The Best of The Vines

The Best of Vines
Greatest hits album by The Vines
Released	11 March 2008 (U.S.)
Recorded	Jul 2001-Feb 2002 The Sound Factory (Hollywood, California), 2003 Bearsville Studios (New York), 2005 BJB studios (Sydney)
Genre	Alternative rock, garage rock, neo-psychedelia, grunge
Length	54:37
Label	Capitol
Producer	Rob Schnapf, Wayne Connolly, The Vines
The Vines chronology
Vision Valley (2006) The Best Of The Vines (2008) Melodia (2008)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Q	[2]

The Best of The Vines is a compilation album by The Vines and contains a selection of singles and album tracks from their first three albums released under Capitol Records. The band did not have a say in the release having been dropped by Capitol Records in 2007, however they picked the songs.^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	From	Length
1.	"Get Free"	Highly Evolved	2:06
2.	"Ride"	Winning Days	2:36
3.	"Highly Evolved"	Highly Evolved	1:35
4.	"Winning Days"	Winning Days	3:33
5.	"Outtathaway"	Highly Evolved	3:02
6.	"Autumn Shade"	Highly Evolved	2:18
7.	"Autumn Shade II"	Winning Days	3:14
8.	"Factory"	Highly Evolved	3:12
9.	"Animal Machine"	Winning Days	3:28
10.	"Don't Listen to the Radio"	Vision Valley	2:12
11.	"Vision Valley"	Vision Valley	2:42
12.	"Homesick"	Highly Evolved	4:53
13.	"Fuck the World"	Winning Days	3:41
14.	"Spaceship"	Vision Valley	6:07
15.	"Anysound"	Vision Valley	1:55
16.	"Sun Child"	Winning Days	4:33

Personnel

• Craig Nicholls – vocals, guitars, keys, moog
• Ryan Griffiths – guitars, keys, percussion, backing vocals
• Hamish Rosser – drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Dave Oliffe - drums on "Highly Evolved", "Autumn Shade", "Outtathaway", "Homesick" (outro only)
• Joey Waronker - drums on "Get Free"
• Pete Thomas - drums on "Factory", "Homesick" (excerpt)
• Patrick Matthews - bass
• Andy Kent – bass
• Amanda Brown – violin
• Rowan Smith – violin
• Sophie Glasson – cello
• Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - Keyboards

Other Credits

• Rob Schnapf - Additional Guitars ("Homesick" and "Factory"), Producer, Mixing
• Doug Boehm - Engineering, Mixing
• Ted Jensen - Mastering
• Ethan Johns - Additional Percussion ("Get Free", "Autumn Shade", "Factory")
• Andrew Slater - Executive Producer
• Andy Wallace - Mixing ("Get Free")
• Doug Boehm - Engineer
• Steven Rhodes - Additional Percussion ("Get Free", "Autumn Shade", "Factory"), Additional Engineering
• Wayne Connolly – producer, recorder, mixing
• Dan Clinch – additional engineering
• Anthony The – additional engineering
• Veit Mahler – additional engineering

Release history

Country	Release date
United States	11 March 2008
Australia	5 April 2008
United Kingdom	5 May 2008

External links

• The Vines - Official Website
• The Vines Myspace page

References

1. "The Vines: The Best of The Vines" at AllMusic. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
2. Q (Bauer Media). May 2008. ISSN 0955-4955. Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. "The Best of The Vines". The Vines' Top Hits and Album Tracks Gathered for New Capitol/EMI Collection. PR Newswire. 4 March 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2008.