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Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats | ||||
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Greatest hits album by | ||||
Released | 19 November 1990[1] | |||
Recorded | 1976–1990 | |||
Genre | Art rock | |||
Length | 77:05 | |||
Label | Geffen/Virgin | |||
Producer |
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Peter Gabriel chronology | ||||
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Singles from Shaking the Tree | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Entertainment Weekly | A[3] |
New Musical Express | 7/10[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]