- Audio CD (Aug 4 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Label: EMI/Virgin
- ASIN: B00009PNA3
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
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After three eponymous discs noteworthy for their thematic richness and musical experimentation, Peter Gabriel yielded to conventional wisdom by actually titling this 1982 successor. In every other respect, however, Security was another stride beyond the progressive rock terrain Gabriel had explored from Genesis forward. Most crucially, he goes deeper into the heart of world music, and further investigates the African sources first invoked on the prior album's magisterial track, "Biko." Security is steeped in polyrhythms, sculpted with synthesizers, and detailed with percussive textures set to a low boil beneath Gabriel's yearning vocals. Its themes of transcendence and identity, and contrasts of modern isolation with primordial community, reverberate through "Lay Your Hands On Me," "I Have the Touch," "The Rhythm of the Heat," and "San Jacinto." And in "Shock the Monkey," the set's initial hit, Gabriel portentously stands dance rhythms on their head in a troubling, funny riff on the mammal within. --Sam Sutherland
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Buy this one first,
This review is from: Security (Audio CD)
This is his best effort. The first track will transport you with it's anthemic darkness and heeeeuge soundscape. The rest of the album will take your breath away with it's amazing atmosphere.Peter's vocals are at their peak here, and the whole album exudes a very African vibe, check out Family and the Fishing Net and San Jacinto, beautiful and totally different. I believe this album was one of the first to use the then-new Fairlight computer/keyboard sampling technology, and the music was so well arranged and composed...and then with this new technology it became so orchestral in it's execution. A rock masterpiece.
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Security" system,
By Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Security (Audio CD)
I loved Peter Gabriel's third album, but it is a primarily English affair, even with the hints of African rhythms that began to creep in around the edges. When it came time to make his fourth album, Gabriel decided to take strides into areas outside his island, and the resulting album (and first to bear a proper title), "Security," was rich with African, Native American and other worldly influences. Not only were the sounds more internationalist, so were the characters involved. From the American Indian who's sadness at seeing his culture dissolve into trivialities like the "Sit'n Bull Steakhouse" to the tribal marriage in "The Family and The Fishing Net," these are people more real than anyone Gabriel had imagined on any of his other recordings. And they certainly did not sound like they were taking tea on the row.The sound of "Security" influenced many to come. The newly reformed King Crimson and the Talking Heads were dabbling in this style of music, and it was still four years before Paul Simon would make "Graceland." It is easy to say that PG3 had as much to do with these musicians' sounds as "Security" did, but it was Gabriel's "Shock The Monkey" that wedged the tribal sounds onto MTV and out from under the novelty aspect. (Adam Ant anyone?) Also, "Security" is easily the first album that carried the term "world music" out and into the general public. Even a band as innocuous as Starship wound up quoting from "Security": their "Connection" from "Nuclear Furniture" lyrically references "I Have The Touch." (There's a line about needing "Peter Gabriel like contact.") Still, that almost sounds like I am somehow slighting this album by comparing it to others. I'll even go so far as to say that the "Biko" derivative "Wallflower" makes the album come up a bit short between PG3 and "So." It's hard to do that with an artist as consistently creative as Peter Gabriel, who chose to keep challenging himself even though commercial success had been eluding him for quite some time. "Shock The Monkey" finally gave him the watershed American momentum that would codify with "So."
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't get ripped off!!!!!!!!!!,
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This review is from: Security (Audio CD)
This is just a re-hash of the stereo CD, it's not "re-mastered" for multi-channel playback. You'd be much happier with Pink Floyd's 30th Anniversary Edition of the album "Dark SIde Of The Moon" or the Eagles "Hotel California" or Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"; these artists took the time and spent the money to do SACD right. Peter Gabriel is just trying to suck more money out of your pocket without any value added in return. Sure it's a slightly better recording than the original CD but certainly not worth buying again.
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