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Posted by: lewistgreen 12th November 2017, 12:48 PM

Elbow have announced details of their greatest hits album, featuring a collection of singles and tracks from 2001 to present. The album includes their cover of The Beatles' Golden Slumbers, as featured in this year's John Lewis Christmas advert.



Disc 1 - Standard Edition
1. Grounds For Divorce
2. Magnificent (She Says)
3. Lippy Kids
4. One Day Like This
5. The Bones Of You
6. My Sad Captains
7. Leaders Of The Free World
8. Mirrorball
9. Fugitive Motel
10. New York Morning
11. Great Expectations
12. The Birds
13. Scattered Black And Whites
14. Golden Slumbers

Disc 2 - Deluxe Edition
1. Any Day Now
2. Fly Boy Blue / Lunette
3. Weather To Fly
4. Station Approach
5. Switching Off
6. Little Fictions
7. This Blue World
8. Kindling (Fickle Flame) [feat. John Grant]
9. Newborn
10. Puncture Repair
11. The Night Will Always Win
12. Starlings
13. The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
14. Dear Friends

Posted by: dandy* 12th November 2017, 12:52 PM

Surprised that Open Arms didn’t make it. Nor the olympics coverage theme from 2012.

Posted by: HarryApa 12th November 2017, 01:05 PM

I might get this I really like Elbow

Posted by: Suedehead2 12th November 2017, 02:37 PM

The Olympic theme may be missing because of an issue with the rights. Was it released on Elbow's normal label or on the BBC label?

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever 12th November 2017, 08:51 PM

It must be a legal thing as otherwise it should certainly be on the track listing.

I hope this does well for them as they have released so many good tracks over the years.

Posted by: Brett-Butler 16th November 2017, 11:07 PM

This must be one of the few Greatest Hits collections that leaves off the band's highest charting hits. Asleep In The Back, Fallen Angel & Lost Myself, all top 20 hits, didn't make the cut, on either the standard or deluxe edition! I wonder if there's rights issues around these tracks as well (as I recall, their first 3 albums were released on a different label, therefore it's probably more expensive to licence them for the GH, hence why they've might have stuck to minimal tracks from these releases).

Posted by: dandy* 17th November 2017, 07:30 PM

I didn’t even spot the omission of Asleep In The Back - one of my absolute faves of theirs.

Posted by: RabbitFurCoat 18th November 2017, 06:22 PM

There is a reasonable amount of variation, it's only The Seldom Seen Kid which has a lot of representation.

02 Cast of Thousands
02 Asleep in the Back
04 Leaders of the Free World
08 The Seldom Seen Kid
04 Build a Rocket Boys!
04 The Take Off and Landing of Everything
03 Little Fictions

They have left singles off from all albums (only 2 of their 4 from Little Fictions, 3/5 from The Take Off... and just 1/3 from Build a Rocket Boys) but then it is a Best Of, rather than a Greatest Hits, which I think makes sense when you look at some of the stuff that weren't chosen as singles. Really interesting choices overall.

Posted by: RabbitFurCoat 18th November 2017, 06:31 PM

If I were to make myself Elbow Best of, sticking to 1 hr 20 limit, I'd go for...

Any Day Now
Newborn
Grave Under Pressure
Station Approach
Forget Myself
Starlings
Mirrorball
One Day Like This
The Birds
Lippy Kids
New York Morning
My Sad Captains
Magnificent (She Says)

Difficult!

Extending to a Deluxe:
Asleep in the Back
Scattered Black and Whites
Ribcage
Snooks (Progress Report)
Leaders of the Free World
Grounds for Divorce
Weather To Fly
Friend of Ours
The Night Will Always Win
High Ideals
First Steps
This Blue World
Charge
Fly Boy Blue / Lunette
Lost Worker Bee

Posted by: Jester 18th November 2017, 06:52 PM

No Asleep In The Back? Their best song!

Posted by: dandy* 18th November 2017, 08:36 PM

Preach it Jester!!!

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 18th November 2017, 10:02 PM

For me Asleep In The Back and Cast Of Thousands is when they were TRULY great, it's a shame they're not really represented here.