The Best of the Wildhearts

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The Best of the Wildhearts
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Greatest hits album by
ReleasedNovember 1996
Genre
Label East West
Producer Ralph Jezzard
The Wildhearts chronology
P.H.U.Q.
(1995)
The Best of the Wildhearts
(1996)
Endless, Nameless
(1997)
Alternative cover
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Japanese Cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
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The Best of the Wildhearts is a compilation album released by the record label East West Records after the Wildhearts split with East West unendorsed by the band. It includes the UK CD debut of Beautiful Me, Beautiful You and 29 x The Pain '96. A more comprehensive release was issued in Japan in 1997.

Contents

UK track listing

  1. "I Wanna Go Where the People Go"
  2. "TV Tan"
  3. "Sick of Drugs"
  4. "29x the Pain"
  5. "Caffeine Bomb"
  6. "Geordie in Wonderland"
  7. "Suckerpunch"
  8. "Just in Lust"
  9. "Greetings from Shitsville"
  10. "In Lilly's Garden"
  11. "My Baby Is a Headfuck"
  12. "If Life Is Like a Lovebank I Want an Overdraft"
  13. "Nothing Ever Changes But the Shoes"
  14. "Red Light Green Light"
  15. "Beautiful Me, Beautiful You"
  16. "Splattermania"

Time: 62:27 min.

Japanese track listing

CD1

  1. "Nothing Ever Changes But the Shoes"
  2. "TV Tan"
  3. "Greetings from Shitsville"
  4. "Dreaming In A"
  5. "Suckerpunch"
  6. "My Baby Is a Headfuck"
  7. "The Miles Away Girl"
  8. "Loveshit"
  9. "I Wanna Go Where the People Go"
  10. "Jonesing for Jones"
  11. "Just in Lust"
  12. "Baby Strange"
  13. "Nita Nitro"
  14. "Sick of Drugs"
  15. "Red Light-Green Light"

CD2

  1. "Do Anything"
  2. "Mindslide"
  3. "Beautiful Thing You"
  4. "Got it on Tuesday"
  5. "Friend for 5 Minutes"
  6. "29x the Pain (Original Version)"
  7. "And the Bullshit Goes On"
  8. "Bad Time to Be Having a Bad Time"
  9. "Can't Do Right for Doing Wrong"
  10. "Two Way Idiot Mirror"
  11. "S.I.N (In Sin)"
  12. "Give the Girl a Gun"
  13. "Girlfriend Clothes"
  14. "Sky Chaser High"
  15. "Geordie in Wonderland"

Charts

Chart performance for The Best of the Wildhearts
Chart (1996)Peak
position
Japan (Oricon) [2] 48

References

  1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. The Best of the Wildhearts at AllMusic. Retrieved 17 May 2025.
  2. The Best of the Wildhearts – Oricon Oricon News. Retrieved 17 May 2025.