The Best of Mr. Mister

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The Best of Mr. Mister
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Released
  • April 17, 2001 (US)
  • October 7, 2002 (Japan)
Recorded1984–1988
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Length
  • 52:57 (US)
  • 78:16 (Japan)
Label
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Mr. Mister chronology
Broken Wings: The Encore Collection
(1999)
The Best of Mr. Mister
(2001)
Pull
(2010)
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The Best of Mr. Mister is a compilation album of American pop rock band Mr. Mister's hits and some of their other well-known songs. It contains the hits "Broken Wings", "Kyrie", "Hunters of the Night", "Is It Love", "Black/White" and "Something Real (Inside Me/Inside You)". It ends with the previously unreleased song entitled "Waiting in My Dreams" (which was originally intended for Pull , an album that would go unreleased until 2010).

Contents

All the tracks are single edits and are remastered from the original recordings.

Track listing

All songs by Richard Page, Steve George and John Lang except where noted

US edition

  1. "Broken Wings" – 4:44
  2. "Is It Love" – 3:39
  3. "Stand and Deliver" – 4:38
  4. "Hunters of the Night" (Page, George, Lang, George Ghiz) – 4:07
  5. "Run to Her" – 3:35
  6. "Something Real (Inside Me/Inside You)" – 4:20
  7. "Kyrie" – 4:14
  8. "Black/White" – 4:18
  9. "The Border" – 5:22
  10. "Talk the Talk" – 4:11
  11. "Healing Waters" – 4:56
  12. "Waiting in My Dreams" – 4:53

Japan edition

  1. "Broken Wings"
  2. "Don't Slow Down"
  3. "Kyrie"
  4. "Something Real (Inside Me/Inside You)"
  5. "Waiting in My Dreams"
  6. "Partners in Crime"
  7. "Watching the World"
  8. "Hunters of the Night"
  9. "Black/White"
  10. "Power Over Me"
  11. "Is It Love"
  12. "Talk the Talk"
  13. "Run to Her"
  14. "Healing Waters"
  15. "Welcome to the Real World"
  16. "Control"
  17. "The Border"

Personnel

Mr. Mister
Additional personnel

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