Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ
by Peter Gabriel

Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ by Peter Gabriel
(Soundtrack album)
Year: 1989
Release date: 1989-06-05
Overall rank: 1,926th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 210 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (24th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (294th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,926th)

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Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ is ranked 6th best out of 30 albums by Peter Gabriel on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Peter Gabriel is So which is ranked number 214 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 7,188.

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Passion: Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,926th | 1980s rank: 294th | 1989 rank: 24th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 210 votes)
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90/100
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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80/100
Such an unusual album that showcases Gabriel's compositional chops outside the rock spectrum. It is a success.
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85/100
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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70/100
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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