Radiohead to scratch Peter Gabriel’s back too

by on January 4, 2010 with 58 Comments in Radiohead News

Peter Gabriel Scratch My BackPeter Gabriel’s project ‘Scratch My Back’ will get a follow-up. In October it was announced that Peter Gabriel has recorded an album of covers, including Radiohead. Besides the release, a series of live shows another album is planned.

‘Scratch My Back’ features orchestral covers of songs by Radiohead, David Bowie, Paul Simon, Neil Young, Arcade Fire and more. Peter Gabriel describes this as a very personal record with twelve songs performed only with orchestral instruments and voice. He made the choice not to include guitar or drums. ‘Scratch My Back.’ will be out on February 15 on Virgin Records.

And here’s the interesting part; all of the artists whose songs Gabriel covers on ‘Scratch My Back’ will cover a Peter Gabriel song on a new album, entitled ‘I’ll Scratch Yours’. This means we’ll hear Radiohead cover Peter Gabriel in the near future. Suggestions on which song? Post them below.

Until then Peter Gabriel will perform selections from ‘Scratch My Back’ with an orchestra at four March shows, the New Blood Tour: March 22 in Paris (Palais Omnisports), March 25 in Berlin (O2 World) and March 27-28 in London (The O2).

Tracklisting ‘Scratch My Back’:

01 Heroes (David Bowie)
02 The Boy in the Bubble (Paul Simon)
03 Mirrorball (Elbow)
04 Flume (Bon Iver)
05 Listening Wind (Talking Heads)
06 The Power of the Heart (Lou Reed)
07 My Body is a Cage (Arcade Fire)
08 The Book of Love (The Magnetic Fields)
09 I Think it’s Going to Rain Today (Randy Newman)
10 Après Moi (Regina Spektor)
11 Philadelphia (Neil Young)
12 Street Spirit (Fade Out) (Radiohead)


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  • Anne

    “I grieve” please!

  • spike worsley

    Red Rain!

  • Matt

    The Arcade Fire cover will be pretty cool

  • Paul stirr

    suggest radiohead cover washing of the water.

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  • Bart

    Red Rain or Mercy Street or San Jacinto would be great!

  • http://www.christianmack.com gahan

    San Jacinto!!!

  • Angela

    Suggest Here comes the flood mainly for the lyrics.

  • poisoned_dwarf

    They should do ‘Welcome to the Fart Palace.’ Peter Gabriel’s most underrated masterpiece.

  • mteedee

    they should cover a song from the early Genesis era… the only Genesis era that is worth listening to, in my opinion

  • stickup

    Red Rain, definitely.

    Although “Shaking the Tree” could be fun, with revamped percussion and such.

  • Name (required)

    “Digging in the Dirt” would be amazing.

  • Carlton young

    Shock the Monkey

  • Elaine

    “And Through the Wire.”
    Or maybe “Not One of Us”.

  • Noooooj

    Sledgehammer!!!

    No no I kid, Radiohead can’t be that cheery. Mercy Street would be great.

  • chris

    In Your Eyes

  • rudie

    “Harold the Barrel”

  • johnbarrett

    washing of the water would be top.

  • Chris

    So many good choices

    Any of the third album
    San Jacinto
    Digging in the Dirt
    Only Us

  • Andrew

    Would love to hear RH cover Family Snapshot

  • stefano

    THE RYTHM OF THE HEAT!!!!!

  • not friendly

    I think Red Rain and I Grieve are pretty solid suggestions too, however, I’d also like to suggest the possibility of Secret World – it could be very awesome indeed.

  • Bluku uktan

    But Red Rain & San Jacinto are so Radiohead, i think the idea is to do something completely different… ON THE AIR would be nice. Or maybe on half speed and an electronic beat: “Mother Of Violence”

  • not friendly

    Actually, fuck it.

    They should do Don’t Break This Rhythm. (I don’t care that it’s a b-side – just do it!!)

  • anon2

    I’d see them doing something a little more esoteric than Red Rain, as much as I love that song.

  • Andrew

    “No Way Out” would be unbelievable. Alternately, “I Grieve”, or “Here Comes the Flood (‘Car’ version)”

  • http://thepluralofmoth.deviantart.com/ ThePluralofMoth

    The tower that ate people… haha

  • Baker

    I Grieve

    or

    Ovo

  • Dupes

    don’t give up – perfect.

  • Dupes

    don’t give up – perfect

  • zr®

    A furious version of ‘I Don’t Remember’ would be rather grand methinks.

  • milky

    Wallflower, from ‘Security’, I’m getting the chills imagining that now.

  • Alexander

    Radiohead are objectively the best band of all time

  • Yussa

    I grieve would fit tonally and they could get all wierd electro on it…or Mercy Street could become a huge epic with jonny’s intrumentation….that would be ace to hear…

  • Stevesy

    Wow, the possibilities of hearing something fantastic!!

    My first thought was ‘Family Snapshot’, but then ‘Mother of Violence’ or ‘Home Sweet Home’ from his second album came to mind, either of those would be stunning.

  • Stevesy

    I could also imagine Bends-era Radiohead covering Digging In The Dirt

  • Bluku Uktan (Stefano)

    stevesy,
    yeah, i’m glad someone thinks like me hear, Mother Of Violence would be brillant! it’s one of my gabriel’s favourite pieces, and also my favourite album too. this album has, in my opinion, a SOUND related to in rainbows, despite of the difference in time, both albums had a very minimal and raw point of view during their production, songs sound simple and concrete on both, something very dificult to achieve, when producers naturally tend to overload songs with insignificant things. So taht’s why i think a song from Gabriel’s Second album would be stunning for Radiohead, at least at this point.

  • performingmonkey

    I think Elbow would do a great San Jacinto. It would be cool to hear RH do something a bit unexpected like Games Without Frontiers! Maybe Intruder, the opener off his 3rd album. That’s quite a creepy song, I could imagine Thom having fun doing that one. Bowie would do it good as well though. I doubt Gabriel will want everyone to just do hits, though some of the acts definitely will.

  • bishoprobe

    I’d love to hear RH’s spin of “Biko” or “Indigo”!

  • http://www.ncrnews.com Honky D

    I can’t believe no one’s suggested it yet, but I’d love to hear the Radiohead treatment of “Games Without Frontiers”

  • Jonny D

    Screw that, David Bowie to record a new song?

    Get in! Could point to him doing something this year.

  • SM

    “Lead A Normal Life”

  • FakePlasticDunk

    I’d take a guess at ‘Here Comes The Flood’ as Thom has played that as intro to EEIRP at some shows

  • Roger C. Rocha

    No Self Control, Intruder, I Don’t Remember.

  • http://ripitup.com.au The Wasp

    More Than This would be pretty cool. I can definitely hear Digging In The Dirt and Games Without Frontiers as well.

  • balls

    they should cover mercy street.

  • dordogne

    its a Genesis song, but Supper’s Ready would be the best, next best humdrum

  • The Tummy Bugs

    Talking Heads? whats going to happen there?

  • Walcraeb

    Mother of Violence
    or
    (please Jesus let this cross their minds) Supper’s Ready!!!!
    Failing that I’d think the boys cold have fun with any of the following: Lovetown, Rhythm of the Heat, Shock the Monkey

  • walcraeb

    Growing Up would be pretty fun too. I can’t tell if I think Thom would be into one that already sound like Thom’s vibe or something that he could make sound like his vibe.

    Of course he might just defer to the rest of the boys… ha ha.

  • melanie

    intruder
    games without frontiers
    no self control

  • reverse engines

    I hope you guys get this cause it could snound snobby, but I can’t say enough how awesome it is that so many people had Peter Gabriel suggestions. At the concerts lately I have felt like I was surrounded by nothing but teeny boppers and felt “old.” That sucked because i’ve been following this band for about 16 years and I feel like they are a brother. anyway, ramble ramble. thanks everyone for reassuring me I am also surrounded by some cool people with deep tastes… no more age-ism

  • Derek

    Red Rain or Digging In The Dirt would be ridiculous

  • SJF

    Some great suggestions here. I immediately thought Intruder. It’d be something, I reckon, with that minimalist phrasing suited to Thom. But I like some of the other suggestions. San Jacinto would make me combust if RH did it. But as someone said, I can hear Elbow doing it. I can’t wait to hear both albums…

  • Kris

    yes, agree; has to be ‘in your eyes’. Nobody else is strong enough to take that on from the other side

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