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"That Voice Again" is a song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So. He wrote the song with a fictional character named Mozo in mind, who Gabriel created with the intention of including several songs across his albums with the character in mind. Along with "Red Rain", "That Voice Again" is the final Gabriel song that is related to the character of Mozo. Geffen Records released "That Voice Again" as a promotional single in the United States, where it reached No. 14 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.
In 1983, Gabriel was approached by Martin Scorsese to develop the soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ, although the release date of the film was ultimately pushed back to 1988. Under the working title "The First Stone", Gabriel originally incorporated biblical themes from the Old Testament into the lyrics, specifically referencing the line "let him first cast a stone" from John 8:7. He later altered the lyrics to be less religious and more introspective to reflect his attempts at being less judgemental. These lyrics pertained to judgment on a personal and global scale, but Gabriel remained dissatisfied with some of the words.
After attempting three different sets of lyrics, Gabriel solicited the assistance of guitarist David Rhodes, who helped him "loosen a few syllables here and there." He ultimately settled on lyrics that examined "the parental voice in our heads that either helps or defeats us".
"That Voice Again" is about judgmental attitudes being a barrier between people. The voice is the voice of judgment. A haunting internal voice that instead of accepting experience is always analyzing, moralizing and evaluating it.
Along with "Red Rain", "That Voice Again" is Gabriel's final song to be associated with his aborted story surrounding the fictional character of Mozo, a "mercurial stranger" loosely based on Moses and the alchemical treatise Aurora consurgens. Gabriel dispersed several songs related to Mozo on his albums up through So in 1986, with "Here Comes the Flood" and "Down the Dolce Vita" first referencing the character on Gabriel's 1977 debut solo album. He intended for his Mozo songs to comprise a complete story when assembled together. Within the context of the Mozo story, "That Voice Again" represented the attribute of judgment. In 1987, Gabriel considered developing a one-hour video revolving around Mozo, but he ultimately never brought this idea to fruition.
Gabriel gravitated toward the 12-string guitar during the recording sessions; the instrument had not appeared on any of his compositions since the 1974 release of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, which was his final album with Genesis. After his departure from Genesis, Gabriel opted against the use of the 12-string guitar on his solo material, but he later decided that "ten years was long enough".
Gabriel took some musical inspiration from The Byrds when creating some of the song's instrumentation. The song's 12-string guitar was played by Daniel Lanois and Rhodes covered the electric guitar parts. Similar to "Red Rain", the first song on So, "That Voice Again" begins with an instrumental interlude followed by the chorus, which features multitracked vocals overdubbed by Gabriel.
For each chorus, Manu Katché played a drum fill that he described as having a Count Basie feel reminiscent of what would be found in big band music. Katché reckoned in a 1987 interview with Modern Drummer that he likely would not have contributed the drum flourish without Gabriel and Lanois present in the recording studio and that they encouraged him to innovate with his parts. The final syllable of the lyric "only love can make love" was sustained by Gabriel for over ten seconds. Following another chorus, the song concludes with a percussion pattern and a "sudden chord", as described by music critic Durrell Bowman.
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That Voice Again
"That Voice Again" is a song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So. He wrote the song with a fictional character named Mozo in mind, who Gabriel created with the intention of including several songs across his albums with the character in mind. Along with "Red Rain", "That Voice Again" is the final Gabriel song that is related to the character of Mozo. Geffen Records released "That Voice Again" as a promotional single in the United States, where it reached No. 14 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.
In 1983, Gabriel was approached by Martin Scorsese to develop the soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ, although the release date of the film was ultimately pushed back to 1988. Under the working title "The First Stone", Gabriel originally incorporated biblical themes from the Old Testament into the lyrics, specifically referencing the line "let him first cast a stone" from John 8:7. He later altered the lyrics to be less religious and more introspective to reflect his attempts at being less judgemental. These lyrics pertained to judgment on a personal and global scale, but Gabriel remained dissatisfied with some of the words.
After attempting three different sets of lyrics, Gabriel solicited the assistance of guitarist David Rhodes, who helped him "loosen a few syllables here and there." He ultimately settled on lyrics that examined "the parental voice in our heads that either helps or defeats us".
"That Voice Again" is about judgmental attitudes being a barrier between people. The voice is the voice of judgment. A haunting internal voice that instead of accepting experience is always analyzing, moralizing and evaluating it.
Along with "Red Rain", "That Voice Again" is Gabriel's final song to be associated with his aborted story surrounding the fictional character of Mozo, a "mercurial stranger" loosely based on Moses and the alchemical treatise Aurora consurgens. Gabriel dispersed several songs related to Mozo on his albums up through So in 1986, with "Here Comes the Flood" and "Down the Dolce Vita" first referencing the character on Gabriel's 1977 debut solo album. He intended for his Mozo songs to comprise a complete story when assembled together. Within the context of the Mozo story, "That Voice Again" represented the attribute of judgment. In 1987, Gabriel considered developing a one-hour video revolving around Mozo, but he ultimately never brought this idea to fruition.
Gabriel gravitated toward the 12-string guitar during the recording sessions; the instrument had not appeared on any of his compositions since the 1974 release of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, which was his final album with Genesis. After his departure from Genesis, Gabriel opted against the use of the 12-string guitar on his solo material, but he later decided that "ten years was long enough".
Gabriel took some musical inspiration from The Byrds when creating some of the song's instrumentation. The song's 12-string guitar was played by Daniel Lanois and Rhodes covered the electric guitar parts. Similar to "Red Rain", the first song on So, "That Voice Again" begins with an instrumental interlude followed by the chorus, which features multitracked vocals overdubbed by Gabriel.
For each chorus, Manu Katché played a drum fill that he described as having a Count Basie feel reminiscent of what would be found in big band music. Katché reckoned in a 1987 interview with Modern Drummer that he likely would not have contributed the drum flourish without Gabriel and Lanois present in the recording studio and that they encouraged him to innovate with his parts. The final syllable of the lyric "only love can make love" was sustained by Gabriel for over ten seconds. Following another chorus, the song concludes with a percussion pattern and a "sudden chord", as described by music critic Durrell Bowman.