The title refers to the 37 out of 40 compliant subjects of Milgram Experiment 18. The next track is titled "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)". This song is a caricature of the economic success of the 1980s and was also accompanied by a video in the same vein of "Sledgehammer", although to less popularity. "In Your Eyes" was used in the famed boombox scene from the film Say Anything. (1989). " Mercy Street" is dedicated to poet Anne Sexton and takes its title from her 1969 play, Mercy Street (Sexton also posthumously released a book of poetry, 45 Mercy Street). "Don't Give Up" was about the devastation of economic hardship, with the support and wise counsel sung by Bush in the refrain. Tracks 3–6 include a duet with Kate Bush titled " Don't Give Up", "That Voice Again", and " In Your Eyes". While performing the song during the 2002–2003 Growing Up and 2004 Still Growing Up tours, Gabriel recreated this image by wearing a jacket covered with LED lights. The video ends with Gabriel dancing in silhouette, covered with lights taped on his suit by a runner who later became a producer for the Wallace and Gromit films. The dancing chickens were animated by Nick Park. Directed by Steven Johnson, it features stop motion animation by Aardman Animations of Wallace and Gromit fame. Gabriel described it as "my chance to sing like Otis Redding." The video for "Sledgehammer" won MTV's 1987 Top Music Video Award, and Best British Video at the 1987 Brit Awards. "Sledgehammer" is a piece with Motown and world music influences, from its famous use of the shakuhachi. The second track is Gabriel's most popular single, " Sledgehammer". Other Mozo works include "On the Air" and "Exposure". Of all the tracks on the album, Gabriel considers "Red Rain" one of his favourites. The song is one of the works in the story of Mozo, a wandering stranger who appears in several Gabriel songs.
Inspired by a recurring dream which Gabriel had of swimming in a sea of red water, its lyrics vividly depict dream imagery that reflect a sense of vulnerability. It is included in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. 187 on the 500 greatest albums of all time. 14 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "Top 100 Albums of the Eighties" and at No. It is certified triple platinum in the UK, and five times platinum in the US. So is the best-selling album of Gabriel's career and charted at number 1 in the UK Album Chart, and number 2 on the Billboard 200 in the US. Many of the tracks also continued to showcase Gabriel's interest in world music, with Gabriel commenting: "I think this album is nourished by so many varieties of black music, and not just soul and blues: there's stuff from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica." As he had with the soundtrack to the film Birdy, Lanois brought many of his own ambient sensibilities to this recording.
Lanois had been previously known for his ambient collaborations with Brian Eno as well as producing U2 since 1984. The previous year, the two of them had worked together on Birdy. It is Peter Gabriel's second album produced by Canadian artist Daniel Lanois. As Gabriel explained in 2011: "I'd had my fill of instrumental experimenting for a while, and I wanted to write proper pop songs, albeit on my own terms." Many of its songs reflect a more conventional pop-writing style and became radio hits, while others still retain Gabriel's dark, brooding sense of experimentalism. So is the fifth studio album (and seventh album overall) and first non-eponymous studio album by British rock musician Peter Gabriel, released in 1986.
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