Essential Listening

Review Score: (10/10)
It's pretty obvious that "In Your Eyes" perhaps one of Peter's biggest hits was omitted off this album, this compilation of hits is pretty thorough though. I was stunned that "In Your Eyes" was not included but I'll have to buy "So" to have it in my cd collection.

Asides from "In Your Eyes" not being on the cd, I thought "Shaking the Tree:Sixteen Golden Greats" is excellent, especially for casual Peter Gabriel listeners such as myself. His songs on this cd are great and timeless. Songs like "Mercy Street" and "Don't Give Up" give me the chills. They possess a haunting quality about them that makes my hair stand up. "Biko" is another favorite track of mine and tells the listener the story of Steven Biko.

Peter Gabriel's vocal stylings is rather unique as his ability to tell stories through songs like "Biko". Frankly there isn't a artist today that can come close to Peter Gabriel in my book. The beauty of his music is that he can have fun in songs like "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time" and be serious in "Biko" and "Red Rain".

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• Pumped to Please
• Good in the car
• For the passing fan, get 'Hit' instead
• better than the new greatest hits
• Almost as good as his 2-disc collection.
• Nice compilation
• Great Gabriel Collection
• Turn Up The Voice
• Flaws are Noticable, But Still an Entertaining Retrospecitve
• A portrait of Gabriel's solo career
• True audiophile sound.
• Missing an important song
• a must have
• Only sixteen greats?
• Why no "In Your Eyes"? Well...
• Unbelievably great CD!
• a solid heads up to you, the consumer
• Sounds much better remastered
• Only for the most casual fans (and, ironically, completists)
• Lots of treasures grow on this tree
• Great Place to Start
• Has Some Minor Flaws But It's Still Magnificent!
• This Is The Picture.
• Shaking The Tree / A great ethnic piece...
• One track short of 5 stars
• Where the HELL is 'In Your Eyes'
• Not bad.
• A Great Retrospective -- well worth it.
• Gabriel's Best on one CD
• Fairly Accurate Solo Career Representation
• A Nice Starting Place
• Sixteen of Peter Gabriels's Seventeen Golden Greats
• Peter Gabriel on a Budget
• Good, but not the best way to sum up Gabriel's career
• Good anthology album
• I like about half the songs on this one.
• Not a "Greatest Hits" Compilation
• INCREDIBLE
• Only if you already know you love Peter Gabriel!
• Absolutely essential listening
• It sure was a good decision to buy this one!
• Too Many Unlistenable Songs
• Better than So
• Shaking The Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats
• This album is a satisfactory.
• Start With This One
• Almost perfect..
• Very Good Collection
• Good Stuff!
• Peter Gabriel is a musical god
• Great Collection, but why leave out "In Your Eyes"?
• Good representation of Peter's albums
• If you're looking for an overview of Gabriel, start here.
• A great compilation from a long career.
• A summation of greatness
• Excellent Peter Gabriel
• Great, all the good ones
• Great CD