The Best of Aztec Camera

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The Best of Aztec Camera
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Released1999
Label Warner
Producer
Aztec Camera chronology
Frestonia
(1995)
The Best of Aztec Camera
(1999)
Deep and Wide and Tall
(2005)
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The Best of Aztec Camera is the first greatest hits album by Scottish pop/new wave band Aztec Camera, released in 1999. Containing all of the band's singles from their first five studio albums High Land, Hard Rain (1983), Knife (1984), Love (1987), Stray (1990) and Dreamland (1993), the compilation also includes selected album tracks, and one solo single by lead singer Roddy Frame, from the album The North Star (1998). No tracks are included from Frestonia (1995), Aztec Camera's final studio album.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Roddy Frame, except where noted.

No.TitleOriginLength
1."Somewhere in My Heart" Love 4:02
2."Oblivious" High Land, Hard Rain 3:12
3."Good Morning Britain" Stray 4:03
4."Working in a Goldmine"Love5:43
5."How Men Are"Love3:41
6."Birth of the True" Knife 2:42
7."Pillar to Post"High Land, Hard Rain4:02
8."Walk Out to Winter"High Land, Hard Rain3:25
9."All I Need Is Everything"Knife5:50
10."Deep & Wide & Tall"Love4:05
11."Jump" (writers: Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, David Lee Roth, Michael Anthony)B-side to "All I Need Is Everything"2:51
12."Killermont Street"Love3:19
13."The Crying Scene"Stray3:36
14."Spanish Horses" Dreamland 4:37
15."Reason for Living" The North Star (Roddy Frame solo album)3:17
16."We Could Send Letters"High Land, Hard Rain5:45

Charts

Chart performance for The Best of Aztec Camera
Chart (1999)Peak
position
Scottish Albums (OCC) [2] 26
UK Albums (OCC) [3] 36

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [4] Silver60,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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References

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