Rated PG (album)

Rated PG is a compilation album of songs for film soundtracks by English rock musician Peter Gabriel. The track selection spans over 30 years of music created for the individual films, with "Walk Through the Fire" from 1984 being the earliest and "Everybird" from 2017 being the most recent.

Content

The album includes many unreleased tracks, some of which are alternate versions of previously released songs. The previously unreleased songs in any form outside of their respective films are "Everybird", "Speak ", and "Nocturnal".

Release

Originally only released on limited-edition vinyl on Record Store Day through Real World, it eventually became available on digital streaming services later that month to accommodate demand. A digital single, "This is Party Man", was released before the album. It is a new version of the song and features new lyrics from Peter Gabriel. A video for "Everybird" was released on 12 July 2019 featuring footage from the animated film for which it was originally created. In May 2020 it was announced that the album would be made available for general release on vinyl and CD on 12 June 2020.

Critical reception

Cyrille Delanlssays of Amarok Magazine wrote, "without being essential, Rated PG is an uneven but exciting album in the journey it offers."

Omissions

Peter Gabriel songs from film soundtracks that are not included on this compilation, Hit or Flotsam and Jetsam:

"Out/Out" from Gremlins
"While The Earth Sleeps" from Strange Days
"Shaking the Tree " from The Wild Thornberrys Movie.
"Why Don't You Show Yourself" from Words With Gods

It furthermore does not include any material from Gabriel's scores for Birdy, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Rabbit-Proof Fence, each of which had previously been released as albums. See Peter Gabriel discography for full list of songs from film soundtracks.

Personnel

Peter Gabriel – vocals, production, arrangement
Paddy Moloney – vocals
Black Dyke Mills Band – brass
Soweto Gospel Choir – vocals
The Worldbeaters
Atif Aslam – vocals, Urdu vocal arrangement

Technical personnel

Bob Ezrin – production
Thomas Newman – L.A. Sessions production
Richard Chappell – recording, engineering, mixing
Mat Arnold – recording assistance
Tchad Blake – mixing
George Acogny – production
Rod Beale – engineering
Nick Ingman – orchestration
Peter Sené – engineering assistance
David Bottrill – production
Nile Rodgers – production
Glenn Tommey – engineering
Richard Evans – engineering, mixing
Daniel Lanois – production, engineering
Kevin Killen – engineering