The Best Of The Vines

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The Best of The Vines
The Best of The Vines cover
Studio album by The Vines
Released Flag of the United States 11 March 2008
Flag of Australia 5 April 2008
Flag of the United Kingdom 5 May 2008
Recorded Jul 2001-Feb 2002 The Sound Factory (Hollywood, California), 2003 Bearsville Studios (New York), 2005 BJB studios (Sydney)
Genre Garage Rock
Post-grunge
Alternative Rock
Length 54:37
Label Capitol Records
Producer Rob Schnapf, Wayne Connolly, The Vines
Professional reviews
The Vines chronology
Vision Valley
(2006)		 The Best Of The Vines
(2008)		 Melodia
(2008)

The Best of The Vines is a compilation album by The Vines and contains a selection of singles and album tracks from their first 3 albums released under Capitol Records. The band did not have a say in the release having been dropped by Capitol records in 2007, however they picked the songs.[1]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. Get Free (from Highly Evolved) - 2:06
  2. Ride (from Winning Days) - 2:36
  3. Highly Evolved (from Highly Evolved) - 1:35
  4. Winning Days (from Winning Days) - 3:33
  5. Outtathaway (from Highly Evolved) - 3:02
  6. Autumn Shade (from Highly Evolved) - 2:18
  7. Autumn Shade II (from Winning Days) - 3:14
  8. Factory (from Highly Evolved) - 3:12
  9. Animal Machine (from Winning Days) - 3:28
  10. Don't Listen To The Radio (from Vision Valley) - 2:12
  11. Vision Valley (from Vision Valley) - 2:42
  12. Homesick (from Highly Evolved) - 4:53
  13. F.T.W. (from Winning Days) - 3:41
  14. Spaceship (from Vision Valley) - 6:07
  15. Anysound (from Vision Valley) - 1:55
  16. Sun Child (from Winning Days) - 4:33
  17. 4Eva (UK Bonus Track)

[edit] Personnel

  • Craig Nicholls – vocals, guitars, keys, moog
  • Ryan Griffiths – guitars, keys, percussion, backing vocals
  • Hamish Rosser – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Dave Oliffe - drums on "Highly Evolved", "Autumn Shade", "Outtathaway", "Homesick" (outro only)
  • Joey Waronker - drums on "Get Free"
  • Pete Thomas - drums on "Factory", "Homesick" (excerpt)
  • Patrick Matthews - bass
  • Andy Kent – bass
  • Amanda Brown – violin
  • Rowan Smith – violin
  • Sophie Glasson – cello
  • Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - Keyboards

[edit] Other Credits

  • Rob Schnapf - Additional Guitars ("Homesick" and "Factory"), Producer, Mixing
  • Doug Boehm - Engineering, Mixing
  • Ted Jensen - Mastering
  • Ethan Johns - Additional Percussion ("Get Free", "Autumn Shade", "Factory")
  • Andrew Slater - Executive Producer
  • Andy Wallace - Mixing ("Get Free")
  • Doug Boehm - Engineer
  • Steven Rhodes - Additional Percussion ("Get Free", "Autumn Shade", "Factory"), Additional Engineering
  • Wayne Connolly – producer, recorder, mixing
  • Dan Clinch – additional engineering
  • Anthony The – additional engineering
  • Veit Mahler – additional engineering

[edit] Links

[1] [2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Best of The Vines. The Vines' Top Hits and Album Tracks Gathered for New Capitol/EMI Collection. [Newswire.com]accessdate=2008-04-14 (March 04, 2008).
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Craig Nicholls · Ryan Griffiths · Hamish Rosser · Brad Heald
David Oliffe · Patrick Matthews
Studio releases
Compilations
The Best Of The Vines
Singles
"Highly Evolved" · "Get Free" · "Outtathaway" · "Homesick" · "Ride" · "Winning Days"  · "Gross Out"  · "Don't Listen to the Radio"  · "Anysound"  · "Dope Train"  · "He's a Rocker"
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