Scratch My Back

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Scratch My Back
Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back.jpg
Studio album by
Peter Gabriel
Released12 February 2010
Recorded2009
Studio
Genre Art pop [1]
Length53:26
Label Real World/Virgin
Producer
Peter Gabriel chronology
Big Blue Ball
(2008)		Scratch My Back
(2010)		 New Blood
(2011)
Singles from Scratch My Back
  1. "The Book of Love" / "Not One of Us"
    Released: 30 January 2010
  2. "The Boy in the Bubble" / "Biko"
    Released: 28 February 2010
  3. "Flume" / "Come Talk to Me"
    Released: 30 March 2010
  4. "The Power of the Heart" / "Solsbury Hill"
    Released: 28 April 2010 [2]
  5. "Mirrorball" / "Mercy Street"
    Released: 27 May 2010 [3]
  6. "Listening Wind" / "I Don't Remember"
    Released: 26 June 2010 [4]

Scratch My Back is the eighth studio album (and fifteenth album overall) by English musician Peter Gabriel, his first in eight years. It was released in February 2010. The album, recorded at AIR Lyndhurst and Real World Studios during 2009, consists of cover versions of twelve songs by various artists, using only orchestra and voice. [5] It is produced by Gabriel with Bob Ezrin. [6]

Contents

The album generally received favourable reviews by music journalists and performed well on the album charts around the world, peaking at No. 1 in Belgium, No. 2 in Germany and Canada, and No. 3 in the Czech Republic, Italy and Switzerland. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] It also reached the top 5 in France and Sweden. [13] [14] In Gabriel's native United Kingdom it peaked at No. 12 on the UK Albums Chart on 21 February 2010, the week following its release. [15] In the United States it peaked at No. 26 on the Billboard 200, No. 2 on the Independent Albums chart and No. 3 on the Rock Albums chart on 12 March 2010. [16]

Scratch My Back was initially released on compact disc and as music download; a vinyl album edition was subsequently released in late March 2010. [17]

Background

The idea behind the Scratch My Back project is a song exchange where each artist would cover one of Gabriel's songs in return for his covering one of theirs; the other artists' renditions of Gabriel's songs were to appear on an album titled I'll Scratch Yours. [18] Initially planned to be released simultaneously with Scratch My Back in 2010, several artists were late in delivering their songs or ultimately declined to participate, necessitating changes to the companion album's concept. With several new artists aboard, the slightly retitled And I'll Scratch Yours was released in September 2013.

According to Gabriel, although he and arranger John Metcalfe had talked about Arvo Pärt and Steve Reich as inspiration, it was the work that Metcalfe did on "Heroes" that "gave us the confidence to be bold in the way in which we were going to approach the record." [19] "Heroes" became the opening track because "without any of the drive of guitar and drums...it builds an enormous tension that bursts open." [19]

If you’re going to reinterpret something, then really do something. Nail your colours to the mast and say, 'This is different, and it isn’t everybody's cup of tea.

— Peter Gabriel, on Scratch My Back. [20]

Stephin Merritt, who wrote "The Book of Love", commented on Gabriel's cover of his song:

At first I thought, "How hilarious, he's got a completely different take on the song." But after a few listens I find it quite sweet. My version of the song focuses on the humour, and his focuses on the pathos. Of course, if I could sing like him I wouldn't have to be a humourist. [20]

Cover art

The cover artwork is a micrograph of two red blood cells folding over each other. [21] It was shot by Steve Gschmeissner and was included in the cover by Marc Bessant. [22] Not coincidentally, the name of Gabriel's supporting tour for the album is "The New Blood Tour". The album's graphic design concept is credited to Marc Bessant and Peter Gabriel.

Singles

Gabriel originally intended to release Scratch My Back and I'll Scratch Yours simultaneously. [20] However, as completion of the latter dragged out, it was instead decided to release a series of double A-sided singles with one song from each album every new full moon during 2010 on iTunes. [23] The first, "The Book of Love" – Gabriel's cover of a Magnetic Fields song, together with "Not One of Us" – Stephin Merritt's (The Magnetic Fields' frontman) cover of a Peter Gabriel song, was released on 30 January 2010. [24] Gabriel's version of "The Boy in the Bubble" coupled with Paul Simon's version of "Biko" was the second, released on 28 February 2010. [25] The third in the series, Gabriel's take on "Flume" paired with Bon Iver's seven-minute long version of "Come Talk to Me" was released on 30 March 2010. [26]

On 17 April 2010 "The Book of Love" / "Not One of Us" as well as "Flume" / "Come Talk to Me" were also released on 7" vinyl to independent record stores. [27]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 67/100 [28]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [29]
Entertainment Weekly B [30]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [31]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [32]
Pitchfork 4.5/10 [33]
Robert Christgau Scissors icon black.svg [34]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [35]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [36]
The Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [37]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [38]

Scratch My Back received generally positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, it received an average score of 67 based on 21 reviews. [28]

Scratch My Back was album of the month in the March 2010 issue of Mojo . Reviewer Mat Snow writes: "He [Gabriel] and his top-of-the-range collaborators (...) have created an album of great insight into the untapped potential of familiar songs, a profound re-imagining made manifest in an orchestral soundworld as rich and thrilling as ever recorded at Air (...)". He gave special mention to the reinterpretations of David Bowie's "Heroes" ("the song’s underlying despair rises to the top"), Paul Simon's "The Boy in the Bubble" ("the song it might have been had not the writer been so determined in 1986 to bring the joys of South African township jive to the Western pop charts") and Talking Heads' "Listening Wind" ("Gabriel shines a soft light into the song's inner desolation"). On the downside Snow describes the version of Lou Reed's "The Power of the Heart" as "a misstep" and Randy Newman's "I Think It's Going to Rain Today" as "superfluous". He concludes the review on a positive note by saying: "An album to make you happy feeling sad, Scratch My Back gets better with each play; it might just turn out to be the best surprise birthday present of the year." [39]

In Metro , Arwa Haider awarded the album 3 stars out of 5 and commented: "Its most impressive quality is sensitivity; these are elegant orchestral arrangements … It’s sporadically successful; Gabriel saps the life from Paul Simon’s The Boy in the Bubble and somehow over-eggs Arcade Fire's My Body Is a Cage" and concluded "this is exceptionally classy karaoke." [40]

In The New York Times , Jon Pareles wrote: "Covers albums don’t get any more idiosyncratic or high concept than Scratch My Back." [20]

Pitchfork reviewer Mark Richardson was less enthusiastic: "Every song on Scratch My Back, regardless of its original tone or meaning, is flattened out and turned into this one melodramatic and depressing thing (...)"; although the album "sounds earnest [and] professional", it consists of "ponderous, dull, and ultimately pointless versions of songs that sound much better elsewhere." [33]

Track listing

Scratch My Back track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Original artistLength
1."Heroes" David Bowie, Brian Eno David Bowie4:10
2."The Boy in the Bubble" Paul Simon, Forere MotloheloaPaul Simon4:28
3."Mirrorball" Guy Garvey, Craig Potter, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp Elbow 4:48
4."Flume" Justin Vernon Bon Iver 3:01
5."Listening Wind" David Byrne, Brian Eno, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth Talking Heads 4:23
6."The Power of the Heart" Lou Reed Lou Reed5:52
7."My Body Is a Cage" Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, Will Butler, Jeremy Gara, Sarah Neufeld Arcade Fire 6:13
8."The Book of Love" Stephin Merritt The Magnetic Fields 3:53
9."I Think It's Going to Rain Today" Randy Newman Randy Newman2:34
10."Après Moi" Regina Spektor Regina Spektor5:13
11."Philadelphia" Neil Young Neil Young3:46
12."Street Spirit (Fade Out)" Thom Yorke, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, Jonny Greenwood, Phil Selway Radiohead 5:06
Special edition bonus disc
No.TitleWriter(s)Original artistLength
1."The Book of Love" (Remix)MerrittThe Magnetic Fields3:40
2."My Body Is a Cage" (Oxford London Temple version)Butler, Chassagne, Parry, Kingsbury, Butler, Gara, NeufeldArcade Fire6:03
3."Waterloo Sunset" (Oxford London Temple version) Ray Davies The Kinks 3:49
4.""Heroes"" (Wildebeest mix)Bowie, EnoDavid Bowie4:06

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Scratch My Back
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Italy (FIMI) [59] Gold30,000*
Poland (ZPAV) [60] Gold10,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Release history and formats for Scratch My Back
RegionDateRecord label
Australia12 February 2010 [61] [62] Real World Records/Virgin Records
Germany
United Kingdom15 February 2010 [5] [63]
Mainland Europe
Canada16 February 2010 [63] Universal Music
United States2 March 2010 [63] Real World Records
Brazil15 March 2010 [64] EMI

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