World Of Peter Skellern, The - Peter Skellern

Advantages: cracking pop/rock slightly goth music.
Disadvantages: slightly dated 1985 sound

...Peter Murphy was the face and the voice of Goth pioneers Bauhaus. When they split in 1983 Murphy embarked on a solo career of which Should The World Fail To Fall Apart was the first of many excellent solo albums. But it's not all plain sailing - there are signs that Murphy was still finding his feet on this record. The resolutely 80's production doesn't help either and the overall impression is that this album was completed on a shoestring. Having said that it sounds good, the songs are strong and Murphy's idiosyncratic vocals are marvellous. Top tunes include the hugely commercial "Blue Heart" another smash flop single for PM, a great cover of Pere Ubu's "Final Solution" and a number of slower songs such as the atmospherically spooky "Confessions" and the lovely opener "Canvas Beauty". Most of the songs are quite a distance away from... Read review

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Advantages: Skip to 'I've Had The Time Of My Life'
Disadvantages: Katie goes off key a few times but does make up for it in other songs

...Some people have slagged and slated Katie and Peter Andre's voice's but if you don't like them then don't listen-simple! I have listened to this album over and over again and I am yet to find anything wrong with it. I first heard their first song 'A Whole New World' on the radio and I fell in love with it straight away. But then when I went home and saw the video to it, I was in complete shock! It was bloody fantastic! It was classy, stylish and sort of the story of how they met. I was given this album as a gift so I dont know the exact price for it, but, I would recommend you go to HMV or somewhere like that as that is probably where you would get it for a reasonable price.... Read review

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Advantages: It's Peter Gabriel
Disadvantages: None come to mind

...; the second is “scratch” the third is “melt” and the final one is “security”. These recordings are where Gabriel explores the darker side, making the subject matter more cerebral, set against a background of the avant – grade, electronic and worldbeats into the mix of the music. The writing of the follow-up to his 1982 album “Peter Gabriel 4” was taking an age, for Gabriel is notorious for taking a long time to get any new material together. He had began working on the album in 1984 and at the same time he had just got together back together with his wife Jill and his 2 daughters, his landlord at the time was pressing him to move out of their home “Ashcombe House” this is where he had set up the first incarnation of the Real World Studio (90% of So was recorded there... Read review

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