Best Years 1974–2014

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Best Years 1974–2014
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Greatest hits album by
Released11 August 2014 (2014-08-11)
Recorded1972-2014
Length3:56:40 [1]
Label Festival Music
Richard Clapton chronology
Harlequin Nights
(2012)
Best Years 1974–2014
(2014)
The House of Orange
(2016)

Best Years 1974-2014 (Subtitled The 40th Anniversary Collection) is a 3CD + DVD greatest hits album by Australian rock musician Richard Clapton. The album was released in August 2014 to coincide with the release of Clapton's autobiography of the same name. [2] [3] The album covers songs from his career, (commencing in 1972, despite the title) in chronological order and includes a live DVD from The Best Years of Our Lives tour form 1989, available of DVD for the first time. [4] The album peaked at number 36 on the ARIA Charts.

Contents

Reception

Shane Pinnegar from 100% Rock called the album "a magnificent listen" and gave the album 9/10 saying "Clapton's songs are timeless and wonderfully evocative, and this box set...is a timely reminder of the many coulda-woulda-shoulda been hits he has to his name." [5]

Ian McFarlane considers Clapton "to be one of the most important song writers this country has ever produced" and said "This is a magnificent listening experience". [6]

Track listing

CD1
  1. "Last Train to Marseilles" - 3:24
  2. "Prussian Blue" - 5:42
  3. "Blue Bay Blues" - 4:44
  4. "Throw Me Down a Line" - 3:10
  5. "Girls on the Avenue" - 3:18
  6. "Please Come Home" - 3:35
  7. "Kicking the Moon Around" - 4:03
  8. "Casanova's Got the Blues" - 5:58
  9. "Need A Visionary" - 3:41
  10. "Suit Yourself" - 3:40
  11. "Highway One #2 (Children of the Sun)" - 5:15
  12. "Capricorn Dancer" - 3:26
  13. "Deep Water" - 5:28
  14. "Down in the Lucky Country" - 3:42
  15. "Goodbye Tiger" - 5:53
  16. "Wintertime in Amsterdam" - 6:06
  17. "Steppin' Across the Line" - 4:08
  18. "The Ghost Train" (Demo) - 4:31
CD2
  1. "Sometimes the Fire" - 7:28
  2. "Get Back to the Shelter" - 3:56
  3. "Dark Spaces" - 5:56
  4. "The Best Years of Our Lives" - 5:08
  5. "I Am an Island" - 5:03
  6. "The Universal" - 4:33
  7. "Walk On Water" - 4:32
  8. "Amsterdam" - 5:12
  9. "Goodbye Barbara Ann" - 4:48
  10. "Thorn in My Saddle" (Live) - 8:39
  11. "Trust Somebody" - 4:22
  12. "Glory Road" - 4:33
  13. "Angelou" - 4:06
  14. "Ace of Hearts" (Live) - 4:39
  15. "Distant Thunder" - 5:28
CD3
  1. "Oceans of the Heart" - 4:35
  2. "Real Love" - 5:34
  3. "That Moon" - 5:15
  4. "Love Is Strong" - 4:12
  5. "Diamond Mine" - 5:22
  6. "What Does It Take to Get Lucky?" - 5:07
  7. "Great Ocean Road" (Demo) - 3:48
  8. "Liberty Bell" (Rewired Version) - 4:22
  9. "Katy's Leaving Babylon" (Rewired Version) - 3:37
  10. "High Society" (Rewired Version) - 3:33
  11. "Heart On the Nightline"(Rewired Version) - 3:10
  12. "Blue Skies" - 6:28
  13. "Vapour Trails" - 6:31
  14. "Blow Smoke Up At the Moon" - 3:30
  15. "Dancing With the Vampires" - 5:04
  16. "Sunny Side Up" - 4:18
  17. "Strings & Wood" (Demo) - 4:37
DVD The Best Years of Our Lives
  1. "Intro" - 1:43
  2. "Deep Water" - 5:01
  3. "Girls on the Avenue" - 4:01
  4. "Capricorn Dancer" - 3:21
  5. "Ralph on Cold Chisel" - 0:48
  6. "Trust Someone" - 4:28
  7. "High Society" - 4:38
  8. "Ralph on INXS" - 0:52
  9. "Ace of Hearts" - 4:53
  10. "Blue Bay Blues" - 4:13
  11. "Angelou" - 4:03
  12. "Katy's Leaving Babylon" - 2:28
  13. "Ralph on Venetta Fields" - 1:44
  14. "Ralph on Michael & Kirk" - 0:24
  15. "Goodbye Tiger" - 7:05
  16. "Down in the Lucky Country" - 4:30
  17. "I Am an Island" - 6:00
  18. "Glory Road" - 5:24
  19. "The Best Years of Our Lives" - 4:30

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [7] 36

Release history

CountryDateLabelFormatCatalogue
AustraliaAugust 2014 Festival Records 3xCD+DVDFEST601034

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