This box set is a career retrospective that gathers the best of Michael Franks on 4 CDs, & also includes a CD vinyl replica of the rare 1980 live recording of Franks with Crossfire. 73 tracks in total, including some previously unreleased and rarities, plus a 16 page booklet with a foreword by Michael Franks and track-by-track detailed liner notes.
Track Listings
1. Disc One: Pop & Funky Groove
2. Can’t Seem to Shake This Rock N Roll
3. Born with the Moon in Vergo
4. Monkey See, Monkey Do
5. B’wana-He No Home
6. When the Cookie Jar Is Empty
7. All Dressed Up (With Nowhere to Go)
8. Jealousy
9. Laughing Gas
10. Alone at Night
11. When Sly Calls (Don’t Touch That Phone)
12. Your Secrets Safe with Me
13. Woman in the Waves
14. Barefoot on the Beach 3039613
15. Somehow Our Love Survives
16. Practice Make Perfect
17. Now That Your Joystick’s Broke
18. The Dream
19. Disc Two: Jazz & Exotic Summer
20. Monk’s New Tune
21. Hearing Take Five
22. Don’t Be Blue
23. When You Smiled at Me
24. Popsicle Toes
25. Sanpaku
26. Eggplant
27. Sometimes I Just Forget to Smile
28. Mice
29. Rendezvous in Rio
30. The Way We Celebrate New Years
31. Under the Sun
32. Tell Me About It
33. Tahitian Moon
34. Like Water, Like Wind
35. The Art of Love
36. Disc Three: Soft & Cool School
37. Dragonfl y Summer
38. Nightmoves
39. Lotus Blossom
40. The Lady Wants to Know
41. On My Way Home to You
42. Living on the Inside
43. String of Pearls
44. One Day in St. Tropez
45. Hourglass
46. Rainy Night in Tokyo
47. Never Say Die
48. All I Need
49. Like Moon Behind a Cloud
50. Blue Pacific
51. Still Life
52. The Cool School
53. Disc Four: Rarities & Previously Unreleased Tracks + Duets & Some Covers
54. Coming Home to You
55. Jealousy -Geyster Remix- (Previously Unreleased)
56. Blue Pacifi C -Alternate Version- (Previously Unreleased)
57. This Will Never Do (Previously Unreleased)
58. Somewhere in the Rain
59. I Bought You a Plastic Star for Your Aluminum Tree
60. Foolish Heart – Bob Mintzer with Michael Franks
61. Antonio’s Song / the Rainbow – Anri with Michael Franks
62. Leading Me Back to You – Joe Sample with Michael Franks
63. (Think…) Where Are You Goin? – Me Phi Me with Michael Franks
64. Ladies’ Nite – Michael Franks with Bonnie Raitt
65. When I Give My Love to You – Michael Franks with Branda Russell
66. Now Love Has No End – Michael Franks with Valerie Simpson
67. Island Christmas – Michael Franks with Veronica Nunn
68. Popsicle Toes – the Manhattan Transfer
69. Nightmoves – Dee Dee Bridgewater
70. Disc Five: Michael Franks with Crossfire : Live
71. Don’t Be Blue
72. When the Cookie Jar Is Empty
73. The Lady Wants to Know
74. B’wana-He No Home
75. Chain Reaction
76. Antonio’s Song
77. Monkey See, Monkey Do
78. Popsicle Toes