Song · Peter Gabriel
“That Voice Again” by Peter Gabriel
From the album So (1986)
“That Voice Again” by Peter Gabriel appears on 9 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1999 and 2023. It was first released in 1986 on the album So. Its best result is #398 on The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s. In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,588 alternative song of all time.
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"That Voice Again" comes from Peter Gabriel's 1986 album So, but its roots go back to 1983, when Martin Scorsese asked him to score The Last Temptation of Christ. Back when it was called "The First Stone", it leaned on the biblical warning about casting the first stone, and Gabriel later turned the words inward, toward his own urge to judge, on a personal and a global scale. It's also, with "Red Rain", the last of his songs tied to Mozo, a made-up character he'd threaded through his albums.
Gabriel wrote the words with David Rhodes and co-produced with Daniel Lanois. Manu Katché's drums drive it, Tony Levin's bass rolls underneath, Rhodes and Lanois share the guitars, and Shankar's violin cuts across Gabriel's synthesizers and samples. Geffen sent it to American radio as a promo single.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1733 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1733 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1733 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1723 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1708 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2003 | 1116 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
| 2004 | 1708 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1711 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2023 | 398 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 850 Songs of the 1980s | 850 |
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