Line #2 NightmareFuel/PeterGabriel


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5	Music/PeterGabriel is no stranger to [[NightmareFuel nightmarish imagery]] in his music, as [[Music/GenesisBand his former band]] can attest to [[NightmareFuel/GenesisBand during and since his time there]].
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7	[[AC:Music/{{Car}}]]
8	* "Moribund the Burgermeister", an introductory track about a mysterious sickness afflicting the village making the inhabitants thereof convulse. And there's also the chorus being backed by the eerie, watery synths:
9	-->"No one can tell what all this is about,\
10	But I will find out. I will find out. I will find out."
11	* The GlowingEyesOfDoom image from [[https://i.discogs.com/6tGZzum6tdJlD3yhgi_HSl-6wRhOT3hsw-GoiuuLZ6M/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTU3MTE3/ODMtMTQxMzk4NzI2/Ni0yMTcyLmpwZWc.jpeg the innersleeve]].
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13	[[AC:Music/{{Melt}}]]
14	* The "melting face" cover for [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QYl2u2EhP28/VVR8QU4bOUI/AAAAAAAAAWo/F8uV_vm7a5Y/s1600/gabriel_peter__melt_ret_400dpi_0.jpg his third album]], and the similar covers for the related singles [[http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/686/cover_2329201692009.jpg "No Self Control"]] and [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4d/Games_Without_Frontiers.jpg "Games Without Frontiers"]].
15	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAzUh_H7yV0 Intruder]]" introduced the gated reverb to great effect, and was bookended by the grating glass cutter sounds. There is also the creepy near-whisper for Gabriel's singing selling [[ParanoiaFuel the paranoia that the narrating intruder knows his way of breaking into homes]].
16	* "[[https://youtu.be/9k_ZRyws8Uc?si=5ePKm8aQU0meYagf I Don't Remember]]". The song, at least on the album (the video uses a heavily edited live version) is nightmarish enough on its own, but the video... Have fun trying to get used to leather couches again.
17	* “Family Snapshot”, inspired by the JFK events, sung from the perspective of an assassin about to kill a politician. Also qualifies as TearJerker.
18	* "Lead a Normal Life" is creepy in a more understated way, a sunny melody juxtaposed with Gabriel's howls. The [[SingleStanzaSong brief lyrics]] about someone who's been placed in a mental health facility are more sad than anything, but combined with the music the effect is pretty uneasy.
19	* InUniverse, the narrator of "Biko" is so disturbed by the titular figure's murder that he can only dream in red.
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21	[[AC:Music/{{Security}}]]
22	* The cover art for ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Security_-_Peter_Gabriel.jpg Security]]''.
23	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnVf1ZoCJSo Shock the Monkey]]" has a discordant interplay between a "real world", where Peter portrays a CIA/[=MKUltra=]-type businessman, and the bizarre "modern primitive" world, where he portrays a shaman, that the two wound up colliding towards the end.
24	* “The Family And The Fishing Net”. The lyrics sound like a crazy Pagan ritual involving sacrifices and cannibals. But really it’s a metaphor for the ridiculous rituals and superstitions of weddings.
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26	[[AC:Music/{{So}}]]
27	* "Mercy St." is probably his most nightmare-fuelled song, and actually contains many word-images that wouldn't be out of place in a Gothic horror film-- it is in fact an ode to the suicide of poetess Anne Sexton.
28	* "Milgram's 37". For starters, it's named for the number of subjects in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment an infamous social psychology experiment]], and it has a foreboding percussion with the recurring line "We do what we're told".
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30	[[AC:Music/{{Us}}]]
31	* Peter Gabriel's various CG versions of himself in the music video for "Steam". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt87bLX7m_o#t=215 This one]] takes first prize.
32	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Ah2dxTcWw&ab_channel=PeterGabriel The music video]] for "Kiss That Frog" might be even worse, due to the bizarre, gross textures of the video's CG and that it seems to be a twisted retelling of ''Literature/TheFrogPrince'' if the frog was a stalker, shifting to a black and purple form that's especially horrid, and at multiple points the frog eats the woman '''alive'''.
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35	* "Darkness" starts with a simple, blippy rhythm intro and then out of nowhere comes this distorted, screeching howl, and the lyrics throughout don’t help anything. The entire song sounds like a twisted, bleak, industrial lullaby.
36	* The music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAesGRwa_6k The Barry Williams Show]]" gets pretty creepy when the audience in a [[Series/TheJerrySpringerShow Jerry Springer]]-esque show suddenly begin to bleed until the entire stage is literally ''flooded'' with their collected blood. To top it off, the actor portraying Barry Williams (Creator/ChristopherMcDonald) is left stranded on a raft in the middle of it all until falling in at the end.
37	* The bridge to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLkjg7tBL5A "My Head Sounds Like That"]].
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40	* The cover art is a black and white photo of Peter with his hands on his head, but it's been digitally manipulated to [[UncannyValley look a bit off]] when you examine it closely: Most obviously, his left hand is in a physically impossible position, as the corresponding arm is pointed straight down. Meanwhile his right hand seems to be merging with his face, while his right eye [[EyesDoNotBelongThere seems to be attached to his right pinky finger]] (or else the finger is semi-translucent).
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44	%%* Lots of his videos, including "Signal to Noise" and "Rhythm of the Heat"
45	%%* "The Tower That Ate People".

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