Peter Gabriel - The Book of Love

I some point, I will write of my love of '69 Love Songs' by the Magnetic Fields. Suffice to say it's wonderful miracle of a thing. This song however was never a stand out for me though. So I was somewhat surprised to by absolutely capsized by this Peter Gabriel cover of it. In this interview Stephin Merrit wryly comments that "If I could sing like Peter Gabriel, I wouldn’t have to write songs." And it brings something to this tune that is indescribably potent.
Gabriel is often wrongly regarded as a world music obsessed joke, so it's good to seem him getting some of the credit he deserves.