Shaking The Tree
Peter Gabriel
Shaking The Tree
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | |||
| 1 |
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Solsbury Hill full track | 4:20 | 94,379 | |
| 2 |
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I Don't Remember full track | 4:37 | 22,278 | |
| 3 |
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Sledgehammer full track | 5:16 | 81,370 | |
| 4 |
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Family Snapshot full track | 4:26 | 22,346 | |
| 5 |
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Mercy Street full track | 6:21 | 33,788 | |
| 6 |
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Shaking the Tree full track | 6:25 | 14,573 | |
| 7 |
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Don't Give Up full track | 6:33 | 43,617 | |
| 8 |
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San Juacinto | 6:40 | 2,419 | |
| 9 |
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Here Comes the Flood | 4:29 | 28,005 | |
| 10 |
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Red Rain full track | 5:39 | 44,409 | |
| 11 |
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Games Without Frontiers full track | 3:57 | 41,131 | |
| 12 |
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Shock the Monkey full track | 5:30 | 36,420 | |
| 13 |
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I Have the Touch full track | 4:37 | 21,331 | |
| 14 |
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Big Time full track | 4:30 | 43,487 | |
| 15 |
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Zaar full track | 2:58 | 18,326 | |
| 16 |
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Biko full track | 7:27 | 28,713 |
About this album
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) (1977), through Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ (1989). It was remastered with most of Gabriel’s catalog in 2002.
The tracks are creatively re-ordered, ignoring chronology. Some of the tracks were different from the album versions. Most songs are edited for time, either as radio, single or video edit versions. “Shaking the Tree,” a track from Youssou N’Dour’s album The Lion (1989), is a 1990 version featuring new vocals from Gabriel. “I Have the Touch” is listed as a 1983 remix, although it sounds enough like the remix from 1985 that many reviewers have declared the remixes to be the same.
One song, “Here Comes the Flood”, is a new recording from 1990. This version is a piano and voice arrangement, that is far simpler than the highly produced version on Peter Gabriel (1977). Its sparseness is closer to the version that Gabriel recorded with Robert Fripp on the latter’s album Exposure (1979). In interviews, Gabriel has said that he preferred the 1979 version, and it was that version with Fripp that he chose to overdub in German as the flipside to a single released before Ein deutsches album (1980).
The tracks are creatively re-ordered, ignoring chronology. Some of the tracks were different from the album versions. Most songs are edited for time, either as radio, single or video edit versions. “Shaking the Tree,” a track from Youssou N’Dour’s album The Lion (1989), is a 1990 version featuring new vocals from Gabriel. “I Have the Touch” is listed as a 1983 remix, although it sounds enough like the remix from 1985 that many reviewers have declared the remixes to be the same.
One song, “Here Comes the Flood”, is a new recording from 1990. This version is a piano and voice arrangement, that is far simpler than the highly produced version on Peter Gabriel (1977). Its sparseness is closer to the version that Gabriel recorded with Robert Fripp on the latter’s album Exposure (1979). In interviews, Gabriel has said that he preferred the 1979 version, and it was that version with Fripp that he chose to overdub in German as the flipside to a single released before Ein deutsches album (1980).
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Shouts
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lowcopo wrote:
a great songwriter with a openmind
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daddy_333 wrote:
Biko Mercy Street Here Comes the Flood and Don't Give Up
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abbey23 wrote:
such a great album! I have a hard time picking a favourite song. 'Course when i was but a wee child i absolutely loved sledgehammer and shock the monkey, Those songs still make me get up and dance and sing loudly.
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imTheGirl94 wrote:
Great Album :) I used to listen to this all the time when I was younger thanks to my dad, and now I've recently gotten back into his amazing music.
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agnieszkabeata wrote:
DON'T GIVE UP is the most wonderful song!!!!!!!
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