''Best!'' is a greatest hits compilation by the 1990s pop band
Jellyfish
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. The album was released in 2006 and featured twenty tracks. Twelve tracks were pulled from the band's two studio albums, ''
Bellybutton
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'' and ''
Spilt Milk.'' Four were live tracks, including a cover of
Badfinger
Badfinger were a Welsh rock band formed in Swansea, who were active from the 1960s to the 1980s. Their best-known lineup consisted of Pete Ham (vocals, guitar), Mike Gibbins (drums), Tom Evans (bass), and Joey Molland (guitar). They are rec ...
's "No Matter What," and two were demo recordings from the Spilt Milk session. "Ignorance is Bliss" was taken from a
Nintendo
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles.
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...
games compilation entitled "
Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin'" and is inspired by the video game
Super Mario World
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.
[ "Think About Your Troubles" was drawn from a 1995 Nilsson tribute album.
]
Track listing
All songs written by Roger Manning
Roger Manning is a New York City based singer-songwriter who plays an aggressive acoustic style of music. Manning, along with a small handful of other artists, composed the original New York City anti-folk scene.
On February 6, 1985, Manning w ...
and Andy Sturmer, except where noted.
# "Joining a Fan Club" – 4:05 (from '' Spilt Milk)''
# "The King is Half Undressed" – 3:48 (from ''Bellybutton
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)''
# "New Mistake" – 4:03 (from '' Spilt Milk)''
# "Now She Knows She's Wrong" – 2:36 (from ''Bellybutton
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)''
# "Bye, Bye, Bye" – 4:03 (from '' Spilt Milk)''
# "Worthless Heart" – 3:06
# "Baby's Coming Back" (Sturmer) – 2:58 (from ''Bellybutton
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)''
# "He's My Best Friend" – 3:44 (from '' Spilt Milk)''
# "All I Want is Everything" (Sturmer) – 3:45 (from ''Bellybutton
The navel (clinically known as the umbilicus, commonly known as the belly button or tummy button) is a protruding, flat, or hollowed area on the abdomen at the attachment site of the umbilical cord. All placental mammals have a navel, although ...
)''
# "Let 'Em In
"Let 'Em In" is a song by Wings from their 1976 album ''Wings at the Speed of Sound''. It was written and sung by Paul McCartney and reached the top 3 in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. It was a No. 2 hit in the UK; in the ...
/That is Why" (Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. One ...
)/(Manning/Sturmer) – 4:57
# " No Matter What" (Pete Ham
Peter William Ham (27 April 1947 – 24 April 1975) was a Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist best known as a lead vocalist of and composer for the 1970s rock band Badfinger, whose hit songs include " No Matter What", " Day After Day" and " ...
) – 2:50
# "Family Tree" - 4:11
# "The Ghost at Number One" - 3:37 (from '' Spilt Milk)''
# "Too Much, Too Little, Too Late" - 3:17 (from '' Spilt Milk)''
# "I Wanna Stay Home" (Sturmer) - 4:06 (from ''Bellybutton
The navel (clinically known as the umbilicus, commonly known as the belly button or tummy button) is a protruding, flat, or hollowed area on the abdomen at the attachment site of the umbilical cord. All placental mammals have a navel, although ...
)''
# "Glutton of Sympathy" - 3:49 (from '' Spilt Milk)''
# "The Man I Used to Be" - 4:46
# "Calling Sarah" - 4:03
# "Ignorance is Bliss" (Sturmer/Wirt) - 3:59
# "Think About Your Troubles" (Harry Nilsson
Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), sometimes credited as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who reached the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by pioneering vocal ove ...
) - 2:35
Tracks 6 and 12 are demo recordings.
Tracks 10, 11, 17 and 18 are live recordings.
References
External links
''Best!''
at Discogs
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(list of releases)
2006 greatest hits albums
Jellyfish (band) albums
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