Listen to Peter Gabriel’s version of Street Spirit
We’ve reported about Peter Gabriel’s new project ‘Scratch My Back‘. The Guardian has an exclusive preview of the new album including Radiohead’s ‘Street Spirit’.
Scratch My Back is the first instalment of this project, and sees the 59-year-old, ex-Genesis man cover the likes of Radiohead, Talking Heads and David Bowie. The artists whose songs you hear will be returning the favour by performing Gabriel’s songs on a forthcoming album, I’ll Scratch Yours. Radiohead will record ‘Wallflower’.
You can hear Scratch My Back, including a full version of ‘Street Spirit’ using the widget on the website of The Guardian.
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24 Responses to “Listen to Peter Gabriel’s version of Street Spirit”
Thocky
February 10th, 2010
I love Peter Gabriel, but this sounds like a bad joke…
Frank
February 10th, 2010
Not impressed with the Street Spirit cover :/ It feels watered down. I hope Radiohead’s cover of “Wallflower” isn’t so ‘meh’.
sinoth
February 10th, 2010
Awfull!!! I mean, I usually like him, but I agreed that`s a bad joke!
paula
February 10th, 2010
i shouldn t comment [ if i didn t like it ] __but i do __it could be a decent version perhaps for a movie that require that mood or even a play . . . something like that . . . out of that context i think he did great but i am personally not interested at all . . . liking the strings though ___
pntrs
February 10th, 2010
William Shatners Transformed Man springs to mind, only more laughable.
Martynium
February 10th, 2010
i am bored ___thank god i thought that i had some radiohead’s knowledge [ but i didn t which is great ] __so now i am enjoying Worrywort so much . . . even like a new song for me – - – - specially the vocals ! ! so happy of not having knowledge ___
p Ã… n t r u s
February 10th, 2010
this version is terrible. they are all terrible.
jeremy
February 10th, 2010
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go to dead air space [ all this is getting just better ! ! ! ]
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pantrus
February 10th, 2010
The worst song on the album.
phil fan
February 10th, 2010
painful (not in a good way)
me
February 10th, 2010
I was expecting more from the whole album in general… but I agree. It’s pretty bland. Almost the entire project, not just this track.
Clayton
February 10th, 2010
horrible…
naz
February 10th, 2010
ehhh…not my cup of tea
Naughty Natalie
February 11th, 2010
I don’t visit a radiohead news site for almost a year and the first story is about another washed up artist trying to cover them. ADOLF HITLER COVERS RADIOHEAD111
mark zahn
February 11th, 2010
i know it’s a serious song, but i laughed at Gabriel trying to hit the high notes and failing, poor guy.
wtffff
February 12th, 2010
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February 12th, 2010
rather boring than delicate.
Midnight
February 12th, 2010
Kemoushi thinks it’s not so bad.
Kemoushi
February 13th, 2010
I think it became a complete different song, but I like it.
ginger
February 13th, 2010
I really like it. It’s totally screwed up and you just know Thom will get a kick out of that. It’s like a We Suck Young Blood-style version almost. It’s obviously meant to sound like his voice is cracking and not hitting the notes. Love the more spoken parts!
performingmonkey
February 15th, 2010
Fucking awful, time to hang it up Peter…or better yet write some of your own material you can butcher.
rolling down rivers
February 19th, 2010
Yuk, it’s just so terrible…truly god awful. I’m a huge Radiohead fan, and I used to be a huge Peter Gabriel fan. His version of Listening Wind is pretty good, but I’m starting to feel like he should just hang it up. I can’r imagine Thom Yorke would approve of this atrocity.
Zorbak
February 25th, 2010
Yuk, it’s just so terrible…truly god awful. I’m a huge Radiohead fan, and I used to be a huge Peter Gabriel fan. His version of Listening Wind is pretty good, but I’m starting to feel like he should just give up music altogether. I can’t imagine Thom Yorke would approve of this atrocity.
Zorbak
February 25th, 2010
Interesting but I don’t like it much.