Hit (album)

Hit
Greatest hits by Peter Gabriel
Released	November 4, 2003
Recorded	1977 – 2003
Genre	Rock
Length	2:30:41 (US) 2:30:19 (UK)
Label	Geffen Records
Producer	Peter Gabriel, Bob Ezrin, Stephen Hague, Daniel Lanois, Steve Lillywhite, David Lord, Steve Osborne, Karl Wallinger
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Peter Gabriel chronology
Up (2002) Hit (2003) Big Blue Ball (2007)

Hit is a 2003 compilation album of songs by British musician Peter Gabriel. The compilation album reached #29 in the UK charts, and #100 in the US. Disc one was called "Hit" and was all his popular songs; disc two was called "Miss" and had his less popular, but many of them critically hit songs.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc One 1.2 Disc Two (US edition) 1.3 Disc Two (EU and JP editions) 2 Charts 3 Certifications 4 External links

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Gabriel, except as indicated.

Disc One

1. "Solsbury Hill" (from Peter Gabriel 1, 1977) – 4:23
2. "Shock the Monkey" (from Peter Gabriel 4 aka Security, 1982) – 3:59
3. "Sledgehammer" (from So, 1986) – 4:59
4. "Don't Give Up" (from So, 1986) – 5:55
5. "Games Without Frontiers" (from Peter Gabriel 3, 1980) – 3:57
6. "Big Time" (from So, 1986) – 4:28
7. "Burn You Up, Burn You Down" (Gabriel, Neil Sparkes, Karl Wallinger) – 5:26
8. "Growing Up" (Tom Lord-Alge Mix) (from Up, 2002) – 4:48
9. "Digging in the Dirt" (from Us, 1992) – 5:15
10. "Blood of Eden (Radio edit)" (from Us, 1992) – 5:06
11. "More Than This (Radio edit)" (from "Up", 2002) – 4:33
12. "Biko" (from Peter Gabriel 3, 1980) – 6:58
13. "Steam" (from Us, 1992) – 6:02
14. "Red Rain" (from So, 1986) – 5:39
15. "Here Comes the Flood (1990 version)" (from Shaking the Tree, 1990) – 4:32

• While labelled as the radio edit in the liner notes, "Steam" is actually the same length as its album version.

Disc Two (US edition)

1. "San Jacinto" (from Security, 1983) – 6:31
2. "I Don't Remember" (from Peter Gabriel 3, 1980) – 4:32
3. "The Rhythm of the Heat" (from Security, 1983) – 5:19
4. "Love to Be Loved" (from Us, 1992) – 5:17
5. "I Grieve" (from Up, 2002) – 7:25
6. "Family Snapshot" (from Peter Gabriel 3, 1980) – 4:29
7. "In Your Eyes" (from So, 1986) – 5:29
8. "The Drop" (from Up, 2002) – 3:04
9. "The Tower That Ate People (Steve Osborne Mix)" (from Soundtrack from The Red Planet, 2000) – 4:04
10. "Lovetown" (from Soundtrack from Philadelphia, 1993) – 5:21
11. "Father, Son" (from OVO, 2000) – 4:55
12. "Signal to Noise" (from Up, 2002) – 7:33
13. "Downside Up" (Live) – 5:33
14. "Cloudless" (from Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence, 2002) – 4:48

Disc Two (EU and JP editions)

1. "San Jacinto" (from Peter Gabriel 4, 1983) – 6:31
2. "No Self-Control" (from Peter Gabriel 3, 1980) – 3:55
3. "Cloudless" (from Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence, 2002) – 4:48
4. "The Rhythm of the Heat" (from Peter Gabriel 4, 1983) – 5:19
5. "I Have the Touch (Robbie Robertson Mix)" (from Soundtrack from Phenomenon, 1996) – 4:19
6. "I Grieve" (from Up, 2002) – 7:25
7. "D.I.Y." (from Peter Gabriel 2, 1978) – 2:37
8. "A Different Drum" (from Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ, 1989) – 4:40
9. "The Drop" (from Up, 2002) – 3:04
10. "The Tower That Ate People (Steve Osborne Mix)" (from Soundtrack from The Red Planet, 2000) – 4:04
11. "Lovetown" (from Soundtrack from Philadelphia, 1993) – 5:21
12. "Father, Son" (from OVO, 2000) – 4:55
13. "Signal to Noise" (from Up, 2002) – 7:33
14. "Downside Up" (Live) – 5:33
15. "Washing of the Water" (from Us, 1992) – 3:52

• Album Notes: In Germany, the first pressing have all the titles on the tracklist translated into German; very very silly translations. Since Gabriel released his third and fourth albums in German translations as well as English, most buyers believed this version of Hit was full of translated versions. However, the German release of Hit (silly translations and all) became some kind of not-so-rare rarity.

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2003	The Billboard 200	100

Certifications

Organization	Level	Date
BPI – UK	Gold	December 5 2003

External links

• Hit (disc 1) at MusicBrainz
• Hit (disc 2: Miss) at MusicBrainz
• Hit (disc 2: Miss) at MusicBrainz

This box:  •  • edit Peter Gabriel
Studio Albums
Peter Gabriel I (Car) | Peter Gabriel II (Scratch) | Peter Gabriel III (Melt) | Peter Gabriel IV (Security) | So | Us | Up | Big Blue Ball
Live Albums
Plays Live | Secret World Live
Encore Series: 2003 | 2004 | 2007
Soundtracks
Birdy | Passion | OVO | Long Walk Home
Compilations
Shaking the Tree | Revisited | Hit
DVDs
Secret World Live | Growing Up Live | | Play: The Videos |
German Albums
Ein Deutsches Album | Deutsches Album