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What in the hell do you guys have me watching?! I felt like I needed some 🍄 for this one or something! Song is very well written but this video… OMG
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[@NoelMcGinnis]

The video won a TON of awards and went down as one of the most requested videos in MTV history. Ground breaking.

[@mrkelso]

Yep. This is the most cerebral "I want to lay pipe" song ever, coupled with a video that was revolutionary at the time. Peter Gabriel raises everything he does up the art ladder. Great song, to me.

[@wtimmins]

It's so funny, as a kid in the 80s I had no clue and was like 'what a cool special effects video and catchy tune!' As an adult... whoa. ;)

[@okielady73]

@@wtimmins Same! Knowing every word of this song when I was thirteen yet having *no idea* what it meant 😂

[@rk41gator]

@@okielady73 THAT is why it stayed on the airwaves!

[@Galahad1967]

​@@wtimminstotally true. I was there at the time to. 55 now.

[@diydan2213]

This song all over the radio, MTV and skate rinks across the USA.. good times..

[@oldeskul]

All of Peter Gabriel's videos were very avant garde. He laid the groundwork for artists like Bjork and Gotye.

[@maszkalman3676]

So he is responsible for Björk this guy is an asshole then :D

[@christerfurberg6538]

The video sure is trippy, and it blew everybody's mind back then (and still does, apparently :)). And the lyrics are far more sexual than I thought back in the day. I guess I was young and innocent XD. Big Dipper was a roller-coaster

[@Xarah8]

I know right? I had no clue back in those days. And English was not my first language, so it was always about the music and the lyrics flew over my head. Genesis, Peter, Phil, I was a big fan. I try to keep up with today's new artists but I love these throwback surprises. It makes me feel old though 😂

[@joncreamer6372]

Huge video in the 80's. Peter Gabriel is big time. Solo stuff is great and was in the band Genesis with Phil Collins as well. Also in The Rock N Roll Hall of Fame.

[@NoCanDu]

“Big Time!” 😂

[@dmwalker24]

The way Peter Gabriel composes music is almost frighteningly good. He understands melody, and a great hook (sometimes more than one). The harmony, bass, horns, backup vocals on this track are just a pure joy to listen to. There are many other examples you could check out. Big Time, Shock the Monkey, In Your Eyes, etc...

[@janmulcahy1458]

I used to listen to this on my Walkman, on cassette. Still as good as it was in 1986😊❤

[@revgurley]

When Peter Gabriel left Genesis, I wasn't sure he'd have so successful a solo career; but then he comes out with this! Great song, fun to sing to in the car, and the video was groundbreaking at the time. Stop animation (no CG back then). And, good for Peter, Genesis, and Phil Collins (Genesis drummer who became lead vocal), who all had major hits after this.

[@DS-wn4dx]

As a lyricist I'm surprised that you hadn't heard of him, he's one of the cleverest and best lyricists around, you need to check out all his albums from the 1970's onwards.

[@Parula06]

One of my all-time favorites, and THE best video ever. Peter Gabriel is simply wonderful, a true artist. I went through a rough period where "Shock The Monkey" was pretty much my theme song. Cannot go wrong diving into his catalog. Edited to add: The Big Dipper is an amusement park ride in the UK, rollercoaster methinks. Fruitcage, not fruitcakes. Yes, it's all about getting it on 😎

[@JitteryJay]

There's a big dipper roller coaster here in Ohio in the states as well... It's at Six flags in Aurora I believe... they are probably everywhere 🤔

[@ThomasTallant]

@@JitteryJay I was gonna say the same.... there are 2 "Big Dippers" in California alone.

[@ks5553]

There's also a "Big Dipper" rollercoaster in Pittsburgh at Kennywood park. Although it's been 25 years since I've been there so might not still be true tbh lol@@ThomasTallant

[@sagripes4523]

MAN the 80's and 90's were the BEST for creative music videos

[@birdyseeds]

“Sledgehammer" is the most played music video in the history of MTV and also the most awarded at the MTV Video Music Awards, winning in nine categories: Video of the Year, Best Editing, Best Special Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Concept Video, Best Direction in a Video, Best Male Video, Best Overall Performance and Most Experimental Video. As of 2015, this record of nine wins at the VMA's hasn't been broken by any artist. “

[@Davey_bfg71]

So Peter Gabriel rose to fame as the original lead singer in Genesis, he quit Genesis in 1975 to pursue a solo career. Sledgehammer was the most successful tracks from his 1986 album ‘So’, this album was certified triple platinum in the UK and 5x platinum in the USA! This video won 9 MTV awards in 1987 and in 2011 was recognised as MTV’s most played video ever 😊

[@siamsurf]

His live shows are amazing.

[@siamsurf]

Also... please do: B.o.B. - Dr. Aden 🙏

[@nebody666]

Aw man, 'Celebrity Deathmatch'?! That show was amazing!! 😅👍

[@edwardbrady1698]

No shrooms just the 1980s. The world just looked like that.

[@Grizzlox]

I was a kid when I saw this on MTV... it blew my mind, and I got obsessed with anything that was claymation afterwards.

[@seana2646]

Its an old video but a stone cold classic. The video was a ground breaking stop motion film put with music. No one would even attempt it now becuase of cost when you have computers. Back when this was made computers couldn't do anything like this. Peter Gabriel is an interesting artist, was big in a band, then solo, done wonders for others artists with his own studio, record label & done pretty well out of other ventures. If you wanted to be an artist with a lot of fingers in a lot of good pies then he would not be a bad example to copy.

[@radwolf76]

"Back when this was made computers couldn't do anything like this." Exactly. If you want to see what computers WERE capable of, look to Dire Straits music video for Money for Nothing from a year prior.

[@aweejobby788]

This was groundbreaking when it came out in the 80’s,the whole video was stop-go animation,no computer animations back then!the lyrics are also full of 6ual inuendo!

[@TheVirgin1972]

I was 14 when this came out. Loved it, visually it was amazing, Peter Gabriel is a great artist. Thanks for the blast to the past ❤!!!!! 1986

[@ellesee7079]

Early days of MTV and this video was perfect for it! No CGI or amazing computer graphics back then. God, I'm old!! 😢😂

[@radwolf76]

While not the only stop motion animation artist who worked on this, Nick Park from Aardman Animations did the part with the dancing chickens. He'd later go on to do the Wallace and Grommit movies.

[@angelinamay161]

This was a nostalgic moment. My mom loves music, and MTV was often playing in my house when I was a kid. This video/song makes about as much sense now as it did then, but I loved watching your reaction to it. It's one of those videos that would probably make more sense if you were high! 🤣

[@MrJfick]

This was my favorite video as a kid didn’t realize it was about sex until I was older 😂

[@leeannies-tears369]

Peter Gabriel's lyrics in "Steam" are so clever!

[@tobeski]

Early video work from Aardman Animations who went on to win multiple Oscars for the Wallace & Gromit movies. Also worth watching the BBC "Classic Albums" documentary about the making of the album "So" that this came from, if only for the story about Manu Katché, the French session drummer brought in for this. He did one take and went to leave. Peter Gabriel is notorious for asking musicians to do lots and lots of takes and asked him "Yeah, Manu, I think we should do another one" "Why? It's perfect"

[@Ueberschaer]

State of the art production those days, great song and musicality and a timeless videoart. One of a kind.

[@madelineshockley5906]

This was one of the premium vids on MTV when it first started. My 11 year old son & I loved it. Good memories.

[@thetalantonx]

4:36 - Fruit cage, UK slang. A fruit cage in gardening is a structure you build to restrict access to the tasty bits.

[@eduardocrestani2454]

I remember this plays all the time on the mtv channel….Peter Gabriel is a truly genius

[@johnpbh]

Every single Peter Gabriel song has lyrics as good as this one.. He IS unique. His music is unique. Honestly, if you get the opportunity to see him live then go... you will thank yourself for giving yourself a treat... He ALWAYS puts on a show that is unique.. And he has been a BIG promoter of wold music since the 70's. And his stuff is like no other. You will love ALL of his lyrics. If your are a lyricist I promise you.

[@annalieff-saxby568]

It's a FRUIT CAGE. A fruit cage is an area in an orchard circumscribed by netting, which prevents birds from stealing the fruit. The mesh is large enough to allow honeybees (oh, yeah, baby) in to fertilise the blossom.

[@Y_.R]

This video was everywhere when it came out! There hadn’t been anything like it. I’d seen it a ton of times. Then I took ecstasy for the first and only time in my life. We were watching MTV and the video came on. When those chickens started dancing, I was dead - funniest thing I’d ever seen! I’ve never looked at the video again without a massive smile on my face.

[@gablen23]

So creative, and that was just the infancy of the video era. I mean, creative visually, and creative sonically.

[@SavannahMeercat]

Ooh, there's an NSP cover of this song. I love them both ❤

[@reddyleigh4490]

And I might add that in movie Say Anything that made that song even bigger is also amazing!! John Cusack is younger days. Great song, great movie! Peter Gabriel was big back in the day.

[@ganggreen9012]

I see a couple of people have already mentioned it, but I want to add on, 'Take on Me' by A-Ha is one of the best and most ground breaking videos ever. And the song is dang catchy too.

[@andreadeamon6419]

My son was born late 1985. This was his favorite video - he would run into the room when this came on. Think it had a big part of him walking early.

[@GinMae]

Thanks, Cliff - this was an award-winning video... notwithstanding the awesome song itself! lol

[@robingiles927]

Thank you so much one of my favorite videos of all time it was ahead of it's time

[@piperbird7193]

I remember waiting all day on MTV and VH1 for this video to come on. This video, and Talking Heads Road to Nowhere, because these two videos were so unique for the time. The stop motion animation was just so cool, there wasn't anything like it out there. I will always remember the little running peanut butter and jelly man in the corner of Road to Nowhere.

[@Galahad1967]

Bearing in mind this was one of the first videos on MTV in the 80's,way ahead of its time.

[@Retro-71990]

Aardman produced the video to this song, they're known for Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run. They are best known for wax works and stop-motion animation.

[@thenomadicpen]

Best not to be too literal about this vid, Homie. It's a banger about bangin' and it's dope on every level. Keep out of your head for this one.

[@stevehuffman1495]

Crazy and creative video for a song about f***ing. I love this song.

[@coachmullen1]

Peter Gabriel is an amazing artist. Very creative and talented lyrically. He's a real songwriter and he went into real life topics all the time. Very relatable!

[@petrosinella]

Yup, the song's totally about laying pipe. Watching Peter Gabriel perform this live will erase any doubts about that.

[@kevingrupa6197]

MTV (Music Television) launched on cable tv in August 1981. This led to an explosion of creativity for about 8-10 years. Every performer with a hit song was looking to find the next level of innovation for doing their song(s) in video form. Phil Collins (drummer for Genesis, which Peter Gabriel left some years earlier) made a video which mocked seven previous hit videos - Billy, Don't You Lose My Number. Then MTV went conventional, and it's been unwatchable since.

[@Berto2K]

LOL your facial reactions to this is priceless! This video was insane when it first came out.

[@allengator1914]

You should do more Peter Gabriel when he was the original front man for Genesis. Their epic masterpiece is the 23 minute long "Supper's Ready" loosely based on the Book of Revelations. It's a song you need to experience at least once in your life.

[@ameyer1970]

This video won video of the year in 1987 and is still MTV’s most played video ever.

[@Dorythefish13]

Whoa... I feel old now. My parents loved Peter Gabriel when I was a kid. I remember seeing this video on C100 and Much Music :D

[@johnjr757]

This was a really trippy video when I was a kid, but if you want a nightmare fuel video from that era check out Genesis "Land of Confusion". Then check out the cover by Disturbed.

[@04m11]

I remembered when I saw one of his videos as a kid, where he laid in a field of grass and decomposed into the ground

[@calebclunie4001]

He's coming out with a new album, this year. One track releasing, every full moon.

[@davidrauh8118]

Peter asked a number of artists for ideas. He liked them all, so he decided to use as many as he could. Similar videos for his songs Big Time and Digging In The Dirt. Check them out. He was the original singer for the band Genesis.

[@JitteryJay]

As SOON as I saw that you reacted to this, I knew you'd get a bit tripped out by this video... This is from MY time... came out in the early 80's.. 🤣🤣🤣 You think shrooms would be a bad idea, try acid lol 😳😎

[@tuntemon]

This is my absolute favourite music video! So creative, stop motion but with an actual person.

[@christypriest30]

I’m aging myself but when MTV first started they played this video all the time and most of us were too young to understand this song which was probably a good thing but that’s how it was

[@jamesalexander5623]

Considered by many to be the greatest Video of all time! .... And Yes it's about Skrewing! ....

[@feliciakidd9358]

What? You never seen this music video before??😮 I was a teen in the 80's. This is a classic.

[@itsakittyting]

This was a massive hit here in The Netherlands back in the day, weird song but it hangs around in your head for days on end. This was made in the time when artists were trying out the new sounds and instruments that came with the invention of the synthesizer and I never thought about the meaning of this song😁 never saw the video either because we only had half an hour per week that videos were shown on tv and apparently never this one. Great reaction again haha nice freaky suggestion from your pal there. The video reminds me of MJ's video Leave Me Alone

[@elunedlaine8661]

The expression on your face was priceless

[@sarahjhb76]

You were born and returned to the stars

[@crystalann5220]

If I'm not mistaken.... This was the first ever MTV Music video award winner!

[@DanloRingess]

I appreciate your reaction here. This is definitely one of the most iconic and influential music videos of all time. Peter Gabriel has some absolutely amazing songs. I think you would REALLY appreciate watching his live performance of the song "In Your Eyes" from his Secret Live World tour. The video for that is one of my favorite live performances ever. It is one of the very few times where I actually prefer the live performance to the recorded version of a song. (I enjoy live performances, but the sound, etc. usually just isn't as good as the original recording. In Your Eyes from Secret World Live is a major exception.)

[@rk41gator]

Such a great video. A lyrist? YOU are going to love Peter Gabriel. He is a wordsmith and loves wordplay with Genesis and his solo work. Suggestive much? LOL Going to his concert in October.

[@justapoet2794]

This is one of those music videos that I just come back to occasionally just because it’s so cool! Great reaction btw. I wish I had some music videos to recommend but nothing is coming to me at the moment. OH I know! “Virtual Insanity” by Jamiroquai! That song and music video never disappoints, promise👍.

[@nickf2000ss]

all I can say is , Ah the 80's, it was a magical, different time

[@Stonn2222]

Iconic video when it came out!

[@TheMeidica]

If you haven’t, check out his collaboration with Kate Bush Don’t give up

[@petervenkman69]

The video is by Aardman Animations, the same people that did Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run, they are probably the most famous company for doing stop motion animation.

[@Susudio-nc8ml]

You'll like Big Time and In Your Eyes also! Peter Gabriel was the original singer of Genesis. Try the song Shock The Monkey!!!! This video won awards for the stop action animation. At the end where he's walking out of the door with the lights on him he said he got shocked from the lights!

[@sarahroberts8724]

Not a huge Peter Gabriel fan but I love it was done by Nick Park who did Wallis and Gromit. I just found your Ricky Gervais video and subscribed. Love that you are open about supporting folk with PTSD, addiction, depression etc The world need more folks like you. Wishing you the richest of blessings x

[@TheZoenGaming]

Koi fish will often circle eachother that way and because of that ended up being part of several asian mythologies representing a paired god and goddess, hence Yin and Yang.

[@ericcarriker7602]

It was a trip watching it for the first time in the 80's on Mtv... state of mind not mentioned.

[@richardcramer1604]

Peter Gabriel like Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford were in Genesis (a hugely popular progressive rock band), all of which had very good solo careers. Peter was and is the most avant garde of the lot. IMHO Peters best songs are Sledgehammer, Games Without Frontiers, Biko, In Your Eyes, Shock The Monkey, Big Time, and Digging in the Dirt.

[@spikebeans9563]

This video would be trippy on shrooms lol. Probally the most influential Ground breaking video of all time. I'd rate it higher than MJ Thriller. Peter was brilliant. Thanks. One of the most epic reactions I've seen to this song.

[@marcusrichards402]

It was a number one hit in 1986. It won MTV video of the year.

[@Darmesis]

A commercial hit, but so BADAZZ on musical greatness levels that transcend time and space! 🤘

[@michaelgoing6695]

Yep, this video was made during the MTV heyday. It won 9 awards and the MTV music awards.

[@sandyhickey8236]

Peter Gabriel is very creative to say the least

[@andrewmoss3681]

A truly classic song. Please check out, Lynyrd Skynyrd's LIVE performance of, Free Bird, Oakland, '77. One of the best songs for guitar, EVER! Much love to everyone from here in the UK. LONG LIVE THE AoD, THE SEWER RATS & THE GREAT PYRAMID SCHEME!!!

[@daisychainexplores]

Now you need to watch the other groundbreaking video from the 80s if you haven't already. That is "Take on me by A-Ha"

[@jimtatro6550]

This video and entire album were HUGE

[@lisamayreed6399]

Love it! 😂

[@reddyleigh4490]

In Your Eyes is awesome!!

[@lynette.]

Saw him live when with Genesis he was incredibly theatrical he wore a red dress and a foxes head because the album Foxtrot had just been released. This is such an iconic video.

[@holgerschussler9107]

Peter Gabriel was actually the original lead singervof Genesis...Phil Collins took over the vocals

[@glenkrisch4844]

The look on your face. This video has gotten that reaction for decades.

[@TheTibbott]

Peter Gabriel was busted on for making a "pop" song, too "commercial", but when this video came out it took all the air out of you. This was a whole new kind of art. It was SO COOL.

[@thetalantonx]

6:27 - "Which came first..."

[@mr.esmathvideos9222]

How on earth do you not know Peter Gabriel?? The man is a legend! Check out Solisbury Hill, In Your Eyes, and Games Without Frontiers

[@TahoeNevada]

The animator previously worked with Frank Zappa on the film, Baby Snakes. That’s one you should watch while you’re “altered”.

[@sheenadees2701]

I keep forgetting you're young it's either that or and forgetting I'm old 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this was on the radio all the time in the 80's

[@hathorearthfyre]

Big Dipper is the name of the roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in CA.

[@santiagogarciajr1188]

This was the first videos of its time. The first to have claymation l.

[@lisagignac1182]

Dude, just relax and have fun. This is Peter Gabriel, a creative, having fun, - no pipe needed, lol!

[@jd35711]

my brother in Christ, peter gabriel is a legit legend with an extensive and extremely varied body of work, both as the lead singer of the prog rock band Genesis - which I'm sure you've heard of - and as a solo artist. highly rec you learn a little more about him.

[@slodent]

I quite like Peter Gabriel, he has some bangers. My faves are Sledgehammer, In Your Eyes, Shock the Monkey, and Games without Frontiers.