Peter Gabriel - Shaking The Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats (1990)

Tracklist

1.  Solsbury Hill 

      (from: Peter Gabriel 1) (Car), 1977 - 4:20

2.  I Don't Remember 

       Edited version) (from: Peter Gabriel 3) (Melt), 1980 - 3:48

3.  Sledgehammer 

     (Single edit) (from: So), 1986 - 4:52

4.  Family Snapshot

     (from: Peter Gabriel 3) (Melt), 1980 - 4:25

5.  Mercy Street  

      (Edited version) (from: So), 1986 - 4:43

6.  Shaking the Tree  

      (Duet with Youssou N'Dour; 1990 remix) (from The Lion), 1989 - 6:24

7.  Don't Give Up  

      (Duet with Kate Bush; Edited version) (from: So), 1986 - 5:55

8.  San Jacinto  

      (from: Peter Gabriel 4) (Security), 1982 - 6:40

9.  Here Comes the Flood 

      (1990 re-recording)  (New recording – original version on Peter Gabriel 1) (Car), 1977 - 4:31

10.  Red Rain  

        (from: So), 1986 - 5:35

11.  Games Without Frontiers  

        (Edited version) (from: Peter Gabriel 3) (Melt), 1980 - 3:57

12.  Shock the Monkey  

         (Radio edit) (from: Peter Gabriel 4) (Security), 1982 - 3:57

13.  I  Have the Touch  

         ('85 remix, mislabelled as 1983 remix)  (from: Peter Gabriel 4) (Security), 1982 - 3:44

14.  Big Time  

         (from: So), 1986 - 4:26

15.  Zaar  

         (Edited version) (from: Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ), 1989 - 2:58

16.  Biko  

         (Edited version) (from: Peter Gabriel 3) (Melt), 1980 - 6:54

All tracks are written by Peter Gabriel, except "Shaking the Tree", co-written with Youssou N'Dour

"Solsbury Hill"

• Bob Ezrin – production
• Larry Fast – synthesizer
• Robert Fripp – guitar
• Peter Gabriel – vocals
• Steve Hunter – guitar
• Tony Levin – bass guitar
• Alan Schwartzberg – drums

"I Don't Remember" (Edited version)

• Larry Fast – processing
• Robert Fripp – guitar
• Peter Gabriel – piano, synthesizer, vocals, and production
• Tony Levin – Chapman Stick
• Jerry Marrotta – drums
• David Rhodes – guitar
• Peter Walsh – production

"Sledgehammer" (Single edit)

• P.P. Arnold – backing vocals
• Peter Gabriel – Fairlight CMI, Prophet, piano, vocals, production
• Carol Gordon – backing vocals
• Manu Katche – drums
• Wayne Jackson – trumpet
• Daniel Lanois – production
• Tony Levin – bass guitar
• Dee Lewis – backing vocals
• Don Mikkelsen – trombone
• David Rhodes – guitar
• Mark Rivera – saxophone

"Family Snapshot"

• Larry Fast – synthesizer
• Phil Collins – snare drum
• Peter Gabriel – piano, vocals
• John Giblin – bass guitar
• Dave Gregory – guitar
• Steve Lillywhite – production
• Jerry Marrotta – drums
• Dick Morrissey – saxophone
• David Rhodes – guitar

"Mercy Street" (Edited version)

• Djalma Correa – surdu, congas, and triangle
• Peter Gabriel – Fairlight CMI, Prophet, piano, CS80, vocals, and production
• Larry Klein – bass guitar
• Daniel Lanois – production
• Mark Rivera – processed saxophone

"Shaking the Tree" (1990 remix)

• George Acogny – Fairlight CMI percussion
• Roger Bolton – Fairlight CMI percussion and sequencing
• Simon Clark – organ, piano, keyboard bass, and synthesizer
• Habib Faye – bass guitar, guitar
• Peter Gabriel – vocals and re-recorded vocals
• Manu Katche – drums
• Youssou N'Dour – vocals
• David Rhodes – acoustic and electric guitar

"Don't Give Up" (Edited version)

• Peter Gabriel – chant, vocals, CMI, Prophet, piano, production
• Kate Bush – vocals, chant
• David Rhodes – guitar
• Tony Levin – bass guitar
• Simon Clark – chorus CS 80
• Richard Tee – piano
• Daniel Lanois – production

"San Jacinto"

• Peter Gabriel – vocals, production
• David Lord – production

"Here Comes the Flood" (1990 re-recording)

• Peter Gabriel – piano, vocals, and production

"Red Rain"

• Peter Gabriel – vocals, production
• Daniel Lanois – production

"Games Without Frontiers" (Single edit)

• Steve Lillywhite – production
• Kate Bush – background vocals

"Shock the Monkey" (Radio edit)

• Peter Gabriel – vocals, production
• David Lord – production

"I Have the Touch" (1983 remix)

• Peter Gabriel – keyboards, vocals, and production
• David Lord – production
• Simon Phillips – drums
• James Guthrie – remix engineer

"Big Time"

• Peter Gabriel – vocals, production
• Daniel Lanois – production

"Zaar" (Edited version)

• Peter Gabriel – production

"Biko" (Edited version)

• Steve Lillywhite – production

Additional

• Alexander Knaust – styling and photography assistance
• Robert Mapplethorpe – photography
• Mouat Nomad, London – design

Notes

Released: 19 November 1990

Recorded: 1976–1990 

Genre:  Art rock 

Length:  77:05 

Producer(s):  Bob Ezrin, Steve Lillywhite, Peter Gabriel, Daniel Lanois

Label - Geffen / Virgin 

Peter Gabriel – Plays Live (1983)

“Plays Live” is the first live and fifth album by British rock musician Peter Gabriel.
Although he had thrived on live performance as a member of Genesis, Peter Gabriel waited until he was four albums and six years deep into his solo career with the hit album “Security” and the Top 40 “Shock the Monkey” chalked up to his credit before he took the plunge into concert recording with this album. Released as a double-LP and two-CD set this is a fine summing up of the artist’s early solo years. Most of his biggest hits and key album tracks are represented in tight, inspired performances the notes concede that some of what is here was sweetened after the fact in the studio, but the immediacy of the stage performances wasn’t lost in the process, and that emotional edge and intimacy give songs such as “Solsbury Hill,” “I Don’t Remember,” and “Shock the Monkey” a sharper, deeper resonance than their studio renditions, fine as those are. It’s that side of the performance that makes this release well worth owning, for anyone enamored of Gabriel’s voice or songs, even if nothing here wholly supplants the studio originals. And the band Tony Levin (bass, stick, backing vocals), Jerry Marotta (drums, vocals), David Rhodes (guitar, vocals), and Larry Fast (keyboards) is in excellent form as well. What is lacking is the cohesiveness that one might have gotten from a live album assembled from a single concert; derived from a multitude of shows, the individual songs are excellent unto themselves, but there’s little sense (or even the illusion) from song to song of any forward momentum across the album, and that might be the one major flaw here. But this is a suitable capstone to the first phase of Gabriel’s solo career, and also a peculiar one in certain respects given the effort that obviously went into assembling the album, the packaging is almost minimalist by the standards of live albums and double albums of the era.

Track List

Side one
1. The Rhythm of the Heat – 6:26
2. I Have the Touch – 5:18
3. Not One of Us – 5:29
4. Family Snapshot – 4:44

Side two
1. D.I.Y. – 4:20
2. The Family and the Fishing Net – 7:22
3. Intruder – 5:03
4. I Go Swimming – 4:44

Side three
1. San Jacinto – 8:27
2. Solsbury Hill – 4:42
3. No Self Control – 5:03
4. I Don’t Remember – 4:19

Side four (Recorded at Memorial Hall, Kansas City, on December 4, 1982)
1. Shock The Monkey – 7:10
2. Humdrum – 4:23
3. On the Air – 5:22
4. Biko – 7:01

Artist: Peter Gabriel
Title: Plays Live
Year: 1983
Genre: New Wave, Experimental Rock, Live
Label: Charisma Records
Length: 89:53