Almost perfect..

Review Score: (8/10)
This is a very good compilation of PG's music, considering how hard it would be to represent everything. However, it's obvious where they cut corners to make sure it all fit on one CD. Several songs have intros/endings cut or faded out to shorten the running time. It would have been better to split it into two CDs: the songs could have run unedited and it would have given room to include some others. As EVERYONE has noticed, "In Your Eyes" is missing, and that song deserves to be included perhaps more than any other. ("And Through the Wire," "On The Air," "A Different Drum" and "Kiss of Life" stand out among the other exclusions.) I was disappointed to find nothing from PG2 and only one track from Passion. I was even more disappointed to see that Peter's only terrible song (Sledgehammer) was included where so many others weren't.

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