Late in 2016 a cover version of Peter’s song Come Talk To Me, by the band Goldspot, featured in an episode of the US hit TV show This Is Us.
This Is Us (Music from the Series), a companion to the show is released on 15 September via UMe, and here Siddhartha Khosla of Goldspot talks about their version of the song.
“We were working on episode seven and episode eight concurrently. I was looking at a script for episode eight; it was the Thanksgiving episode, which is one of my favorite episodes all season. And so much of what was happening in episode eight was this issue between Rebecca and Randall, her adopted son, and that she never communicated certain things about his past to him. It was all about this lack of communication. It kept on coming to me in my head, I kept thinking about Peter Gabriel’s “Come Talk to Me.” And that record, [1992‘s] Us, is one of my favorite records of all time. It inspired me to do a cover of the song.”
Other music on the companion album is:
- Death With Dignity – Sufjan Stevens
- You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon
- Willin’ – Mandy Moore
- Can’t Find My Way Home – Blind Faith
- Uptight (Everything’s Alright) – Stevie Wonder
- The Calvary Cross – Richard Thompson & Linda Thompson
- Watch Me – Labi Siffre
- The Wind – Cat Stevens
- Come Talk To Me – Goldspot
- Blues Run The Game – Jackson C. Frank
- If Only – Maria Taylor (featuring Conor Oberst)
- Northern Sky – Nick Drake
- If I Ever Was A Child – Wilco
- Because Of You – Gene Clark
- Evergreen Cassette (Tape Mix) – Goldspot
- Without You – Badfinger
- The World’s Smiling Now – Jim James
- Photograph – Ringo Starr
- We Can Always Come Back To This – Brian Tyree Henry
- This Is Us Score Suite – Siddhartha Khosla
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Nominated for 10 Emmy Awards including Outstanding Drama Series, This Is Us chronicles the Pearson family across the decades: from Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and Rebecca (Mandy Moore) as young parents in the 1980s and 1990s to their now adult kids Kevin (Justin Hartley), Kate (Chrissy Metz) and Randall (Sterling K. Brown) searching for love, fulfillment and healing in the present day.