Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats was released in 1990 as Peter Gabri… Read Full Bio ↴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).
Although this album highlights songs from Peter Gabriel's earlier albums, tracks from Peter Gabriel (II, or Scratch) and the soundtrack to the film Birdy are not included. "In Your Eyes" is notably missing from the compilation. Say Anything, in which it was played in a prominent scene, had been released the year before. Although this made "In Your Eyes" perhaps the most well known Peter Gabriel song aside from "Sledgehammer," it failed to crack the top 20 and was thus omitted from the album in favor of five of the other eight tracks from So — four other hits and album track "Mercy Street."
The album cover and the inside sleeve photographs of Gabriel are by Robert Mapplethorpe from about 1986.
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).
Although this album highlights songs from Peter Gabriel's earlier albums, tracks from Peter Gabriel (II, or Scratch) and the soundtrack to the film Birdy are not included. "In Your Eyes" is notably missing from the compilation. Say Anything, in which it was played in a prominent scene, had been released the year before. Although this made "In Your Eyes" perhaps the most well known Peter Gabriel song aside from "Sledgehammer," it failed to crack the top 20 and was thus omitted from the album in favor of five of the other eight tracks from So — four other hits and album track "Mercy Street."
The album cover and the inside sleeve photographs of Gabriel are by Robert Mapplethorpe from about 1986.
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Shaking the Tree
Peter Gabriel Lyrics
Big Time I'm on my way, I'm making it I've got to make…
Biko Biko Biko Wafa wafela sizwe Biko Biko Biko Biko Wafa wafela …
Don't Give Up In this proud land we grew up strong We were wanted…
Family Snapshot The streets are lined with camera crews Everywhere he goes i…
Games Without Frontiers Jeux sans frontières Jeux sans frontières Jeux sans frontièr…
Here Comes the Flood When the night shows The signals grow on radios All the stra…
I Don't Remember I got no means to show identification I got no papers…
I Have The Touch The time I like is the rush hour, 'cause I…
Mercy Street Looking down on empty streets, all she can see Are the…
Red Rain Red rain is coming down Red rain Red rain is pouring down Po…
San Jacinto Thick cloud, steam rising, hissing stone on sweat lodge fire…
Shaking the Tree Souma Yergon, Sou Nou Yergon We are shakin' the tree Souma Y…
Shock the Monkey Cover me when I run Cover me through the fire Something knoc…
Sledgehammer You could have a steam train If you'd just lay down…
Solsbury Hill Climbing up on Solsbury Hill I could see the city light Wind…