Peter Gabriel - SO - Vinyl Record (180g) *

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So, Peter Gabriel's fifth solo album, arrived in 1986 and turned the former Genesis frontman from art-rock innovator into a global star. Co-produced with Daniel Lanois, it pairs Gabriel's taste for experimental textures and world music rhythms with the most immediate songs he had ever written.

"Sledgehammer" became his only US number one, pushed along by a groundbreaking stop-motion video, while "Big Time" matched it for brassy, satirical funk. The heart of the record sits elsewhere, though: "Don't Give Up," his aching duet with Kate Bush, the dreamlike "Mercy Street," written for poet Anne Sexton, and "In Your Eyes," featuring Youssou N'Dour, forever tied to John Cusack's boombox in Say Anything. "Red Rain" opens the album on a sweeping, cinematic note.

This Real World reissue presents So in its original LP running order, with "In Your Eyes" closing the second half, pressed on heavyweight 180-gram vinyl. A cornerstone of any classic rock or art pop collection.

Side A
1. Red Rain
2. Sledgehammer
3. Don't Give Up
4. That Voice Again

Side B
1. Mercy Street
2. Big Time
3. We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)
4. This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds)
5. In Your Eyes