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Encyclopedia > Shaking the Tree
Shaking The Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats
Album cover
Compilation album by Peter Gabriel
Released December 1990
Recorded 1976-1990
Genre Progressive rock
Length 77:05
Label Geffen
Producer(s) see individual albums
Professional reviews
  • AMG (4/5) Review
Peter Gabriel chronology
Passion
(1989)		 Shaking the Tree
(1990)		 Us
(1992)

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Album Information

Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats was released in 1990 as Peter Gabriel's first "greatest hits" album, including songs from his first solo album Peter Gabriel (I or Car), through Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ. Cover art from the album So, Gabriels biggest commercial success Peter Brian Gabriel (born February 13, 1950, in Cobham, Surrey) is an English musician. ... Peter Gabriel is the first album Peter Gabriel recorded after leaving the progressive rock band Genesis, and the first of four with the same eponymous title (as though each album were an issue of a magazine). ... Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ is a musical album produced in 1989 by Peter Gabriel. ...

  • Tracks are creatively re-ordered, ignoring chronology
  • "Shaking the Tree" is a new song for this album
  • "I Have the Touch" is remixed
  • "Here Comes the Flood" is a new recording of an old song, with a more sparse arrangement

as compared with the original 1977 release

  • "Shock the Monkey," "Mercy Street," and "Sledgehammer" are edited for time

Although this album highlights songs from Peter Gabriel's earlier albums, tracks from Peter Gabriel (II, or Scratch) and the Soundtrack for the film Birdy are not included. Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriels second solo album, was released in 1978 to lukewarm reviews. ... Birdy is a movie by Alan Parker and TriStar Entertainment (1984). ...


Track listing

  1. "Solsbury Hill"
  2. "I Don't Remember"
  3. "Sledgehammer"
  4. "Family Snapshot"
  5. "Mercy Street"
  6. "Shaking the Tree"
  7. "Don't Give Up"
  8. "San Jacinto"
  9. "Here Comes the Flood"
  10. "Red Rain"
  11. "Games Without Frontiers"
  12. "Shock the Monkey"
  13. "I Have the Touch"
  14. "Big Time"
  15. "Zaar"
  16. "Biko"

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