Plays Live (album)

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Plays Live
Plays Live cover
Live album by Peter Gabriel
Released June 9, 1983 (original)
May 7, 2002 (reissue)
Recorded November–December 1982, United States
1983, Bath, England
Genre Progressive Rock
Experimental Rock
New Wave
World Music
Length 89:53 (original)
66:50 (reissue)
Label Geffen (US & Canada)
Charisma Records
Producer Peter Gabriel, Peter Walsh
Professional reviews
Peter Gabriel chronology
Deutsches album
(1982)		 Plays Live
(1983)		 Birdy
(1985)
Alternate cover
2002 reissue cover
2002 reissue cover

Plays Live is the first live and fifth album overall released by British rock musician Peter Gabriel. This album was originally released as a double album and longplay cassette, with sixteen songs and a running time of over 80 minutes. It was eventually reissued in as a double CD. When the Gabriel catalogue was remastered and released in 2002, a single CD version "Plays Live – Highlights" with only twelve songs and some significant track time alterations was released in the US while the full double-CD set, containing all the songs, was released in the UK.

The one original song—"I Go Swimming"—received airplay and made the US charts in 1983.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Peter Gabriel.

[edit] Original release

[edit] Disc one

[edit] Side one
  1. "The Rhythm of the Heat" – 6:26
  2. "I Have the Touch" – 5:18
  3. "Not One of Us" – 5:29
  4. "Family Snapshot" – 4:44

[edit] Side two
  1. "D.I.Y." – 4:20
  2. "The Family and the Fishing Net" – 7:22
  3. "Intruder" – 5:03
  4. "I Go Swimming" – 4:44

[edit] Disc two

[edit] Side three
  1. "San Jacinto" – 8:27
  2. "Solsbury Hill" – 4:42
  3. "No Self-Control" – 5:03
  4. "I Don't Remember" – 4:19

[edit] Side four

This side was recorded at Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas on December 4, 1982.

  1. "Shock The Monkey" – 7:10
  2. "Humdrum" – 4:23
  3. "On the Air" – 5:22
  4. "Biko" – 7:01

[edit] 2002 reissue: Plays Live – Highlights

  1. "I Have the Touch" – 4:47
  2. "Family Snapshot" – 4:47
  3. "D.I.Y." – 4:05
  4. "The Family and the Fishing Net" – 7:38
  5. "I Go Swimming" – 4:54
  6. "San Jacinto" – 8:19
  7. "Solsbury Hill" – 4:41
  8. "No Self-Control" – 5:04
  9. "I Don't Remember" – 4:12
  10. "Shock The Monkey" – 7:10
  11. "Humdrum" – 4:21
  12. "Biko" – 6:52

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Charts

[edit] Album

Year Chart Position
1983 Billboard Pop Albums 44
1983 UK 8

[edit] Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1983 "I Don't Remember"/"Solsbury Hill" UK 62
1983 "I Go Swimming" Billboard Mainstream Rock 38

[edit] External links

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