Old Enough to Forget

As a kid I didn't really know a lot about Peter Gabriel. I was in high school when "Games Without Frontiers" was a big deal back in 1980. It was a pretty awesome song, and I remember being tempted to pick up the album, but never did. Still don't know why. Then again, I didn't have Genesis albums either. Like millions of other bandwagon jumpers, I hopped on with So and stayed on for his soundtrack Passion , then more or less lost interest. I also really liked Plays Live , especially the live version of "Solsbury Hill" that still gets me right in the feels. That was about as deep as my collection went. It was about a year after the album came out, in the summer of '83, that "Shock the Monkey" was still getting a fair bit of play on FM radio. The song was admittedly a bit perplexing to me, as I didn't know if I liked it or was irritated by it. Time, of course, would have the last laugh, as it always does. The song, like so much of Mr. Gabr...