Hit

Tracklist

• CD 1: Hit
• 1
  Solsbury Hill
  4:23
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Shock the Monkey
  3:59
  3.8 ★
• 3
  Sledgehammer
  4:51
  3.4 ★
• 4
  Don’t Give Up

  feat. Kate Bush
  5:55
  3.8 ★
• 5
  Games Without Frontiers
  3:57
  4.4 ★
• 6
  Big Time
  4:28
  4.8 ★
• 7
  Burn You Up, Burn You Down
  5:26
• 8
  Growing Up (Tom Lord‐Alge mix)
  4:48
• 9
  Digging in the Dirt
  5:15
  3.6 ★
• 10
  Blood of Eden (radio edit)
  5:06
• 11
  More Than This (radio edit)
  4:33
• 12
  Biko
  6:58
  4.5 ★
• 13
  Steam (radio edit)
  6:02
  3.1 ★
• 14
  Red Rain
  5:39
  4.4 ★
• 15
  Here Comes the Flood
  4:32
  4.0 ★
• Enhanced CD 2: Miss
• 1
  San Jacinto
  6:31
  4.2 ★
• 2
  No Self‐Control
  3:54
  4.4 ★
• 3
  Cloudless
  4:47
• 4
  The Rhythm of the Heat
  5:19
  4.0 ★
• 5
  I Have the Touch
  4:19
  5.0 ★
• 6
  I Grieve
  7:24
  4.0 ★
• 7
  D.I.Y.
  2:38
• 8
  A Different Drum
  4:47
• 9
  The Drop
  3:03
  2.0 ★
• 10
  The Tower That Ate People (Steve Osborne mix)
  4:06
• 11
  Lovetown
  5:23
• 12
  Father, Son
  4:57
  2.0 ★
• 13
  Signal to Noise
  7:34
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Downside Up (live)
  5:32
• 15
  Washing of the Water
  3:54
  3.5 ★
• 16
  Noodle: The Tower That Ate People

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Release credits

• Adrian Chivers
  background vocals [8]
• Alex Swift
  programming [1.8, 2.3]
• Allan Schwartzberg
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Andy Clark
  Hammond organ [6], bass synthesizer [6], programming [6], sampler [6], synthesizer [4]
• Andy Rose
  recording [1, 4]
• Arona N’diaye Rose
  sabar [7]
• Assane Tham
  talking drum [9]
• Ayub Ogada
  vocal [9]
• Babacar Faye
  djembe [9]
• Ben Findley
  mix [14]
• Billy Cobham
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Black Dyke Band
  brass [12]
• Bob Ezrin
  producer [1]
• Brian Christian
  recording [1]
• Caroline Lavelle
  cello [15]
• Chris Hughes
  drum machine [14]
• Chuck Norman
  keyboard [3], programming [2.3, 2.6, 1.7], strings [6]
• Coral Gordon
  background vocals [3, 6]
• Daniel Lanois
  engineer [3, 6, 14], guitar [1.3, 1.6, 1.14, 2.11], hi-hat [10], producer [1.3-4, 1.6, 1.9-10, 1.13-14, 2.11, 2.15], tambourine [3], vocal [10]
• Dave Harris
  additional [1]
• David Bascombe
  recording [6, 14]
• David Bottrill
  editor [1.9, 1.13, 2.15], engineer [1.9, 2.8], mix [1.9-10, 1.13, 2.8, 2.15], programming [9-10, 13], recording [2.15, 1.7, 1.9-10, 1.13]
• David Lord
  engineer [1, 4], producer [1.2, 2.1, 2.4]
• David Rhodes
  12 string guitar [10], acoustic guitar [3], background vocals [1.2, 1.11, 1.14, 2.3-4, 2.13], electric guitar [3, 6], guitar [1.2-9, 1.11-12, 1.14, 2.1, 2.10-11, 2.13-14], vocal [14]
• David Sancious
  background vocals [8]
• Dee Lewis
  background vocals [3, 6]
• Dick Morrissey
  saxophone [2]
• Dominic Greensmith
  drums (drum set) [11]
• Don Mikkelsen
  trombone [3, 6]
• Ekome
  percussion [4]
• Elizabeth Purnell
  orchestrator [12]
• Ganga Giri
  didgeridoo [3]
• Gavyn Wright
  violin [3]
• Ged Lynch
  drums (drum set) [2.3, 2.14, 1.8, 1.11], percussion [2.3, 2.6, 2.13, 1.8, 1.11]
• Gus Isidore
  guitar [10]
• Hossam Ramzy
  surdo [9]
• Hugh Padgham
  engineer [1.5, 2.2], whistle [5]
• Jackie Shave
  violin [3]
• Jerry Marotta
  bass [6], drums (drum set) [2.1, 2.4, 1.2, 1.5, 1.12, 1.14], percussion [5], surdo [4]
• Jill Gabriel
  background vocals [1]
• Jim Frank
  additional [1]
• Jimmy Bralower
  drum machine [6]
• Jimmy Maelen
  bones [1], percussion [1]
• Jocelyn Pook
  brass [12]
• John Ellis
  additional [1], background vocals [4], guitar [1]
• Jon Brion
  chamberlin [11], mandolin [11], prepared piano [11]
• Jozef Chirowski
  keyboard [1]
• Jules Shear
  background vocals [7]
• Justin Adams
  guitar [7]
• Karl Wallinger
  background vocals [7], piano [7], vocal [7]
• Kate Bush
  background vocals [1.5, 2.2], guest [4], performer [4]
• Keith Grant
  additional [1]
• Kevin Killen
  engineer [3-4, 6, 14]
• Larry Fast
  Moog [1, 4], analog synthesizer [4], bagpipe [12], bass synthesizer [5], programming [1], synthesizer [1.1-2, 1.5, 1.12, 2.2]
• Leo Nocentelli
  guitar [9]
• Lévon Minassian
  duduk [10]
• Manu Katché
  drums (drum set) [2.6, 2.10-11, 2.15, 1.3-4, 1.8-9]
• Mark Howard
  additional [15]
• Mark Rivera
  alto saxophone [6], baritone saxophone [6], saxophone [3], tenor saxophone [6]
• Melanie Gabriel
  background vocals [11], vocal [14]
• Morris Pert
  percussion [2]
• Neil Perry
  assistant [1, 4]
• Nick Ingman
  orchestrator [13]
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  additional [13]
• P.P. Arnold
  background vocals [3, 6]
• Pete Davis
  programming [8]
• Peter Gabriel
  additional [1], analog synthesizer [4], arranger [1, 4], background vocals [2.1-2, 2.4, 1.2, 1.6, 1.14], bass [7], bass synthesizer [5], brass [12], drum machine [2.1, 2.4, 1.6, 1.12], drums (drum set) [1], flute [1], grand piano [9], keyboard [2.3, 2.6, 2.10, 2.14-15, 1.1, 1.9-10], keyboard bass [1.8-10, 2.6, 2.10-11, 2.13], lead vocals [2.1-2, 2.4, 1.5-6, 1.14-15], mellotron [13], mix [8], organ [7-8, 11], percussion [8, 11], piano [2.3, 2.11-12, 1.3-4, 1.11-12, 1.14-15], producer [2.1, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8-12, 2.14-15, 1.2-4, 1.6-11, 1.13-15], programming [2.11, 1.9], recorder [1], sampler [1.2, 1.6, 1.8, 1.14, 2.6, 2.13], strings [13], surdo [4], synthesizer [1.2, 1.2-3, 1.3-4, 1.4, 1.4-6, 1.6-8, 1.11, 1.14, 2.1, 2.4, 2.12], vocal [1.1-12, 2.3, 2.8, 2.10-12, 2.14-15], whistle [5]
• Peter Green
  electric guitar [3]
• Peter Hammill
  background vocals [2], vocal [9]
• Phil Collins
  drums (drum set) [2], surdo [12]
• Rachel Z
  keyboard [14], vocal [14]
• Reggie Houston
  baritone saxophone [15], horn [11]
• Renard Poché
  horn [11], trombone [15]
• Richard Blair
  additional [1.9, 1.13, 2.15], mix [11], programming [9, 13]
• Richard Chappell
  engineer [10, 14], membranophone [3], mix [9], programming [6, 9-10, 13], recording [7-8, 11], sampler [3]
• Richard Evans
  acoustic guitar [3, 6], bass [3], engineer [10], guitar [14], mandolin [14], mix [6, 12], programming [10], vocal [14], whistle [14]
• Richard MacPhail
  vocal [9]
• Richard Tee
  piano [4]
• Robbie Robertson
  remixer [5]
• Robert Fripp
  banjo [1], classical guitar [1], electric guitar [1], guitar [2.2, 1.1]
• Robert Stasiak
  additional [1]
• Robert “Ringo” Hrycyna
  additional [1]
• Rod O’Brien
  additional [1]
• Shankar
  violin [2.6, 2.8, 1.10]
• Sinéad O’Connor
  vocal [10]
• Stephen Hague
  bass [3], drums (drum set) [3], mix [3, 6], percussion [6], producer [2.3, 2.6, 1.7]
• Steve Gadd
  drums (drum set) [13], percussion [13]
• Steve Hunter
  acoustic guitar [1], electric guitar [1], guitar [1], pedal steel guitar [1]
• Steve Lillywhite
  producer [1.5, 1.12, 2.2], whistle [5]
• Steve Osborne
  additional [8], remixer [10]
• Stewart Copeland
  drums (drum set) [6], hi-hat [14]
• Tchad Blake
  mix [2.13, 1.7, 1.11]
• The Blind Boys of Alabama
  background vocals [11], vocal [3]
• The Dhol Foundation
  dhol [13]
• The Holmes Brothers
  background vocals [7]
• The London Session Orchestra
  strings [13]
• Tim Green
  horn [11], tenor saxophone [15]
• Tim Summerhayes
  field recordist [14]
• Tim Wybrow
  recording [1, 4]
• Tom Lord‐Alge
  remixer [8]
• Tony Levin
  Chapman stick [1.2, 2.1], bass [2.4, 2.6, 2.10-12, 2.14-15, 1.1, 1.3-4, 1.6, 1.9-11], electric bass guitar [14], tuba [1], vocal [14]
• Wayne Jackson
  cornet [6], trumpet [3, 6]
• Will Gregory
  strings [13]
• Will White
  percussion [6]
• Youssou N’Dour
  vocal [8]
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Issues

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  Hit

  2x CD (slipcase, Deutsche Ausgabe)
  31 October 2003
• 

  H
  Hit

  CD, Enhanced CD
  3 November 2003
• 

  H
  Hit

  CD, Enhanced CD (The Definitive Two CD Collection)
  3 November 2003
• 

  H
  Hit

  2x CD
  4 November 2003
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  H
  Hit

  CD
  2003
• 

  H
  Hit

  CD
  2003
• 

  H
  Hit: The Definitive Two CD Collection

  2x CD
  14 March 2007
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  H
  Hit

  Digital Media
  14 November 2019
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  Hit

  CD, Enhanced CD