Track Listing
1. Solsbury Hill - (with Juan Gabriel)
2. Shock the Monkey - (with Juan Gabriel)
3. Sledgehammer - (with Juan Gabriel)
4. Don't Give Up - (with Juan Gabriel)
5. Games Without Frontiers - (with Juan Gabriel)
6. Big Time - (with Juan Gabriel)
7. Burn You up, Burn You Down - (with Juan Gabriel)
8. Growing Up - (with Juan Gabriel)
9. Digging in the Dirt - (with Juan Gabriel)
10. Blood of Eden - (with Juan Gabriel)
11. More Than This - (with Juan Gabriel)
12. Biko - (with Juan Gabriel)
13. Steam - (with Juan Gabriel)
14. Red Rain - (with Juan Gabriel)
15. Hier Kommt Die Flut (Here Comes the Flood) - (with Juan Gabriel)
16. San Jacinto - (with Juan Gabriel)
17. Du Bist Nicht Wie Wir (Not One of Us) - (with Juan Gabriel)
18. Cloudless - (with Juan Gabriel)
19. Rhythm of the Heat - (with Juan Gabriel)
20. Kontakt (I Have the Touch) - (with Juan Gabriel)
21. I Grieve - (with Juan Gabriel)
22. Handauflegen (Lay Your Hands on Me) - (with Juan Gabriel)
23. Drop 03:10 - (with Juan Gabriel)
24. Tower That Ate People (Steve Osborne Mix) - (with Juan Gabriel)
25. Lovetown - (with Juan Gabriel)
26. Father, Son - (with Juan Gabriel)
27. Signal to Noise - (with Juan Gabriel)
28. Downside up Live - (with Juan Gabriel)
29. Schnappschuss (Family Snapshot) - (with Juan Gabriel)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Kate Bush, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Phil Collins, Sinead O'Connor | | Distributor: | MSI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Peter Gabriel (vocals, flute, recorder, Bosendorfer piano, keyboards); Kate Bush, Sinead O'Connor (vocals); Richard Evans (acoustic guitar); Robert Fripp (electric & classical guitar, banjo); David Rhodes (guitar, 12-string guitar); Peter Green (electric guitar); Steve Hunter (pedal steel guitar); Daniel Lanois (guitar); Tim Green (tenor saxophone); Dick Morrisey (saxophone); Wayne Jackson (trumpet); Jozef Chirowski, Brian Eno (keyboards); Larry Fast (synthesizer, programming); Tony Levin (bass); Dominic Greesmith, Jerry Marotta (drums); Ged Lynch, Will White, Stephen Hague, Phil Collins (percussion); Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (background vocals).
Producers include: Bob Ezrin, David Lord, Peter Gabriel, Daniel Lanois, Steve Lillywhite.
Recorded between 1977 & 2003.
This German edition features eight cuts sung in German.
Although Peter Gabriel received the greatest-hits treatment with 1990's SHAKING THE TREE, the 13 years following that collection made it clear that another, more comprehensive retrospective was needed. During this time, Gabriel recorded only two official solo albums, US and UP, but the avant-pop icon also pursued other audio/visual projects, such as OVO, his contribution to London's massive Millennium Dome exhibit. The two-disc compilation HIT pairs his post-2000 work with his pioneering songs from 1977-1992, and the result is a remarkable musical document.
While HIT features the majority of the classic songs from SHAKING THE TREE, it also includes two essential tracks excluded from that earlier compilation, "The Rhythm of the Heat," a slow-burning exercise in tribal beats, and "In Your Eyes," the gorgeous ballad made famous by the film SAY ANYTHING. Moving on to latter-day Gabriel, HIT offers up the wonderfully grimy stomp of "Digging in the Dirt," the yearning "More Than This," and the previously unreleased "Burn You Up, Burn You Down," which hearkens back to his gloriously quirky mid-'80s period. Other post-SO songs include "Love to Be Loved," "The Tower That Ate People" (from the OVO project), and a live rendition of "Downside Up," featuring Gabriel's daughter Melanie on vocals.
Editorial Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - Gabriel's discovery of world music and a growing mastery of atmosphere make his later work evermore compelling...
Q (01/01/2004)
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