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Peter Gabriel-Peter Gabriel (1980)

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  Artist: Peter Gabriel Title: Peter Gabriel Label: Mercury Format: LP Catalog Number: SRM-1-3848 Year of Release: 1980 Country and Year of Edition: US 1980 Sell Price: $7.06 Sell Date: 6/12/26 Condition: VG/VG Discogs Last Sold: 5/23/26 VG+/VG+ $12.12 Low: $1.99 Median: $12.81 Average: $14.91 High: $39.49 Current low price: $14.00 G+/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 14 Have/Want: 2576/350 Where Sold: Cordova, TN Time It Took To Sell:  3 years Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See It Go: No  I never had the deep affinity for Peter Gabriel's third (AKA "Melt"), despite the way it quickly established itself in the criticsphere.  Friends like Robert Fripp, Tony Levin, Paul Weller, Kate Bush and yes, Phil Collins, are anonymously all over it.  There is the "high art" stamp of the track "Biko" mixed with the air of commercial breakthrough with the radio hit "Games Without Frontiers" that...

Genesis-Live (1973)

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  Artist: Genesis Title:  Live Label: Charisma Format: LP Catalog Number: CAS 1666 Year of Release: 1973 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1975 Sonic Records small hatter Sell Price: $5.70 Sell Date: 1/30/26 Condition: G+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 1/10/26 VG+/VG+ $10.00 Low: $1.99 Median: $5.18 Average: $6.06 High: $18.00 Current  low price:  $3.25 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 75 Have/Want: 2279/130 Where Sold: Draper, UT Time It Took  To Sell:  4  years Where and When  Bought: $3 Facebook marketplace lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See  It Go: No The lone live record from the Peter Gabriel era, Live was recorded in 1973 on the Foxtrot tour.  Nursery Cryme and Tresspass are the albums the record uses it's 5 tracks from. Side one kicks off from two from the touring album Foxtrot, that openers "Watcher From The Skies" followed by another track from that albums side one, "Get 'Em Out By Friday."  Side one closes...

Peter Gabriel-So (1986)

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  Artist: Peter Gabriel Title: So Label: Geffen Format: CD Catalog Number: M2G 24088 Year of Release: 1986 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1986 Columbia House Club Edition Sell Price: $3.37 Sell Date: 1/14/25 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 12/27/23 NM/NM  $4.00 Low: $1.50 Median: $3.00 Average: $3.33 High: $6.00 Current  low price:  $2.75 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 13 Have/Want: 293/211 Where Sold: Annandale, NJ Time It Took  To Sell:  13 years Where and When  Bought: Columbia House Record Club or CDHQ 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  C- Sad To See  It Go: No Peter Gabriel's So is an album I've found generally unlistenable throughout the years.  The exception is the duet with Kate Bush, "Don't Give Up" which has it's melodramatic charms.  Truth be told, I don't like that one that much either. Much like mid-80's Genesis or Steve Winwood, the aspects that were great with their earlier output or tolerable in the ...