Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats

Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats
Greatest hits album by
Released19 November 1990[1]
Recorded1976–1990
GenreArt rock
Length77:05
LabelGeffen/Virgin
Producer
Peter Gabriel chronology
Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ
(1989)
Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats
(1990)
Us
(1992)
Singles from Shaking the Tree
  1. "Solsbury Hill"
    Released: 3 December 1990
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Entertainment WeeklyA[3]
New Musical Express7/10[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]

Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats is a compilation album by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It was released in 1990 as Gabriel's first career retrospective, 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 catalogue in 2002. The vinyl version of the album is called Shaking the Tree: Twelve Golden Greats.

For the album packaging, Gabriel decided to forgo longboxes that allowed for CD cases to fit in racks constructed for vinyl records in favor of a jewel box as a means of reducing waste.[6][7]

  1. ^ Smith, Robin (17 November 1990). "This Week – The Next Seven Days in View: Releases". Record Mirror. p. 32. ISSN 0144-5804.
  2. ^ AllMusic review
  3. ^ Entertainment Weekly review
  4. ^ Collins, Andrew (8 December 1990). "Long Play". NME. p. 30.
  5. ^ "Peter Gabriel: Album Guide | Rolling Stone Music". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 10 August 2012.
  6. ^ Knopper, Steve (2009). Appetite for Self-Destruction. Free Press. pp. 37–38.
  7. ^ Bowman, Durrell (2 September 2016). Experiencing Peter Gabriel: A Listener's Companion. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 151. ISBN 9781442252004.