Nature's Best 3

Nature's Best 3 is a two-disc compilation album of 35 New Zealand popular music songs, numbers 66-100 on the APRA 75th Anniversary Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time. See Nature's Best for more information on the selection process of this list.

Nature's Best 3 was released as part of a Nature's Best Box Set on 29 November 2005.

Track listing

Disc one

1. Blam Blam Blam - "Don't Fight It Marsha, It's Bigger Than The Both Of Us" (Don McGlashan, 1981)
2. Hello Sailor - "Gutter Black" (Dave McArtney, 1977)
3. Herbs - "Long Ago" (Lundon/Hona, 1984)
4. Blam Blam Blam - "There Is No Depression In New Zealand"
5. Dave Dobbyn - "You Oughta Be In Love" (Dave Dobbyn, 1986)
6. Fur Patrol - "Andrew" (Andrew Bain/Julia Deans/Simon Braxton/Steven Wells, 2000)
7. Graham Brazier - "Billy Bold" (Graham Brazier, 1981)
8. Crowded House - "Distant Sun" (Neil Finn, 1993)
9. Bic Runga - "Suddenly Strange" (Bic Runga, 1997)
10. The Mockers - "Forever Tuesday Morning" (Gary Curtis/Andrew Fagan/Tim Wedde, 1984)
11. Headless Chickens - "Cruise Control" (Chris Matthews/Michael Lawry, 1991)
12. The Feelers - "Pressure Man" (James Reid/Matt Thomas/Hamish Gee, 1998)
13. Crowded House - "Private Universe" (Neil Finn, 1994)
14. Peking Man - "Room That Echoes" (Neville Hall, 1985)
15. Herbs- "Sensitive To A Smile" (Dilworth Karaka/Tumahai, 1987)
16. Prince Tui Teka - "E Ipo" (Ngoi Pēwhairangi/Missy/Prince Tui Teka, 1982)
17. Front Lawn - "Andy" (Harry Sinclair/Don McGlashan, 1987)

Disc two

1. Shihad - "Bitter" (Karl Kippenberger/Tom Larkin/Phil Knight/Jon Toogood, 1995)
2. Crowded House - "Four Seasons In One Day" (Neil Finn/Tim Finn, 1991)
3. The Chills - "Heavenly Pop Hit" (Martin Phillipps, 1990)
4. Sneaky Feelings - "Husband House" (Matthew Bannister, 1995)
5. Pop Mechanix - "Jumping Out a Window"
6. Straitjacket Fits - "If I Were You" (Shayne Carter/John Collie/Straitjacket Fits, 1993)
7. Dance Exponents - "I'll Say Goodbye (Even Tho I'm Blue)" (Jordan Luck, 1983)
8. Sharon O'Neill - "Maybe" (Sharon O'Neill, 1981)
9. Eye TV - "One Day Ahead" (Sean Sturm/Luke Casey/Michael Scott/Grant Winterburn, 2000)
10. Zed - "Renegade Fighter" (Ben Campbell/Nathan King, 2000)
11. Stellar* - "Part of Me" (Boh Runga, 1999)
12. Coconut Rough - "Sierra Leone" (Andrew McLennan, 1983)
13. Sharon O'Neill - "Words" (Sharon O'Neill, 1979)
14. Split Enz - "Spellbound" (Tim Finn/Phil Judd, 1979)
15. Citizen Band - "Rust In My Car" (Geoff Chunn, 1979)
16. Shona Laing - "Mercy of Love" (Shona Laing, 1992)
17. Supergroove - "Can't Get Enough" (Joseph Fisher/Karl Steven, 1996)
18. Dave Dobbyn - "Naked Flame"

See also

• Nature's Best 2
• Nature's Best
• More Nature
• Australasian Performing Rights Association