Good friend of mine gave me his dad's copy of Peter Gabriel's 2002 compilation "Hit", and I've been bumping the hilariously titled second disk "Miss" in the car the last few days. This is extraordinary stuff.

I've also always been interested in the weirdly mirrored nature of Pete's career alongside Phil Collins. Both british white guys with prog rock backgrounds subverting expectations by singing over somewhat appropriated afro styled beats and world music in raspy voices in similar registers, with weird early solo work, a reliance on heavy drums, shared commercial peaks in 1985-6 both solo and with Genesis ("So", "No Jacket Required", "Invisible Touch"), with attempted comebacks in 1991 ("Us", "Both Sides of the Story", "We Can't Dance"), final albums of original material in 2001 ("Up", Testify"), and a covers album in 2010 ("Scratch My Back" "Going Back").

Sidenote but I forgot how bass heavy and funky this stuff can be as well. Ya got some real Otis style Stax records influence on "Sledgehammer" and later "Steam". Great inclusion on the "Hit" compilation by including "Lovetown" off the soundtrack to Philadelphia too. As a part time hip hop producer, I'm going to sample the shit out of this.

But anyway I'm pretty high and I think Pete is amazing and I just thought I'd share this fact with the world.