Peter Gabriel

Shaking The Tree

This Is The Picture.

Review Score:

(6/10)
This isn't a good summary of Peter Gabriel's work. Yes, it does have many of his popular songs complete with album tracks, but important songs are missing such as "In Your Eyes", "Intruder", "The Rhythm Of The Heat", "D.I.Y.", "Mother Of Violence", "Moribund The Burgermeister" and of course, anything from 1992's "Us" like "Steam", "Digging In The Dirt", "The Blood Of Eden", etc. Also missing are key individual tracks from soundtracks like "Birdy", "Against All Odds" and later, "Philadelphia". What's even more disappointing is that many tracks have been edited down to shorter versions in order to fit more songs on the cd. I prefer to have the original versions of songs on a greatest hits package and these songs were trimmed: "Family Snapshot", "Mercy Street", "Don't Give Up", "San Jacinto". It is interesting to have different versions of "Sledgehammer" and "I Have The Touch", but that doesn't make up for all the other setbacks. A proper Gabriel "hits" package would definitely have to be two discs with the original version and length of each track. I suppose if you are only passing through Gabriel's music that this collection would suffice, but for those who are ardent fans, this compilation is equivalent to a great novel that's been poorly adapted to the silver screen.

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