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The Very Best of The Stone Roses is a compilation album released by Silvertone Records in 2002. It features most of their singles plus album tracks including "Breaking into Heaven" and "This is the One". It charted at #19 in the UK and spent nine weeks in the Top 75.
Silvertone has been derided for supposedly cashing in on their famous signing. However, The Very Best of is a fairly comprehensive compilation in that it gathers all the Stone Roses' best known tracks in the versions that are generally regarded as best. The previous compilation The Complete Stone Roses had been criticised for not including material from the group's second album, whilst including inferior edits and alternative versions of many songs.
Not only does the compilation contain six songs from their 1989 debut but the album is structured to open and close with the same songs in their album versions.
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- "I Wanna Be Adored" – 4:53
- "She Bangs The Drums" – 3:50
- "Ten Storey Love Song" – 4:23
- "Waterfall" – 4:39
- "Made Of Stone" – 4:16
- "Love Spreads" – 5:47
- "What The World Is Waiting For" – 3:51
- "Sally Cinnamon" – 3:25
- "Fools Gold" – 9:54 1
- "Begging You" – 4:53
- "Elephant Stone" – 4:51 2
- "Breaking Into Heaven" – 6:59 3
- "One Love" – 3:35 4
- "This Is The One" – 5:00
- "I Am The Resurrection" – 8:13
1 This is the 12" version sometimes referred to as "Fool's Gold 9.53"
2 This is the 12" Peter Hook produced version, not the 3 minute version which was additionally mixed by John Leckie.
3 This is a new edit of the album version, it omits the lengthy build up.
4 This is the 7" version of the single.
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