- Band Name: Various Artists
- Record Label: Capitol
- Release Date: Sep 24, 2013
- Summary: The companion album to Peter Gabriel's Scratch My Back features cover songs by artists he had covered on that 2010 release.
- Record Label: Capitol
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 3 out of 8
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Oct 10, 201370Less ambitious than the album that spawned it, but a worthy companion piece nonetheless. [Nov 2013, p.71]
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Sep 25, 201370The result is a slightly odd, somewhat disjointed response, and one that serves to highlight just how daunting it is to tackle a cover from the former Genesis frontman’s catalogue.
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Oct 16, 201365While it’s a shame Radiohead and Bowie in the flesh couldn’t make it to the sessions, Gabriel’s concept fulfills its original intention: to show everyone a little appreciation and respect, even if the end result comes out a butcher shop’s tribute to a man whose melodic craftsmanship is beyond approximation.
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Sep 25, 201360Very few of them add anything much at all to the original versions, which may be out of reverence or it may be a testament to the fierce identities of the songs themselves.
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Oct 16, 201360Enjoyable, though less revelatory, Arcade Fire's Games Without Frontiers, Joseph Arthur's agonised Shock The Monkey and Lou Reed's Jokily grindscaping Solsbury Hill contrast with Paul Simon's restrained Biko. [Nov 2013, p.91]
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Sep 25, 201349As a double album, Scratch might have produced something like an elaborate mixtape with originals on one side of the Maxell and covers on the other. In execution, however, I’ll Scratch Yours plays like another artifact of the 90s, this one less fondly remembered.
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Sep 25, 201340All in all, it’s hard to see this appealing to anyone other Gabriel completists.
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