Peter Gabriel "Sledgehammer" issue

I'll try to recap as best as I can. Some of this info is based on 1) the post made by David where he talks about the remasters on CD swapping out the mix, including the 2002 copy of Shaking The Tree, and 2) the audio currently available on Spotify/streaming platforms.

For this post, any reference to the "remix" is referring to the remix used in the original music video from 1986. This mix was not on CD until 2002 when the remastered albums were released.

Original mix
- LP length appears on original pressings of So
- 45 length is N/A on CD but is an early fade
- promo 45 version also N/A on CD; uses the original mix but with unique audio leading into the first verse, has three edits (intro, second chorus, fade out), and an early fade
- 1990 Shaking The Tree CD edit; cuts the flute intro and segues into the ending of the Extended Dance Remix to loosely mimic the music video; ending percussion ends cold with reverb

Remix (has extra synthesizers during the flute solo as well as other subtle mix differences compared with the original LP mix)
- music video version N/A on CD; uses an edited version of the full-length remix and segues into the Extended Dance Remix at the end where percussion fades out
- full-length unedited remix; appears on 2002 remastered CD of So and digitally on Spotify as of 2026
- 2002 Shaking The Tree CD edit; mimics the 1990 edit but swaps the LP mix for the remix; this new edit retains the 1990 reverbed cold ending; currently found on the Spotify version of Shaking The Tree

mjb50 wrote: The Shaking The Tree version I have runs 4:54 ... The ending has the dance percussion edited in, and it fades out.

If you mean "fades out" like in the music video, this is news to me. Please let me know which CD pressing you have, as all previously reported editions of this disc have a reverbed cold ending and not a fade out.

Edited by aaronk - 6 hours 8 minutes ago at 3:02pm