The Best of Fuel

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The Best Of Fuel
The Best Of Fuel album cover.jpg
Greatest hits album by
ReleasedDecember 13, 2005
Genre Hard rock, post-grunge
Length41:42
Label Epic
Fuel chronology
Natural Selection
(2003)
The Best Of Fuel
(2005)
Angels & Devils
(2007)

The Best of Fuel is a compilation album by American hard rock band Fuel. It contains songs from their first three full-length albums, Sunburn , Something Like Human , and Natural Selection . All of the said albums featured vocalist Brett Scallions who departed from the group only a few months after the compilation's release. The Best of Fuel consists solely of the band's released singles, with the exception of "Million Miles" from Natural Selection (it features "Quarter" from the same album instead).

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Carl Bell.

No.TitleLength
1."Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" (Something Like Human)3:56
2."Won't Back Down (Bring You Hell Mix)" (Natural Selection)3:23
3."Shimmer" (Sunburn)3:33
4."Bad Day" (Something Like Human)3:15
5."Last Time" (Something Like Human)3:42
6."Falls on Me" (Natural Selection)4:13
7."Jesus or a Gun" (Sunburn)3:58
8."Sunburn" (Sunburn)4:23
9."Bittersweet" (Sunburn)3:51
10."Innocent" (Something Like Human)3:40
11."Quarter" (Natural Selection)3:39

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References

  1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. The Best of Fuel > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved June 14, 2011.