The Best of The Waitresses (1990 album)
| The Best of the Waitresses | ||||
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| Greatest hits album by The Waitresses | ||||
| Released | October, 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1981–83 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 57:43 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Producer | Kurt Munkacsi (tracks: 1–6), Michael Frondelli (tracks: 7–10), Chris Butler, Hugh Padgham (tracks: 11–15) | |||
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The Best of the Waitresses is a compilation album released by The Waitresses in 1990, with the catalogue number 847 249-2.
Track listing
Tracks are in chronological order, source listed only on first from each release.
All songs written and composed by Chris Butler (1-7), Chris Butler/The Waitresses (8, 10-15), or The Waitresses (track 9).
| No. | Title | Original album | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "No Guilt" | Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? (LP, Jan 1982) | 3:46 |
| 2. | "I Know What Boys Like" | Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? | 3:11 |
| 3. | "Wise Up" | Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? | 3:20 |
| 4. | "Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?" | Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? | 3:40 |
| 5. | "Heat Night" | Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? | 3:43 |
| 6. | "Jimmy Tomorrow" | Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? | 5:37 |
| 7. | "Christmas Wrapping" | I Could Rule the World if I Could only Get the Parts (EP, Nov 1982); first appeared on A Christmas Record (compilation LP, Nov 1981) | 5:25 |
| 8. | "Bread and Butter" | I Could Rule the World if I Could only Get the Parts | 4:11 |
| 9. | "Square Pegs" (Theme song for the TV series Square Pegs) | I Could Rule the World if I Could only Get the Parts | 3:06 |
| 10. | "The Smartest Person I Know" | I Could Rule the World if I Could only Get the Parts | 3:33 |
| 11. | "A Girl's Gotta Do" | Bruiseology (LP, May 1983) | 4:08 |
| 12. | "Make the Weather" | Bruiseology | 4:14 |
| 13. | "Thinking About Sex Again" | 3:08 | |
| 14. | "Bruiseology" | Bruiseology | 3:44 |
| 15. | "They're All Out of Liquor, Let's Find Another Party" | Bruiseology | 2:57 |
Song notes
Excerpted from liner notes by Chris Butler:
No Guilt "Judy Belushi (John's wife) liked this song, which is how we got hooked up with Saturday Night Live writer Anne Beatts and her television show, Square Pegs."
I Know What Boys Like "Headphone freaks will ask themselves if that's really a toilet flushing in the reverb chamber and somebody forgot we were taping… ahh, the perils/joys of home recording."
Wise Up "Subtitled 'Love goes through operate conditioning' (apologies to Mr. D. Byrne)."
Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? "I grew up on Broadway musical soundtrack albums, and thought it'd be fun to try and write one."
Heat Night "All about 15-60-75 thudding into 'Jimmy Bell's in Town' in a Kent bar on a hot August night when the world sweats sex and beer."
Jimmy Tomorrow "J.T. was a procrastinating character from the play The Iceman Cometh... A lot of period references. Tom Tomorrow=the late night egregious talk show host Tom Snyder... the Arab oil embargo... coded swipes at various record company executives."
Christmas Wrapping "When Michael Zilkha got the idea to record a Christmas album, all the ZE acts kinda rolled their eyes… Recorded in the summer of '81 at Electric Lady in NYC and promptly forgotten... I called home in late November and my wife said, 'You're all over the radio.'"
Bread And Butter "Written during the '82 recession when the phrase 'downward mobility' was coined... when it was Ronnie and his 'supply siders' versus what everyone else knew was really going on."
Square Pegs "Started life as a Little Feat–Meters-New Orleans funk riff... it proved we were troopers."
The Smartest Person I Know "We planted a blatant backwards message in this tune as a gag and stickered the EP with a fake warning label... A state legislator was pictured holding up our record and heralding it as the 'right way' to sticker records containing 'objectionable' material."
A Girl's Gotta Do "Patty's unsinkable character determined to take on the whole world."
Make The Weather "The title phrase comes from Flight Out of Time, the autobiography of Dada's founder, Hugo Ball... Written as a fan letter to Television's Tom Verlaine as the guitar solo clearly indicates."
Thinking About Sex Again [The liner notes are for 'Everything's Wrong If My Hair Is Wrong', suggesting that cut, also from Bruiseology, was Butler's choice for the album]
Bruiseology "An intro course from the school of Hard Knocks... Big fights over the arrangement... Mars and [co-producer] Hugh Padgham won… and they were right."
They're All Out Of Liquor, Let's Find Another Party "Everything we tried to be as a band and everything Patty's persona stood for."