Song · Peter Gabriel
“The Rhythm Of The Heat” by Peter Gabriel
From the album Peter Gabriel (1982)
“The Rhythm Of The Heat” by Peter Gabriel appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1991. It was first released in 1982 on the album Peter Gabriel. Its best result is #867 on the CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,884 alternative song of all time.
"The Rhythm of the Heat" throws open Peter Gabriel's fourth self-titled album, released in 1982. He wrote and arranged it and co-produced it with David Lord, and the credits read like a drum summit: percussion from Ekome, Gabriel and Jerry Marotta both on surdo, Marotta on the kit and Tony Levin on bass, while Larry Fast's Moog and analog synths and Gabriel's own synthesizers shade the edges. John Ellis and David Rhodes join Gabriel on backing vocals.
The song kept turning up: live on some editions of Plays Live in 1983, reworked as the instrumental "The Heat" on the Birdy soundtrack in 1985, over the opening of a first-season Miami Vice episode that same year, in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers in 1994, and re-recorded with orchestra on New Blood in 2011.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 867 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (1991 Edition) | 1002 |
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