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Track Listings
| 1. You Held The World In Your Arms |
| 2. No Emotion |
| 3. Roseability |
| 4. When I Argue I See Shapes |
| 5. Love Steals Us From Loneliness |
| 6. American English |
| 7. These Wooden Ideas |
| 8. El Capitan |
| 9. A Modern Way Of Letting Go |
| 10. Let Me Sleep (Next To The Mirror) |
| 11. I'm A Message |
| 12. In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction |
| 13. I Understand It |
| 14. Little Discourage |
| 15. As If I Hadn't Slept |
| 16. Live In A Hiding Place |
| 17. Make Another World |
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Granted, the band's debt to REM proved to be writ a little too largely over their less satisfying moments - witness 'As If I Hadn't Slept' and 'I Understand It' from the underwhelming Warnings/Promises album - but with this collection wisely assembled in a non-chronological order, Idlewild's shortcomings soon pale into insignificance in light of their finer offerings.
The panoramic sweep of UK Top 10 single 'You Held The World In Your Arms' still remains the greatest song never written by Morrissey and Marr while the anthemic arms-aloft gesture of 'American English' deserves to be met with the twinkling of thousands of lighters at every airing. Indeed, it's the selections from The Remote Part and its predecessor of two years, 2000's 100 Broken Windows, that form the most succulent morsels of this cherry-picked platter. The explosive 'A Modern Way Of Letting Go' has lost none of its power to serrate speakers as elsewhere, 'Little Discourage' crackles with all the energy of an out-of-control power plant.
Tellingly, Idlewild now find themselves looking over their own shoulders as they move on. 'No Emotion' and the title track from this year's Make Another World make nods to their prickly past and though they may not match the fury of 'When I Argue I See Shapes', there's a reassurance to be had as the band finds comfort in its own skin.
Whether Idlewild, by coming full circle, continue to plough their individual furrow or not remains to be seen but this compilation stands as a fine introduction for newcomers and a gentle reminder for long-term observers alike. --Julian Marszalek
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Agree with the previous reviewer, shows Idlewild right through the last decade perfectly on 1 album, from 'Roseability' right through to the hugely successful 'American Engliah' (still 1 of my favourite songs of all time).
If you don't own any Idelwild albums, why not? Here's the perfect place to start...
Be warned, after listening to this you will feel you have to buy their back catalogue.
Really glad to have found some tracks that'd passed me by in here as well as the classics. The majority of my play list since buying this album has been these guys and I look forward to that trend continuing.
Great band; if you like them but never bought anything of theirs before, give this a go. If you're a real fan, you probably have their albums already, but if anything passed you by and was worth a listen, I'm sure its on this album.
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