Trivia / Up (Peter Gabriel Album)

• Better Export for You: The initial Japanese release came with a bonus CD containing the Unadulterated Radio Edit of "The Barry Williams Show", the Royksopp Remix of "My Head Sounds Like That", and the radio edit of "Cloudless" from Gabriel's soundtrack to Rabbit-Proof Fence.
• Creator-Driven Successor: To Melt and Security at the same time, combining both albums' styles and trading out the heavy Fairlight CMI usage for even more versatile digital audio workstations.
• Cut Song: A version of the song "Burn You Up, Burn You Down", featuring the Blind Boys of Alabama, appeared in the initial pressings of Up given out to the press for review, but was then ultimately deleted from the album prior to release, likely because it didn't quite match the more aggressive tone of the rest of the album. The song would eventually appear on the Greatest Hits Album Hit, in a very different mix, with a sound that more resembled the song's later appearance on Big Blue Ball.
• Died During Production: Gabriel ended up taking so long to finish the album that one of his guest vocalists, Pakistani Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, died before he had the chance to record his vocals for "Signal to Noise"; Gabriel ultimately was forced to isolate archival audio from an early live performance of the song with Khan, thus turning the studio version into a Posthumous Collaboration.
• Posthumous Credit: Nustret Fateh Ali Khan, who died during the album's production, is credited with "Additional Vocals" on "Signal to Noise".
• Sequel Gap: Released a whole decade after Us, with the follow-up still in production nearly two decades later.
• Saved from Development Hell: Gabriel was working on the album for about 7 years— he started working on it in 1995, it was supposed to be "near completion" in 1998, and yet it took four more years to finally see release.
• Similarly Named Works:
  • The album shares a title with albums by R.E.M. and Right Said Fred, as well as a film by Pixar. Gabriel even mentions on his official site how R.E.M. had beaten him to the punch with their album title.
  • "More Than This" is unrelated to the opening track of Roxy Music's Avalon.
• What Could Have Been: Early promotional copies of the album on both CD and vinyl include the Cut Song "Burn You Up, Burn You Down" and sequence it and "The Drop" between "I Grieve" and "The Barry Williams Show". Come the final release, "Burn You Up, Burn You Down" would be removed from the album and "The Drop" would be moved to the last spot.
• Working Title:
  • According to Gabriel's website, "Darkness" was originally called "House in the Woods".
  • "No Way Out" was originally listed on promo copies as "Don't Leave".
  • I/O was tossed around as a potential name for the album, only for Gabriel to pick Up instead; I/O would later become the official title for the still-in-progress follow-up.

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