Films About Ghosts (The Best Of...)

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Films about Ghosts
Films about Ghosts cover
Compilation album by Counting Crows
Released Flag of the United States November 25, 2003
Flag of the United Kingdom January 26, 2004
Recorded 1993 - 2003
Genre Alternative Rock
Length 67:14
Label Geffen
Producer ?
Professional reviews
Counting Crows chronology
Hard Candy
(2002)		 Films about Ghosts (The Best Of...)
(2003)		 New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 2003 (2006)

Films About Ghosts (The Best of Counting Crows) is a greatest hits album by the popular alternative rock band Counting Crows. It was released by Geffen Records on November 25, 2003, to modest commercial success, though many critics agree it was an accurate and consistent summation of their recording career. The album contains songs from all of their studio albums. The album takes its name from a line in "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby": "If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts."

Contents

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United States version
  1. "Angels of the Silences" (Recovering the Satellites)
  2. "Round Here" (August and Everything After)
  3. "Rain King" (August and Everything After)
  4. "A Long December" (Recovering the Satellites)
  5. "Hanginaround" (This Desert Life)
  6. "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" (This Desert Life)
  7. "Mr. Jones" (August and Everything After)
  8. "Recovering the Satellites" (Recovering the Satellites)
  9. "American Girls" (Hard Candy)
  10. "Big Yellow Taxi" (Hard Candy) (Joni Mitchell cover)
  11. "Omaha" (August and Everything After)
  12. "Friend of the Devil" (Grateful Dead cover) (previously unreleased)
  13. "Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)" (previously only released on the Various Artists compilation DGC Rarities Vol.1)
  14. "Anna Begins" (August and Everything After)
  15. "Holiday in Spain" (Hard Candy)
  16. "She Don't Want Nobody Near" (previously unreleased)

Later versions of this disc include "Accidentally in Love", the Crows' hit single from the May 2004 hit movie Shrek 2. This single was nominated for an Oscar. The Dutch version of this album includes a new version of "Holiday In Spain", recorded as a duet with Dutch band Bløf. The single, in English and Dutch, went number one in the Netherlands, as did the album after the success of the single.

The original English version contained the song "Blues Run The Game", a cover of a Jackson C. Frank song.

This album was released twice in Australia, the second release containing a DVD of live performances. A version with a second disc containing the Music-Video-Edited versions of "American Girls", "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby", "Angels Of The Silences", "Round Here", "Daylight Fading", "A Long December" and "Mr. Jones" was also released in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Charts

[edit] Album

Year Chart Position
2003 US Billboard 200 32
2004 UK Album Charts 15

[edit] Single

Year Single Chart Position
2004 "Accidentally In Love" UK Singles Chart 28
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