Sorted! The Best of Love and Rockets

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Sorted! The Best of Love and Rockets
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Greatest hits album by
Released3 June 2003
Genre Alternative rock, gothic rock
Label Beggars Banquet
Producer Doug DeAngelis, John Fryer, Love and Rockets, Sylvia Massy, John A. Rivers
Love and Rockets chronology
So Alive
(2003)
Sorted! The Best of Love and Rockets
(2003)
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Sorted! The Best of Love and Rockets is a greatest hits album by English alternative rock band Love and Rockets. It was released on 3 June 2003.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Love and Rockets, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Kundalini Express" 5:48
2."The Dog-End of a Day Gone By" 7:36
3."Mirror People '88 (Single Version)" 3:58
4."Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) (Single Version)"Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield3:32
5."Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man) [Single Edit]" 4:18
6."Holiday on the Moon" 6:05
7."So Alive (Single Version)" 3:46
8."Holy Fool"Ash, Jill Cunniff, Doug DeAngelis3:19
9."No New Tale to Tell" 3:24
10."No Big Deal (Single Version)" 3:55
11."Haunted When the Minutes Drag" 8:01
12."It Could Be Sunshine" 4:58
13."Shelf Life" 3:21
14."Sweet Lover Hangover" 5:06
15."Saudade" 4:57

Personnel

Love and Rockets
Production

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References

  1. John Bush. "Sorted! The Best Of". Allmusic . Retrieved 24 February 2012.