Peter Gabriel / Scratch My Back
Artist Peter Gabriel
Album Title: Scratch My Back
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Primary Genre Pop: General Pop
Format CD (2)
Released 03/01/2010
Label Real World Records
Catalog No RWPX1
Bar Code No 1 80030 00018 5
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
Scratch My Back
1. Heroes (4:09)
(Brian Eno/David Bowie)
2. The Boy In The Bubble (4:27)
(Forere Motloheloa/Paul Simon)
3. Mirrorball (4:48)
(Craig Potter/Guy Garvey/Mark Potter/Pete Turner/Richard Jupp)
4. Flume (3:00)
(Justin Vernon)
5. Listening Wind (4:22)
(Brian Eno/David Byrne)
6. The Power Of The Heart (5:51)
(Lou Reed)
7. My Body Is A Cage (6:12)
(Jeremy Gara/Regine Chassagne/Richard Parry/Tim Kingsbury/William Butler/Win Butler)
8. The Book Of Love (3:52)
(Stephin Merritt)
9. I Think It's Going To Rain Today (2:34)
(Randy Newman)
10. Après Moi (5:13)
(Regina Spektor)
11. Philadelphia (3:46)
(Neil Young)
12. Street Spirit (Fade Out) (5:06)
(Colin Greenwood/Edward O'Brien/Jonathan Greenwood/Philip Selway/Thomas Yorke)
Scratch My Back ~Special Edition~ [Disc 2]
1. The Book of Love (Remix) (3:40)
(Peter Gabriel/The Magnetic Fields)
2. My Body Is a Cage (Oxford London Temple Version) (6:03)
(Peter Gabriel/Arcade Fire)
3. Waterloo Sunset (Oxford London Temple Version) (3:49)
(Peter Gabriel/The Kinks)
4. “Heroes” (Wildebeest Mix) (4:06)
(Peter Gabriel/David Bowie)
Date Acquired 02/15/2012
Personal Rating
Acquired from Amazon
Purchase Price 16.48

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Recorded at The Bus Stop, Real World Studios, The Real World Temple, Air Lyndhurst and Tom-Tom D Studio, Budapest

foobar2000 1.3.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
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Analyzed: Peter Gabriel / Scratch My Back
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR11      -0.03 dB   -17.01 dB      4:10 01/12-Heroes
DR12       0.00 dB   -17.14 dB      4:28 02/12-The Boy in the Bubble
DR7        0.00 dB   -12.18 dB      4:48 03/12-Mirrorball
DR12      -0.30 dB   -17.33 dB      3:01 04/12-Flume
DR10      -0.02 dB   -14.71 dB      4:23 05/12-Listening Wind
DR11      -0.06 dB   -16.40 dB      5:52 06/12-The Power of the Heart
DR7       -0.02 dB   -13.52 dB      6:13 07/12-My Body Is a Cage
DR11       0.00 dB   -15.54 dB      3:53 08/12-The Book of Love
DR14      -4.31 dB   -22.26 dB      2:34 09/12-I Think It's Going to Rain Today
DR9       -0.04 dB   -13.76 dB      5:13 10/12-Après moi
DR10      -0.02 dB   -14.87 dB      3:46 11/12-Philadelphia
DR11      -0.89 dB   -17.07 dB      5:06 12/12-Street Spirit (Fade Out)
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Number of tracks:  12
Official DR value: DR10

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           590 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Analyzed: Peter Gabriel / Scratch My Back
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR7       -0.45 dB   -10.66 dB      3:40 01/04-The Book of Love (remix)
DR9       -0.14 dB   -14.42 dB      6:04 02/04-My Body Is a Cage (Oxford London Temple version)
DR9       -0.07 dB   -12.09 dB      3:50 03/04-Waterloo Sunset (Oxford London Temple version)
DR9        0.00 dB   -14.22 dB      4:07 04/04-Heroes (Wildebeest mix)
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Number of tracks:  4
Official DR value: DR9

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           785 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Considering the slow trickle of completed albums he has released since becoming a superstar in 1986 -- just two albums of songs with vocals, paired with two albums of soundtracks and two live records -- deliberate is expected from Peter Gabriel, so the slow, hushed crawl of Scratch My Back is no shock. What may be a shock is that Gabriel chose to follow 2002’s Up with a covers album but, like all of his work, this 2010 record is highly conceptual no matter how minimal the end result may be. Designed as the first half of a two-part project where Gabriel would cover 12 different artists who would then return the favor by recording their own versions of Gabriel’s compositions -- the counterpart album naturally bearing the title I’ll Scratch Yours -- Scratch My Back divides neatly between six songs from his peers (Bowie, Paul Simon, Randy Newman, Neil Young, Lou Reed, David Byrne) and six songs from younger artists (Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Stephin Merritt, Bon Iver, Elbow, Regina Spektor). Gabriel doesn’t dodge familiar tunes, choosing to sing “Heroes” and “Street Spirit (Fade Out),” but he twists each tune to his own needs, arranging everything with nothing more than piano and strings, a change that’s almost jarring on Simon’s “The Boy in the Bubble,” yet it stays true to the undercurrent of melancholy in the melody. Indeed, all of Scratch My Back is stark, sober, and spare, delving ever deeper inward, a triumph of intellect over emotion -- a noted contrast to almost all cover albums that celebrate the visceral, not the cerebral. Immediate it may not be but fascinating it is, and after hearing Gabriel turn all 12 of these songs into something unmistakably his own, the appetite is surely whetted for its companion piece. [A Special Edition of the album featuring a second disc of bonus material was released in 2010.]
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