2x Vinyl

Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats

Compilation by Peter Gabriel

Released 19 November 1990

art rock pop rock progressive rock

Tracklist

Vinyl 1
1
Solsbury Hill
4:22
4.5 ★
2
I Don’t Remember
3:49
3.5 ★
3
Sledgehammer
4:55
3.8 ★
4
Family Snapshot
4:29
4.4 ★
5
Mercy Street
feat. Youssou N’Dour
4:43
4.0 ★
6
Shaking the Tree
feat. Youssou N’Dour
6:22
7
Don’t Give Up
feat. Kate Bush
5:58
3.8 ★
8
San Jacinto
6:43
3.0 ★
Vinyl 2
1
Here Comes the Flood
4:31
4.0 ★
2
Red Rain
5:36
4.4 ★
3
Games Without Frontiers
3:58
4.4 ★
4
Shock the Monkey
3:58
3.6 ★
5
I Have the Touch
3:45
3.5 ★
6
Big Time
4:26
4.8 ★
7
Zaar
3:00
3.5 ★
8
Biko
6:56
4.5 ★

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Release credits

Allan Schwartzberg
drums (drum set) [1]
Andy Clark
Hammond organ [6], bass synthesizer [6], programming [6], sampler [6], synthesizer [7]
Bob Ezrin
producer [1]
Brian Christian
recording [1]
Chris Hughes
drum machine [2]
Coral Gordon
background vocals [1.3, 2.6]
Daniel Lanois
engineer [2, 6], guitar [2, 6], producer [1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 2.2, 2.6]
Dave Gregory
guitar [4]
Dave Harris
additional [1]
David Bascombe
recording [2, 6]
David Lord
producer [1.8, 2.4-5]
David Rhodes
background vocals [2, 4-5], guitar [1.2-4, 1.8, 2.2-3, 2.5-8], guitar family [1.7, 2.4]
Dee Lewis
background vocals [1.3, 2.6]
Dick Morrissey
saxophone [4]
Djalma Corrêa
congas [5], surdo [5], triangle [5]
Don Mikkelsen
trombone [2.6, 1.3]
Hossam Ramzy
daf [7], finger cymbals [7], tabla [7], tambourine [7], triangle [7]
Hugh Padgham
engineer [1.4, 2.3], whistle [3]
Jerry Marotta
bass [6], drums (drum set) [2.2-4, 2.8, 1.2, 1.4, 1.8], percussion [3]
Jill Gabriel
background vocals [8]
Jim Frank
additional [1]
Jimmy Bralower
drum machine [6]
Jimmy Maelen
bones [1], percussion [1]
John Ellis
background vocals [5], guitar [8]
John Giblin
bass [4]
Jozef Chirowski
keyboard [1]
Kate Bush
background vocals [3], guest [7], performer [7]
Keith Grant
additional [1]
Kevin Killen
engineer [2, 6]
Larry Fast
Moog [1.8, 2.5], bagpipe [8], bass synthesizer [3], programming [1], synthesizer [2.3-5, 2.8, 1.1, 1.4]
Larry Klein
bass [5]
Mahmoud Tabrizi-Zadeh
kemenche [7]
Manu Katché
drums (drum set) [3, 7]
Mark Rivera
alto saxophone [6], baritone saxophone [6], saxophone [3, 5], tenor saxophone [6]
Nathan East
bass [7]
P.P. Arnold
background vocals [1.3, 2.6]
Peter Gabriel
additional [2.7, 1.8], background vocals [1.4, 2.2, 2.4-6], bass synthesizer [3], drum machine [6, 8], flute [1], keyboard [1], lead vocals [1.4, 2.1-3, 2.6], membranophone [8], percussion [7], piano [2.1-2, 2.8, 1.2-5, 1.7], producer [1.2-3, 1.5, 1.7-8, 2.1-2, 2.4-7], recorder [1], sampler [2, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7], surdo [7], synthesizer [1.2-3, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.7-8, 1.8, 2.2-4, 2.4, 2.4-5, 2.5-6, 2.6], vocal [1.1-5, 1.7-8, 2.3-4, 2.6-8], whistle [3]
Peter Hammill
background vocals [4]
Peter Walsh
producer [2]
Phil Collins
snare drum [4], surdo [8]
Richard Tee
piano [5, 7]
Robert Fripp
banjo [1], classical guitar [1], electric guitar [1], guitar [1-2]
Robert Stasiak
additional [1]
Robert “Ringo” Hrycyna
additional [1]
Rod O’Brien
additional [1]
Shankar
violin [7]
Simon Philips
drums (drum set) [5]
Steve Hunter
acoustic guitar [1], electric guitar [1], guitar [1], pedal steel guitar [1]
Steve Lillywhite
producer [2.3, 2.8, 1.4], whistle [3]
Stewart Copeland
drums (drum set) [6], hi-hat [2]
Tony Levin
Chapman stick [1.2, 1.8, 2.4-5], bass [1.1, 1.3, 1.7, 2.6], electric bass guitar [2], tuba [1]
Wayne Jackson
cornet [6], trumpet [2.6, 1.3]