Hit

This is the U.K. edition of Peter Gabriel’s 2003 career summary *Hit*. It contains the same first 15 choices (credited as *Hit*), but what would be disc two (the *Miss* portion) is notably different here from the 14-track U.S. edition. The differences are the inclusions of Robbie Robertson’s mix of “I Have the Touch” (from the *Phenomenon* soundtrack), “D.I.Y.,” “No Self Control,” “A Different Drum” (from *Passion: Music for the Last Temptation of Christ*), and “Washing of the Water,\" plus the dismissals of “I Don’t Remember,” “Love to Be Loved,” “Family Snapshot,\" and “In Your Eyes.” This makes both overviews less greatest-hits collections than alternate stories of Gabriel’s career. While “Solsbury Hill,” “Shock the Monkey,” “Sledgehammer,” and other hits are here, the real interests are the rarities, such as the previously unreleased “Burn You Up, Burn You Down,” the Steve Osborne mix of “The Tower That Ate People” from the soundtrack to *The Red Planet*, “Lovetown” from the *Philadelphia* soundtrack, and “Downside Up (Live),” a previously unreleased version of a song from *OVO*. 

Released thirteen years on from 1990’s 'Shaking The Tree' compilation, 'Hit' offers a much more voluminous overview of the Gabriel back catalogue. The 30 track album (double CD) is an extensive and eclectic collection of Peter’s best known songs, together with, at the time, more recent tracks, previously unreleased material and new remixes, – a musical autobiography of a solo career which had spawned 14 albums over 25 years.

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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.