PETER GABRIEL KNOWS WHAT YOU WANT

摘要

Have you ever gone to a Web site to satisfy some late-night craving for a song? Let's say you were just really in the mood for something Eighties with lots of digital sampling and a thundering beat-maybe along the lines of Shock the Monkey by Peter Gabriel. You download the song and then, before you know it, the site says you might also enjoy Gabriel's Sledgehammer. That's about as helpful as saying, If you enjoyed Hamlet, you might also appreciate King Lear. How did fans of Shakespearean tragedy ever make such connections before the Internet? Wouldn't it be nice if somebody came along with a better way of rec-ommending music and video on the Web? Actually, someone has. And wouldn't you know it, it's Peter Gabriel himself.