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A judiciously-selected two-CD compendium of Peter Gabriel's finest moments, Hit offers a far more generous windfall than can be found on the only previous Peter Gabriel best-of selection, the 1990 Shaking the Tree. The devil, after all, is in the detail, particularly on the second disc (self-deprecatingly entitled Miss), which
A judiciously-selected two-CD compendium of Peter Gabriel's finest moments, Hit offers a far more generous windfall than can be found on the only previous Peter Gabriel best-of selection, the 1990 Shaking the Tree. The devil, after all, is in the detail, particularly on the second disc (self-deprecatingly entitled Miss), which really traverses the whole gamut of Peter Gabriel's globally-visioned artistry. It includes recent soundtrack work (the haunting "Cloudless" from Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence), material from 2002's sterling Up ("Signal To Noise", featuring a compelling vocal from the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and some ominous string arrangements, really does sound like a thinking man's Massive Attack) and goes right back to that fourth album when marrying the reticence of cold, synthesised new wave with insistent African percussion seemed like a good idea (it was). The first disc--including the MTV smash "Sledgehammer", anti-apartheid war cry "Biko", "Big Time" (interesting how the styles of Gabriel and his former group Genesis seem to converge at this time) and "Games Without Frontiers"--really speaks for itself, although with hindsight it seems the single-buying public-at-large had a particular taste for a certain kind of Peter Gabriel record. Universally excellent throughout, the collection is rendered even more desirable by the inclusion of three previously unreleased tracks: a live rendition of "Downside Up", a shorter version of "Blood of Eden" and "Burn You Up, Burn You Down", latterly included on a video game and initially earmarked for the Up album but jettisoned at the last minute. --Kevin Maidment
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Track listingCD 1 :
1. Solsbury Hill
2. Shock the Monkey
3. Sledgehammer
4. Don't Give Up - Kate Bush
5. Games Without Frontiers
6. Big Time
7. Burn You Up, Burn You Down
8. Growing Up [Tom Lord-Alge Mix]
9. Digging in the Dirt
10. Blood of Eden [Radio Edit]
11. More Than This [Radio Edit]
12. Biko
13. Steam [Radio Edit]
14. Red Rain
15. Here Comes the Flood
CD 2 :
1. San Jacinto
2. I Don't Remember
3. THR Rhythm of the Heat
4. Loved to Be Loved
5. I Grieve
6. Family Snapshot
7. In Your Eyes
8. Drop
9. Tower That Ate People [Steve Osborne Mix]
10. Lovetown
11. Father, Son
12. Signal to Noise
13. Downside Up [Live]
14. Cloudless
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