et’s be clear about something: when a band releases a greatest hits compilation without any new material, bonus tracks, re-recordings or remixes, it’s clear that their target demographic is not you, the longtime fan of the band. Rather, they’re attempting to reach out to people who aren’t already fans of the band by providing a mini-portfolio of the band’s previous work. Now, there are a couple ways to do this. By far the most common method is to pick and choose the band’s best tracks from their various studio albums, with certain albums being over- or underrepresented according to their quality. Other bands opt for a more “complete” approach; for example, I once saw an ASIA compilation that simply included the band’s first three albums in their entirety (even though it was not advertised as such). The legendary ROYAL HUNT opted for a different approach altogether for their “Heart Of The City” compilation.
CD1:
1. Flight
2. Kingdom Dark
3. Stranded
4. Clown In The Mirror
5. Wasted Time
6. Epilogue
7. Time
8. Far Away
9. 1348
10. River Of Pain
11. Tearin Down The World
12. Message To God
CD2:
1. Cold City Lights
2. Follow Me
3. Surrender (live version)
4. The Mission (live version)
5. Can’t Let Go (live version)
6. Paper Blood
7. Season’s Change
8. The First Rock
9. Tears Of The Sun
10 The Well
11. Shadowman
12. Hard Rain’s Coming
13. Half Past Loneliness
CD3:
1. Save Me (new song)
2. One By One (new recording, acoustic version)
3. Bodyguard (new recording, acoustic version)
4. Restless (new recording, acoustic version)
5. Bad Luck (from “The Maxi EP”)
6. Double Conversion (from “Far Away EP”)
7. U-Turn (from “Intervention EP”)
8. Sixth Sense (European bonus track for “X”)
9. Day Is Dawning (Japanese bonus track for “Eyewitness”)