Peter Gabriel - 'Sledgehammer' Reaction! Innuendo-Filled 

Peter Gabriel wasn't just "in" Genesis, he was one of the founding members!

Peter became a great proponent of world music , especially African beats. His Secret World Tour was total magic- with great musicians from around the world and African singers. Check out: In Your Eyes live from that tour. ❤😊

LOL. Yes, you got it. The whole song is a euphemism for taking a trip to sexy town.

Before CGI was such a "thing." True old school animation/claymation. Breakthrough video, truly. Thanks guys!

I loved this video because…it played every 15 minutes on MTV so…my 2 year old son would stop being a madman and watch the video, giving me a much needed break.

Yep! Sledgehammer was one huge innuendo! Unbeknownst to 12 year old me. 😂

If you missed out on 80s MTV? You missed out. Music videos 24/7. And then MTV brought us the never ending scourge of reality TV....

I'm 40 sumpin; my kids know and love this b/c ME. It's called parenting correctly. Teach 'em the best, the best isn't anywhere where we are now.

Who is born January 19 70 so I was a tween/teen in the 80s. I was and still am a huge Peter Gabriel fan. This man is a genius and the legend.

Those were dancing chickens. Yes, this song is about sex, especially when he was singing about the "open up your fruit cage". The last scene was him wearing a studded bodysuit in the dark with the star like studs in the room. React to his songs Big Time, Shock The Monkey, Digging The Dirt, Shaking The Tree, Bico, Solsbury Hill, Red Rain, In Your Eyes and Don't Give Up (duet with Kate Bush).

Stop animation is an old form of filming. The very first KING KONG movie in 1933 used it for their monsters, and it had been very popular until the digital generation.

Two time inductee to the R&R Hall of Fame. Need we say more.

Guys are you thinking of The Heat Is On by Glenn Frey? I think that was in BHC.

That was a ground breaking video and took forever to make!

If they did this today they'd do it with CGI and it would be boring as fuck. The fun comes from knowing he sat there 12 hours per day for a month while they made tiny movements in the props for each frame.

Ah, I remember, in the 80's seeing him, and singing "Biko, Biko, Biko, Steve Biko" for about an hour, Earls Court. Seriously, one of the highlights of my musical life (along with seeing Bruce Springsteen on the delayed River Tour [still have the sweatshirt, a treasured treasure] at Wembley Arena and Chuck Berry at Alexandra Palace Jazz Festival in 1978, with Chick Corea (my heartbeat) and Herbie Hancock(damn, what a man) on the other stage - I was going back and fro and having the time of my 14 year old life) Bless my older brothers for giving me the gift of all kinds of music

What a song and I love the bass 💞

Think you might be talking about A-ha's "Take On Me" when it comes to "let's do everything" techy... Yes, this seems to be about having "fun."

MTV took polls on the 1989-90 New Year;s special. Sledgehammer won for VIDEO OF THE DECADE, and tied with the Eurythemics, SWEET DREAMS as song of the decade.

peter gabriels -secret world tour 'shaking the tree' shows how clever the whole group was.

In by best James Brown imitation, I'm shouting, "SOMEBODY GIVE THE HORNS SOME!"

Have you guys ever heard “Some Like It Hot” by Power Station? I think y’all would appreciate it.

Great reaction, loved that ya'll were still groovin the song while you watched this innovative, and still wild video, testimony to how good this song is, your not at all distracted by the video, from the badass groove, and yes, Peter gets a little soul and gospel in there, not the only song he does that with,..it's in his bones, slow songs to,..now the stop motion, has been around, like so many things in the 80's, what was old was turned around, and flipped and used in a different way, still only adding to the innovation of something old,..so many groups, went back to old 1940's era big band influence, horns, saxophones, mixed with Reggae, UB40, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Madhouse, Spandau Ballet,. Rockabilly like Kool Katz,..the 1980's were just a continued innovative string of decades, to me, from the 1960's, on..the Harryhausen effect, used in so many old movies, Sinbad, Jason and the Argonaunts, Jason and the Golden Fleece, stop motion, skeletons fighting people with swords, stuff I grew up watching, as a kid amazed and mesmerized by how this movie magic was done,..low and behold decades later here's Peter Gabriel using it in a highly acclaimed, award winning music video,..and I'm still amazed, mesmerized, and as simple as two chickens taking a turn on a dance floor,..its crazy, and so intricately, painstakingly done, the artistry, I don't remember if Harryhausen was still alive when this was done, I hope he took it as a compliment, like him the artists behind this were so committed to doing this work, and it shows, I see young people react to this and they're just as flabbergasted as we were when this first came out,..do keep going, love that you take the time to check this old music out,..Godspeed, Peace ✌

Yeah, this was an earthquake even when it came out. Music videos were still fairly new, and they were still looking for the edges of the canvas, so video quality swung between ordinary and unimaginably innovative. When this came out, everyone rocked back on their heels a bit and knew that the game had been changed.

Back when MTV was great, nothing but music videos and concerts

Great song and video 🔥

Peter and Phil both have more than a little soul!

This video was released 37 years ago. So ahead of it's time.

Crazy that this guy and Phil Collins were in the same band. That's too much talent for one band.

Don’t remember the video which seems wack, but voice & sounds excellent ! Thanks.

In terms of video technology AT THE TIME and the budget for an average video, this clip was like Avatar........no BS. This had a world premiere, like most of the "big" videos, but the way they made it look was a huge deal. Video cost + doing something new with the form = major big deal.

Peter was the lead singer in Genesis and Phil was the backup singer and drummer, in the 60s they were a prog-rock band, they had a very different sound back then especially Phil he sort of went POP! Peter was very theatrical live, he made all of his own costumes. Check out this video if you want to see something different than today's music. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AFBY4dvoISc.html

Written by Peter Gabriel. Many of his songs are based on world 🌎 music. But this song is different. He treated this as a tribute to the late Curtis Mayfield. Great video 📹 👍 Peter Gabriel loves performing this in concert. He often dances and acts like a monkey 🐒 L 🤣 L Genesis splits into 3 successful entities. 1 Peter Gabriel. 2 Phil Collins and 3 Mike and the Mechanics. Suggested videos 📹: 1 Peter Gabriel sings Big Time 2 Phil Collins and Sting sing Take Me Home 3 Mike and the Mechanics perform All I Need Is a Miracle.

OK...not an big 80's fan but Gabriel is solid.

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY "Long whip/Big America" (pay attention to the lyrics)

" Is it sexual ?" Dudes COMPLETELY sexual

3rd Bass in Pop Goes the Weasel samples this song to diss Vanilla Ice for sampling a popular song

siiiick

Oh man I forgot about the dancing chickens!

What is dda & why does it need representing? Thanks. I was going to ask a while ago, but wasn't quite sure what was being said since it flashed by so quickly in the introductions. Thanks.

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8:53 my mind pretty much lives in the gutter! 😂

If your mind is in the gutter with this song, you are exactly right. It's absolutely filthy when you think about it. Peter Gabriel was absolutely singing about sex with as many innuendos as possible. If you had any doubts, look at the sperm at the beginning.

Ya mean,I don’t know,ya know. Very eloquent.

You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean. You know what I mean.

you guys are nailing all the classics from the early days of MTV but where is Billy Idol? I can highly recommend "Dancing with Myself" equally with "Cradle of Love" - both top but for completely different reasons. White Wedding and Rebel Yell are played out ;)

I know I'm late to this reaction, but my favorite Peter Gabriel is his live performance of " in your eyes" from the secret world tour. Here's link if you want to make this grandmas day ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-evN6DIGPIJM.html

This video WAS MTv, lol

That’s where everybody’s mind went! LOL it’s where they wanted you to go. Nothing’ wrong with that!

#naughtybynature sampled this flute sound on #itson. And yes the song is about sex - open up your fruit cake and your fruit cake is a sweet as can be

diggin' in the dirt?

I would be very surprised if it was not about doing the deed. And not just half assing it, clearly! If a man would come to me and say those things I'd expect it all! lol..

I think o the gutter it is.

This is a booty call song

Sup Yall

Like the song so much more than the video. Video makes me nauseous.

It's 1 billion percent about sex. It's not even subtle.

It is about sex!

hellow men! Isn´t use drugs to be imagination artist!!!

Men always gonna be men bro😂

All euphemisms and symbolic images to represent sex and reproduction.

*The most-played video in MTV history. Played more than Thriller, Take On Me, Nothing Compares To You, Every Breath You Take, Bohemian Rapsody etc. and will likely never be beaten as most-played as the music video format is largely dead nowadays.*

Just think how good it could have been if he could dance