Two 20s

(Kate Bush
and Peter Gabriel)
In the podcast, we are going to talk about Peter Gabriel and Kate
Bush. Including:

Respectively, we’ll talk about why we like these artists and

how they link together and how they’re similar.
We chose four albums from each artist and chose a song
from each
album, comparing the lyrics, the time period and the
fashion/aesthetic
How they have supported each other in the music industry.
Why we find these artists interesting, how we discovered
them, why we like their music
 Games Without Frontiers - Peter
"Don't Give Up" is a song written by
Gabriel and Kate Bush
Peter Gabriel and recorded as a duet
This song is about the childish
with singer Kate Bush for Gabriel's fifth antics of adults, which are
solo studio album So (1986). especially prevalent when
their countries are competing
The song was inspired by the Depressed
in the Olympics. According to
photographs taken by Dorothea Lange,
showing poverty-stricken Americans in Peter Gabriel's opinion. He
Dust Bowl conditions. He felt that a wrote this before the US
song based on this was appropriate to boycotted the Moscow
difficult economic conditions in the Olympics in 1980, an event
United Kingdom under the premiership of that reinforced the theme of
Margaret Thatcher. To support each adults acting like children
countries. over silly games.Kate Bush’s
vocals were added last
“As daylight broke, I
saw the earth minute to the song.
The trees had burned
down to the ground” “Except for Lin Tai Yu
^ This lyric could represent how a familiar
Dressing up in costumes
place can change over time. Playing silly games
Hiding out in treetops
Shouting out rude names”

There Goes A Tenner
(The dreaming)
“The lookout has parked the car
But kept the engine running
Three beeps means trouble's
coming”
As the three robbers are
fearing about the heist the get
away car continues to leave its
ENGINE running while waiting
and gives warning if anything is
needed
the driver is placed onto
pressure with a worried
EXPRESSION face (close up)
while being watched over like
crime and police
Hounds Of Love
(Hounds Of Love)
“Now hounds of love are hunting
I've always been a coward
And I don't know what's good for me”
“Take my shoes off and throw them in
the lake and I'll be
Two steps on the water”
This song is about being hunted down
but only wanted and used for love. She
seems uncomfortable but has to
accept her fate. Running in the dark
away from the society she has to live
in she still gets caught.
The “two steps” suggest that she’s
ready to step into a relationship and a
big leap throwing her own life into it.
Babooshka
(never of ever)
“Capacity to give him all he needs
Just like his wife before she freezed
on him
Just like his wife when she was
beautiful
he shouted out”
This song is based on a wife and
husband not loving each other
anymore. During that time the wife
fakes her own death to show the
husband real emotions. As the
husband doesn’t know the wife has
shown up as a new woman to trick
him and expose him how he felt
towards her.
Wuthering Heights
(The kick inside)
“I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in-a-your window
Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
I've come home, I'm so cold
Let me in-a-your window”
I belive to think this song is
about a break up. She wants to
go back inside the house going
crazy over jealousy until it gets
the better of her feeling like
she’s trapped outside.
4 songs from 4 albums
analysis
 Solsbury Hill
(Peter Gabriel 1: Car)
Climbing up on Solsbury Hill
I could see the city light
Wind was blowing, time stood still
On the surface, this song was based on the
experience he had meditating on Solsbury
Hill in Somerset. He also made this song to
represent his feelings behind leaving
Genesis and the thought process which led
him to do so. He wanted to be out of the
music industry entirely at the time he left “shocked” by moments that seem to confirm
Genesis.
Eagle flew out of the night
He was something to observe
The Eagle in this case represents Bruce
Springsteen. He represented everything
that Peter Gabriel could be if he made the
bold choice to leave the safety of his band
behind and step out on his own.
Shock The Monkey
(Peter Gabriel 4: Security)
Fox the fox, rat on the rat.
You can ape the ape, I know about that
There is one thing you must be sure of
I can't take anymore
This song has been rumoured to
singing in French. The song is based on
be about animal rights but it’s
actually about jealousy. Since the song is
Knockout’ in which participants would
about jealousy, we can infer the “Monkey” is a
manifestation of these innate and primal
dressed in bizarre costumes. The lyrics
feelings that we all develop when we are
our fears and insecurities.
Fox the fox, rat on the rat
You can ape the ape,
To (out)fox someone is to get the better of
them, by sheer cunning. By extension, to rat
someone out is to tattle on them, so it’s to
tattle on the tattletale. Aping something is
to imitate something. Imitating the imitator.
Games Without Frontiers
(Peter Gabriel 3: Melt)
If looks could kill, they probably will
In games without frontiers, war without
tears
Kate Bush features on this song,
a British TV Show called ‘It’s A
compete in games while frequently
themselves are an allegory of the
childish antics of adults.
Dressing up in costumes, playing silly
games
Hiding out in treetops, shouting out rude
names The love that he has for that person may
Theme of adult politicians acting childish,
reinforces the fact that if you take a step
back and remove the power of the institutions
associated with uniforms these politicians
playing with life and death are just playing one
huge game.
That Voice Again
(So)
I wanna be with you, I wanna be clear
But each time I try, it's the voice I hear
I hear that voice again
Referring to the way that inner
thoughts fights we have with
ourselves have may destroyed our
relationships. He is struggling with his
thoughts, should I be with this person
or not? He wants to be with another
person, but his thoughts won’t let him,
He is struggling with himself.
What I carry in my heart
Brings us so close or so far apart
bring them close together, but at the
same time may make him doubt about
whether they should or should not be
together at all.