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** The ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' episode "The City That Bleeds" has "No Self Control" playing over the end scene.
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** The ''Series/MiamiVice'' episode "Evan" prominently features "Biko".
** Music/SimpleMinds' ''Street Fighting Years'' features a CoverVersion of "Biko".
** Music/TearsForFears' [[Music/TheHurting "The Prisoner"]] was written as a MusicalPastiche of "Intruder".
** The ''Series/MiamiVice'' episode "Evan" prominently features "Biko".
** Music/SimpleMinds' ''Street Fighting Years'' features a CoverVersion of "Biko".
** Music/TearsForFears' [[Music/TheHurting "The Prisoner"]] was written as a MusicalPastiche of "Intruder".
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: When "I Don't Remember" debuted in live performances during Gabriel's 1978 tour, it originally featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLGBacqQXcU a much different, poppier mix]] that emphasized Music/DavidByrne-esque scatting and featured guitar solos by [[Music/KingCrimson Robert Fripp]]. This version was intended to be released as ''Melt''[='s=] lead single, but was rejected for being too uncommercial; it would end up becoming the B-side to the album's '''actual''' lead single, "Games Without Frontiers", and would receive [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k_ZRyws8Uc its own music video]] after some considerable editing. Ironically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efEEe2oGCUc the version]] that ended up on ''Melt'' turned out to be less commercial than the live performance. The very first performances of the song also featured a radically different set of lyrics, which were changed as the tour went on; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g4LDMtEFJM a performance]] featuring the original lyrics can be seen on the band's 1978 gig on the German music TV show ''Rockpalast''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: When "I Don't Remember" debuted in live performances during Gabriel's 1978 tour, it originally featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLGBacqQXcU a much different, poppier mix]] that emphasized Music/DavidByrne-esque scatting and featured guitar solos by [[Music/KingCrimson Robert Fripp]].Music/RobertFripp. This version was intended to be released as ''Melt''[='s=] lead single, but was rejected for being too uncommercial; it would end up becoming the B-side to the album's '''actual''' lead single, "Games Without Frontiers", and would receive [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k_ZRyws8Uc its own music video]] after some considerable editing. Ironically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efEEe2oGCUc the version]] that ended up on ''Melt'' turned out to be less commercial than the live performance. The very first performances of the song also featured a radically different set of lyrics, which were changed as the tour went on; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g4LDMtEFJM a performance]] featuring the original lyrics can be seen on the band's 1978 gig on the German music TV show ''Rockpalast''.
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* AscendedFanon: As with Gabriel's other {{Self Titled Album}}s, reissues have referred to it with the FanNickname, ''Melt''.
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* FanNickname: While this is officially Peter Gabriel's third self-titled album, fans called it ''Melt'', due to the cover art. Later reissues used this title, making it AscendedFanon.
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* ColbertBump: "Biko" is widely credited with popularizing the anti-Apartheid movement in the west, with a number of activists in the movement citing Gabriel's single as their main inspiration.
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* AscendedFanon: As with Gabriel's other {{Self Titled Album}}s, reissues have referred to it with the FanNickname, ''Melt''.
* BannedInChina: Both the album and the single release of "Biko" were banned by the government of UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica because of the latter's overt anti-apartheid lyrics, describing them as "harmful to the security of the State." The song consequently had no presence among the South African population as a result despite being one of Gabriel's best-known songs everywhere else.
* BasedOnADream: According to Storm Thorgerson of Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}, the album art was inspired by a dream he had of "a melting face, some kind of wax effigy caught possibly in a museum fire."
* BreakthroughHit: While Creator/AtlanticRecords refused to release his third album [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail because they thought it was uncommercial]], the album reached a respectable no. 22 on the Billboard album charts. The "Games Without Frontiers" single only peaked at no. 48 on the Hot 100, but was a hit on rock radio, with Billboard only launching a chart to track airplay on album rock stations the following year. The success of this album set the stage for his success with ''Music/{{Security}}'' and ''Music/{{So}}'' later in the decade.
* ChannelHop: The album was issued by Creator/MercuryRecords stateside after Gabriel was dropped by Creator/AtlanticRecords. After Gabriel signed to Creator/GeffenRecords for the U.S., Geffen acquired the rights to the album after the Mercury deal expired.
* FanNickname: While this is officially Peter Gabriel's third self-titled album, fans called it ''Melt'', due to the cover art. Later reissues used this title, making it AscendedFanon.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: "Intruder", recorded in 1979 and released the following year, refers to cutting a telephone line, presumably to render a victim unable to call for help if the narrator is discovered. The rise of cell phones would ultimately supplant landlines a few decades later, with [[CellPhonesAreUseless the means of making them unusable being considerably different and more variable]].
* ThrowItIn: How the powerful "gated reverb" drum sound on the opening track, "Intruder", came about. The studio had a microphone hanging above the studio to allow the producers and engineers to talk to the musicians. The microphone used compression and a gate to allow all the musicians to be heard, but Music/PhilCollins happened to be drumming when it was activated. The drums hit quickly instead of dying away gradually. Engineer Hugh Padgham liked the effect so much that it was directly wired into the mixing console.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: When "I Don't Remember" debuted in live performances during Gabriel's 1978 tour, it originally featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLGBacqQXcU a much different, poppier mix]] that emphasized Music/DavidByrne-esque scatting and featured guitar solos by [[Music/KingCrimson Robert Fripp]]. This version was intended to be released as ''Melt''[='s=] lead single, but was rejected for being too uncommercial; it would end up becoming the B-side to the album's '''actual''' lead single, "Games Without Frontiers", and would receive [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k_ZRyws8Uc its own music video]] after some considerable editing. Ironically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efEEe2oGCUc the version]] that ended up on ''Melt'' turned out to be less commercial than the live performance. The very first performances of the song also featured a radically different set of lyrics, which were changed as the tour went on; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g4LDMtEFJM a performance]] featuring the original lyrics can be seen on the band's 1978 gig on the German music TV show ''Rockpalast''.
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* BannedInChina: Both the album and the single release of "Biko" were banned by the government of UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica because of the latter's overt anti-apartheid lyrics, describing them as "harmful to the security of the State." The song consequently had no presence among the South African population as a result despite being one of Gabriel's best-known songs everywhere else.
* BasedOnADream: According to Storm Thorgerson of Creator/{{Hipgnosis}}, the album art was inspired by a dream he had of "a melting face, some kind of wax effigy caught possibly in a museum fire."
* BreakthroughHit: While Creator/AtlanticRecords refused to release his third album [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail because they thought it was uncommercial]], the album reached a respectable no. 22 on the Billboard album charts. The "Games Without Frontiers" single only peaked at no. 48 on the Hot 100, but was a hit on rock radio, with Billboard only launching a chart to track airplay on album rock stations the following year. The success of this album set the stage for his success with ''Music/{{Security}}'' and ''Music/{{So}}'' later in the decade.
* ChannelHop: The album was issued by Creator/MercuryRecords stateside after Gabriel was dropped by Creator/AtlanticRecords. After Gabriel signed to Creator/GeffenRecords for the U.S., Geffen acquired the rights to the album after the Mercury deal expired.
* FanNickname: While this is officially Peter Gabriel's third self-titled album, fans called it ''Melt'', due to the cover art. Later reissues used this title, making it AscendedFanon.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: "Intruder", recorded in 1979 and released the following year, refers to cutting a telephone line, presumably to render a victim unable to call for help if the narrator is discovered. The rise of cell phones would ultimately supplant landlines a few decades later, with [[CellPhonesAreUseless the means of making them unusable being considerably different and more variable]].
* ThrowItIn: How the powerful "gated reverb" drum sound on the opening track, "Intruder", came about. The studio had a microphone hanging above the studio to allow the producers and engineers to talk to the musicians. The microphone used compression and a gate to allow all the musicians to be heard, but Music/PhilCollins happened to be drumming when it was activated. The drums hit quickly instead of dying away gradually. Engineer Hugh Padgham liked the effect so much that it was directly wired into the mixing console.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: When "I Don't Remember" debuted in live performances during Gabriel's 1978 tour, it originally featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLGBacqQXcU a much different, poppier mix]] that emphasized Music/DavidByrne-esque scatting and featured guitar solos by [[Music/KingCrimson Robert Fripp]]. This version was intended to be released as ''Melt''[='s=] lead single, but was rejected for being too uncommercial; it would end up becoming the B-side to the album's '''actual''' lead single, "Games Without Frontiers", and would receive [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k_ZRyws8Uc its own music video]] after some considerable editing. Ironically, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efEEe2oGCUc the version]] that ended up on ''Melt'' turned out to be less commercial than the live performance. The very first performances of the song also featured a radically different set of lyrics, which were changed as the tour went on; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g4LDMtEFJM a performance]] featuring the original lyrics can be seen on the band's 1978 gig on the German music TV show ''Rockpalast''.
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