Sledgehammer
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Oct 28, 2026
EleanorHOST
I'll never apologize for lying about Peter Gabriel.
LukeHOST
Let people enjoy spreading misinformation about Peter Gabriel's music video for Sledgehammer.
LukeHOST
uh i'm doing the claps if you can't hear him from the pop filter um folks yeah ash is now the big guy women are peeling grapes for him arthur has been marginalized to some degree even though everybody still uh goes to him uh sheila the uh the woman who had spurned ash is now like uh turned uh she she sees him in a different light now of course you know obviously
EleanorHOST
uh yeah
Michael "Brody" BroshearsHOST
In the 80s, the Peter Gabriel video, I can't remember the name of the song.
Kevin ThomasHOST
Sledgehammer.
Michael "Brody" BroshearsHOST
That was such a fantastic music video, right, for sure.
Michael "Brody" BroshearsHOST
There's a lot out there.
Lee SalesGUEST
Oh, look, it's so hard.
Lee SalesGUEST
Can I go with Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer? Oh, yes.
Lee SalesGUEST
Great video
Rosie WaltonHOST
too for this.
Jeff HovdenHOST
Our big hits
speaker_1SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
in music, we have Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer,
Jeff HovdenHOST
Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, you like to think that you're immune to the stuff, oh yeah.
Mark MeyerHOST
So I'm sensing a pattern here.
Mark MeyerHOST
And Lasseter gives us this this stunning poster with Peter Gabriel in the front holding a gun in shades and he wants sledgehammer.
Mark MeyerHOST
So I would watch that movie Sledgehammer starring Peter Gabriel.
Corey MorrissetteHOST
Why not?
Mark MeyerHOST
He
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Mark MeyerHOST
Oh, I see.
Mark MeyerHOST
It was the the sledgehammer poster poster.
Mark MeyerHOST
Sledgehammer was an actual 80s TV comedy.
Dave McArthurHOST
One of my friends shared with me that was a jazz drummer.
Dave McArthurHOST
And he said that he'd never heard the song Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel before.
Dave McArthurHOST
And he was going to try to play it.
Dave McArthurHOST
And I'm like, you heard Sledgehammer.
Dave McArthurHOST
You pretentious.
Dave McArthurHOST
Come on.
Dave McArthurHOST
Anyway, how could you? He's the same age as us, by the way.
Dave McArthurHOST
It's not like the guy's 25.
JoeHOST
He did the same technique with this song.
JoeHOST
The video was directed by Stephen Johnson, who also directed Gabriel's famous Sledgehammer video.
JoeHOST
If you watched the video, you can obviously see it's the same guy.
JoeHOST
This also won a Grammy for Best Music Video Short Form on the 36th Grammy Awards in 1994.
Mark MeyerHOST
Uh, I find that hilarious.
Mark MeyerHOST
Uh, Gene Hickey, on the other hand, is kinda [laughs] just doing the manifestation that I thought Kevin would do and just sent us a gif of Peter Gabriel, and I believe that is Sledgehammer.
Mark MeyerHOST
So but he...
Mark MeyerHOST
But that's the Sledgehammer gif, but he says, "How about a little Big Time tonight?"
Corey MorrissetteHOST
Oh, okay.
Mark MeyerHOST
So yeah, yeah, pulled a fast one on us.
Cliff PearsonHOST
As we usually do, this means prog covers of non-prog tracks, non-prog acts covering prog tracks, or just prog acts covering each other.
Cliff PearsonHOST
We are all over the shop stylistically, but we'll kick off with a cover of Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer as rendered by the brand new heavies.
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You could have a steel train if you just lay down your tracks.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
You could have an airplane flying if you bring your blue sky back.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
Well, the fruit is as sweet as candy.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
This is the new stuff This is the new stuff
Cliff PearsonHOST
That's brand new heavies there from their 2014 album Sweet Freaks and a cover of Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer.
Cliff PearsonHOST
Earlier this year the band Orchestral released an album called Cover Your Tracks.
ChrisHOST
It spent 13 weeks in the top 40, kept out of the top spot in the one week it had at number two on July 26th, 1986.
ChrisHOST
The Summer of 86 to Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer.
ChrisHOST
It's so close to being another number one hit for him.
ChrisHOST
But peaked at two, lands here at song 1453.
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