Hits | |
Type: | greatest |
Artist: | Mike + The Mechanics |
Cover: | MM_Hits_Cover.jpg |
Released: | 4 March 1996[1] |
Recorded: | 1985–96 |
Length: | 60:36 |
Label: | Rhino/Atlantic, Virgin |
Producer: | Mike Rutherford, Christopher Neil, Russ Titelman |
Prev Title: | Beggar on a Beach of Gold |
Prev Year: | 1995 |
Next Title: | Mike & The Mechanics |
Next Year: | 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.
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".