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Hit
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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Tracks| 1 | Solsbury Hill | | 2 | Shock the Monkey | | 3 | Sledgehammer | | 4 | Don't Give Up - Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel | | 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 | | 16 | San Jacinto | | 17 | I Don't Remember | | 18 | Rhythm of the Heat | | 19 | Loved to Be Loved | | 20 | I Grieve | | 21 | Family Snapshot | | 22 | In Your Eyes | | 23 | Drop | | 24 | Tower That Ate People [Steve Osborne Mix] | | 25 | Lovetown | | 26 | Father, Son | | 27 | Signal to Noise | | 28 | Downside Up [Live] | | 29 | Cloudless |
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