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Title: Excellent but definitely a Step Down
Review: This is Gabriel's first thoroughly Yuppie-Friendly album & though meticulously crafted, a definite step-down from all 4 previous albums. The weirdness & bizarre elements that made his first four masterpiece albums so dangerous (and they're all masterpieces with 3 & Security being the peak period)is toned down towards sentimental overstatements like "Red Rain" & "Don't Give Up," infectiously silly but quite shallow hit tracks like "Sledgehammer" & "Big Time" ( rather than awesomely nutcase ones like "Shock the Monkey" & "Games Without Frontiers") & the album would get only 3 stars if not for great 3 track combination of That Voice Again, In Your Eyes & Mercy Street & the great "We Do What We're Told Milgram's 37" that comes after the annoying distraction of the loud & funky "Big Time."
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