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 enlarge | Artists: Peter Gabriel, Sinead Oconnor, Karl Wallinger, Various Artists
Label: REAL WORLD
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
Buy New: $11.22
You Save: $6.76 (38%)
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 874
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.3
MPN: 150
UPC: 884108014523
EAN: 0884108014523
ASIN: B0018RKENW
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: May have line through bar code. Factory Sealed
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 There is a reason... August 21, 2008
Musesman (Tiverton, RI USA)
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
Things sometimes get put off for a reason. Lack of interest, better things to do, or just plain not worth the time or effort. This seems to be the result here. I will always support anything Peter Gabriel touches and my wife is an even bigger fan (she didn't like it either), but this pushes the bounds even for me. It is such a hodgepodge of varying styles that no flow is given to the work as a whole. There are maybe 2 or 3 tracks even worth a listen, Peter's and the haunting track by Sinead. Spend your money elsewhere.
 Big Blue Ball July 11, 2008
Ramamurthy Rajan (Greenwood Village, CO United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I just have one word to describe this album; Brilliant! This album has been one of the best piece in recent years. It's so good to hear awesome musicians from all over the world come together for a fantastic project.
I have been a big fan of PG and Afro Celts for a long time now..So, to hear my favourite artists along with other great musicians from around the world gives me goose bumps. I have been playing this album the most, amongst other music collection I have been listening to, since I bought it a week back.
We need more of these collaborations..
Cheers,
Sunder from Denver, CO
Peter Gabriel's big blue ball October 3, 2008
BRIAN UECKER
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
Having listened to the free samples, I can safely conclude that this figurative ball sack of songs is a mixed bag, as it were. The songs seem to be organized around the theme of being unable to satisfy one's deepest desire--hence, "Big Blue Ball"--and indeed, I walked away from the samples with a very real case of big blue balls (actually I merely rolled over). I wanted satisfaction but what I got only made me hurt more.
However this veritable mid-life crisis of world music is notable for highlighting the barbaric chants and whoopings of primitive countries, which lends the album a certain poignancy. I cannot listen to certain tracks without being filled with great sadness that luxuries as simple as margarine or 80/20 polyester blends have yet to reach most of the developing world.
In closing, I would advise Peter Gabriel to tackle a bigger subject next time--not to imply the size of Gabriel's own bullocks is somehow lacking, as I have no evidence despite years of unanswered fan letters in which this subject came up more than once.
WOW June 25, 2008
OH MAR
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a great CD. I wasn't sure what to expect, but being a loyal Peter Gabriel fan I gave it a try and it is well worth it.
Incredible Listening Experience! July 20, 2008
S. Bernal (U. Park, MD)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Whole Thing" was being played in some store. I recognized Peter Gabriel and thought that the song was great, so I bought the album. Never imagined the whole album would be so good! I guess the "Big Blue Ball" is planet Earth, and great music is what comes out of it. Papa Wemba vocals and flamenco guitar, Sinead O'Connor and Chinese percussion, a Madagascan rapper, the ethereal "altus silva" (perhaps my favorite) with guitar synths and Papa Wemba's band. Absolutely original world music, out of this world!
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