Three legendary artists gone solo to present naturally amazing songs!! Thanks for watching! 🥰

It is too hard for me to pick a favorite. I like each of them for different reasons. It's like asking a Mom (with multiple children) who her favorite is.

Chris Squire, the greatest show on earth. RIP 👑🎶🙏🎶👑

Love it - a great track, classic Peter Gabriel African inspired sounds!

Hey Brandon! Mr Squire was the GOAT!! Chris, I miss you my brother. 🙏🕊🕊🕊😎

Chris's Fish Out of Water is a wonderful album. Hope you get around to the rest of it ❤

First track: kinda Yes meets Steely Dan. Love the polyrhythms.

The whole "Eye of the storm" album from Roger Hogdson is such a masterpiece ❤ As powerful as Supertramp in the seventies 👌

I really liked your solo battle! I have to agree with you by choosing “Mercy Street” as the favorite. I’ve got all three of these albums, and they all have more great songs on them. I can’t remember if Peter played “Mercy Street” live when I’ve seen him. I did see the So tour twice.

I saw Roger a few years back live at an open air festival. He was fantastic. Played Had a Dream as well, and especially Child of Vision! His voice didn't lose anything of its power and I was especially surprised what a great pianist he is.

Peter Gabriel's "So" is one of the fundamental nuclear-warhead impactful albums of the 1980s, along with U2's "The Joshua Tree", Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms", and Paul Simon's "Graceland". In the wrong hands, "So" would be called an "irregular" album, but it ended up being just "diverse", bound together with a superglue of unwavering quality. It's definitely a masterpiece that I never get tired of listening, and "Mercy Street" is one of the highlights of an already brilliant album. I suggest that you look up the cover of "Mercy Street" by *Ritchie* on KZfaq. The mononymous Ritchie is an English singer who went to Brazil on vacation in the 1970s and ended up never leaving. He had a very successful career in Brazil in the 1980s, including a platinum record, singing in flawless Brazilian Portuguese (he does have a thick accent when talking). It seems that he has now become a producer and music teacher in Rio, but he still performs occasionally, and some years ago he made a performance in which he sang this absolutely beautiful cover of "Mercy Street" in his native language. Before his own solo success, Ritchie was a member of *Vímana* (VEE-mah-nah), a short-lived Brazilian prog-rock band that was never popular, it was a cult/niche thing that only released one record, but at one time included ex-Yes member Patrick Moraz (who took over the band with diva antics and led to its demise) and is still remembered as a landmark band. Two other band members, Lulu Santos and Lobão, became very popular successful artists in Brazil in their later careers. Lulu is still very popular, while Lobão lost a lot of popularity due to his recent support to extremist far-right politicians.

I love Had A Dream. Just a great song. Had a dream it was war and they couldn't tell me what it was for, but it's something they could lie about. Something we could die about...

Great that you reacted to "Had a Dream"!!!! Also, Peter Gabriel!!!!!

"Mercy Street" easily wins for me! I'm a long time Gabriel fan and if I had to pick my 3 favorite albums he's been on it would be the early Genesis albums Nursery Crime and Foxtrot and his 4th solo album.

Second track: wonderfully atmospheric. Really reminded me of "Keep Talking" by Pink Floyd. It doesn't have the call-and-response structure, but the harmonic feeling, and the despondency. And like all Peter Gabriel, of course, incredibly well produced.

Miriam Stockley does a brilliant version of Mercy Street. 🙂

Wish Chris(RIP) Squire had more solo works. Per usual, a clinic on how to play bass. Forgot about that tasty sax on " Seven " Mercy Street is part of Peter Gabriel's most " commercial " album(some of PG's fans prefer his earlier works to " So "--a mistake, IMHO). Mercy Street is superb, to understate Had A Dream is from Roger Hodgson's In The Eye Of The Storm album. Excellent, as is the album. Two more musts from that album: In Jeopardy Only Because Of You

Try the 92 live version from US tour of Mercy street, Peter had added a longer haunted keyboards intro that made the song even more sublime and emotional. From Roger, try Only because of you from the same album.

When thinking about songs for your show, I always forget the vast and variegated catalog from Peter Gabriel. You could do nothing but Gabriel songs, and be sustained for a year or so...or at least a damn long time. When he left Genesis, his work had the better trajectory, only getting better and better, generally. This song was inspired by the personal and confessional works of tragic bipolar, suicidal poet Anne Sexton, who wrote a play titled Mercy Street and a poem titled "45 Mercy Street".

Love, Love this theme!! Can’t go wrong with your picks. How about some Tony and some incredible keyboards on An Island In the Darkness, a 17 minute epic. Thanks Brandon for another great show!!

Great idea, Brandon. And it starts strong! Now, as it is not a question here of judging artists, but of compositions, then here is my ranking: 1. “Lucky Seven” 2. “Mercy Street” 3. “Had A Dream (Sleeping With The Enemy)” Thanks.

I'm new to the channel, thank you algorithm. Liked, subscribed, and bell rung. I like your laid back, analytical, and measured style, and of course your taste in music.

Third track: A very Hodgson track. Thinky lyrics, like School or Logical. Presumably one that got left off of "Famous Last Words." Great bouncy rhythm, and a typically Supertramp middle 8 (Mary, can you hear me), very much like the middle 8 in Soapbox Opera (Mary, please tell me what I'm living for). The "B" verse (I don't care what the future brings, give a damn about anything) has some fabulous chord changes. But it really wants, is crying out for, a Helliwell sax solo. Some Davies-Hodgson call and response would be lovely too (maybe in that "B" section). This really would have fit well on Crisis or especially Quietest Moments. You could swap out "Loverboy" and I'd be happy.

I had SO on cassette. Played the bejeezus out of it. Great album. Have you already picked all your solo artists snd songs? Is it strictly a Patreon choice?

Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street. It had to win this battle. So is such a fantastic album but from the moment I bought it and played it, this was the track that stood out to me. It is a track you can immerse yourself in and surrender being haunting and hypnotic. He is so clever at creating soundscapes from which to develop his lyrical ideas. After Genesis, I feel his voice matured and was better then ever. I cannot even grasp why someone would categorise this as one of the most depressing songs ever.

If this is going to be a regular thing, maybe we should have a battle of the ages! Roger Waters Vs David Gilmour Vs Richard Wright Vs Syd Barret Vs Nick Mason! Battle of the Pink Floyd solos! Let's get ready to rumble!!!!!!!

Roger Hodgson's entire album "In The Eye Of The Storm" is the kind of album that must be listened to from start to finish. Every song there is unique. I prefer Peter Gabriel's album "IV".

Great selection of songs, but Chris wins hands down. One of his best tracks. That first album is perhaps (and for me) the best of the band’s solo albums of that year 😊 He sounds a lot like Jon, and of course he and Jon in harmony is key to the classic Yes sound ❤ He was a proper choirboy. The Gabriel song is good, but it’s not one of his I return to much. I enjoyed it here, but he’s done tons of better songs.

His voice and the rhythm was very 'Do it again' by Steely Dan. Gabriel always class. I perhaps expected too much from Roger Hodgson, bit disappointed TBH.

I'm with you on this. Mercy Street was definitely the better song. The whole album So is great. Lucky Seven was good. I think the most appealing part of it was the time signature. It's unusual so it makes a song stand out, like Money or Them Bones. But that last song, I have to say, irritated the sh*t out of me.The combination of Roger Hodgson's voice and the piano...I just hated it. Now I'm going to go listen to something to get it out of my head. Lol 🖖🏽💜