Peter made the music video into an art form... literally... this was the most played video on MTV (of all time), and voted best video of all time. And there were no special effects, no cgi. It's all hand done claymation and stop motion, and peter sitting for days in crazy conditions to complete the video. Peter had a ton of brilliant videos btw.
Yes, because CGI was not yet a tool available to filmmakers at the time this video was made - Jurassic Park in 1993 ushered in the mainstream use of CGI in film, and even then it would have been far too expensive for a music video. If CGI had been available, Peter would have absolutely used it because he loved pushing boundaries.
Music videos in the 80's-90's were the height of audio-visual expression and art. A real showcase of talent and creativity. Many big time directors got their start in videos.
Thank you Peter for making my youth the best ever. Come Friday night we would party listen to Night Tracks and Night Flight on tv. The 80's were awesome all about partying and having a good time.
A FRICKIN GENIUS, FROM THE GREAT EARLY GENESIS TO HIS SOLO CAREAR, LIKE DAVID BOWIE, HE CHANGED UP HIS CREATIVE MUSIC OVER THE YEARS, THIS VIDEO WON THE AWARD FOR BEST IN ITS CLASS, AMAZING! 🎤🎶🎵🎼🔊🎧🎥
I wrote that text already under another comment of somebody who doesn't like Peter Gabriel, but I think it would be good to share it here with you all as some fun trivia: "Some trivia that you probably didn't know: he was the first to use the gated drum sound on his song 'Intruder' in 1980, a sound which makes the drums sound massive gained by recording it with reverb and then letting the tape run backwards. Phil Collins was the one who played the drums on that song and he was so impressed by this that he used the same technique later for 'In the Air Tonight'. And actually it was a drum sound that rose to high prominence during the eighties, many of the synth pop bands used it later on as well, it literally was heard everywhere in those days. And it all came back to that one Peter Gabriel song. Just one story that came to my mind why I consider him an important artist."
This and Take On Me by A-Ha were by far the best and most creative videos of the entire 80s. Glad you two got to see it finally. I still recommend *hearing* most songs, but there are some which the video is essential.
This was groundbreaking on so many levels, and career making for some. Much of the claymation, or plasticine animation, was done by Aardman Animation who went on to create UK national treasures 'Wallace and Gromit'. Initially a series of three half hour short films about an eccentric inventor from Yorkshire and his very clever dog. A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave are all claymation, and absolutely hilarious. You would love them, Nick and Alexia. Very English but the humour is universal. They proved so popular that feature length movies followed on, but these three short films created the legend. Highly recommended 😊
Sledgehammer is definitely a highlight video, but all of Peter's videos are great. Shock the Monkey set the standard for the modern fast edited music video.
Pete has always been such a visual artist as well (some of his outfits when he fronted Genesis are legendary) that many of us,when the video dropped,were speculating as to whether he would perform this song live in some version of the "Starman" outfit he wears at the end of the video.
So glad you checked this out hearing Sledgehammer is one thing seeing it is another level. Very artistic video a combination of musical and visual genius. Lots of fun artistic quotations with the fruit cage referencing Guisippe Archimboldo the Italian renaissance painter who made expressive portraits by combining vegetables, sea life and other whimsical items. A great reaction as always. ❤️❤️👏👏👍👍
I do remember this video! It has been so long since I had seen it! Crazy how ahead of its time it was! Watching it now magnifies how creative and technical it was for that time!! Thank for posting this video!
I watched this SOOOO MANY times in MTV!!!!!!!! I worked at a place that sold Satellite Dishes, the big 8 foot ones and the Demo/Showroom model was stuck on the MTV Satellite! I can almost remember the Satellite's name. And remember this was made YEARS before Photoshop!!!!
This was certainly innovative for its time. I can remember all of the hype, and then after this video because so popular, there was a lot of hype for the follow-up, "Big Time." One thing MTV used to do was advertise upcoming videos incessantly and showed them as "World Premiere Videos" to increase viewership. There was an urgency to watch at the time it premiered because it was "cool" to be one of the privileged to see it! Even though if you missed it, they pretty much showed it all the time anyway. Haha
This is my favorite song about sex. IMO. Peter Gabriel, as you know, is a phenomenal artist, and all of his videos are special to some degree. The stop-motion technique used in "Sledgehammer" may appear in spurts during some of Gabriel's other videos, but Gabriel seems to be the type of artist to move onto the next thing... to try something else. Watch his videos, and you'll see different techniques and different styles for it all. Have you guys seen the video for "Don't Give Up" with Kate Bush? It's one long take with the long embrace, the spinning stand, and the passing eclipse? "Kiss That Frog" was an actual ride that people sat down in to experience. "Zaar" is a moving painting (I think) that completely absorbs you. "Steam" is a wild computer-manipulated farce. My favorite is "Blood of Eden" with Sinead O'Connor. A lot of art brought to life along with simple scenes of expression. You guys should really react to "Blood of Eden," if only the song, still fantastic.
Seeing it now, I recognize his homage to a variety of artists from Arcimboldo to Joseph Cornell's framed wooden world to Pollock and Twombly to Bruce Bickford...Zappa's claymationist. A little "Altered States" at the end there too, I think. In this early dip into the popular sphere, where the music was not as challenging as earlier songs, they more than made up for it in visuals. Pete's a chameleon. Great show y'all.
Video by Aardman who did Wallace & Grommit. This was all done with stop go animation. Even the blue cloudy face make up had to be redone. The chickens were real and apparently stank to high heaven after 2 days filming.
Vaya! Peter Gabriel sabía muy bien lo que hacía al querer un video como este! Es inevitable pensar que fue a mediados de los 80. Hoy un video como este puede llegar a hacerse en menos tiempo, pero en ese entonces era mucho más artesanal, igual que la edición, y seguramente llevó un buen tiempo! Si fueron 6 días seguramente fue para tomar as imágenes, pero la edición seguramente demandó más! En realidad he estudiado cine, y por eso sé que además de los artistas que vemos, tiene que haber por lo menos dos o tres personas con la iluminación, algunos moviendo los objetos, y quizás el mismo director pueda sacar las fotografías, aunque sí o sí debería haber algunas personas más colaborando, junto con el maquillaje, el vestuario, y lo que hiciera falta. Ha sido sin dudas una producción importante! Gracias por traerlo!
This video of Sledgehammer is awesome! I loved Peter Gabriel when he was with Genesis and onto into his solo adventures. That So album is a great album.
Every comment you guys made about the video captures exactly how fascinated I was when I first watched the Sledgehammer music video. Haven’t seen anything like it since.
I think it’s one of the best music videos Groundbreaking for the time and so good Loved your reaction guys, made me laugh Yes “Big Time “single here in the UK
The Housemartins - Happy Hour and Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite, to name but two, both used similar plastercene/claymation for their videos. It was used a lot, following this.
Imagine this was the time when most artists were doing character-driven videoclips with story and even dialogue (à la Michael Jackson's "Thriller") and you had to wait like a minute to the song to start sometimes. In the midst of all that, out comes this video which is complete visual madness. It was almost avant-garde, only Talking Heads or Herbie Hancock's "Rock It" were going in that direction. Plus the album was killer, the culmination of Gabriel's experimentation on his previous solo records. A well-deserved but bizarre hit for popular tastes at the time.
F1rst!!!🎉🎉🎉 This song’s innuendos are off the charts and my adolescent ears had no clue. Also, I thought PG was a new artist…in fact, I didn’t know he fronted Genesis until 2016!
We, in the 80s were used to claymation (King Kong 1933 used it) thanks to many monster movies in the 40s and 50s. It was used a lot on kid shows like Sesame Street and the Electric company.
Had some of the Harryhausen effect, that is the stop motion, of course when we first saw this video, we were blown away, but as a kid growing up in the 1960's, old movies like the 7th Voyage of Sinbad, original King Kong, original Jason and the Argonauts, had already been exposed to stop motion, fascinated me to no end as a kid,..even so, this video was still groundbreaking,...Godspeed, Peace ✌
If you think about it, it's not hard to see that this came from the same mind that conceived Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Peter is a generational talent.
I would love to see your reaction to Peter Gabriel Jetzt kommt die Flut. He does it just with a piano and it is more powerful through its simplicity, He also did two of his albums in German, (Nos 3 and 4.)
The video for "Digging in the Dirt" is fantastic! A lot of high-speed filming (which results in ultra-clear, ultra-slow motion) was used, and some of the similar stop motion techniques as in "Sledgehammer" were used. There's a sped-up shot when you see a slug crawl across Peter's face. Incredible. It's a fantastic song, too!
You should compare the Sledgehammer-video with the Talking Heads-video for Road To Nowhere (which was made before the Sledgehammer-video came out). Then compare David Byrne's video for She'd Mad and Peter Gabriel's video for Steam (again David Byrne's was earlier). Than notice Peter Gabriel told us in the 80's he was following Talking Heads and then you know where Peter Gabriel got his ideas.
There's a great Prince's Trust 1988 live version that Peter, his guitarist David Rhodes and violinist Shankar did together with Howard Jones, Midge Ure, Brian May, Mick Karn and Pete's old bandmate Phil Collins. 😊
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill (Live DNA)🤯 This montage of live performances of Solsbury Hill includes footage from Rockpalast (1978), Live in Athens (1987), Secret World Live (1993), Growing Up Live (2003), New Blood Live (2011) and Back To Front (2013). 🤯
Peter has a bunch of great videos, such as Big Time, Shock The Monkey, Digging In The Dirt, Steam, Kiss That Frog and of course Don't Give Up with Kate Bush.
You guys should check out "Big Time" and "Steam". They have similar videos to this one. Also, since it's almost Christmas, please check out "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch" by Small Town Titans. It's a metal version of the song from the cartoon, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" The singer's voice is really I think you'll love it. _DEEP._
Cool reaction! Yes, he has another video with the stop motion technique, the video for his song Big Time. You should react to it too, it’s also amazing. About the making of the video, the director was very thankful (and a bit astonished) at how patient Peter had been while they were filming it. It took very long hours of him lying still on the floor with a glass on top of him and all the objects that they were moving around him. According to Peter, the fruit smelled quite nice, but after a few days of shooting the fish got quite disgusting… 😅
My dear friends, certainly you don’t know me (Iam from Brazil), but I do by RUclips. If you’re like this video clip, I want to suggest Peter Gabriel 2003 concert, “Still Growing Up - Live & Unwrapped “, It is a kind of marvelous! Peter is really a genius! Have a special Christmas guys!
At a tangent to the main subject ... Have you ever seen any of the Wallace and Gromit shorts or films? All stop motion work. Many awards. New film just released. Do yourselves a favour. A laugh suitable for the whole family.
Nice video review guys - what did you think of the music? To be fair this was one of the key videos which started the process whereby, sadly, the visual image came to dominate the music. Pre 1980s it was still possible to adore a released record without having any much idea of the artists image - but those days are long gone and I think that is a great shame.
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Peter made the music video into an art form... literally... this was the most played video on MTV (of all time), and voted best video of all time. And there were no special effects, no cgi. It's all hand done claymation and stop motion, and peter sitting for days in crazy conditions to complete the video. Peter had a ton of brilliant videos btw.
Yes, because CGI was not yet a tool available to filmmakers at the time this video was made - Jurassic Park in 1993 ushered in the mainstream use of CGI in film, and even then it would have been far too expensive for a music video. If CGI had been available, Peter would have absolutely used it because he loved pushing boundaries.
No CGI but it's all special effects.
It won NINE (9) awards at the 1987 MTV Music Video Awards - it's still the record for most awards for a single video.
Music videos in the 80's-90's were the height of audio-visual expression and art. A real showcase of talent and creativity. Many big time directors got their start in videos.
"steam" "big time" "digging in the dirt" are also excellent videos...he was the king of videos back then
Videos like this are the only reason we remember the old MTV.
One of the great music videos of all time from one of the most iconic pop musicians we have ever seen. Cheers, Paul
Big Time is the same type of video, excellent video, the Claymation is incredible, Big Time has the same Claymation.
Thank you Peter for making my youth the best ever. Come Friday night we would party listen to Night Tracks and Night Flight on tv. The 80's were awesome all about partying and having a good time.
A FRICKIN GENIUS, FROM THE GREAT EARLY GENESIS TO HIS SOLO CAREAR, LIKE DAVID BOWIE, HE CHANGED UP HIS CREATIVE MUSIC OVER THE YEARS, THIS VIDEO WON THE AWARD FOR BEST IN ITS CLASS, AMAZING! 🎤🎶🎵🎼🔊🎧🎥
Peter Gabriel, vocals, lyrics, style, ❤❤❤
Nothing has ever surpassed this.
Groundbreaking stuff from a true legend. Great reaction. Really enjoyed it 👍🎶❤
I wrote that text already under another comment of somebody who doesn't like Peter Gabriel, but I think it would be good to share it here with you all as some fun trivia:
"Some trivia that you probably didn't know: he was the first to use the gated drum sound on his song 'Intruder' in 1980, a sound which makes the drums sound massive gained by recording it with reverb and then letting the tape run backwards. Phil Collins was the one who played the drums on that song and he was so impressed by this that he used the same technique later for 'In the Air Tonight'. And actually it was a drum sound that rose to high prominence during the eighties, many of the synth pop bands used it later on as well, it literally was heard everywhere in those days. And it all came back to that one Peter Gabriel song. Just one story that came to my mind why I consider him an important artist."
This and Take On Me by A-Ha were by far the best and most creative videos of the entire 80s. Glad you two got to see it finally. I still recommend *hearing* most songs, but there are some which the video is essential.
This was groundbreaking on so many levels, and career making for some. Much of the claymation, or plasticine animation, was done by Aardman Animation who went on to create UK national treasures 'Wallace and Gromit'. Initially a series of three half hour short films about an eccentric inventor from Yorkshire and his very clever dog. A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave are all claymation, and absolutely hilarious. You would love them, Nick and Alexia. Very English but the humour is universal. They proved so popular that feature length movies followed on, but these three short films created the legend. Highly recommended 😊
Sledgehammer is definitely a highlight video, but all of Peter's videos are great. Shock the Monkey set the standard for the modern fast edited music video.
Worth watching wherever it pops up.
always!!!
Digging in the dirt is also very good
6:08-Us black people had a dance called the Funky Chicken in the 70's..But those birds took it to the the next level!
Pete has always been such a visual artist as well (some of his outfits when he fronted Genesis are legendary) that many of us,when the video dropped,were speculating as to whether he would perform this song live in some version of the "Starman" outfit he wears at the end of the video.
Cutting edge in that era. In heavy rotation on Much Music in Canada. Never tired of it and great syncopation.
Fond memorîes of MTV in general and this vid in particular.
So glad you checked this out hearing Sledgehammer is one thing seeing it is another level. Very artistic video a combination of musical and visual genius. Lots of fun artistic quotations with the fruit cage referencing Guisippe Archimboldo the Italian renaissance painter who made expressive portraits by combining vegetables, sea life and other whimsical items. A great reaction as always. ❤️❤️👏👏👍👍
I always love watching this iconic video from Gabriel. It's always the bit with the chickens which sets me off 🤣
I do remember this video! It has been so long since I had seen it! Crazy how ahead of its time it was! Watching it now magnifies how creative and technical it was for that time!! Thank for posting this video!
I watched this SOOOO MANY times in MTV!!!!!!!! I worked at a place that sold Satellite Dishes, the big 8 foot ones and the Demo/Showroom model was stuck on the MTV Satellite! I can almost remember the Satellite's name. And remember this was made YEARS before Photoshop!!!!
There are music videos and then there is Sledgehammer. An original concept video unequalled to this day!
Take On Me by A-Ha came first and is its equal. And it has more views.
So strange, as great as the video is the music is what makes it great.
The 80’s on MTV were awesome😂
This was certainly innovative for its time. I can remember all of the hype, and then after this video because so popular, there was a lot of hype for the follow-up, "Big Time."
One thing MTV used to do was advertise upcoming videos incessantly and showed them as "World Premiere Videos" to increase viewership. There was an urgency to watch at the time it premiered because it was "cool" to be one of the privileged to see it! Even though if you missed it, they pretty much showed it all the time anyway. Haha
This is my favorite song about sex. IMO. Peter Gabriel, as you know, is a phenomenal artist, and all of his videos are special to some degree. The stop-motion technique used in "Sledgehammer" may appear in spurts during some of Gabriel's other videos, but Gabriel seems to be the type of artist to move onto the next thing... to try something else. Watch his videos, and you'll see different techniques and different styles for it all. Have you guys seen the video for "Don't Give Up" with Kate Bush? It's one long take with the long embrace, the spinning stand, and the passing eclipse? "Kiss That Frog" was an actual ride that people sat down in to experience. "Zaar" is a moving painting (I think) that completely absorbs you. "Steam" is a wild computer-manipulated farce. My favorite is "Blood of Eden" with Sinead O'Connor. A lot of art brought to life along with simple scenes of expression. You guys should really react to "Blood of Eden," if only the song, still fantastic.
Seeing it now, I recognize his homage to a variety of artists from Arcimboldo to Joseph Cornell's framed wooden world to Pollock and Twombly to Bruce Bickford...Zappa's claymationist. A little "Altered States" at the end there too, I think. In this early dip into the popular sphere, where the music was not as challenging as earlier songs, they more than made up for it in visuals. Pete's a chameleon. Great show y'all.
Every time he played this live in concert he wore the "lighted" jacket as they closed the lights in the arena.
Video by Aardman who did Wallace & Grommit. This was all done with stop go animation. Even the blue cloudy face make up had to be redone. The chickens were real and apparently stank to high heaven after 2 days filming.
1986! I used to watch the video on MTV ❤ Genesis released Invisible Touch the same year❤
Vaya! Peter Gabriel sabía muy bien lo que hacía al querer un video como este!
Es inevitable pensar que fue a mediados de los 80. Hoy un video como este puede llegar a hacerse en menos tiempo, pero en ese entonces era mucho más artesanal, igual que la edición, y seguramente llevó un buen tiempo! Si fueron 6 días seguramente fue para tomar as imágenes, pero la edición seguramente demandó más!
En realidad he estudiado cine, y por eso sé que además de los artistas que vemos, tiene que haber por lo menos dos o tres personas con la iluminación, algunos moviendo los objetos, y quizás el mismo director pueda sacar las fotografías, aunque sí o sí debería haber algunas personas más colaborando, junto con el maquillaje, el vestuario, y lo que hiciera falta. Ha sido sin dudas una producción importante!
Gracias por traerlo!
I do believe the people who worked on the stop go animation also worked on the Wallace and Grommit films.
This video of Sledgehammer is awesome! I loved Peter Gabriel when he was with Genesis and onto into his solo adventures. That So album is a great album.
a fantastic music video very iconic for its time back in the 1980s from the legend that is peter gabriel
Every comment you guys made about the video captures exactly how fascinated I was when I first watched the Sledgehammer music video. Haven’t seen anything like it since.
I think it’s one of the best music videos Groundbreaking for the time and so good
Loved your reaction guys, made me laugh
Yes “Big Time “single here in the UK
The Housemartins - Happy Hour and Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite, to name but two, both used similar plastercene/claymation for their videos. It was used a lot, following this.
This on is so good! Haven`t seen it since the MTV days.
Imagine this was the time when most artists were doing character-driven videoclips with story and even dialogue (à la Michael Jackson's "Thriller") and you had to wait like a minute to the song to start sometimes. In the midst of all that, out comes this video which is complete visual madness. It was almost avant-garde, only Talking Heads or Herbie Hancock's "Rock It" were going in that direction. Plus the album was killer, the culmination of Gabriel's experimentation on his previous solo records. A well-deserved but bizarre hit for popular tastes at the time.
This came out when MTV was huge. The video won awards including MTV Video of the Year. I'm 72 so I remember it well.
He had various artists submit ideas and he couldn't decide on which ones. So he included as many as he could.
F1rst!!!🎉🎉🎉
This song’s innuendos are off the charts and my adolescent ears had no clue. Also, I thought PG was a new artist…in fact, I didn’t know he fronted Genesis until 2016!
Congratulations. Did it take a lot of practice and prep work to be first?
@@Andres64Bright place, right time😂😂
We, in the 80s were used to claymation (King Kong 1933 used it) thanks to many monster movies in the 40s and 50s. It was used a lot on kid shows like Sesame Street and the Electric company.
Get the bluray of Gabriels music with clips called 'Play'.....stunning stuff. All his clips are wonderful and brilliantly executed.
Best music video ever
Had some of the Harryhausen effect, that is the stop motion, of course when we first saw this video, we were blown away, but as a kid growing up in the 1960's, old movies like the 7th Voyage of Sinbad, original King Kong, original Jason and the Argonauts, had already been exposed to stop motion, fascinated me to no end as a kid,..even so, this video was still groundbreaking,...Godspeed, Peace ✌
Big Time and Steam were similar videos, Happy Christmas guys.
Big Time was the other video of his that really comes to mind. Another video with old effects that comes to mind is “Leave It” by Yes.
If you think about it, it's not hard to see that this came from the same mind that conceived Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Peter is a generational talent.
I would love to see your reaction to Peter Gabriel Jetzt kommt die Flut. He does it just with a piano and it is more powerful through its simplicity, He also did two of his albums in German, (Nos 3 and 4.)
Great that you finally got to see this award-winning video.
PETER GABRIEL & THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA- Sky Blue
Great , Great Video to see!
The video for "Digging in the Dirt" is fantastic! A lot of high-speed filming (which results in ultra-clear, ultra-slow motion) was used, and some of the similar stop motion techniques as in "Sledgehammer" were used. There's a sped-up shot when you see a slug crawl across Peter's face. Incredible. It's a fantastic song, too!
That is a good one.
A much under-rated part of his catalogue.
I love this song !!❤❤ . Peter was/is ahead of our times. Thank you guys
one of a kind video and song-still sounds great and this was made in the 80s
You also have to watch In Your Eyes, Live Secret World tour.
The Herbie Hancock video for "Rockit" was also a groundbreaking video (3 years earlier). You should watch it.
You should compare the Sledgehammer-video with the Talking Heads-video for Road To Nowhere (which was made before the Sledgehammer-video came out). Then compare David Byrne's video for She'd Mad and Peter Gabriel's video for Steam (again David Byrne's was earlier). Than notice Peter Gabriel told us in the 80's he was following Talking Heads and then you know where Peter Gabriel got his ideas.
Steam is another crazy effects Peter Gabriel music video from 1992
There's a great Prince's Trust 1988 live version that Peter, his guitarist David Rhodes and violinist Shankar did together with Howard Jones, Midge Ure, Brian May, Mick Karn and Pete's old bandmate Phil Collins. 😊
This also won the mtv music award of the year i think. Back then mtv was still a pretty big deal.
I had a side gig as a chauffeur when this was big - my girlfriend and I used to sing along, "...I will Chauffeur you - will you Chauffeur me?..."
Did you guys realize it was all about sex?
Peter elites cool and genius. If you haven't watched him.l8ve do so. In Your Eyes and Secret World are amazing
loved the video in 1986 and loved the So album reaction!
Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill (Live DNA)🤯
This montage of live performances of Solsbury Hill includes footage from Rockpalast (1978), Live in Athens (1987), Secret World Live (1993), Growing Up Live (2003), New Blood Live (2011) and Back To Front (2013). 🤯
MTV had a NEW YEARS EVE bash in 1989. SLEDGEHAMMER won Best video of THE DECADE. It also TIED the Eurythmics SWEET DREAMS for song of the decade.
BIG TIME / SHOCK THE MONKEY/ WHEN YOU"RE FALLING
Sledgehammer is just a euphemism for laying pipe, getting down, lying in the giggly weeds.
'Shock The Monkey' has a pretty awesome video. Not stop-action but great visuals. And of course, bizarre in a Gabriel sort-a-way.
Peter has a bunch of great videos, such as Big Time, Shock The Monkey, Digging In The Dirt, Steam, Kiss That Frog and of course Don't Give Up with Kate Bush.
Every college 80's art trope is used here
The brilliance of Peter G
The Wallyce and Grommit first Animations in the 80s.
Steam very similar To this well worth watching.
Have you seen the video for "Take On Me" by A-ha ? Another classic 80's song and video.
I've always thought Cars - You Might Think I'm Crazy is just as weird. Or Tom Petty - Don't Come Around Here No More.
Created at the Aardman animations studio in Bristol England experts at stop motion.
I would love to see you two react to Big Time. It's also an incredible video by the same artist.
Legendary.
dancing in ! pg always nice
Hola! Impresionante el tema y el vídeo totalmente creativo! Muchas gracias! Saludos desde Temperley, BsAs.
This video was groundbreaking at the time.
this was on MTV a lot... Really a lot.👍👍
FWIW, the director, Steve Johnson went on to direct Pee Wee's Playhouse.
You guys should check out "Big Time" and "Steam". They have similar videos to this one. Also, since it's almost Christmas, please check out "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch" by Small Town Titans. It's a metal version of the song from the cartoon, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" The singer's voice is really I think you'll love it.
_DEEP._
Brilliant with genesis
Cool reaction! Yes, he has another video with the stop motion technique, the video for his song Big Time. You should react to it too, it’s also amazing.
About the making of the video, the director was very thankful (and a bit astonished) at how patient Peter had been while they were filming it. It took very long hours of him lying still on the floor with a glass on top of him and all the objects that they were moving around him. According to Peter, the fruit smelled quite nice, but after a few days of shooting the fish got quite disgusting… 😅
😂 GROSSSSS!!! 🐟
@@NicknLex Ha! Yes! And yet he bore it all with grace 😁
Did you know Tony Levin plays Chapman Stick on this song? I just learned this last week!
Don’t forget the work that Bruce Bickford did for Frank Zappa in the ‘70s.
My dear friends, certainly you don’t know me (Iam from Brazil), but I do by RUclips. If you’re like this video clip, I want to suggest Peter Gabriel 2003 concert, “Still Growing Up - Live & Unwrapped “, It is a kind of marvelous! Peter is really a genius!
Have a special Christmas guys!
Thank you so much!! 😊 ❤️ 🎄
Merry Christmas and a wonderful new year to you as well!!
shock the monkey is a great video.... worth watching..!
Alexia, I like your shirt
"Steam" is a great video !
"Shock The Monkey" too
At a tangent to the main subject ... Have you ever seen any of the Wallace and Gromit shorts or films? All stop motion work. Many awards. New film just released. Do yourselves a favour. A laugh suitable for the whole family.
Peter Gabriel no solo cantaba... actuaba las canciones. Algo que lamentablemente le faltó a Génesis cuando el se fue.,
The 80s were the most creative years. imao
Nice video review guys - what did you think of the music? To be fair this was one of the key videos which started the process whereby, sadly, the visual image came to dominate the music. Pre 1980s it was still possible to adore a released record without having any much idea of the artists image - but those days are long gone and I think that is a great shame.
Y'all realize that this is about the most explicit songs ever released.? Every line is a double entrade (sp)