The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock

The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock
Greatest hits album by Allan Holdsworth
Released	17 May 2005 (2005-05-17)
Recorded	1983–2001 at various locations
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	128:55
Label	Universal Music
Producer	Allan Holdsworth, Chad Wackerman, Derek Wilson, Christopher Hoard
Allan Holdsworth chronology
Then! (2003) The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock (2005)

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The Best of Allan Holdsworth: Against the Clock is a double compilation album by guitarist Allan Holdsworth, released on 17 May 2005 through Universal Music (Japan), Alternity Records (US) and JMS–Cream Records (Europe). The second disc contains predominantly SynthAxe-based compositions, which formed the basis of much of Holdsworth's recordings in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Track listing

Disc one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Tokyo Dream" (Japanese version)	Allan Holdsworth	Wardenclyffe Tower	5:04
2.	"Sphere of Innocence"	Holdsworth	Wardenclyffe Tower	5:58
3.	"Ruhkukah"	Holdsworth	Hard Hat Area	5:32
4.	"Low Levels, High Stakes"	Holdsworth	Hard Hat Area	9:02
5.	"How Deep Is the Ocean?"	Irving Berlin	None Too Soon	5:28
6.	"Nuages"	Django Reinhardt	None Too Soon	5:37
7.	"Devil Take the Hindmost"	Holdsworth	Metal Fatigue	5:34
8.	"Home"	Holdsworth	Metal Fatigue	5:26
9.	"Peril Premonition"	Chad Wackerman	Secrets	4:43
10.	"The Sixteen Men of Tain"	Holdsworth	The Sixteen Men of Tain	6:23
11.	"Mr. Berwell"	Holdsworth	Atavachron	6:09
12.	"Looking Glass"	Holdsworth	Atavachron	4:25
13.	"Pud Wud"	Holdsworth	Sand	6:40
Total length:				76:01

Disc two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original album	Length
1.	"Spokes"	Holdsworth	Secrets	3:44
2.	"Distance vs. Desire"	Holdsworth	Sand	5:31
3.	"Mac Man"	Holdsworth	Sand	5:24
4.	"Against the Clock" (lyrics by Naomi Star)	Holdsworth	Wardenclyffe Tower	4:31
5.	"Eeny Meeny"	Holdsworth	Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie	3:54
6.	"Secrets" (lyrics by Rowanne Mark)	Holdsworth	Secrets	3:28
7.	"Bo Peep"	Holdsworth	Flat Tire: Music for a Non-Existent Movie	3:15
8.	"Postlude"	Holdsworth, Steve Hunt, Skúli Sverrisson, Gary Husband	Hard Hat Area	4:20
9.	"All Our Yesterdays" (lyrics by Mark)	Holdsworth	Atavachron	4:39
10.	"Eidolon"	Holdsworth	The Sixteen Men of Tain	3:30
11.	"Sundays"	Holdsworth	With a Heart in My Song	3:55
12.	"Let's Throw Shrimp" (bonus track)	Holdsworth, Wackerman, Jimmy Johnson		3:28
13.	"Shenandoah" (bonus track)	(traditional)		3:15
Total length:				52:54

Personnel

• Allan Holdsworth – guitar, SynthAxe, spoken vocals (track 9), production
• Naomi Star – vocals (track 17)
• Rowanne Mark – vocals (tracks 19, 22)
• Steve Hunt – keyboard (tracks 2–4, 21)
• Chad Wackerman – keyboard (track 9), drums (tracks 1, 7–9, 16, 22, 25), production
• Alan Pasqua – keyboard (tracks 11, 13)
• William Edward Childs – keyboard (track 12)
• Gordon Beck – digital piano (tracks 5, 6)
• Gary Husband – drums (tracks 2–4, 11, 13, 21
• Kirk Covington – drums (tracks 5, 6)
• Gary Novak – drums (tracks 10, 23)
• Tony Williams – drums (track 12)
• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums (tracks 14, 17, 19)
• Jimmy Johnson – bass (tracks 1, 2, 7, 8, 11–14, 17, 19, 22, 25)
• Skúli Sverrisson – bass (tracks 3, 4, 21)
• Gary Willis – bass (tracks 5, 6)
• Bob Wackerman – bass (track 9)
• Dave Carpenter – bass (tracks 10, 18, 20, 23)
• Biff Vincent – Roland Octapad (track 16)
• Claire Holdsworth – spoken vocals (track 9)
• Jeffrey Ocheltree – sound effects (track 9)
• John England – sound effects (track 16)
• Derek Wilson – executive production
• Christopher Hoard – executive production

External links

• In Review: Allan Holdsworth "Against The Clock" at Guitar Nine Records