“The Tower that Ate People” by Peter Gabriel

"The Tower That Ate People" sits seventh on OVO, the soundtrack Peter Gabriel made for the Millennium Dome Show and released in 2000 on Real World and Virgin, and it's one of the few cuts on that record where Gabriel sings lead himself instead of handing the mic to a guest. He wrote it alone and produced it with Simon Emmerson and BT.

Critics heard him baring his teeth. Pitchfork called it his funkiest track since "Sledgehammer", pointing to growling verse vocals, phased guitars and overdriven organ under a haunting bridge melody, and Rolling Stone's Ryan Reed hailed a "buzzing industrial-rock epic" among the most exhilarating arrangements of Gabriel's post-So years. Steve Osbourne remixed it, and it has turned up on several of Gabriel's tours.

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