Hit: The Definitive Two CD Collection

Gabriel, Peter

Genre: music4me > Rock > Rock

Format: 2 CD

Released: Thu 18 Dec 2003

Catalogue Number: EMII595237.2

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Description:
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.

Argentinian version features five alternative tracks to the U.S. version: "No Self Control", "I Have The Touch", "D.I.Y.", "Different Drum", and "Washing Of The Water".

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.

Details:

Distributors: CEVA Logistics, EMI Operations
Discs: 2
Release Year: 2003
Weight (g): 127

Track Listing:

1.	Solsbury Hill
2.	Shock the Monkey
3.	Sledgehammer
4.	Don't Give Up
5.	Games Without Frontiers
6.	Big Time
7.	Burn You Up, Burn You Down
8.	Growing Up (Tom Lord-Alge Remix)
9.	Digging in the Dirt
10.	Blood of Eden (Radio Edit)
11.	More Than This (Radio Edit)
12.	Biko
13.	Steam
14.	Red Rain
15.	Here Comes the Flood
16.	San Jacinto
17.	No Self-Control
18.	Cloudless
19.	Rhythm of the Heat
20.	I Have the Touch (Remix)
21.	I Grieve
22.	D.I.Y.
23.	Different Drum
24.	Drop
25.	Tower That Ate People (Radio Edit Mix)
26.	Lovetown
27.	Father, Son
28.	Signal to Noise
29.	Downside Up (Live)
30.	Washing of the Water

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