buffyleigh
4
I'm not saying it's a bad album, but everything sounds too 80s: the music, the instruments, the production... It screams that it belongs to this period. And I'm not really fond of the gimmicks of that time. Some songs are good, some are also far too mellow (the 80s production doesn't help).
After leaving Genesis, Peter Gabriel put out four quirky, experimental albums titled Peter Gabriel 1-4. His record company asked for a more marketable name for his fifth album, so he called it ‘So’. I wasn’t keen on this album at the time - a combination of the mawkish ‘Don’t Give Up’ and the MTV earworm of ‘Sledgehammer’ put me off. Revisiting it reveals some gems though, especially ‘This is the Picture’ with Laurie Anderson and opener ‘Red Rain’. Sotastic!