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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-07-09 03:10 [#00302246] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker
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 | Passion by Peter Gabriel... I can't speak highly enough of it, it's hands down the best album I've ever heard... if
 you're thinking that you hated Sledgehammer or some of his
 other radio hits forget that, Passion is TOTALLY
 different... there are no words and it's all just ambience
 and cool rhythms and stuff... there is some singing, but no
 english words, and very few words in general... the voices
 are just another instrument in the music... Please though, I
 really think some people here would like this if they
 checked it out, and if you have heard it and like it well
 back me up here :)... lots of nice synths, and cool
 rhythms... and yes different world instruments, but that's
 cool...
 
 here's some track suggestions even though it works best as a
 whole...
 - Of These, Hope/Lazarus Raised/Of These, Hope - Reprise
 (three separate tracks, but really one song)
 - A Different Drum
 - Zaar
 - With This Love
 - Stigmata
 - Passion
 - Wall of Breath
 - Disturbed
 - It is Accomplished
 
 at least give a couple of these a listen... if you hate it,
 fine, but you might like it... just don't write it off
 without listening...
 
 there, that's enough ranting about this!!! :)
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-07-09 03:21 [#00302252] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker
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 | Amazon.com essential recording 
 To call Passion a pivotal recording in the development of
 world music would be a significant understatement. What
 makes Passion so undeniably important is its global reach
 and expert handling of what could've easily become polyglot
 babble. Vocalists Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Youssou N'Dour, and
 Baaba Maal bring strong Middle Eastern and African voices to
 the project, and Balkan textures come via the ney flute and
 doudouk. But Gabriel is the glue, offering electronic
 ambient flows between the multiple streams. Gabriel also
 brings something even less tangible: an awesome visual
 imagination that takes often seamless sounds and makes them
 impress the listener with picturelike colors and phrasing.
 This is, however, far more than an ambient global mix. The
 intertwined rhythms stand out, both on their own and as
 brushstrokes on a larger canvas. Never mind that Passion
 helped launch North American careers for N'Dour and Nusrat
 Fateh Ali Khan--this is a stellar musical achievement by any
 standard. --Andrew Bartlett
 
 hehe, I just love this album so much I got to get some more
 people into it!!! :)
 
 
 
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         |  thethirdball
             from Polly Pisspot (Canada) on 2002-07-09 03:24 [#00302253] Points: 1629 Status: Lurker
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 | I give you my word Funkmaster that I will give this album a shot.  An open-minded hoping to love it shot.
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-07-09 03:25 [#00302255] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker | Followup to thethirdball: #00302253
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 | tell me what you think when you do ok... 
 
 
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         |  Dozier
             from United States on 2002-07-09 03:27 [#00302257] Points: 2080 Status: Lurker
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 | I'll try it out, too. Sounds interesting. 
 
 
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         |  thethirdball
             from Polly Pisspot (Canada) on 2002-07-09 03:28 [#00302258] Points: 1629 Status: Lurker
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 | Yeah no problem, although I must warn you I do not share your enthusiasm for BoC :).
 
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-07-09 03:31 [#00302262] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker | Followup to thethirdball: #00302258
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 | hehe, well I just want people to give it a listen... if everyone here did that there's bound to be some people who
 like it... this is not much like BoC at all... maybe in some
 ways, but not many...
 
 
 
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         |  thethirdball
             from Polly Pisspot (Canada) on 2002-07-09 03:51 [#00302276] Points: 1629 Status: Lurker
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 | According to this link: click for more 
 Passion is in actuality Peter Gabriel's soundtrack to the
 Martin Scorsese film The Last Temptation of Christ, retitled
 as a result of legal barriers;
 
 
 
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         |  Ross
             from Canada on 2002-07-09 03:51 [#00302277] Points: 366 Status: Lurker
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 | Funk, if i like assorted songs of peter gabriel, is it safe to say if i just buy this album one day i may enjoy it?
 
 
 
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         |  thethirdball
             from Polly Pisspot (Canada) on 2002-07-09 03:53 [#00302279] Points: 1629 Status: Lurker
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 | I saw Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan before he died at Montreal's Place Des Arts.  It was honestly one of the best shows I've
 ever seen.
 
 Part of the custom was for people to approach the singer and
 throw money in his general direction.  For the encore he was
 just surrounded in a confetti of twenties and the crowd was
 so wild you could barely hear the music.
 
 
 
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         |  MrTenzin
             from The Concrete Jungle (United States) on 2002-07-09 03:55 [#00302281] Points: 1184 Status: Lurker
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 | Peter Gabriel is the man... we study new media here in LA and Peter Gabriel was brought up because he was one of the
 first major music artists to avidly promote and use computer
 technology / graphics for his music videos ;]
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-07-09 04:08 [#00302292] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker
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 | thethirdball: yup, it most certainly is the soundtrack, but I've also read that Peter Gabriel started the project for
 the film yes, but released it as a something that would work
 by itself... meaning that I don't think all the music on the
 album was used in the picture, and that he put it together
 as an album... I haven't seen the movie though, and it does
 stand alone by itself...
 
 Ross: Well I wouldn't say you'd automatically like it,
 because it's totally different from his vocal songs and
 stuff... I mean when I got the album it took me like half a
 year to really appreciate it, but I'd definitely recommend
 you get it... if you've heard Us you might be better
 prepared for it because Us does seem like a combo of So and
 Passion to a certain extent, but even Us is quite different
 from Passion itself... it's something you should really
 hear...
 
 MrTenzin: Yes, Peter Gabriel is the man!!! He's one of my
 favorite artists, and I only have three albums of his, one
 of which is a greatest hits one... I really need to get his
 other albums...
 
 
 
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         |  flea
             from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-07-09 04:09 [#00302293] Points: 9083 Status: Regular
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 | no thanks 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-07-09 04:11 [#00302294] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker | Followup to flea: #00302293
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 | please stay out of my threads asshole!! 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
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 | look, flea is a troll!!! Ban his ass now!!! 
 
 
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         |  brendan ether
             from the beach (obx, NC) (United States) on 2002-07-09 04:16 [#00302301] Points: 796 Status: Addict | Followup to The_Funkmaster: #00302297
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 | booooo!!! go join the peter gabriel messageboard!!!  get out, get out, get out!!!!!
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-07-09 04:19 [#00302306] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker | Followup to brendan ether: #00302301
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 | hehe... come on, you gotta expand your musical horizons!! :)
 
 But seriously, have you heard Passion? It's totally
 different from anything he's done...
 
 
 
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         |  Zeus
             from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-09 04:21 [#00302308] Points: 14042 Status: Lurker
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 | ive only heard Pearl and Umbra... 
 i didnt dig the vocal tracks... but there is only like 2 of
 them i think...
 
 its really good. i totatly wasnt expecting it...
 
 but i didnt really get into it... but its good none the
 less.
 
 give it a try guys... its basically like IDM
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-07-09 04:23 [#00302310] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker | Followup to Zeus: #00302308
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 | Pearl and Umbra? Hmmm, what is this? 
 
 
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         |  flea
             from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-07-09 04:23 [#00302312] Points: 9083 Status: Regular | Followup to Zeus: #00302308
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 | +give it a try guys... its basically like IDM+ 
 sorry to dissappoint you but that album is one of the
 prototype newage worldmusic albums...
 
 just thought I will let you know
 
 
 
 
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         |  Zeus
             from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-09 04:24 [#00302314] Points: 14042 Status: Lurker
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 | and you call yourself a fan?!?! 
 hehe
 
 Russel Mills and Peter Gabriel: Pearl + Umbra
 
 
 
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         |  Zeus
             from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-09 04:24 [#00302316] Points: 14042 Status: Lurker | Followup to flea: #00302312
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 | sounds like IDM to me... its even got the crucnhy beats 
 
 
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         |  Zeus
             from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-09 04:25 [#00302318] Points: 14042 Status: Lurker
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 | funk... you like PG better the BoC?!?! 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-07-09 04:26 [#00302319] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker
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 | flea's an asshole... in all likely hood he's saying this just because he doesn't like me...
 
 Zeus: Well I am a fan, but I haven't heard all his stuff...
 but I'll have to check that album out!!
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-07-09 04:27 [#00302322] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker | Followup to Zeus: #00302318
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 | I dunno... I like this album better... this is my alltime favorite... it was like the soundtrack to like the hardest
 time in my life, and it's just close to my heart as lame as
 that might sound... I've always said I've never cried to any
 music, but I probably have cried to this one...
 
 
 
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         |  flea
             from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-07-09 04:29 [#00302324] Points: 9083 Status: Regular
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 | from allmusic.com 
 Passion is in actuality Peter Gabriel's soundtrack to the
 Martin Scorsese film The Last Temptation of Christ, retitled
 as a result of legal barriers; regardless of its name,
 however, there's no mistaking the record's stirring power.
 Like much of Gabriel's solo work, the album is a product
 of his continuing fascination with world music, which he
 employs here to create an exceptionally beautiful and
 atmospheric tapestry of sound perfectly evocative of the
 film's resonant spiritual drama; inspired by field
 recordings collected in areas as diverse as Turkey, Senegal,
 and Egypt, Passion achieves a cumulative effect clearly
 Middle Eastern in origin, yet its brilliant fusion of
 ancient and modern musics ultimately transcends both
 geography and time. Remarkably dramatic, even visual, it
 is not only Gabriel's best film work but deserving of
 serious consideration as his finest music of any kind;
 equally worthwhile is Passion: Sources, which assembles the
 original native recordings which served as his creative
 launching pad. — Jason Ankeny
 
 
 
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         |  Zeus
             from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-09 04:30 [#00302325] Points: 14042 Status: Lurker
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 | oops... ok the album is by Russel Mills... and the vocals are by peter gabriel...
 
 so its not really a pg album...
 
 but check it out:
 
 here
 
 
 
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         |  Zeus
             from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-09 04:31 [#00302327] Points: 14042 Status: Lurker
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 | i wasnt talking about passion... i was talking about Pearl + Umbra
 
 and all music classified it as electronic, and ambient
 techno
 
 
 
 
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         |  roygbivcore
             from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2002-07-09 04:32 [#00302329] Points: 22557 Status: Lurker
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 | alot of people seem to confuse peter gabriel and phil collins. i have to say i really really like the jungle remix
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         |  Zeus
             from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-09 04:33 [#00302332] Points: 14042 Status: Lurker
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 | flea...  it says at allmusic.com that passion is rock... 
 not new age
 
 
 
 
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         |  flea
             from depths of your mind (New Zealand) on 2002-07-09 04:33 [#00302333] Points: 9083 Status: Regular | Followup to Zeus: #00302325
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 | well I was talking about Passion 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-07-09 04:33 [#00302334] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker
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 | thanks flea, but I've read that review and many many others thank-you...
 
 if you read the second post in this thread you read this
 from Amazon.com
 
 "To call Passion a pivotal recording in the development of
 world music would be a significant understatement"
 
 it's obviously world music, and you can call it new age if
 you want... it's a fantastic album...
 
 
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
             from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-07-09 04:43 [#00302348] Points: 16280 Status: Lurker
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 | and well, how exactly is it new age? It's most certainly not, but where do you get that?
 
 
 
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         |  brendan ether
             from the beach (obx, NC) (United States) on 2002-07-09 04:44 [#00302350] Points: 796 Status: Addict
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 | i'm just messing with ya, funk! 
 no, i haven't heard "passion".  but i do have "16 golden
 greats" (i think that's what it's called") and i like almost
 every track on it).
 
 but i don't how many times i have seen you posting about
 this damned "passion" album, but it's got to be in the
 millions by now... and i'm telling you man, you have got to
 quit with this obssession... it's just not healthy! ;-)
 
 
 
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         |  Zeus
             from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-07-09 04:46 [#00302355] Points: 14042 Status: Lurker | Followup to flea: #00302333
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 | well... you responded to my post about Pearl + Umbra... so i thought thats what you were talking about...because you said
 sorry to break it to you zeus...
 
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         |  The_Funkmaster
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 | hehe, I know... it's like with Ironlung and BoC or something... but damn, it really is a fantastic album, at
 least I think so... it's worthy of all these topics about
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         |  BlatantEcho
             from All over (United States) on 2002-07-09 05:00 [#00302373] Points: 7210 Status: Lurker
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 | it would be most fun if I could tell you this was shit music, just cuz so many people were raving about it, but
 iono, it reminds me of the Last of the Mohicans soundtrack.
 
 Definetly not something I could listen to for an extend
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         |  uzim
             on 2002-07-09 11:41 [#00302717] Points: 17716 Status: Lurker
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 | got it this week-end, remastered digipack limited edition... very good :)
 i don't like peter's vocals that much, but 'passion' is
 great... (the only track i don't like is 'with this love')
 
 it has been largely used in his 'eve' cd-rom btw...
 
 
 
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