Loved & Lost: The Best of Bachelor Girl

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Loved & Lost: The Best of Bachelor Girl
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Greatest hits album by
Released15 April 2011 (Australia)
Recorded1998-2004
Genre Pop, Rock
Label Sony Music Australia
Bachelor Girl chronology
Dysfunctional
(2002)
Loved & Lost: The Best of Bachelor Girl
(2011)
Beautifully Wrong
(2011)

"Loved & Lost: The Best of Bachelor Girl" is the first Greatest hits by Australian band Bachelor Girl. It features tracks from their two studio albums, Waiting for the Day (1998) and Dysfunctional (2002) as well as fan favourites and four previously unreleased tracks recorded between 2002-03. The album was released in Australia on 15 April 2011. [1] [2]

Contents

The band performed "Buses and Trains" on Sunrise on 5 May 2011. [3] The band supported the album with a tour between 28 May 28 and 3 June. [4] [5] [6]

Background

Bachelor Girl were a group formed by James Roche and Tania Doko in 1992. They released their first single Buses and Trains in 1998 which peaked at number 4 in Australia. A platinum selling album quickly followed. In 2002, The group released its second studio album before amicably splitting in 2004. [7] Roche moved to London and Doko to Sweden and worked on solo projects. In 2011, the ground decided to release a greatest hit made up of their hit singles, fan favourites and four salvaged tracks from their 2003 unreleased album Beautifully Wrong. [8]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)AlbumLength
1."Buses and Trains" Waiting for the Day 3:39
2."Permission to Shine"Waiting for the Day4:15
3."Treat Me Good"
Waiting for the Day5:19
4."I'm Just a Girl"
  • Roche
Dysfunctional 3:53
5."Lucky Me"
  • Roche
Waiting for the Day4:28
6."Blown Away"
  • S. Cutler
  • A. Preven
Waiting for the Day4:33
7."Rollercoaster"
  • P.Thornalley
  • M.Lewis
Dysfunctional3:41
8."Drowning Not Waving"
  • Roche
Dysfunctional4:36
9."This Must Be Love (Like It or Not)" (Remix)
  • Roche
  • Doko
Waiting for the Day4:05
10."Waiting for the Day"
  • Roche
Waiting for the Day5:01
11."Can't Wait to Meet You"
  • Roche
  • Doko
Dysfunctional4:15
12."Gotta Let You Go"
  • Roche
  • Doko
Waiting for the Day5:37
13."Come Undone"Undone: The Songs of Duran Duran4:49
14."Radio"
  • Aaron Hendra
new recording3:51
15."To Whom It May Concern"
  • Roache
  • Doko
new recording4:08
16."No Ordinary Day"
new recording4:04
17."We're a Natural"
  • Roache
new recording3:48

New Tracks [9]

Release history

List of release dates, showing region, formats, label, editions and reference
RegionDateFormat(s)LabelEdition(s)Catalogue
Australia15 April 2011 Sony Music Australia
  • Standard edition
88697764362

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