Peter Gabriel on a Budget

Review Score: (10/10)
In an ideal world, we all can afford all the albums we are interested in. However, there are those tricky factors of money and time to consider. If someone's looking for some Peter Gabriel to add to their collection, it'd be difficult to narrow the choice down to one album [both SO & PETER GABRIEL (melting) are both near-masterpieces, and others aren't far behind]. This is a great sampler for those who want to get their feet wet. It contains the obligatory "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time" (but ignores, oddly, "In Your Eyes", which you'll suprisingly not miss), but also gives you a taste of his more complex work - "Family Snapshot", "San Jacinto", "Biko". "Zaar" is perhaps an odd selection, but it will give you taste of some of the items on his RealWorld label, and it somehow fits into the collection. If your money and time is less budgeted, I'd certainly recommend picking up many of Peter Gabriel's wonderful items, but for the rest, this is an excellent way to go.

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• Pumped to Please
• Good in the car
• For the passing fan, get 'Hit' instead
• better than the new greatest hits
• Almost as good as his 2-disc collection.
• Nice compilation
• Great Gabriel Collection
• Turn Up The Voice
• Flaws are Noticable, But Still an Entertaining Retrospecitve
• A portrait of Gabriel's solo career
• True audiophile sound.
• Missing an important song
• a must have
• Only sixteen greats?
• Why no "In Your Eyes"? Well...
• Unbelievably great CD!
• a solid heads up to you, the consumer
• Sounds much better remastered
• Only for the most casual fans (and, ironically, completists)
• Lots of treasures grow on this tree
• Great Place to Start
• Has Some Minor Flaws But It's Still Magnificent!
• This Is The Picture.
• Shaking The Tree / A great ethnic piece...
• One track short of 5 stars
• Where the HELL is 'In Your Eyes'
• Not bad.
• A Great Retrospective -- well worth it.
• Gabriel's Best on one CD
• Fairly Accurate Solo Career Representation
• A Nice Starting Place
• Essential Listening
• Sixteen of Peter Gabriels's Seventeen Golden Greats
• Good, but not the best way to sum up Gabriel's career
• Good anthology album
• I like about half the songs on this one.
• Not a "Greatest Hits" Compilation
• INCREDIBLE
• Only if you already know you love Peter Gabriel!
• Absolutely essential listening
• It sure was a good decision to buy this one!
• Too Many Unlistenable Songs
• Better than So
• Shaking The Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats
• This album is a satisfactory.
• Start With This One
• Almost perfect..
• Very Good Collection
• Good Stuff!
• Peter Gabriel is a musical god
• Great Collection, but why leave out "In Your Eyes"?
• Good representation of Peter's albums
• If you're looking for an overview of Gabriel, start here.
• A great compilation from a long career.
• A summation of greatness
• Excellent Peter Gabriel
• Great, all the good ones
• Great CD