Legacy: Best Of

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Legacy: Best of
Legacy: Best of cover
Compilation album by Mansun
Released September, 2006 (UK)
Recorded 1995 - 2006
Genre Rock
Label Parlophone
Producer Mark Stent, Michael Hunter, Hugh Padgham, Paul Draper
Professional reviews
Mansun chronology
Kleptomania
(2004)		 Legacy: Best Of
(2006)

Legacy: Best Of (released 18 September 2006) is the first official 'best of' collection from Mansun. It collects all the bands Parlophone lead-EP tracks and selected album tracks which were compiled by Paul Draper and Dominic Chad. It was released as a standard CD, special edition CD and DVD set featuring all the bands promo videos and digital download.

There is an unreleased track "South of the Painted Hall" that you can download for free when you sign up on their mailing list and insert the CD into your computer. The track was recorded in 2001 for the band's fourth album. When the band split, all unreleased recordings were to be released as a compilation; Kleptomania. Unfortunately, the vocal track for "South of the Painted Hall" was lost and so the track was not included. During the compilation of Legacy, a demo CD was found in the archives containing a rough mix of the track, complete with vocals. It is this version that is available for download.

As Mansun's albums were concept albums, each a continuous piece of music, many of the band's singles had to be re-edited or even re-recorded, especially those from their second album Six. The single version of Being A Girl, for example, was just the first two minutes of section of a track which, on the album, lasted over seven.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD

  1. "I Can Only Disappoint U (Single Mix)" (4:21)
  2. "Wide Open Space" (4:33)
  3. "Stripper Vicar" (4:09)
  4. "Being A Girl (Part One)" (2:00)
  5. "Negative (Edit)" (3:43)
  6. "Take It Easy Chicken" (4:28)
  7. "Legacy (Radio Edit)" (5:56)
  8. "She Makes My Nose Bleed" (4:08)
  9. "Closed For Business" (3:07)
  10. "Six (Single Version)" (3:57)
  11. "Getting Your Way" (4:32)
  12. "Electric Man (Single Edit)" (4:16)
  13. "The Chad Who Loved Me" (5:03)
  14. "Egg Shaped Fred" (3:54)
  15. "Slipping Away" (3:44)
  16. "Fool (Edit)" (3:34)
  17. "Taxloss" (7:16)
  • A bonus track, the previously unreleased "South of the Painted Hall" (3:24), is made available for download by visiting this website with the CD inserted.

[edit] DVD

  1. Flourella
  2. Egg Shaped Fred
  3. Take It Easy Chicken
  4. Stripper Vicar
  5. Wide Open Space
  6. Wide Open Space (US version)
  7. She Makes My Nose Bleed
  8. Taxloss
  9. Closed For Business
  10. Legacy
  11. Being A Girl (Part One)
  12. Negative
  13. Six
  14. I Can Only Disappoint U
  15. Electric Man
  16. Fool
  • Taxloss (Live at Brixton - 23/10/98)
  • Love Remains (Super 8 montage)
  • Nobody Cares When You're Gone (unseen documentary footage) A brand new documentary cut from the band's own personal footage and narrated by Paul Draper and Dominic Chad, who have given a new rare audio interview especially for the documentary (their first together since the end of the band).