This budget-priced collection from Spectrum/Universal collects 14 cuts from the ambitious and evocative alt/goth rock group, including fan favorites like "Butterfly on a Wheel," "Wasteland," and the massive and anthemic "Tower of Strength," but there are so many key cuts missing, and a few too many alternate mixes and BBC recordings, to support a title like
Serpents Kiss: The Very Best of the Mission. Listeners looking for a better
Mission compendium should check out the 1994 singles collection
Sum and Substance. ~ James Christopher Monger