SO 80's! 🎵 Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer REACTION

[@anthonyv1719]

Special effects were intentional. No tweaking people. Revolutionary at the time. Stop motion animation dates back to the 1920's.

[@andrewwright9378]

Some people say we’ve been dumbed down over the years, but that would be unfair wouldn’t it? 🤪🤔😤

[@kennethv5250]

@@andrewwright9378 sometimes i just shake my head and want the world to burn

[@macsfe9828]

I was gonna say.. are younger people not familiar with stop-motion??

[@kennethv5250]

@@macsfe9828 apparently brad isnt

[@djC653]

Ray Harryhausen FTW

[@MaxLeGrand33]

So funny you said Peter Gabriel sounds like Phil Collins. They were both members of Genesis, until Gabriel left and Collins, who used to be on drums, took his place as vocalist.

[@79Testarossi]

Fact’s 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@parinthianquattropani9071]

Yup Yup!

[@swfcocs1]

Not sure either of them would like the comparison lol

[@chazza5891]

Maybe they should react to Supper's Ready!

[@andreadeamon6419]

Phil continued to play drums with genesis until they split

[@lisajohnson521]

Don't sleep on Pete. He is a legend in the game.

[@michaelmccaffery8327]

Right on Lisa!

[@guitarman8462]

Genesis " Lamb Lies Down On Broadway "

[@SirWrecksy]

Solsbury Hill

[@guitarman8462]

@@SirWrecksy Games Without Frontiers - Steam - Not One Of Us

[@claudiusmalina1371]

they dont care

[@jamzales]

This was the artistry back in the 80's. It was the MTv era. Wild zany and wak was the coin of the day. Peter Gabriel was the original singer of the band Genesis. This song won 9 Mtv music awards at the 1987 M T.V. music awards. He's quite an accomplished singer songwriter, producer.

[@s.mcpherson6354]

Yes, post-absurdist societies have difficulty recognizing the fact that absurdism needed to be created/discovered, and that it was only discovered quite recently. For Gabriel's part, he pioneered his own sound and he is up there with the giants of music. They'd do themselves a favour by pursuing more of his work.

[@chrissilverhand1]

QUITE accomplished? ..........that's a serious understatement.

[@carlitosd.9699]

At the time, Peter Gabriel was by far one of the most experimental Artists out there, sonically for sure, but also with his videos… this one is basically “stop motion”, which is a technique still used in movies like “Coraline”, ‘’Nightmare before Christmas”, or some of the early TOOL videos… it’s super time-consuming and for sure an Artform in its own right.

[@douglasfrantzen3011]

Yeah, I don't think that these two get around much. The animation is made from individual photographs with all the changes made between. Very time consuming and a very cool form of animation. A simpler method, we used to sketch onto notepads for fun back in school days and flip the pages to watch the animation happen.

[@Dreyno]

The pinnacle of the art form is the Wombles and I’ll fight any man that says different 😬

[@madicelander]

Yeah, the creativeness of the music video was completely wasted on them lol. They just thought it was bad 80's technology or bad special effects.

[@DaRozeman]

Peter said that he loved doing this video, but the worst part was the airplane part, they had to scrub off and re-paint his face numerous times and Peter said after a couple scrubbings it got painful.

[@carlitosd.9699]

@@madicelander …. it’s gotta be trippy for kids that grew up with digital editing to understand how low-tech this stuff was and how difficult and how much of an artform it is! 😅

[@steviegarza1166]

The bass line on this song is everything

[@PjRjHj]

The Great Tony Levin

[@cobaltcanarycherry]

Sexy beyond belief! All the girls lovin' on Peter back in the day.

[@msoileau83]

@@PjRjHj So underrated.

[@scottbarrie1303]

You ever heard the saying “We’re standing on the shoulders of giants”? Errrr, I’m not convinced you guys get that. Not even the tiniest amount. Fun vid though.

[@LaurenLawDawg]

All bass players just replied....

[@ScottT248]

As soon as I seen the song in the title I knew Brad would be freaked out by the video. One of the most iconic videos of the 80's,

[@emilymartinez6961]

What doesn't Brad freak out on, he really needs thinker skin if you know what l mean, he always tries to make sense of the lyrics, just listen to the song if it's to much for you ears. ✌

[@smashleyscott8272]

@@emilymartinez6961 .... you do realize that differing personalities means different appraches, right....?? His approach to evaluating or gaging music is different than your... neither is wrong. And it has nothing to do with "think skin" or "thin skin", it's just his approach to music... He grew up on hip hop, rap, and R&B, where the lyrics and the vocals were THE focal point of the song. There are no guitar riffs, guitar solos, or instrumental transitions in rap or hip hop unless it's sampled. The music in hip hop and rap is secondary, that's why the beats are almost all the same. He's learning new styles of music... it's exploration for him. He has to experience it in a way that HE can make sense of, not in a way that makes sense to YOU. Also, I've never seen Brad "freak out"... he's always pretty stoic. I've watched probably half of their reaction videos, and I've never seen him "freak out". People won't always like what you like, or get what you get.

[@jimmorrison3756]

@@smashleyscott8272 What Emily Means Scott is that Brad isn't a great listener of Rock or Pop music.

[@smashleyscott8272]

@@jimmorrison3756 ... it's new to him. This is a learned trait.

[@astroteech]

Peter Gabriel was half of the genius of the early "Genesis". Everything he did afterwards was musical genius in its own right.

[@tomasgonzalezmarin6118]

This video is a complete Masterpiece. At the time it was released was absolutely crazy, but Peter Gabriel was always an experimental musician. Genesis with him was progressive rock. If you want to hear his more pop songs you have to react to In your eyes, Solsbury Hill or Don't give up. If you want more like Sledgehammer you could react to Steam, Shock the Monkey or Big Time. Regards from Chile!

[@tedtraikovski9446]

Absolutely it is a masterpiece but people don’t see it.

[@jamesc5535]

This video was made before CGI existed. Top 10 videos of all time. NEVER heard a negative word about it...EVER

[@chuckwilliams6261]

It was a good video, but MTV ran it in such heavy rotation, I for one, got sick of it.

[@smashleyscott8272]

I disliked this video, and I grew up inthat era. I honestly know very few people who are fans of Peter Gabriel. Interests and tastes are highly subjective.

[@smashleyscott8272]

@@chuckwilliams6261... WAY too much

[@twiff3rino28]

CGI existed in '86. Watch Star Trek IV.

[@benfinesilver2250]

@@smashleyscott8272 It was a worldwide number 1 song of the year. Not sure how people didn’t him

[@BalbazaktheGreat]

Not the reaction to stop-motion animation I was expecting; this was a very innovative and influential video at the time.

[@smashleyscott8272]

Not everyone likes that style... myself included.

[@MalakDawnfire]

@@smashleyscott8272 Should still appreciate the time investment and skill required and it's a huge reason of the decline of any actual effort put into Music Videos these days. It's all just the band playing. Jesus. Sorry this style offends you but at least it made this one interesting. There will be plenty more lifeless stuff for you to like in the future.

[@smashleyscott8272]

@MalakDawnfire ... That was an interesting response to a pretty benign comment. Where do you get that lane & pathetic idea that stop motion "offends" me?? Are you personally offended by everything that you don't like?? It appears that you are, hence the projection...?? I grew up in the 80s... and most music videos sucked in that era. They didn't have any more "life" in them than the crap released today.

[@surlechapeau]

B&L, his "In Your Eyes", "Solsbury Hill" and "Games Without Frontiers" are next for you!!!

[@James_Loveless]

Shock the Monkey also

[@TheFairyintheFishBowl]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@8moody1]

@@James_Loveless All great songs! Mercy Street as well.

[@conureron3792]

@@8moody1 - Mercy Street is tremendously creative, if you know what it is about.

[@Mrdell061]

Also "Digging In the Dirt"

[@olripper2700]

This video was made by using 675,000 individual still photos, assembled into a moving collage. One thing to notice is that while the video is speeding along with stop motion effects, if you focus on Peter Gabriel's lip movements, they are totally in sync with the lyrics being sung... which puts them out of sync with the speeding video... genius level editing.

[@alastairmcintyre4752]

It's " STOP MOTION " ( which isn't an 60s thing - it's about a hundred years old ) This was the age of MTV when videos were as important as the songs themselves

[@TheOligoclonalBand]

Stop Motion here was done by Aardman (Wallace & Gromit) if I recall correctly.

[@barriehull7076]

The "Sledgehammer" video was commissioned by Tessa Watts at Virgin Records, directed by Stephen R. Johnson and produced by Adam Whittaker. Aardman Animations and the Brothers Quay provided claymation, pixilation, and stop motion animation that gave life to images in the song. Many of these techniques had been employed in earlier music videos, such as Talking Heads's 1985 hit "Road to Nowhere", also directed by Johnson. The style was later used in the video for "Big Time", another single from So. Gabriel lay under a sheet of glass for 16 hours while filming the video one frame at a time.

[@mr.knowitall6440]

"Shock the Monkey" is an iconic one from the same era, similar style. Peter Gabriel then went into a whole era of African-influenced stuff... I guess what you could call a different type of "Mandela effect" 😉 Paul Simon had a similar phase.

[@paulfrombrooklyn5409]

I like the German Version of Shock the Monkey

[@LaurenLawDawg]

The "NELSON Mandela effect/affect"

[@chaipup7045]

The stop motion video was made by the same people that did Wallace and Grommit

[@MrThischarmingman2]

Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park specifically animated the dancing oven ready chickens.

[@sarahzentexas]

That’s so true-in the 80’s, they figured out all these techniques, and they def used them. This video was groundbreaking and won ALL the awards.

[@torbjrnlund903]

I think the song is great, but the video sucks.

[@thechronicmaster-baker7172]

they take out every 3rd frame to create the jerky motion, this was a cutting edge video in its time

[@RSpracticalshooting]

Pretty sure they just did stop motion for the whole video.

[@thechronicmaster-baker7172]

@@RSpracticalshooting yes they did that too

[@TheScottSlater]

Peter Gabriel is a certified weirdo and I mean that in the best of ways. I wholeheartedly agree with following up with "In Your Eyes" (especially the "Secret World Live" version that's been making the reaction video rounds -- for its sheer joy and celebration of music and culture) and "Don't Give Up" for (beautifully) getting deep into the weeds of sadness and loss of hope.

[@conureron3792]

Gabriel is one of the most innovative musicians. His So album is a study of manic-depression. Manic songs like Sledgehammer juxtaposed with melancholy ones like Mercy Street and Don’t Give Up.

[@joebeard4687]

When this song comes on the radio, I can't help but to listen to. I never can change it! lol

[@Grington300]

Before he went solo Peter Gabriel was lead vocalist with Genesis when they were a prog rock band.

[@bevil4aday]

Peter has a great catalog of hits. This, Games Without Frontiers, Digging in the Dirt, and Salisbury Hill.

[@torebelthoft4471]

Don´t forget Biko

[@brianhetzer8421]

And the greatest love song ever, In Your Eyes.

[@countdoomiest]

Solsbury Hill

[@bevil4aday]

@@countdoomiest I knew that wasn't the right spelling, but my damn phone switched it on me.

[@bevil4aday]

@@brianhetzer8421 Nights in White Satin is the greatest love song ever, but In Your Eyes is a damn good one too.

[@BLew657]

Revolutionary video.35 years old and still looks cool and current. This won 9 MTV Awards.

[@donchaffins1313]

The style of the video is stop motion photography. It is how they did clay-mation back in the day before Pixar and Disney had the ability to do 3-D animation.

[@Cadinho93]

You guys should react to… Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes 🎸🤘

[@kristiemao4275]

In Your Eyes is one of my favorite songs of all times. Mercy Street off was also brilliant.

[@RÅNÇIÐ]

Funny that she said he sounds like Phil Collins without knowing that they were in a band together. xD

[@markfeggeler3479]

Peter Gabriel has an incredible catalog of outstanding songs both from his solo career and from his time as lead singer of Genesis. Two great songs are Blood of Eden (solo) and Cinema Show/Aisle of Plenty (Genesis). Also, Phil Collins was the drummer for Genesis when Peter Gabriel was singer and later took over as lead singer when Gabriel left the band.

[@kevinn.5066]

His first two solo albums are still among my favorite all-time records.

[@davidbanachek7966]

“Stop motion” technique was far from being a new high-tech video effect even in the 1980s. It has been around at least 100 years. It's a painstakingly slow and manual process of filming one frame, then make a slight adjustment to the items being filmed, and then taking another single frame. Takes a long time to do even a short video.

[@707Berto]

Think cartoons.

[@mgreenwa]

Think: one of the Christmas specials (Rudolph or The Year w/o a Santa Claus).

[@kristiemao4275]

@@707Berto Wallace and Gromit :)

[@BailaMorena4Eva]

One of the best music videos of all time.

[@CitiesTurnedToDust]

It was mind-bending to see the reaction of someone seeing stop-motion effects for the first time, and not even knowing what that is...what we used for special effects before computer animation was feasible. I would never have guessed someone would think it was that creepy and that the person being animated was "tweaking"

[@theheepster]

You guys are so clueless. This music video was a revolution when it came out. At the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, the video won nine awards, setting a record that remains unbroken to this day.

[@paulkazakoff9231]

Your right there was nothing like it at the time and quite genius the clip and music.Peter Gabriel is a great artist.

[@djskdjsk28]

agree 💯 clueless 🙄

[@macinfloydvolk]

They’re trying … they didn’t grow up in that era so there’s a lot of things they don’t know … but they’re here listening to this music and keeping it alive

[@terryspak5763]

Go easy on them, they're only now discovering all this. They have no idea what things where like back then, we're in such different times, so they're doing the best they can to compare it to what they know, because that's all the reference they have. They would have no idea how innovative this was, came out b4 they were born.

[@Mckatt2]

Oh my God! I have to cancel my subscription to this reaction channel because these two never seem to understand any songs! Lex in particular never understands what the hell song is about it frustrates me so much!

[@Being_There]

Peter Gabriel is the Genesis of the Phil Collins vocal sound…see what I did there?

[@Kylopod]

I have noticed the similarities in their voices before (you can definitely hear it in "Solsbury Hill"), which I find interesting for several reasons. First, he's a baritone whereas Collins is a tenor, so it's almost like Collins is Gabriel at a higher register. Second, supposedly after he left Genesis they initially didn't even think of choosing Collins, their drummer, as the replacement, even though Collins had been singing professionally since childhood. Did Collins consciously imitate Gabriel when developing his pop-music style, or was it coincidental? Or did they choose Collins because they noticed the similarities in their voices?

[@Levity635]

I don't know how anybody could watch this music video & not be incredibly impressed. It deserves so much more than being called a distraction.

[@EyeTunz]

Audibly and visually the best the 80’s had to offer.

[@smashleyscott8272]

I would disagree... and that is what makes the world turn.

[@stevew7719]

It's called stop motion animation guys.

[@strqrt70]

And it dates back over 100 years. Not new technology in the 80’s.

[@samuelriebesehl9907]

It’s stop motion, he’s not physically moving in real time that way

[@kennydeez..1774]

Lex was so funny doing the chicken dance...😆

[@goldenruletv7301]

"Digging in the Dirt' is one of my favorite Gabriel tunes.

[@tammybrigham7865]

Yes...that’s one of my favs too! 🙂👍🏾

[@marcuspfister2047]

I m impressed by Peter Gapriels voice it sounds like dangerous gangster but he looks like a desk clark never could do any harm to anybody . Terrific groove ! I found a few exiting live versions.

[@an1malsr0ck]

I was completely oblivious to what the lyrics were about in this song when I was young! 🤣

[@mikephillips8810]

Ha ha same. Also I thought Led Zeppelin's 'Custard Pie' was about food!

[@an1malsr0ck]

@@mikephillips8810 the innocence of youth! I didn't even think anything bad of that song (forget the name) where the lyrics literally say 'when I think about you, I touch myself!'

[@evanwilliams6923]

This is the most played music video in the history of MTV. You had to be around back then to understand what it meant.

[@Weyland_Yutani_Corp]

A brilliant song, fabulous album, and a killer video. Nearly 40 years later and it still ranks in the top ten best music videos of all time. This video seemed to be on permanent rotation on MTV back in the days when MTV actually played music videos.

[@ericsierra-franco7802]

Peter Gabriel is a creative genius! His videos are but a taste of his creative brilliance. I've seen him five times.....the first time in 83.

[@gemma3954]

“In your eyes” secret world live tour is amazing. The vibe you feel just by watching and hearing it is unmatched. It feels spiritual. That’s just by watching the recording; imagine being there? Brad & Lex please react to this. My parents saw this live so it’s not really my generation but it’s still magical. I can’t imagine you wouldn’t feel it too.

[@rowdyron4111]

Peter Gabriel is legendary.

[@mrtrick9615]

One of the greatest music videos of all time. It’s stop motion, and intentionally exaggerated to have that Staccato movement. That’s the artistic intent. This just scratches the surface of great Peter Gabriel songs. “In Your Eyes”, “Solsbury Hill” and “Big Time” notable among them. (“Don’t Give Up” is my personal favorite.)

[@jeffstevens4262]

So glad to see one of you got it! Lex was smiling all the way through and that was the reason for making the video. The song is about sex (the first scene with the two eggs meeting up and fertilising...) This video was an iconic and ground-breaking introduction to show the extent to which special effects could be used, and at the time it won a number of awards for innovation. It's a master-piece.

[@DerekDominoes]

Now check out a couple of other songs of his: "Shock the Monkey" and "Lay Your Hands On Me"

[@frankmarsh1159]

I think they would like "Steam"or "Big Time".

[@TracyfromNC]

Big award winner...best video!

[@dovoppenheim3106]

This is a legendary clip! It was made in the old style technic of shot after shot of still pictures… old style animation. Regards from Israel

[@babaoriley1]

Gabriel wasn't tweaking. It was stop motion photography. He interviewed on BBC Radio 2 and said it took 16 hours to film certain sequences. He had to lay under a sheet of glass while each photo was shot one at a time taking 16 hours to complete. He said it was a very painful experience. It was a very innovative video for its time.

[@gj8683]

Gabriel is a very clever and witty lyricist and has covered a broad range of subjects. He's written a few with sexual innuendos, such as "Counting Out Time" from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway album when we was with Genesis. And "The Battle of Epping Forest" has a segment in which a clergyman is recommended an "Old-Fashioned Staffordshire Plate." I still can't figure that one out.

[@MrDiddyDee]

For Gabriel's sexual songs you've got to mention one of the most blatant, 'Kiss that frog', about oral sex. with lines that are very thinly veiled.

[@libbyrn8974]

Ultimate mid 80s. Loved MTV when it was so fun and free spirited and goofy. You could just sit back and chill! Peter Gabriel is legend!

[@cdm46290]

this is one where you should pay attention to the video. Groundbreaking at the time.

[@mikeshoe74]

This was video of the year back when awards meant something

[@evanboardman08]

Brad was so creeped out by the music video🤣

[@thegroovetube3247]

He looks like that with every single video!

[@Mckatt2]

He looks like he never saw a music video before, look at those why dies in stunned stupefied expression that he has on his face constantly, let’s just has that the nine what the hell is going on I don’t know look about her

[@pennysilvey8868]

We didn’t have time to wait for the “transition” back in the 80’s y’all! 😂 Another good one. Lex cracks me up doing the chicken. Lol this channel is a hoot.

[@EarlMiller]

You want Gabriel Spectrum? "Shock The Monkey" - "Dont Give Up" (Kate Bush duet) Then trail back to his Genesis years....

[@midnightblue6668]

This video came out in the prime of MTV when music videos were events unto themselves. So much fun when it hit.

[@DivaInTheWoods]

Right?! Remember the "World Premiere Video" releases? People would literally plan to be at home ready to watch. The Thriller video release immediately comes to mind!

[@GrimrDirge]

Y'all have an absurd notion of the 80's. I love you, but every time you talk about it I'm like "what in the exact fuck are they talking about?".

[@BackyardEngineer334]

Yea they spend way too much time trying to figure everything out, unnecessary just listen to the song & tell us what you think, we’re not trying to re invent the wheel.

[@Mckatt2]

Oh my God when they start pausing and trying to explain what they think the song means and they’re absolutely totally clueless that’s what I have to leave adios!

[@smashleyscott8272]

I grew up inthe 80s...the notions they have of the 80s seems pretty close to spot on.

[@smashleyscott8272]

@@BackyardEngineer334 .... trying to figure out what a song is about is part of experiencing the music for THEM, and there's nothing wrong with that.

[@smashleyscott8272]

@@Mckatt2 .... you do realize that all reaction videos do this, right....?? And often times it's done to avoid copyright issues here on KZbin

[@kutark]

Brad's face at about 0:41 is fuckin hilarious. That could be put in the dictionary next to "WTF am i lookin at?!"

[@brianvernon249]

That’s Tony Levin on Bass. He has worked with EVERYONE. I am not exaggerating.

[@ericmclaughlin73]

Super funky and clever line. good call.

[@thegroovetube3247]

... well maybe a tiny bit of an exaggeration ...

[@mightymouse293]

Was best visual video as far as creation in my time love it

[@MattSingh1]

*The most-played video in MTV history. More than 'Thriller' or 'Billie Jean', more than 'Take On Me' or 'Smells Like Teen Spirit, more than 'Video Killed The Radio Star' or 'Paranoid Android'...the most-played ever (and never likely to be equalled)*

[@jfox9126]

Do ‘“In your eyes” by him - it’s one of the most beautiful joyful and simultaneously heartbreaking songs, it’s really an experience worth having.

[@johnfoster5295]

You should check out some early Genesis when Peter Gabriel was the singer. Peter always had a flair for the bizarre. Some of those live videos from Genesis are legendary.

[@richardbazile2062]

She would have been so much fun in the " old days" get buzzed and party!!! Lex is a rocker, the reactions are priceless, love her

[@jenniferjacobs228]

The experimental 80's...MTV master piece. Sometimes, the song doesn't need to be accessed, just enjoyed.

[@JC-tq8gm]

His In Your Eyes live from the Secret World Tour is one of the best live videos I've ever seen. Great song and an amazing performance. Great job again guys!

[@wsn0009]

Great song and great video. I'd recommend Peter Gabriel's "Big Time" as well.

[@bobkaiser8782]

And Red Rain

[@rsw1227]

"Digging In The Dirt"

[@FrankCastlesConscience]

Seen quite a few of your reactions, Lex gets into it and is always positive. I like her reactions.

[@pbdez0623]

After leaving Genesis in 1975, he launched a successful solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single. Shock the Monkey,Games Without Frontiers,Solsbury Hill,In your eyes…. A true legend and kind human being…..

[@Isleofskye]

I saw the first-ever Top Of The Bill performance with 3,,000 others of Genesis in Croydon, S E London. 1972 :)

[@panpdx8919]

The lyrics in rock are like any kind of good art. It does not matter what the artist is saying, what they mean, what the piece is "about". It matters what you hear, what you think, and how the music or art as you perceive it changes in response. It's a live two-way conversation.

[@mikephillips8810]

Well said!

[@5891jonathan]

Great song. Listen to “Biko” if you’re interested in a different side of Peter Gabriel. It’s an anthem to Steve Biko.

[@dexstewart2450]

I doubt that they know who he is. The song was banned in SA during Apartheid, but shows like Miami Vice were allowed and hugely popular...get to the end credits of one episode, and those words came out of the tv speakers: September '77 Port Elizabeth weather fine It was business as usual In police room 619 Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja The man is dead

[@5891jonathan]

@@dexstewart2450 If I have it right, Biko was part of the soundtrack and it played uncensored? Very powerful.

[@alexleblanc5217]

Hey guys...watch Peter live... the song you would love is In your eyes. He is a very clued in artist. In your eyes.....live. You wont regret watching this performance or hearing this beautiful masterpiece. Stay safe. You guys ROCK.

[@gemsun6512]

Love PG!! His song Solsbury Hill and Games without frontiers are great ones too✌🏼

[@Joshuadgog]

One of the greatest music videos of all time. This was always played on Mtv. Great song from peter gabriel and he was from genesis with phil collins.

[@BestofItMoviedoc]

These two are so dopey sometimes. It’s called stop-motion. They often confuse an artist with that of the director ‘s vision along with that of the record label. This video won 9 MTV Music Video Awards in 1987.

[@jessiegarcia665]

I don't really set the bar very high for Brad, I celebrate when he "gets it" but don't ever expect him to. But yeah, it can be super frustrating sometimes.

[@sjng68]

@@jessiegarcia665 Agreed, but Lex is usually super switched on and comes out with some insightful shit so they kind of balance each other out.

[@MegaFoghornleghorn]

Brad is dopey alot and he doesn't do drugs .

[@Mckatt2]

@@jessiegarcia665 He occasionally gets it but Lex never ever gets it! She is completely and totally clueless on so many things

[@smashleyscott8272]

@@jessiegarcia665 .... so, explain to me why it's frustrating to you when someone who has different life experiences than you, and probably from a different background, culture, era, and personality, doesn't automatically "get" what YOU "get". I personally dislike stop motion... I never liked this video. I grew up in the 80s. Wasn't my thing. ALL of this is subjective, anyway, correct...???

[@LynnThompsonAuthor]

This was from the early days of MTV, back when they actually played music videos, one right after another. It was ALL ABOUT THE VIDEO in those days. This was a very popular song, filled with clever double entendres about sex. Peter Gabriel was one of the best musicians of the time. Lots of great songs by him, that sound very different. Some great collaborations, too.

[@steve-rb9bm]

Peter Gabriel steam, looks like he used all the video effects ever made at the time.

[@Robert-hz7ef]

I’m amazed how many people are unfamiliar with stop motion photography these days.

[@adgato75]

Other people have talked about how groundbreaking the vid as. I'll talk about the fact that Peter Gabriel is a genius. A LOT of his music is very sensual or sexual. Very unusual in terms of sound. For example , listen to the first 3/4 of this song vs the end , where he takes it to church. It sounds like a crazy switch up , but he does it so well. He is also a very early example of a mainstream white artist using "world music" inspirations , and did so intentionally and respectfully.

[@mikephillips8810]

Yes, a pioneer of the WOMAD festival too

[@markharris1125]

In Your Eyes - Live! Also, watch this live back in the day, then live recently - same musicians, same moves, far more weight!

[@evanboardman08]

You guys should listen to Stone Temple Pilots!

[@KelsaRavenlock]

This album went 5 times platinum in the US and this video won 9 awards on the MTV video awards when that was a thing. It is also the most played video in their history which I just learned yesterday.

[@johnsingleton1091]

No....Phil sounds like Peter Gabriel

[@mcarpegna]

All the clips for this album were revolutionary, aesthetically in those days, mid 80s. The stop motion work was fantastic, so creative! I think he won some prizes for this videos...

[@michaelzarate6939]

Hey Brad and lex I said it before and I'll say it again I really think you guys should Google a particular singer or the whole band after you do a video to find out more about them. I watch a lot of your videos and I have noticed that you guys sometimes think that the music is recent but it's actually from 20 or 30 years before.

[@nobodyspecial7185]

A lot of people in the 80's were into that avant-garde art. He did it well.

[@dene39]

This video would have taken eons to make. Its stop motion ffs

[@richmiddlebrook3103]

Lex somehow channeled Phil Collins, who just happened to take over lead vocals from Peter in the band Genesis. Incredible intuition is what that is!

[@woodymeadows9363]

As soon as Brad did his, "He's tweaking. What would you do if you met someone like this in real life?" bit, I quit watching. Sometimes, Brad is too much of not being "there" enough. There are many who explained stop motion. All monster movies from at least the 40's to the 70's did stop motion. They've never seen the "Sinbad" movies? (The sailor, not the comedian)

[@MegaFoghornleghorn]

Most of the iconic Christmas shows from the 50s and 60s where done with stop motion. These two think that there was no technology or Art before they where born.

[@Mckatt2]

So did I! That is the moment when I said that’s it no more of these two for me! This is probably the 10th reaction a video of theirs that I have seen and then everyone he looks like an absolute dope she is completely clueless they both look like errands I can’t watch this channel anymore

[@smashleyscott8272]

How old are you...?? What era did you grow up in...?? What were you exposed to in your formative years...??? What culture did you grow up in...?? ☝all relevent factors in our understanding. I doubt very seriously that these two grew up watching the stop motion cinema that you're familiar with. I can promise you that very few people who grew up after the 80s have any real familiarity orexposure to stop motion. I was born in 75, grew up inthe 80s... and honestly, I don't particularly care for it.

[@smashleyscott8272]

@@MegaFoghornleghorn .... lol... really?? The technological advancement from 1990 to now is astronomical. The cell phone sitting in your hand right now would have been inconceivable in 1987 when this video was released. I look back on my childhood and marvel at how far we have come in the last 30 years. The pace of technological advancement in that time period blows the doors off the rest of human history. The tech in the 1980s is rudimentary in comparison.

[@andrewgordon8441]

he laid on his back for the stop motion, for hours on end.

[@norkannen]

I still find Gabriel a better singer than Phil…………… me ducking.

[@lewisengr]

Gabriel is 100 times better than the lightweight Phil Collins.

[@stevedotwood]

absolutely. In Genesis he used to "play" (sing/dress up) characters right out of Charles Dickens by changing his voice or accent.

[@dexstewart2450]

You're comparing Premiership with Sunday League

[@mvellis3863]

No argument from me, Phil was an excellent prog rock drummer, but he should have stayed behind the kit

[@cobbycaputo3332]

You are not wrong.

[@conureron3792]

Need more Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill, Games without Frontiers, Shock the Monkey, Red Rain, Don’t Give Up, Digging in the Dirt, Steam, in your eyes

[@FURTHER_ADO]

This song is a masterpiece and I'm not a huge Gabriel fan. Also, if I remember correctly this is the most played video in MTV history.

[@TheBoondoggler]

metaphor 1: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money)

[@9Risky]

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[@gnomeofwar]

BAD SPAM BOT

[@johneppo4133]

Great song by him is "In You're Eyes" live awesome 👍👍👍👍