''The Best Things – The Greatest Hits'' is the fourth

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and third

greatest hits A greatest hits album or best-of album is a type of compilation album that collects popular and commercially successful songs by a particular artist or band. While greatest hits albums are typically supported by the artist, they can also be crea ...

released by Australian rock band Boom Crash Opera. The album was released in Australian on 18 October 2013. The album was launched on 25 October 2013 at the Flyer Saucer Club in Melbourne. The album includes tracks from the group's first four studio albums as well as two new tracks recorded in 2012, "I am" and "You Can't Stop the Sun". In an interview with between Weekend Notes and band member Peter Maslen, he described the album as "... a basic CD. It's got the hits and two new songs we recorded last year, which surprised us, but we did do two songs last year. It wasn't planned." The group toured the album from February to May 2014.

Track listing

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Onion Skin Onion skin may refer to: * onionskin, thin typewriter paper * "Onion Skin" (song), a single by Australian band Boom Crash Opera * onion skinning Onion skinning, in 2D computer graphics, is a technique used in creating animated cartoons and editi ...

" (Peter Farnan) – 3:29 # " The Best Thing" (Richard Pleasance) – 4:14 # "

Great Wall The Great Wall of China (, literally "ten thousand Li (unit), ''li'' wall") is a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against Eurasian noma ...

" (Dale Ryder,

Richard Pleasance Richard Arnold Pleasance is an Australian rock musician and producer. He was a founding member of Boom Crash Opera on guitar, bass guitar, vocals and as a songwriter in 1985; they released three albums before Pleasance left in 1992. Their hit ...

) – 3:46 # "

Hands Up in the Air "Hands Up in the Air" is a song by Australian rock band Boom Crash Opera. It was released in 1986 as the second single from their self-titled studio album. The song reached number 16 in Australia. Track listing 7" single (0.258620) # Hands U ...

" (Peter Farnan, Richard Pleasance) – 3:56 # " Dancing in the Storm" (Richard Pleasance, Peter Farnan) – 4:11 # "

City Flat "City Flat" is a song by Australian rock band Boom Crash Opera, released in 1987 as the third single from their self-titled studio album. It was written by the band's two main songwriters: guitarist Peter Farnan and bass player Richard Pleasance ...

" (Peter Farnan, Richard Pleasance) – 4:10 # "

Bettadaze "Bettadaze" is a song by Australian band, Boom Crash Opera. The song was released in November 1992 as the lead single from their third studio album, ''Fabulous Beast ''Fabulous Beast'' is the third studio album released by Australian rock grou ...

" (Peter Farnan, Greg O'Connor, Dale Ryder) – 3:57 # " In the Morning" (Peter Farnan, Greg O'Connor) – 3:54 # " Talk About It" (Richard Pleasance) – 4:41 # "

Gimme In golf, a gimme is a shot that the other players agree can count automatically without being played. When a player has only a very short putt left to play, other players may grant a gimme (i.e., one stroke is counted), but the ball is not play ...

" (Ian Tilley, Peter Farnan) – 3:36 # "

This Isn't Love "This Isn't Love" is a song by Australian rock band Boom Crash Opera. The song was released in August 1993 as the third and final single from their third studio album, ''Fabulous Beast''. The song charted at number 78 on the Australian ARIA Sing ...

" (Dale Ryder) – 3:29 # "

Get Out of the House! "Get Out of the House!" is a song by Australian band, Boom Crash Opera. The song was released in September 1989 as the second single from their second studio album, '' These Here Are Crazy Times!'' (1989). Track listing ; 7" # "Get Out of the H ...

" (Greg O'Connor, Dale Ryder, Peter Farnan, Peter Maslen, Richard Pleasance) – 3:20 # "Her Charity" (Peter Farnan, Richard Pleasance) – 4:59 # "I Am" (Peter Farnan) – 4:05 # "You Can't Stop the Sun" (Peter Farnan, Greg O'Connor) – 3:41

Release history

References

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