Buy This Album: Peter Gabriel’s SCRATCH MY BACK

This week, Peter Gabriel releases a new acoustic album entitled SCRATCH MY BACK, with no guitars or drums. 

On the album, Peter covers songs done by other artists.  Later, a companion album of Peter Gabriel covers by other artists will be released on a disc entitled I’LL SCRATCH YOURS.

The songs on SCRATCH MY BACK include:

• HEROES by David Bowie
• THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE by Paul Simon
• MIRRORBALL by Elbow
• FLUME by Bon Iver
• LISTENING WIND by Talking Heads
• THE POWER OF THE HEART by Lou Reed
• MY BODY IS A CAGE by Arcade Fire
• THE BOOK OF LOVE by The Magnetic Fields
• I THINK IT’S GOING TO RAIN TODAY by Randy Newman
• APRES MOI by Regina Spektor
• PHILADELPHIA by Neil Young
• STREET SPIRIT by Radiohead

Some of the covers to be on I’LL SCRATCH YOURS have been announced to include the following:

• Paul Simon doing BIKO
• Stephin Merrit of The Magnetic Fields doing NOT ONE OF US
• Randy Newman doing BIG TIME
• Tom Yorke of Radiohead doing WALLFLOWER