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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ovo, 9 Jul 2006
Despite being written for the millennium show, this album is credible in it's own right. Ignore the first track, it is good for setting the story, but not too much else, but the rest of the album is a moving experience. It has lots of world influences and is a slow builder. Some tracks are slow and build tension, whereas others are uplifting and moving. Best to listen to in it's entirety (first time round) and not isolated tracks. I love this album and it was what started me on my love affair with all of PG's music. Try to track down the original millennium show version of this album if possible, it has additional tracks and I feel it to be much better!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A truly astounding album, 11 Jul 2000
By A Customer
Peter Gabriel has always led the field in popular music, and with this album, in his 50th year, he has produced something truly astounding. Never an easy listen, the music on this album runs easily through several styles - from rap to the elegant beauty of Downside Up. At times intensely moving, I feel that Gabriel has seldom been better. Surprisingly he leaves most of the singing to others - but when THAT extraordinary voice cuts through, the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. I have lived with this album for 2 weeks now, and I'll be very surprised if I buy another album as good this year.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful Gabriel's Strength, 21 Nov 2000
By A Customer
First of all I have to tell that Peter Gabriel is my favourite singer, because of his voice,for his romantic and personal music. Gabriel is not just "Sledgehammer" or "Biko". He is much more than this. Authentic Gabriel - besides Genesis - came in his first album, with masters Fripp and Levin support. OVO make part of his evolution, more than twenty years after his first job in his own and also eight years after US he has make the effort and who knows it will be the last one. I like the album but not just because it is Peter gabriel. Is energetic, romantic and powerful. Songs like today "Downside up" and "Make today tomorrow" are so romantic but at the same time they adquire some rythms with a lot of power. I have to remember that Gabriel is supported by Tony levin at the bass, Dave Rhodes at the guitar, and some others good musicians, specially Daniel Lanois or singer Richie Havens: I also like Elizabeth Fraser singing and Paul Buchanan. The opening song is also romantic and mystic and is full of faith and magic; The second one is sang by Richie Havens. It seems like Peter doesn't sing to much in this album and he appears like chorus or backing voice, but it's always Peter Gabriel and everything he touch turns magic. The album mix this romantic songs with some other instrumenal and not so deep songs. I also read the Story of OVO and it's peculiar and beautiful but the album is really personal and it sound is something that Gabriel didn't do before. That means he is always trying to improve himself, though he didn't appear during this eight years. I particulary like this album more than US, maybe because is the last job, but also I think is stronger than US. Has to be good because we always look the new jobs of our favourite artists making a comparation of what you liked before, but OVO is something new, different, something that you can not compare...and also is a Peter Gabriel work, which is an important credential, because it exists just one Peter Gabriel. Maybe we will remember some other songs (San Jacinto, Here comes the rain, Mercy Street, Wallflower, Solsbury Hill, Mother of Violence, Love to be loved, Fourteen black paintings, In yor eyes...)but OVO is also beautiful and means love for all US.
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