''The Very Best of The Stone Roses'' is a
compilation album
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released by
Silvertone Records in 2002. It features most of their
singles
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plus album tracks including "Breaking into Heaven" and "This is the One", all of which were remastered for this album.
[Stevens, Paul]
The Definitive Stone Roses Discography: Basic
Retrieved 15 June 2008. It charted at #19 in the
UK and spent nine weeks in the Top 75.
''The Very Best of'' is a fairly comprehensive compilation in that it gathers all the Stone Roses' best known tracks. The track listing was decided upon by band members.
The previous compilation ''
The Complete Stone Roses
''The Complete Stone Roses'' is a compilation of singles and B-sides by English rock band The Stone Roses. It was released in 1995 without the band's input by their record company Silvertone, with whom they were embroiled in a protracted legal ...
'' had been criticized 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. It was re-released in 2012 following
their reunion when it reached 20 in the charts. As of July 2012 it has sold 552,577 copies in the United Kingdom.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
External links
''The Very Best of The Stone Roses''at
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(streamed copy where licensed)
The Stone Roses' discography
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The Stone Roses albums
Albums produced by John Leckie
2002 greatest hits albums