Hits (Mike + The Mechanics album)

Hits
Greatest hits album by Mike + The Mechanics
Released	March 1996, 2005 (US & Canada)
Recorded	1985–96
Genre	Adult contemporary
Length	60:36
Label	Rhino/Atlantic (US & Canada), Virgin (rest of the world)
Producer	Mike Rutherford, Christopher Neil
Mike + The Mechanics chronology
Beggar on a Beach of Gold (1995) Hits (1996) Mike & The Mechanics (1999)

Hits is a compilation album by Mike + The Mechanics, released in 1996 except in the USA and Canada, where it was released in 2005. It contains nearly all of the band's hits up to the time of its release, omitting only "All I Need is a Miracle" (the 1996 remake of the song, which was also a hit, is included instead) and the minor hit "Seeing is Believing".

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Allmusic's brief retrospective review declared that "Hits is 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

• Track 1 is a new version of the song from Mike + The Mechanics.
• Tracks 7 and 11 are taken from Mike + The Mechanics.
• Tracks 4, 6 and 8 are taken from Living Years.
• Tracks 3, 9, 10 and 12 are taken from Word of Mouth.
• Tracks 2, 5 and 13 are taken from Beggar on a Beach of Gold.

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