So [25th Anniversary Edition] [Deluxe Edition] [Remastered]

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Peter Gabriel’s "So" deserves the lavish anniversary treatment as much as any album out there. His 1986 #2 smash was not just the ex-Genesis singer’s biggest solo triumph, but one of the essential pop albums of the ’80s (much as the "Sledgehammer" video was one of the most influential, popular videos of the entire MTV era). The single-CD release here is a remastered edition of the complete LP: its quartet of hits—"Sledgehammer," "Big Time," "In Your Eyes" and his duet with Kate Bush, "Don’t Give Up"—plus the beautiful "Red Rain," "Mercy Street" and more. The 3-CD edition adds the "Live in Athens 1987" concert: "Shock the Monkey," "Games Without Frontiers," "Solsbury Hill," "Mercy Street," "Sledgehammer," "In Your Eyes" and more. Deluxe edition has all that plus a fourth CD: "So DNA," which peels back the layers of a pop masterpiece, letting you hear work-in-progress song drafts of the entire album. The two DVDs are the Athens concert and the "So: Classic Albums" documentary (as seen on VH-1). Finally, deluxe-edition owners also get the whole album on 180-gram vinyl plus a 12" vinyl single containing the previously unreleased songs "Courage" and "Sagrada" and an alternate mix of "Don’t Give Up"! Realworld/EMI.