Great analysis! Peter Gabriel is my favorite artist and he’s got such a unique style of music videos that I’d love to see explored more on this channel. “Melt” and “Foxtrot” have long been in my top 5 favorite albums. I don’t quite like his recent move to AI-generated or outsourced music videos, but maybe you could do a commentary on that industry shift (such as with Pink Floyd’s DSotM 50th anniversary music videos). A few extra things that I thought were notable: @3:10 For anyone else confused by “Games Without Frontiers” being second, the music video for “Solsbury Hill” was filmed in 1977 and 1990 (I presume to promote the “Shaking the Tree” compilation). For the other songs from “Melt”, “I Don’t Remember” used a 1983 live recording and “Biko” used footage from the 1987 film “Cry Freedom”. Source: Peter Gabriel’s website Kate Bush’s line has been commonly misheard by English speakers as “She’s so popular”. Bush also appears on Gabriel’s songs “No Self Control” and “Don’t Give Up”. Lyrically, there are a couple different versions of this “Games Without Frontiers”. The album version has the line “Whistling tunes, we piss on the goons in the jungle”, which was replaced for the radio release with “Whistling tunes, we're kissing baboons in the jungle”. It seems to me that this change was also made for the music video, although Gabriel’s official RUclips upload of Version 2 of the music video plays the album audio. The other lyrical change is the German translation recording, which Gabriel himself performed for both his 3rd and 4th albums in entirety. The B-roll of the wasteland war zone with the giant head looks an awful lot like some parts of Genesis’ “Land of Confusion” music video. Hmmm… I wonder if the supposed interpretation of Gabriel at the table and the jack-in-the-box was due to the early lyrics with Jane and Willi being interpreted in a dirty way from the start.
TOTP editing videos was common place. Gabriel wasn't the only one. (remember also he had to produce a radio version of the song changing the line 'we piss on the goons in the jungle' ) The other major case of BBC censorship was 'Stand and Deliver' by Adam and The Ants - towards the end of the video Adam is on a gallows with a noose around his neck. This was cut as they didn't want kids copying him. Also I recall Pop Will Eat Itself 'Cant You Dig It?' had shots of the lead singer holding and twirling a pistol removed. They also made New Model Army singer put gaffa tape over the offending word on his 'Only Stupid Bastards Use Heroin' T shirt.
Not the Peter Gabriel video *I* was expecting an episode about -- I'm sure everyone knows which one I expected -- but Music Video Time fails to disappoint once again.
@@ItsMusicVideoTime Honestly, I'm sure so much has been written about it. It would be nice down the line if all that info were summarized in its own MVT, but that's just one guy's opinion. My music brain definitely enjoyed this one.
He already states he has a knack to finding material and twisting it to another message, rather than using artificial material. If you follow historical military documentaries, particularly pre-war Germany, he sums up much of the German people happy recovering from economics nationally. The exercising women were a snipit from German women group camps aligned to be fit to procreate for their Aryan ideology. Brothels were everywhere in Germany for SS troops. They're unaware of upcoming war that the German population didn't want. Even many of the German military leadership opposed another war. So Gabriel takes the game show background and replaces it with military uniforms, with emphasis the end result of war is a knockout
There’s an unofficial upload of Version 1 on RUclips that plays the censored lyric. Gabriel’s official upload of Version 2 plays the uncensored lyric. Either case could be different from what was actually aired via an easy edit. In both cases, the footage of Gabriel used looks like his mouth is saying the censored version so I think it’s most likely that it was the censored version in both.
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Great analysis! Peter Gabriel is my favorite artist and he’s got such a unique style of music videos that I’d love to see explored more on this channel. “Melt” and “Foxtrot” have long been in my top 5 favorite albums. I don’t quite like his recent move to AI-generated or outsourced music videos, but maybe you could do a commentary on that industry shift (such as with Pink Floyd’s DSotM 50th anniversary music videos).
A few extra things that I thought were notable:
@3:10 For anyone else confused by “Games Without Frontiers” being second, the music video for “Solsbury Hill” was filmed in 1977 and 1990 (I presume to promote the “Shaking the Tree” compilation). For the other songs from “Melt”, “I Don’t Remember” used a 1983 live recording and “Biko” used footage from the 1987 film “Cry Freedom”. Source: Peter Gabriel’s website
Kate Bush’s line has been commonly misheard by English speakers as “She’s so popular”. Bush also appears on Gabriel’s songs “No Self Control” and “Don’t Give Up”.
Lyrically, there are a couple different versions of this “Games Without Frontiers”. The album version has the line “Whistling tunes, we piss on the goons in the jungle”, which was replaced for the radio release with “Whistling tunes, we're kissing baboons in the jungle”. It seems to me that this change was also made for the music video, although Gabriel’s official RUclips upload of Version 2 of the music video plays the album audio. The other lyrical change is the German translation recording, which Gabriel himself performed for both his 3rd and 4th albums in entirety.
The B-roll of the wasteland war zone with the giant head looks an awful lot like some parts of Genesis’ “Land of Confusion” music video. Hmmm…
I wonder if the supposed interpretation of Gabriel at the table and the jack-in-the-box was due to the early lyrics with Jane and Willi being interpreted in a dirty way from the start.
TOTP editing videos was common place. Gabriel wasn't the only one. (remember also he had to produce a radio version of the song changing the line 'we piss on the goons in the jungle' )
The other major case of BBC censorship was 'Stand and Deliver' by Adam and The Ants - towards the end of the video Adam is on a gallows with a noose around his neck. This was cut as they didn't want kids copying him. Also I recall Pop Will Eat Itself 'Cant You Dig It?' had shots of the lead singer holding and twirling a pistol removed. They also made New Model Army singer put gaffa tape over the offending word on his 'Only Stupid Bastards Use Heroin' T shirt.
Not the Peter Gabriel video *I* was expecting an episode about -- I'm sure everyone knows which one I expected -- but Music Video Time fails to disappoint once again.
Yeah, when I read "The History of Peter Gabriel's" I was thinking about that one too. Like come on, it's THE Peter Gabriel music video
I like posting the unexpected.
@@ItsMusicVideoTime Honestly, I'm sure so much has been written about it. It would be nice down the line if all that info were summarized in its own MVT, but that's just one guy's opinion. My music brain definitely enjoyed this one.
Good explanation.
If likes could kill, this video will, BE CAREFUL KIDS
I actually thought it was going to be Runner, I was half right though you did mention it.
You know you should definitely do a video on the very 1st music video to play on MTV, The Buggles - video killed the radio star.
He already states he has a knack to finding material and twisting it to another message, rather than using artificial material.
If you follow historical military documentaries, particularly pre-war Germany, he sums up much of the German people happy recovering from economics nationally. The exercising women were a snipit from German women group camps aligned to be fit to procreate for their Aryan ideology. Brothels were everywhere in Germany for SS troops. They're unaware of upcoming war that the German population didn't want. Even many of the German military leadership opposed another war. So Gabriel takes the game show background and replaces it with military uniforms, with emphasis the end result of war is a knockout
Question: Did either version censor the phrase "Whistling tunes, we piss on the goons in the jungle" at the end of the second pre-chorus?
They certainly did for radio play at the time - 'Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle'
There’s an unofficial upload of Version 1 on RUclips that plays the censored lyric. Gabriel’s official upload of Version 2 plays the uncensored lyric. Either case could be different from what was actually aired via an easy edit. In both cases, the footage of Gabriel used looks like his mouth is saying the censored version so I think it’s most likely that it was the censored version in both.
Both phrases are on my copy of the song