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Play: The Videos is a compilation DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 of music videos by Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

, released in 2004. The DVD contains remastered audio tracks of songs in DTS
Digital Theater System
DTS is a series of multichannel audio technologies owned by DTS, Inc. , an American company specializing in digital surround sound formats used for both commercial/theatrical and consumer grade applications...

 5.1 (DTS 96 kHz/24-bit) and Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital
Dolby Digital is the name for audio compression technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories. It was originally called Dolby Stereo Digital until 1994. Except for Dolby TrueHD, the audio compression is lossy. The first use of Dolby Digital was to provide digital sound in cinemas from 35mm film prints...

 5.1 Surround Sound. The new surround sound mixes were created by Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie...

 and Richard Chappell.

Music videos

  1. "Father, Son"
  2. "Sledgehammer
    Sledgehammer (song)
    "Sledgehammer" is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So. It hit number one in Canada on 21 July 1986 where it spent four weeks; number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States on 26 July 1986; and number four in the UK singles chart, thanks in part to a...

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  3. "Blood of Eden
    Blood of Eden
    "Blood of Eden" is the third single from Peter Gabriel's 1992 album, Us. The track includes backing vocals from Sinéad O'Connor but narrowly failed to break the UK top 40.-Track listing:All songs written by Peter Gabriel....

    "
  4. "Games Without Frontiers
    Games Without Frontiers (song)
    "Games Without Frontiers" is a hit 1980 single by Peter Gabriel, released on his third self-titled solo album. It features Kate Bush on backing vocals and became his first UK Top 10 hit, peaking at #4. It ties with 1986's Sledgehammer as his highest-charting song in the UK. It peaked at #48 in the...

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  5. "I Don't Remember"
  6. "Big Time"
  7. "Lovetown"
  8. "Red Rain
    Red Rain (song)
    "Red Rain" is the first track on Peter Gabriel's 1986 solo album So. In the USA, it reached #3 on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Stewart Copeland from The Police played the hi-hat for the rain-like background sound; the rest of the drumming was handled by Jerry Marotta.The song...

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  9. "In Your Eyes
    In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel song)
    "In Your Eyes" is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album So. It reached #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November, 1986. It was not released as a single in the UK...

    "
  10. "Don't Give Up
    Don't Give Up (Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush song)
    "Don't Give Up" is song written by Peter Gabriel and recorded as a duet with Kate Bush for Gabriel's album So. The single version spent eleven weeks in the UK Top 75 chart in 1986, peaking at number nine. It describes the despair of a man who feels isolated and defeated by the economic system, and...

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  11. "The Barry Williams Show"
  12. "Washing of the Water"
  13. "Biko
    Biko (song)
    "Biko" is a protest song by British rock musician Peter Gabriel. The song was included on Gabriel's third album, Peter Gabriel . It is about Steve Biko, a noted black South African anti-apartheid activist. Biko had been arrested by the South African police in late August 1977...

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  14. "Kiss That Frog"
  15. "Mercy Street"
  16. "Growing Up"
  17. "Shaking the Tree"
  18. "Shock the Monkey
    Shock the Monkey
    "Shock the Monkey" is a 1982 song by Peter Gabriel. It was released as a single and peaked at number 29 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart. The song was Gabriel's first Top 40 hit in the US. In the UK, the song charted at number 58. It was included on...

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  19. "Steam"
  20. "The Drop"
  21. "Zaar"
  22. "Solsbury Hill
    Solsbury Hill (song)
    "Solsbury Hill" is a song by British musician Peter Gabriel, about a spiritual experience atop Solsbury Hill in Somerset, England. Gabriel wrote the song after his departure from the progressive rock band Genesis, of which he had been the lead singer since its inception, explaining the reasons...

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  23. "Digging in the Dirt
    Digging in the Dirt
    "Digging in the Dirt" is a 1992 song by British musician Peter Gabriel. It was the first single taken from his sixth studio album, Us. The song was only a minor hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, but it topped both the Billboard Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts...

    "

Special features

  • Video introductions
  • Programmable 18-track jukebox
  • "Games Without Frontiers": Live 2004
  • "Modern Love": Original 1977 music video
  • "The Nest That Sailed the Sky"
  • Trailers: Family Portrait, Growing Up Live
    Growing Up (DVD)
    Growing Up Live is a concert film by Hamish Hamilton and Peter Gabriel. It features a live performance from Gabriel's 2003 "Growing Up" tour. The concert is notable for its dynamic set design by Robert Lepage. Also of note is the addition of Melanie Gabriel, his daughter, for backing vocals in this...

    , Secret World Live
    Secret World Live (DVD)
    Secret World Live is a film of a Peter Gabriel concert in 1993, as part of his Secret World Live tour to support his sixth solo album, Us. The show is performed across two stages: a square and a circular stage, bridged by a conveyor belt. It was released on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD...


External links

  • Review - The Music Box, Vol. 12, #6
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