Scottish Fiction: Best of 1997–2007
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Scottish Fiction: Best of 1997–2007 | ||||
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Released | 1 October 2007 | |||
Recorded | 1997–2007 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Parlophone/EMI | |||
Idlewild chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
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Pitchfork Media | 7.7/10[2] |
Q | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (November 2007, p. 155) |
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Scottish Fiction: Best of 1997–2007 is a best of compilation album by Scottish rock band Idlewild, released on 1 October 2007 through Parlophone. The album was released following Idlewild's split from Parlophone/EMI, and, as a result, only features two songs from 2007's Make Another World, which was released through Sequel Records.
A limited edition version of the album was released which included a DVD. The DVD featured a documentary on the band, a live concert recorded in Aberdeen during 2007's Make Another World tour, and all the band's promotional videos.
The album entered the UK Album Chart at #79.
CD track listing
[edit]- "You Held the World in Your Arms" – 3:23
- "No Emotion" – 3:05
- "Roseability" – 3:40
- "When I Argue I See Shapes" – 4:25
- "Love Steals Us from Loneliness" – 3:14
- "American English" – 4:35
- "These Wooden Ideas" – 3:54
- "El Capitan" – 3:57
- "A Modern Way of Letting Go" – 2:25
- "Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror)" – 3:23
- "I'm a Message" – 2:31
- "In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction" – 3:50
- "I Understand It" – 3:21
- "Little Discourage" – 3:11
- "As if I Hadn't Slept" – 3:37
- "Live in a Hiding Place" – 3:16
- "Make Another World" – 4:08
Music for Documentary: Interludes Between Live Songs
[edit]- "Scottish Fiction" (alternative version 2002)
- "A Distant History"
- "Safe and Sound" (recording studio audio 1998)
- "'demo tape scratchings'" (1999)
- "Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror)" (demo version 1999)
- "In Words We Walk On" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "I'm Happy to Be Here Tonight" (acoustic live version at Newbury comics, Boston MA 2003)
- "We Live for Fate" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "Gone Too Long"
- "Easier to Learn" (unreleased demo 2001)
- "These Wooden Ideas" (acoustic version live at Virgin Megastore, London 2002)
- "Palace Flophouse
- "Maybe I'm Saying This to Someone" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "I Misunderstood" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "'unnamed noisy song'" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "Logic Always Dictates" (unreleased demo 2001)
- "I Understand It" (recording studio audio 2004)
- "Royal Glue" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "Actually It's Darkness" (acoustic version 2000)
- "Love Steals Us From Loneliness" (acoustic version live at the Shaw Theatre, London 2005)
- "Make Another World"
- "Someone, Somewhere" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "Roseability" (demo version 1999)