Burn You Up, Burn You Down

I've been listening to the new Peter Gabriel Hit collection -- and to say it's one of the better hits compilation albums out there would be an understatement, aside from the noticeable omission of music from Passion, almost all the hits are here (sadly, it's lacking "Mercy Street", "Intruder", "Secret World", and "I Have the Touch", but he still crammed as much as he could onto these two disc).

The highlight, though, has to be the new song, "Burn You Up, Burn You Down", which was sadly pulled at the last minute from Up. Listening to it, you can understand why it was pulled, but not for the reason you'd probably think. The song is fucking great, a great upbeat rhythm piece more akin to Gabriel's "pop" hits than the measured introspection that was found on Up. It's even downright funky. Although it wouldn't have fit there, here it's gold amongst the other great tracks, relieving that we get to hear this rather than have it buried in his vault of unreleased material.

"Lovetown" is also on the second disc, if you didn't happen to have the Philadelphia soundtrack.