The Best and the Rest

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The Best and the Rest
The Best and the Rest cover
Compilation album by Savatage
Released January 10,1997
Recorded 1989 - 1997
Genre Heavy Metal
Length 75:08
Label JVC Records
Producer Paul O'Neill
Savatage chronology
Final Bell / Ghost in the Ruins
(1995)
The Best and the Rest
(1997)
The Wake of Magellan
(1998)

The Best and the Rest is a greatest hits album by Savatage that was released on November 21, 1997 by JVC Records in Japan. The majority of the tracks were selected as part of a reader's vote promotion in the Japanese hard rock magazine, Burrn!

The booklet for the album contains lyrics, Japanese translations of the lyrics, liner notes by Savatage producer/songwriter Paul O'Neill, a band biography, and a Savatage discography.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Gutter Ballet"
  2. "Degrees of Sanity"
  3. "Jesus Saves"
  4. "Edge of Thorns"
  5. "Agony and Ecstasy"
  6. "Chance"
  7. "Complaint in the System"
  8. "The Hourglass"
  9. "Voyage" (instrumental)
  10. "Prelude to Madness/Hall of the Mountain King"
  11. "This is the Time (1990)"
  12. "Believe"
  13. "Desiree"
  14. "All That I Bleed"

[edit] Track notes

Voyage is a solo instrumental composition written and performed acoustically by guitarist Al Pitrelli. It was recorded during studio sessions for The Wake of Magellan (1997/1998).

Desiree is an acoustic track with a piano and Zak on vocals. Originally written for the Streets album, it was cut when the record was trimmed to a single disc format. This version was re-recorded in the summer of 1997, it is also featured on the German Streets re-issue.

All That I Bleed is a previously unreleased acoustic track that is performed by Jon Oliva singing and playing piano. This version was recorded in the summer of 1997, it is also featured as the bonus track on the German Gutter Ballet re-issue. The original was release on Edge of Thorns in 1993 with Zak Stevens on vocals).