We've spoken about Scratch My Back, Peter Gabriel's anticipated Bob Ezrin-produced orchestral covers collection featuring reinterpretations of Radiohead, Arcade Fire, the Magnetic Fields, Bon Iver, Elbow, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Regina Spektor, David Bowie, etc. In a couple of interesting, intimate-seeming podcasts, Gabriel gives plenty of background and insight into the project. In the first installment you hear bits of the Bowie, Paul Simon, and Elbow. (He calls Elbow's "Mirrorball" "a bitch to sing" and says it reminds him of singing some of the old "awkward" Genesis melodies wrote.) The second installment offers discussions and snippets of Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Arcade Fire, and the Magnetic Fields, a band Gabriel tried unsuccessfully to sign to his label and who Eva Longoria apparently loves. His regards Arcade Fire as a "self-contained universe," though he doesn't quite make an even more poetic connection between this "self-contained universe" and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which he brings up in relation to "My Body Is A Cage." He also talks briefly about the Scratch My Back tour (Europe is announced; US/Canada to come) and Lou Read as love poet. We offered you an "alleged" tracklist at one point. Now we have the real one. Take a look at that and then have a listen. And remember: "Giving an artist total freedom is castrating them."Continue reading Peter Gabriel Podcast Previews Covers LP...