Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ (soundtrack album)
by Peter Gabriel

Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ by Peter Gabriel
(Soundtrack album)
Year: 1989
Overall rank: 1,882nd   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 204 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (24th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (293rd)
Award Best albums of all time (1,882nd)

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Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ is ranked 6th best out of 29 albums by Peter Gabriel on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Peter Gabriel is So which is ranked number 229 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,046.

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Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ track list

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76/100 (from 204 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.9/100, a mean average of 75.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.0.

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From 03/29/2025 20:43
Red was always my favourite colour but, in recent years, I have grown to prefer green. That is the nature of the conundrum. Some prefer one colour; others prefer another; yet we can all enjoy the music even if we do not share the same preferences.

The film from which this music comes bears little resemblance to the biblical commentary which it partially represents. You may like the original; you may prefer the original. You may like neither or both.

The music is excellent. You should hear it, whether or not you like the movie. It is that good!
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From 10/12/2021 18:09
Such an unusual album that showcases Gabriel's compositional chops outside the rock spectrum. It is a success.
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From 09/24/2019 05:52
A wonderful combination of east and west music
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gorgeous isn't it. a wondrous blend of arabic, turkish, kurdish, armenian and african folk music set to an ambient pace. i'd go as far to say that it's probably one of the best (if not the best) records from the new age genre. a brilliant collaboration from artists all over the globe.
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The tone of this album is a melancholic and meditational mixture of Western and Eastern existentialism allied with a sense of Christian piety and exotic detachment. Gabriel's masterpiece is first and foremost an ethereal and evocative study in 'sound' which acts as a kind of catalyst for the semiotic interpretation of each of the individual 21 pieces on the album.
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