Hit, also known as Peter Gabriel: The Definitive Two CD Collection, is a 2003 compilation album of songs by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It reached No. 29 in the UK albums chart and No. 100 in the US. Disc one is labelled Hit and disc two Miss, reflecting the first disc which comprises Gabriel's best known chart singles and the second featuring his more obscure material. The two-disc set is different in the UK and US because of the second disc. The second disc in the US spans fourteen songs by Gabriel, whilst the UK second disc features fifteen songs. Only some of these appeared on the US version. The UK version collects at least one track from every studio album by Gabriel, including soundtracks, except for Birdy, which is the only album not represented by a track. The album is Gabriel's first compilation album since 1990's Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats. (Wikipedia) Hit, also known as Peter Gabriel: The Definitive Two CD Collection, is a 2003 compilation album of songs by the English rock musician Peter Gabriel. It reached No. 29 in the UK albums chart and No. 100 in the US. Disc one is labelled Hit and disc two Miss, reflecting the first disc which comprises Gabriel's best known chart singles and the second featuring his more obscure material. The two-disc set is different in the UK and US because of the second disc. The second disc in the US spans fourteen songs by Gabriel, whilst the UK second disc features fifteen songs. Only some of these appeared on the US version. The UK version collects at least one track from every studio album by Gabriel, including soundtracks, except for Birdy, which is the only album not represented by a track. The album is Gabriel's first compilation album since 1990's Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats. (Wikipedia) false 2025-11-07 23:26:25 Hit 2019 2019-11-14 2019-11-14 150 Rock 114242 2230857 431666a5-a172-47b8-80c6-00cd20529a2e 8e66ea2b-b57b-47d9-8df0-df4630aeb8e5 92f5b607-292b-3f28-8151-c55341818dd0 /media/data/media5/Music/Peter Gabriel/Hit/folder.jpg Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel 1 1 Solsbury Hill 04:23 1 2 Shock the Monkey 03:59 1 3 Sledgehammer 04:51 1 4 Don’t Give Up 05:55 1 5 Games Without Frontiers 03:57 1 6 Big Time 04:28 1 7 Burn You Up, Burn You Down 05:26 1 8 Growing Up 04:48 1 9 Digging in the Dirt 05:15 1 10 Blood of Eden 05:06 1 11 More Than This 04:33 1 12 Biko 06:58 1 13 Steam 06:02 1 14 Red Rain 05:39 1 15 Here Comes the Flood 04:32 1 16 San Jacinto 06:31 1 17 No Self Control 03:54 1 18 Cloudless 04:47 1 19 The Rhythm of the Heat 05:19 1 20 I Have the Touch 04:19 1 21 I Grieve 07:24 1 22 D.I.Y. 02:38 1 23 A Different Drum 04:47 1 24 The Drop 03:03 1 25 The Tower That Ate People 04:06 1 26 Lovetown 05:23 1 27 Father Son 04:57 1 28 Signal to Noise 07:34 1 29 Downside Up 05:32 1 30 Washing of the Water 03:54 Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist. He was the original lead singer of the progressive rock band Genesis. After leaving the band in 1975, he launched a solo career with "Solsbury Hill" as his first single. His fifth studio album, So (1986), is his best-selling release and is certified triple platinum in the UK and five times platinum in the US. The album's most successful single, "Sledgehammer", won a record nine MTV Awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards and, according to a report in 2011, it was MTV's most played music video of all time. Gabriel has been a champion of world music for much of his career. He co-founded the WOMAD festival in 1982. He has continued to focus on producing and promoting world music through his Real World Records label. He has pioneered digital distribution methods for music, co-founding OD2, one of the first online music download services. Gabriel has also been involved in numerous humanitarian efforts. In 1980, he released the anti-apartheid single "Biko". He has participated in several human-rights benefit concerts, including Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour in 1988, and co-founded the Witness human rights organisation in 1992. Gabriel developed The Elders with Richard Branson, which was launched by Nelson Mandela in 2007. Gabriel has won three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1987, six Grammy Awards, thirteen MTV Video Music Awards, the first Pioneer Award at the BT Digital Music Awards, the Q magazine Lifetime Achievement, the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Polar Music Prize. He was made a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his "influence on generations of music makers". In recognition of his many years of human rights activism, he received the Man of Peace award from the Nobel Peace Prize laureates in 2006, and Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. AllMusic described Gabriel as "one of rock's most ambitious, innovative musicians, as well as one of its most political". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010, and as a solo artist in 2014. In March 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of South Australia in recognition of his achievements in music.