>...which didn't mention critical love.
it's an assumed aspect of the decision-making process, otherwise they're likely not considered in any case outside a few (like maybe Kiss, who took decades to get in mostly because of how short they fell in that category).


Either way, Gabriel
>*was* something of a critic-favorite back in the day but how
>much of that remain today, even amongst older critics? Like
>they still consider "So" or that waterface-album amongst the
>highlights of the 80's?

you'd have to ask them but at a glance yeah, probably even if like R.E.M. they're not held in quite the regard they once were they're still in there, particularly since this isn't the pitchfork crowd voting but more the previous old-guard.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/features/article/best-albums-of-the-1980s/P6

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-best-albums-of-the-eighties-20110418/peter-gabriel-so-20110330

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/02/the-80-best-albums-of-the-1980s.html?p=6

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/03/08/best-albums-of-1980/

>I don't see much Gabriel-love anymore,
>either from critics or fans (obviously, he still has an
>audience but so does anyone who was once big).

he just hasn't really been active & the channels that he got big from (like MTV) don't really play music anymore let alone music in that particular demo.

That doesn't mean he's sunk to solo Don Henley or Phil Collins depths of once-wildly-popular current disregard.

Whatever, I'm
>not really crying about it either, I just think he was a bad
>pick...

I think there's been far worse picks in both this year (most of this group aside from Nirvana & suppose I'd again say Kiss, even if I never liked their music they still feel more appropriate) in each of the past few years:

Randy Newman, Neil Diamond, Donovan, The Hollies, Abba, John Mellencamp, Madonna, Leonard Cohen, etc.