Hits (Mike + The Mechanics album)

Hits
Greatest hits album by Mike + The Mechanics
Released	March 1996
Recorded	1985–96
Length	60:36
Label	Rhino/Atlantic, Virgin
Producer	Mike Rutherford, Christopher Neil, Russ Titelman
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 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.

In September 2004 the album was repackaged as a double CD with the band's 2004 album Rewired as Rewired + Hits. 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
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Q

Peter Kane in Q wrote, "These are all songs that are uniformly high on melody and craftsmanship, with mercifully no hidden agenda." 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".

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"

• Tracks 1*, 7, and 11 are taken from Mike + The Mechanics (1985)
• Tracks 4, 6, and 8 are taken from Living Years (1988)
• Tracks 3, 9, 10, and 12 are taken from Word of Mouth (1991)
• Tracks 2, 5, and 13 are taken from Beggar on a Beach of Gold (1995)
• *Re-recording of original album track.

Weekly charts

Chart (1996)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)	139