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Peter Gabriel: Hit

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Label: RealWorld Records
Released: 2003.11.04
Time:
 76:01 / 74:13
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD Double
Web address: www.petergabriel.com
Appears with: Genesis, Tony Banks, Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, Tony Levin, David Rhodes
Purchase date: 2010.04.18
Price in €: 2,00





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CD1: Hit
[1] Solsbury Hill (P.Gabriel) - 4:23
[2] Shock the Monkey (P.Gabriel) - 3:59
[3] Sledgehammer (P.Gabriel) - 4:51
[4] Don't Give Up (P.Gabriel) - 5:55
[5] Games Without Frontiers (P.Gabriel) - 3:57
[6] Big Time (P.Gabriel) - 4:28
[7] Burn You Up, Burn You Down (Gabriel/Sparkes/Wallinger) - 5:26
[8] Growing Up [Tom Lord-Alge Mix] (P.Gabriel) - 4:48
[9] Digging in the Dirt (P.Gabriel) - 5:15
[10] Blood of Eden [Radio Edit] (P.Gabriel) - 5:06
[11] More Than This [Radio Edit] (P.Gabriel) - 4:33
[12] Biko (P.Gabriel) - 6:58
[13] Steam [Radio Edit] (P.Gabriel) - 6:02
[14] Red Rain (P.Gabriel) - 5:39
[15] Here Comes the Flood (P.Gabriel) - 4:32

CD2: Miss
[1] San Jacinto (P.Gabriel) - 6:31
[2] I Don't Remember (P.Gabriel) - 4:42
[3] The Rhythm of the Heat (P.Gabriel) - 5:19
[4] Loved to Be Loved (P.Gabriel) - 5:17
[5] I Grieve (P.Gabriel) - 7:25
[6] Family Snapshot (P.Gabriel) - 4:29
[7] In Your Eyes (P.Gabriel) - 5:29
[8] The Drop (P.Gabriel) - 3:04
[9] The Tower That Ate People [Steve Osborne Mix] (P.Gabriel) - 4:04
[10] Lovetown (P.Gabriel) - 5:21
[11] Father, Son (P.Gabriel) - 4:55
[12] Signal to Noise (P.Gabriel) - 7:33
[13] Downside Up [live] (P.Gabriel) - 5:33
[14] Cloudless (P.Gabriel) - 4:48

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Peter Gabriel - Vocals, Arrangements, Producer,
Multi Instruments

David Rhodes - Acoustic Guitar, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocals, 12-string Guitar, Soloist
Larry Fast - Synthesizer, Moog Synthesizer, Prophet Synthesizer, Synthesizer Bass, Moog Bass, Electric Bagpipes
Karl Wallinger - Piano, Vocals, Background Vocals
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Vocals
Kate Bush - Vocals, Background Vocals, Guest Appearance
Phil Collins - Drums, Surdo
Stewart Copeland - Drums, Hi Hat
Peter Hammill - Vocals, Background Vocals
Jules Shear - Background Vocals
Richard Evans - Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals, Human Whistle
David Sancious - Background Vocals
Jimmy Maelen - Synthesizer, Percussion, Trombone
Rachel Z - Keyboards, Vocals
P.P. Arnold - Background Vocals
Jon Brion - Mandolin, chamberlain, Treated Piano
Josef Chirowski - Keyboards
Billy Cobham - Drums
Robert Fripp - Banjo, Guitar, Electric Guitar, Classical Guitar, Producer
Steve Gadd - Percussion, Drums
John Giblin - Bass
Coral Gordon - Background Vocals
Stephen Hague - Percussion, Drums
Hossam Ramzy - Surdo
Reggie Houston - Horn, Baritone Saxophone
Wayne Jackson - Trumpet, Cornet
Manu Katche - Percussion, Drums, Electric Drums
Caroline LaVelle - Cello
Daniel Lanois - Guitar, Tambourine, Vocals, Hi Hat
Tony Levin - Bass, Tuba, Stick, Vocals
Dee Lewis - Background Vocals
Steve Lillywhite - Human Whistle
London Session Orchestra - Strings
Jerry Marotta - Percussion, Drums
Don Mikkelsen - Trombone
Dick Morrissey - Saxophone
Youssou N'Dour - Voices
Leo Nocentelli - Guitar
Sinéad O'Connor - Vocals
Hugh Padgham - Human Whistle
Morris Pert - Percussion
Renard Poché - Trombone, Horn
Mark Rivera - Saxophone
Allan Schwartzberg - Drums
Richard Tee - Piano
Ayub Ogada - Vocals
James Watson - Conductor
Babacar Faye - Djembe
Gus Isidore - Guitar
Lévon Minassian - Doudouk
Jackie Shave - Violin
Richard MacPhail - Vocals
Arona N'diaye - Sabar
Richard Chappell - Tom-Tom, Loops
Ged Lynch - Percussion, Drums
Dominic Greensmith - Drums
Adrian Chivers - Background Vocals
Will White - Percussion
Chuck Norman - Strings, Keyboards
Melanie Gabriel - Vocals, Background Vocals
John Ellis and His SDB - Guitar, Background Vocals

Daniel Lanois - Producer, Engineer, Horn Arrangements
Bob Ezrin - Producer
Stephen Hague - Programming, Producer
Steve Lillywhite - Producer
David Lord - Producer, Engineer
Steve Osborne - Producer, Remixing
Karl Wallinger - Producer
Richard Evans - Programming, Engineer
Tom Lord-Alge - Remixing
Richard Blair - Programming
David Bottrill - Programming, Engineer
Malcolm Burn - Horn Arrangements
Brian Christian - Engineer
Tony Cousins - Mastering
Pete Davis - Programming
Larry Fast - Programming
Michael Getlin - Engineer
Keith Grant - Engineer
Robert Hrycyna - Engineer
Chris Hughes - Programming
Kevin Killen - Engineer
Julian Mendelsohn - Remixing
Rod O'Brien - Engineer
Hugh Padgham - Engineer
Allan Schwartzberg - Direction
Steve Short - Engineer
Ed Sprigg - Engineer
Tim Summerhayes - Engineer
Assane Thaim - Tama
Will Malone - String Arrangements
Dave A. Harris - Engineer
Will Gregory - String Arrangements, Brass Arrangment
Richard Chappell - Programming, Engineer, Drum programming
Danny Heaps - Remixing
Alex Swift - Programming
Robert Stasiak - Engineer
Steve Taylor - Engineer
Chuck Norman - Programming
David Bascombe - Engineer
Marc Bessant - Graphic Design
Nick Ingham - Orchestration
Elizabeth Purnell - Orchestration

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2003 CD Geffen 000148602
2003 CD EMI Music Distribution 595237
2003 CD Virgin Records 5953962
2003 CD EMI/Virgin 685934
2003 CD Virgin Records VJCP-68593/94
2004 CD Virgin Records 5952372

This two CD set brings together tracks from Peter Gabriel'scareer since his eponymous solo album in 1977 and his departure from Genesis in 1976. Disc one includes four UK top tenhits including 'Sledgehammer', 'Games Without Frontiers', and 'Don't Give Up' while disc two, titled 'Miss', features tracks that didn't fair quite as well.

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.

Recorded between 1977 & 2003.



Peter Gabriel's work doesn't lend itself easily to compilations - not because he didn't cut singles, since he made many terrific stand-alone singles, but because his body of work is so idiosyncratic, even contradictory, that it's possible to have perfectly valid differing perspectives on his catalog. This results in differing opinions among fans, so it's perfectly logical that Gabriel and his associates would have a unique view of his own work, as captured on Hit. Billed on its slipcase as "The Definitive Two CD Collection," Hit spans 29 tracks culled from his entire solo career, from 1977's Peter Gabriel to 2002's Up, plus the previously unreleased "Burn You Up, Burn You Down." It certainly is a generous compilation, and it does contain the basics: "Solsbury Hill," "Shock the Monkey," "Sledgehammer," "Don't Give Up," "Games Without Frontiers," "Biko," "Red Rain," "Big Time," and "In Your Eyes." But the devil is in the details, and in this particular case, the details push Hit away from the broad-based appeal of So and closer to the dense, subtle territory of Us and Up. This is achieved, of course, through the track selection, which is heavy on recent material (note: none of the edit details are present on the back cover, hence their presence here): from Up, there's "Growing Up [Tom Lord-Alge Mix]," "More Than This [Radio Edit]," "The Drop," "I Grieve," and "Signal to Noise," which amounts to half the entire album; the previously unreleased 2003 live track "Downside Up"; "Cloudless" from the soundtrack to the 2002 Rabbit-Proof Fence and "Lovetown" from the 1994 Philadelphia soundtrack; "The Tower That Ate People [Steve Osborne Mix]" and "Father, Son" from OVO; the 1990 Shaking the Tree remake of "Here Comes the Flood"; from Us, the album track "Love to Be Loved," plus the singles "Digging in the Dirt," "Blood of Eden [Radio Edit]," and "Steam [Radio Edit]."

That's a grand total of 16 tracks dating after the career high watermark of So - 16 tracks covering two full albums, plus a lot of odds and ends. There's unquestionably good material here - not just the Us singles, but much of Up was quite excellent, even if it requires several listens to appreciate - but the heavy emphasis on this post-So work skews too much to the new (nine of the 14 tracks on disc two are of relatively recent vintage), at least if the yardstick is either an evenhanded appreciation of Gabriel's entire solo work or a portrait of his best-known, best-loved work. After all, there are many singles missing - "I Have the Touch," "I Go Swimming," "Come Talk to Me," "Kiss That Frog," and "Secret World" among them - plus other worthy uncollected rarities (his deliriously paranoid "Out Out" from the 1984 Gremlins soundtrack needs to finally get a CD issue) and many, many terrific album tracks that would have had given this compilation greater breadth and depth, including "Moribund the Burgermeister," "Mercy Street," "Intruder," "Family Snapshot," and the tremendous pair of "On the Air" and "D.I.Y.," the two best cuts on the underrated Peter Gabriel 2 (which is once again consciously ignored by Gabriel, with this exhaustive collection featuring nothing from the record). If some of these 12 songs had managed to get on Hit, it truly would have been definitive, capturing the entire scope of his solo career. As it stands, it's a very good collection, one that delivers most of what is expected, even as it presents a relatively up-to-date self-portrait of the artist.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



A judiciously-selected two-CD compendium of Peter Gabriel's finest moments, Hit offers a far more generous windfall than can be found on the only previous Peter Gabriel best-of selection, the 1990 Shaking the Tree. The devil, after all, is in the detail, particularly on the second disc (self-deprecatingly entitled "Miss"), which really traverses the whole gamut of Peter Gabriel's globally-visioned artistry. It includes recent soundtrack work (the haunting "Cloudless" from Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence), material from 2002's sterling Up ("Signal To Noise", featuring a compelling vocal from the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and some ominous string arrangements, really does sound like a thinking man's Massive Attack) and goes right back to that fourth album when marrying the reticence of cold, synthesised new wave with insistent African percussion seemed like a good idea (it was). The first disc - including the MTV smash "Sledgehammer", anti-apartheid war cry "Biko", "Big Time" (interesting how the styles of Gabriel and his former group Genesis seem to converge at this time) and "Games Without Frontiers" - really speaks for itself, although with hindsight it seems the single-buying public-at-large had a particular taste for a certain kind of Peter Gabriel record. Universally excellent throughout, the collection is rendered even more desirable by the inclusion of three previously unreleased tracks: a live rendition of "Downside Up", a shorter version of "Blood of Eden" and "Burn You Up, Burn You Down", latterly included on a video game and initially earmarked for the Up album but jettisoned at the last minute.

Kevin Maidment - Amazon.co.uk



A two-disc set spanning Peter Gabriel's solo career, Hit collects a treasure trove of material, from early singles such as "Solsbury Hill" through international hits ("Biko," "Sledgehammer," "Big Time," and more), to his recent film soundtrack work. The set also includes a handful of previously unreleased tracks: "Burn you Up, Burn You Down," "Blood of Eden (Radio Edit)," and "Downside Up (Live)."

Barnes &  Noble



A judiciously-selected two-CD compendium of Peter Gabriel's finest moments, Hit offers a far more generous windfall than can be found on the only previous Peter Gabriel best-of selection, the 1990 Shaking the Tree. The devil, after all, is in the detail, particularly on the second disc (self-deprecatingly entitled Miss), which really traverses the whole gamut of Peter Gabriel's globally-visioned artistry. It includes recent soundtrack work (the haunting "Cloudless" from Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence), material from 2002's sterling Up ("Signal To Noise", featuring a compelling vocal from the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and some ominous string arrangements, really does sound like a thinking man's Massive Attack) and goes right back to that fourth album when marrying the reticence of cold, synthesised new wave with insistent African percussion seemed like a good idea (it was). The first disc - including the MTV smash "Sledgehammer", anti-apartheid war cry "Biko", "Big Time" (interesting how the styles of Gabriel and his former group Genesis seem to converge at this time) and "Games Without Frontiers" - really speaks for itself, although with hindsight it seems the single-buying public-at-large had a particular taste for a certain kind of Peter Gabriel record. Universally excellent throughout, the collection is rendered even more desirable by the inclusion of three previously unreleased tracks: a live rendition of "Downside Up", a shorter version of "Blood of Eden" and "Burn You Up, Burn You Down", latterly included on a video game and initially earmarked for the Up album but jettisoned at the last minute.

Kevin Maidment - Amazon.com



PETER GABRIEL ist ohne Zweifel einer der innovativsten Künstler überhaupt. Ohne ihn wäre die Rockmusikgeschichte um gleich einige Highlights ärmer. Zuerst sorgte er mit Genesis für superben Progressive Rock und Maskeraden, wie sie die populäre Musik zuvor (und auch später) nicht gesehen hat. Danach kreierte er ein Solowerk, das seinesgleichen sucht: Grandiose Alben, darunter zwei, die er alternativ auch in deutscher Sprache aufnahm, jede Menge Song-Klassiker, die Hymne auf den ermordeten Freiheitskämpfer (Stephen) ´Biko´ oder ´Sledgehammer´ mit dem außergewöhnlichen Video. Er startete die ´Realworld´-Studios und dazu das gleichnamige Label, das längst die erste Adresse in Sachen World Music ist. Er legte als einer der ersten Multimedia-Arbeiten wie ´Eve´ und ´Xplora´ vor und ist Mitbegründer von OD2 = On Demand Distribution, Europas führendem Serviceanbieter für digitale Musikdistribution. Jetzt gibt es - nach über einen Jahrzehnt - die neue Best Of PETER GABRIEL mit dem Namen ´Hit´. Sie beinhaltet in der Standard-Einzel-CD-Version alle Hits wie ´Sledgehammer´, ´Solsbury Hill´, ´Don´t Give Up´, die unveröffentlichte Radio Version von ´Blood On Eden´ und den neuen, unveröffentlichten Song ´Burn You Up/Burn You Down´. Auf der internationalen Doppel-CD-Version ist CD1 identisch mit der Standard-Einzel-CD. CD 2 enthält die besten Album-Tracks, Mixe, alternative Takes, Live-Versionen sowie Lieblingslieder der Fans.

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