Hits (Mike + The Mechanics album)

Hits is a compilation album by Mike + The Mechanics, released in 1996 except in the United States and Canada, where it was released in 2005. It contains nearly all of the band's hits up to the time of its release. "All I Need Is a Miracle" was re-recorded for the album.

Hits
Greatest hits album by
Mike + The Mechanics
ReleasedMarch 1996
Recorded1985–96
Length60:36
LabelRhino/Atlantic, Virgin
ProducerMike Rutherford, Christopher Neil, Russ Titelman
Mike + The Mechanics chronology
Beggar on a Beach of Gold
(1995)		 Hits
(1996)		 Mike & The Mechanics
(1999)

In September 2004 another compilation album Rewired + Hits was issued in the UK, which repackaged Hits and the 2004 album Rewired together as a double CD. The cover is a close up of part of the Rewired cover overlaid with both album covers side by side.

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Q[2]

Peter Kane in Q wrote, "These are all songs that are uniformly high on melody and craftsmanship, with mercifully no hidden agenda."[2] In a retrospective review, AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine declared Hits "a first-rate compilation, giving the casual fan all of the essential Mike + the Mechanics tracks".[1]

Track listing
  1. "All I Need Is a Miracle '96"
  2. "Over My Shoulder"
  3. "Word of Mouth"
  4. "The Living Years"
  5. "Another Cup of Coffee"
  6. "Nobody's Perfect"
  7. "Silent Running"
  8. "Nobody Knows"
  9. "Get Up"
  10. "A Time and Place"
  11. "Taken In"
  12. "Everybody Gets a Second Chance"
  13. "A Beggar on a Beach of Gold"

References
  1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Hits – Mike + the Mechanics | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  2. Kane, Peter (April 1996). "Mike & The Mechanics: Hits". Q: 123.


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