man's voice is so underrated when we talk about the greatest artists during the 80s music explosion
Great voice
@@gabecollett PG has less music released solo than Phil Collins, but the main hits he made are way more 🔥 than Phil's hit catalog overall IMHO
Tbh, I am more surprised that with his talent and deepness, he still got so popular ;) Nowadays, I would expect to have to dig deep for musicians as good as him and have the dull ones in the charts. Btw do charts still exist, actually?
@@Nargamorodo the internet has diluted the music scene. We have too many uncultured people who know nothing about real music and listen to trash for fun in thier downtime. If you look back in the 2000s the public school system defunded most fine arts programs in the schools in order to pay for better security... and thusly we hear a bunch of bullshit come out from that generation of kiss who had no formal education in music appreciation for choral, classical and symphonic orchestral band led genre of music composition. You see the after effects now
I heard, musicians of Genesis thought that Phil Collins was Peter Gabriel more than Peter Gabriel 😊
I would like to dedicate this song to my little Sister Yvette , she passed away recently at age 50 . we used to crank this song up on MTV back in the day . Love You & miss you . Ray Ray
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Rest in peace Yvette. 🌹
This song is all about sex.... how or why would dedicate a sexual song in memory of your sister? Not very nice!!!
Anyone still loves Peter Gabriel and his music in 2021? If so, you’ve got good taste in music like this.
I'm loving his music in 2021!!😊❤❤😎
I wanna go back to the 80s so bad. People had fun back then. Music ruled.
Almost everyone. I hope so. I believe in humankind)
Right on. Peace. 😀✌👍
@@edmandell3064 Yes. Awesome! ✌👍
Peter's eyes are gorgeous!
My father was obsessed with Peter Gabriel, so I always had to listen to it as a child, but you know what? I love him as much as my dad does. I am so thankfull that I was introduced to so many outstanding artist from that time like Peter, Kate Bush, INXS, Genesis, REM, U2, David Bowie, Prince..unfortunatly the only concert I was able to go to was a U2 concert.
True
Really A Fortune have such a father! I discovered Peter Gabriel, Prince, Jamiroquai, and a little hint of Genesis in my adolescence and only later Kate Bush and U2. Kind Regards!
this guy a way ahead of his time love it
#LEGEND
Agreed!
Yeah
@@joshuapitz4906 info
Amen
Love the guy's sense of humour other artists shouldnt be so serious
terrence bray right. His sense of humor really helps his accessibility. Keeps him from coming across pretentious.
I love the combination of him adressing global issues and obviously a very talented artist and an explorer, and also having this side of him not taking himself too seriously.
Remember recording this music video by mistake on VHS and since the I'll never forget this video
OMG, I've always listened to Peter Gabriel's music in the 80's. There are so many messages in this video.
Gabriel kicked ASS!!!....:)
Danold Pmurt did?! did he die? he does not did lol
STAND BACK!!!.......Make way for Peter Gabriel Super Pimp!!
I remember watching this video for the first time as a teenager 30 years ago and still haven't forgotten the steam room scene with the ladies in towels. That is one of the most memorable music video scenes of all time.
Same
Yups, it was pretty hot (no pun intended) lol
Tbh this whole music video has scenes you wouldn’t want your parents walking in on you on
I was pretty young too, and just the sight of Peter and that girl dancing presumably naked (4:14) gave me tingly feelings in my nether regions.
Peter Gabriel is an artist in the true sense. His music is crazy good, he has a terrific voice, and he surrounded himself with kicking musicians. Tony Levin, Manu Katché. Kicking.
I would like to have 27 children and call them ALL Manu Katche. Even the girls.
The Year is 1991.
Your studio just got a Commodore Amiga 2000, a 130 Megabyte Hard Drive and a NewTek Video Toaster.
You have a 140 page manual for your copy of Lightwave 3D in your hand and you've installed 6 of the 9 floppy disks it came on.
Peter Gabriel just asked you to do a music video for MTV.
YOU. FUCKIN. GOT. THIS.
I didnt know that this video was made on Amiga.
Nice! I have seen a video toaster. A friend had one and edited a lot videos on it.
@@BartdeBoisblanc Wow...that's crazy.
I didn't know they kept making the "Video Toaster" product line until 2010.
@@murrfeeling The video was originally done in 1991
@@brianh9358 Okay... read the FIRST sentence of my original post.
I heard that although hits like Sledgehammer and Big Time were wildly popular, Gabriel was criticized by music critics for his music all "sounding the same", and that "Steam" (which of course has many similarities to his other hits) was a big middle finger to them. And guess what? People loved it just like Gabriel's other hits. Peter Gabriel is a legend.
Hell yes, he is.
And AC/DC's songs were not carbon copies? At least we had some visual to tell the songs apart.
Forget the "Critics"
Honestly, Al Green is the artist who's songs I thought sounded the same. Pretty much every hit he had could be the same song and people kept eating it up, lol.
I actually prefer Steam over Sledgehammer and Big Time.
This is a Forever ❤❤❤
Peter Gabriel Steamed the charts thirty years ago!
his videos are like a heavenly acid trip
I remember being a kid and my mind being blown by the special effects in this video. This was when Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was peak video game graphics.
Indeed. While we already had some 3D in video games and arcade games at the time, truly interactive worlds on this level would still take several more years or even a decade.
Sonic 2 is still peak video game graphics. Ahead of his time, like Peter Gabriel.
All of his songs are Impossibly well written. So simple much so well structured and put together. Incredible bass lines and vocals.
It's insanity how good his songs are.
Peter Gabriel pulled off that late 80s/early 90s awkward transition phase in music better than a lot of people.
His videos actually outplay the production and the performance of the song itself
Yes.. I rediscovered him recently..I remember seeing them as a kid .but now .I'm infatuated..lol..Shock the Monkey is probably my fave
"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 Saint..., You kick them open, but I know you." Wow.
Aside from the visuals, the lyrics were great as well.
Peter Gabriel was actually going to be the final boss in the original Starfox for Super Nintendo, but the deal fell through at the last minute.
Michael Adler Cool story, bro.
Adam Hanson that would have been so bad ass I wanna see
Captain Freedom i know you! Your the creator of my pillow
Imagine in an alternate universe Peter Gabriel was the final boss in the game and Phil Collins played the game
The amount of people that will probably actually believe that is probably off the charts xD
Remember this being shown hourly on MTV as a kid, was amazed by all the eye candy. Still impressed by the amount of ideas in one music video!
Eye candy ? Peter's peter?
You're making me feel old. I was in the Navy when MTV started. 😆
True, very true
Watched this video as a kid when it just ce out. Was one of my favourites
@@guddergo7116 hahahahahhahahaha
My Daddy and I used to listen to this everyday. I love you Dad. I miss you too.
"Have you ever tried acid?"
"No. But I HAVE watched Peter Gabriel music videos..."
Both
I imagine that what it's like.
Try shrooms and watch this.
This
Lsd trips make more sense than this.
Peter Gabriel is a musical genius
how do you like his "and i'll scratch yours"?
Peter Gabriel : G.O.A.T (is the)💖
exactly FUCKIN' YEEESS !!!(:)))
Damn dyslexia! It looked like you said "musical penis".
@@almason253 8===D
Peter Gabriel should be in MTVs Hall of Fame as not only as a great artist but an a amazing innovator and so ahead of his time with his brilliant videos which MTV had never seen before and have never seen since. 😀 An absolute classic and an iconic song 🎵 🙌 👌 👏 👍
the amount of emojis on this comment is borderline offensive
I love the "slightly awkward but very fun" "adult" theme in both the video and song. It feels very human.
perfect song for Steam sales
GABEN LIKED THIS!
HUEHUEHUEHUE BR BR!
GOG has better sales
The outdated visual effects gives the music video its charm, this was cutting edge back in the day and is an example of the progression in technology back then.
The funny thing is that, I think if it was released now, people would just be like "typical millenial post-modern dadaism" or whatever lol. Watching it really reminds me of the kinda stuff companies like Adult Swim and Super Deluxe create.
+RegularCapital: Cartoon Network UK Promos if the Peter Gabriel music video Steam didn’t look outdated would it still have a charm? if it looks outdated or too outdated you should’ve taken it up with the director Stephen R Johnson before he died 26th January 2015 age 62
Yeah, it's Lawnmower Man goes to the disco.
The only bit that doesn't look dated today is the bit with Peter and the girls in the steam bath.
He looked as if he enjoyd that, too, the old perv. Well, I'm the same age now that he was at the time...
+Harry Bosch I suppose Dire Straits' Money For Nothing video is even more impressive, seeing as how it was
made 6 years prior to Gabriel's Steam.
Yes, while they're both great songs, Steam has the better video for sure.
Money For Nothing, although groundbreaking at the time, is basically just a digital dude and his dog,
watching Dire Straits play live on TV, and neon light shit buzzing around.
Steam, on the other hand, is funny, clever and much more ambitious.
Instead of simply being about "I want my MTV", it's actually trying to say something with pictures
that complement Gabriel's often intriguing and complex lyrics.
I don't know exactly what Steam is about, but if seen purely as a surreal experience, it's still very enjoyable.
And while it may not be his best video (I prefer Digging in the Dirt or Shock the Monkey), Gabriel doesn't
do bad videos. There's always something interesting going on.
And the "STAND BACK!" bit at the beginning is hilarious! :)
Peter Gabriel is awesome
I saw a post where someone said.. they loved how great Gabriel could write something as awesome as Mercy Street and something as groovy as this... Such a true statement... Peter Gabriel has been my favorite musician as long as I can remember.. As for the groove.. Tony Levin never disappoints. His work on this groove or even what he did with Don't give up adds so much depth to the work period..
'70s Peter Gabriel: "I'm gonna use my music and flair for creative stage presence to bring attention to causes I believe in."
'80s/'90s Peter Gabriel: "DEAR GOD I GOTTA GET LAID"
Troy Thomas Wasn't it the other way round?
Don't forget 00s
@@mthbinder1975 It seesawed.
Yup that is a good way to put it.
He done Kate Bush tho didn't he ?
Боже,думал уже и не отыщу этот клип !!!! Моя молодость!!!! Настальджи! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👏👍👏👍👏👍👏👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Peter Gabriel music videos are the music videos we make up in our minds.
These are special effects you can feel, smell and taste. Great feel good video.
2:21 lol Peter you dirty old man I'm dying 😂
Surrealism: trademark of Peter Gabriel.
absolutely!
e peter ele não respeita ninguém
This clip should provide memes for 10 years at least, and yet, memers seems to ignore it's existence.
peter gabriel chair
peter gabriel chair
That is because Peter Gabriel is not a trite consumer, he is legend. Gen X approved, and my gen is waiting and watching for our moment.
the peter train for sure
Groovy as heck. Fascinating.
Peter Gabriel is the Salvador Dale of the music world.
Dali. Not Dale.
the girl dancing on the tree with him is frigging gorgeous
Nathan Justice So is the girl in the sauna, first one on the left.
I remember this when it was a new song and it's still cool...😊
Perfect from 90s :)
What a touching and moving song, dedicated to Peter Gabriel's favorite way to play video games.
why hasn't this been milked of its meme potential yet
I dont see how it can become a meme
Check the Instagram page @catatonicyouths
Why are you calling this meemee? Did you live in the 90s?
Also, sad that it was rated explicit content by RUclips. This was the Ninties. Free...expressive.
Its too obvious!
I think the same thing every time I watch it
I miss the 90s.................
I. LOVE. This. We used to put it on repeat in my camp kitchen and all of my staff would join me in dancing around the worktable while we prepped food. Fun, fun, fun.
If you’re still loving this in 2020, you got good taste in 80s music and with Peter Gabriel
This was 1992. Slightly later than the 80s.
This is 90’s
I’m a 14 year old girl and have loved his music for awhile. I’m happy my parents introduced me to good music
Didn't Peter Gabriel play this at one of the Oscars? Or maybe the Grammys? I just remember this big production number with flames and smoke.
70,80s and 90s music rule compared to todays music ! Stay Safe ...
How can anyone resist those dancing buildings and spinning moon right at the beginning? This clip wins me over every time. It's like they brainstormed ideas and then skipped out on absolutely NOTHING.
#PeterGabriel #Steam #80sMusic ..still loving this in 2023 with the awesome old school music power of classic MTV.. if you're still loving this, you've got good taste in music like this.
I'd completely forgotten about this song-love it. This is also the most "Hey, look what we can do with computers!" music video outside of "Money for Nothing".
The early CGI effects always crack me up! I love it. Can't decide what the most disturbing moment is... the posing pouch dancing by itself? Or the scary chair? Or when Peter sings so hard that his jaw and eyeballs are forced out of his head?
Lawn Mower Man.......
LOL! Best comment here! 🤣😂👍
Posing pouch?
Hahaha I felt so dumb when I realized that him and the brunnette weren't really only dancing in a sexy way the whole vid when they pulled up that metaphor of > shaking the tree of babies and knocking one from it xd genius, don't care about the animation at all
The guns limping into... limp cocks? Gabriel visibly going commando?
Peter Gabriel is just the man and always will be in my book
I miss the 80's :(
one step beyond , beyond
Peter Gabriel's videos always set the bar so so so high! We'll never have an era like that again!!
cloverfield911 *high ;))*
I don't know, Chuggo's Ah C'mon is pretty much the same thing ruclips.net/video/8PMGjn_d130/видео.html
He's still alive, you know. As long as he's around, there could be more videos like this.
cloverfield911 TRUE!! Peter Gabriel, he's all that & a bag of chips/w a red bull!
#HighEnergy👈😉👌
We will never boohoo boohoo
30 years ago and oddly it is still captivating and interesting and artistic! Nothing is like this today after how far have we come?
Tony Levin, what a musician!
take me back to the 90s
Therapist: Peter Gabriel Chair does not exist. Peter Gabriel Chair can't hurt you.
Peter Gabriel Chair: 3:23
*Seater Gabriel
o piter gabriel existe sim ele por mim ja foi alertado deste trump e sua turma de vigarista . e todos no rock roll tb
All that’s missing in this video is an Adult Swim logo
😂😂😂🤣🤣
vamos ser util pra ele derrubando ele e suas contas bancarias peter gabriel . sabia que as primeiras musicas que ele pegou foi aquelas de um cenario onde voce ande de cabeça para baixo
Listening from 2024
the early 90s were _such_ a magical time
His Music Videos gets even better, when you gotta get High.😊
This man is a genius, being able to write incredibly touching songs like Mercy Street and super groovy ones like this
His real masterpiece was the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway album
Mercy Street is a beautiful, haunting gem 💖
This always plays in my Head when there is a Steam Sale.
I didn't realize Peter Gabriel was Dr. Grant from Jurassic Park. But man what a great song and video!
HE IS THE BEST
holy jesus this is the most psychedelic trip i ever had when i am sober.
Baahahahaaa!!!! :)
This whole video is one big meme / Snapchat filter / acid trip. Revolutionary.
For years this was the theme song of NPR's show "1A with Tom Ashbrook"
This was my favorite video as a kid. Now it is the favorite video of my son. Timeless.
Not only is his music art, but his videos are too.
Definitely not this one