The Best of The Vines

Infobox Album
Name = The Best of The Vines
Type = studio
Artist = The Vines


Released = flagicon|US 11 March 2008 flagicon|Australia 5 April, 2008 flagicon|UK 5 May, 2008
Recorded = Jul 2001-Feb 2002 The Sound Factory (Hollywood, California), 2003 Bearsville Studios (New York), 2005 BJB studios (Sydney)
Genre = Garage rock Post-grunge Indie rock Alternative rock
Length = 54:37
Label = Capitol Records
Producer = Rob Schnapf, Wayne Connolly, The Vines
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:difqxzyhldse link]
*Q Rating|4|5 May '08 issue
Last album = "Vision Valley" (2006)
This album = "The Best Of The Vines" (2008)
Next album = "Melodia" (2008)

"The Best of The Vines" is a compilation album by The Vines and contains a selection of singles and album tracks from their first three albums released under Capitol Records. The band did not have a say in the release having been dropped by Capitol records in 2007, however they picked the songs.cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-04-2008/0004748802&EDATE|title=The Best of The Vines|work=The Vines' Top Hits and Album Tracks Gathered for New Capitol/EMI Collection|date=March 04, 2008|publisher= [http://www.prnewswire.com|PR Newswire.com] accessdate=2008-04-14]

Track listing

# Get Free (from "Highly Evolved") - 2:06
# Ride (from "Winning Days") - 2:36
# Highly Evolved (from "Highly Evolved") - 1:35
# Winning Days (from "Winning Days") - 3:33
# Outtathaway (from "Highly Evolved") - 3:02
# Autumn Shade (from "Highly Evolved") - 2:18
# Autumn Shade II (from "Winning Days") - 3:14
# Factory (from "Highly Evolved") - 3:12
# Animal Machine (from "Winning Days") - 3:28
# Don't Listen to the Radio (from "Vision Valley") - 2:12
# Vision Valley (from "Vision Valley") - 2:42
# Homesick (from "Highly Evolved") - 4:53
# Fuck the World (from "Winning Days") - 3:41
# Spaceship (from "Vision Valley") - 6:07
# Anysound (from "Vision Valley") - 1:55
# Sun Child (from "Winning Days") - 4:33

Personnel

* Craig Nicholls – vocals, guitars, keys, moog
* Ryan Griffiths – guitars, keys, percussion, backing vocals
* Hamish Rosser – drums, percussion, backing vocals
* Dave Oliffe - drums on "Highly Evolved", "Autumn Shade", "Outtathaway", "Homesick" (outro only)
* Joey Waronker - drums on "Get Free"
* Pete Thomas - drums on "Factory", "Homesick" (excerpt)
* Patrick Matthews - bass
* Andy Kent – bass
* Amanda Brown – violin
* Rowan Smith – violin
* Sophie Glasson – cello
* Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - Keyboards

Other Credits

* Rob Schnapf - Additional Guitars ("Homesick" and "Factory"), Producer, Mixing
* Doug Boehm - Engineering, Mixing
* Ted Jensen - Mastering
* Ethan Johns - Additional Percussion ("Get Free", "Autumn Shade", "Factory")
* Andrew Slater - Executive Producer
* Andy Wallace - Mixing ("Get Free")
* Doug Boehm - Engineer
* Steven Rhodes - Additional Percussion ("Get Free", "Autumn Shade", "Factory"), Additional Engineering
* Wayne Connolly – producer, recorder, mixing
* Dan Clinch – additional engineering
* Anthony The – additional engineering
* Veit Mahler – additional engineering

External links

*http://www.thevines.com
*http://www.myspace.com/thevines

References