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ONLY FOR GABRIEL COMPLETISTS, & THEN ONLY WITH GRITTED TEETH

BOB | LOS ANGELES, CA | 12/17/2004

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Unlike the wonderful CD singles that were released for "US" a decade ago which harbored really interesting material, this single is just a waste of money.



You get the album version of "Barry Williams" (why do we need that?), the "Radio Edit" of the same (boring duplicity), a Gabriel-less "Cloudless-Radio Edit" (with Gabriel's vocals removed, why would it receive radio airplay?), and finally, but very least, an downright annoying, drum-machine-driven remix of "My Head Sounds Like That".



Small wonder this CD5 has not been made available in the U.S.; perhaps even the record company bean-counters couldn't bear to inflict it on us. What a disappointment!



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Great song.

Distant Voyageur | Io | 02/02/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is the first single off Peter Gabriel's newest work "UP". It's a upbeat, somewhat danceable song that attacks the destructive influence of the shock trash-talk shows andJerry Springer on TV viewers minds. It's actually quite a great song and while not necessarily the wisest choice for the first single, it sure deserved better chart success than what it got. BTW, about the title of the song, when Gabriel was finished producing the song, he didn't at that moment know that there actually was an actor named Barry Williams, who played one of the charachters on The Brady Bunch. When Gabriel found out, he invited Barry Williams to star in the video and so he did. I hope this will clear things up. The remix of My Head Sounds Like That isn't as interesting as the original. I like the original better. The version of "Cloudless" on here is merely just a shortened version of the original on the "Long Walk Home: Rabbt Proof Fence" soundtrack. Nothing really must is offered on this item IMO."