Peter Gabriel "So" [1986]

An aging troll with enough elfin conceits to pack a Renaissance Fair past capacity, Peter Gabriel's knee-jerk reaction to being outsold by Phil Collins, his immeasurably callow former bandmate, was to try and turn himself into a love machine. Ick. Faux pop-soul bust-outs like "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time" prove all men are indeed pigs, even those who wallowed in reverse-mohawk anonymity for many, many years. Elsewhere he melodramatically leans on synthesizers and invites other arch, formerly obscure losers like helium-voiced Kate Bush to the party. After listening to "So," red rain is most definitely "boring down all over me," too.