Peter Gabriel - Hit
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Artist: Peter GabrielEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-11-04
Music Label: Geffen Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Solsbury Hill
- Shock the Monkey
- Sledgehammer
- Don't Give Up - Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel
- Games Without Frontiers
- Big Time
- Burn You Up, Burn You Down
- Growing Up [Tom Lord-Alge Mix]
- Digging in the Dirt
- Blood of Eden [Radio Edit]
- More Than This [Radio Edit]
- Biko
- Steam [Radio Edit]
- Red Rain
- Here Comes the Flood
- San Jacinto
- I Don't Remember
- Rhythm of the Heat
- Loved to Be Loved
- I Grieve
- Family Snapshot
- In Your Eyes
- Drop
- Tower That Ate People [Steve Osborne Mix]
- Lovetown
- Father, Son
- Signal to Noise
- Downside Up [Live]
- Cloudless
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Free Music Review: Stellar, But Not Comprehensive Gabriel Collection
Hit: 5 Stars
"Hit" is a double-CD collection of Peter Gabriel's greatest hits, one disc labelled "Hit," and one labelled "Miss." The great Mr. Gabriel is the former lead singer of Genesis and one of pop/rock's greatest talents because of his clever and inventive lyrics, and notable visual style on videos and in concert. Moreover, his selfless devotion to popularizing world music has made him a champion of otherwise unknown Third World musicians.
"Hit" captures early Gabriel ("Solsbury Hill" "Shock The Monkey"), middle Gabriel ("Sledgehammer" "Steam") and later Gabriel ("I Grieve" "The Drop") and many other songs that capture the flavor and essence of Gabriel's soulful, eclectic style. But as good as this collection is, it's not comprehensive. Missing is "I Have The Touch" and "Mercy Street," and other fans would think of other songs that should have been included.
But this much Gabriel is always a great thing, and "Hit" is worth having for that reason alone.
Hit Poster
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 MaidmentClassic Rock Music CDs
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