A Best of Us for the Rest of Us

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A Best of Us... for the Rest of Us
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Greatest hits album by Reel Big Fish
Released July 20, 2010
Genre Ska-punk
Label Rock Ridge Music
Producer Aaron Barrett
Reel Big Fish chronology
Fame, Fortune and Fornication
(2009)Fame, Fortune and Fornication2009		 A Best of Us... for the Rest of Us
(2010)		 Candy Coated Fury
(2012)Candy Coated Fury2012

A Best of Us... for the Rest of Us is a greatest hits compilation from ska-punk band Reel Big Fish. It was released on July 20, 2010 and sold exclusively through Best Buy stores. It was later released digitally through Amazon MP3 and iTunes with four bonus tracks and without the acoustic tracks. The physical album contains a second "skacoustic" disc of fourteen acoustic versions of Reel Big Fish songs.[1]

On June 21, 2011, the album was re-released as A Best of Us... for the Rest of Us: Bigger Better Bonus Deluxe Version, a three-disc deluxe edition of the album. The first disc is the same as the one from the standard version, except the two covers have been moved to the third disc and replaced with new tracks. The second disc features the "skacoustic" recordings from the standard version of the album, with a different version of "She Has A Girlfriend Now" (featuring vocals by Nicole and Simone Olivia of Tip the Van) and eight additional acoustic tracks. The third disc consists of cover songs, including two that were previously released on the standard edition of the album.

On November 28, 2011, a digital edition of the twenty-two track version of the Skacoustic disc was released on its own through iTunes and Amazon. Prior to this release, the Skacoustic disc was exclusive to physical copies.

On May 15, 2012, a digital edition of "Bigger Better Bonus" was released on iTunes with 64 of the 65 then-released tracks and an additional 14 tracks, including the 7 songs from Fame, Fortune and Fornication that had not already appeared in the collection. The iTunes version features all 78 songs as one disc. The only track excluded from this version is the initially released acoustic version of "She Has a Girlfriend Now" featuring Laila K of Sonic Boom Six, making that track exclusive to the original 2010 physical edition.

Due to the band's former label, Jive Records, owning the master recordings of all their old material, almost all of the songs on the album are re-recorded versions. Only the last three tracks included on the first disc ("Another F.U. Song", "Party Down", and "Slow Down") are previous recordings from Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps for Free.[1] Coincidentally, A Best of Us... was released mere months after Skaboy JFK, another ska hits compilation by Reel Big Fish's former Jive Records labelmates and then-current Rock Ridge Music labelmates the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, which also featured several re-recordings of earlier songs due to the same conflict over master recordings.

The album title is a reference to the Seinfeld episode "The Strike" in which Frank Costanza shouts "A Festivus for the rest of us!"

Track listing

Disc 1: A Best of Us... for the Rest of Us

All songs written and composed by Reel Big Fish (except where noted otherwise). 

No. Title Length
1. "Sell Out"   3:53
2. "Take On Me" (Originally by a-ha) 3:19
3. "Beer"   3:51
4. "She Has a Girlfriend Now" (featuring Katrina Kinzler) 3:07
5. "Everything Sucks"   2:53
6. "Trendy"   2:38
7. "I Want Your Girlfriend to be My Girlfriend Too"   2:48
8. "In the Pit"   2:43
9. "The Set Up (You Need This)"   4:19
10. "Somebody Hates Me"   3:24
11. "You Don't Know"   3:15
12. "Suckers"   3:39
13. "Where Have You Been?"   4:00
14. "Good Thing"   3:24
15. "Ban the Tube Top"   3:08
16. "Don't Start a Band"   3:18
17. "Your Guts (I Hate 'Em)"   2:01
18. "Another F.U. Song"   1:03
19. "New Version of You" (New Version) 3:20
20. "Party Down"   4:07
21. "Slow Down" (Single Version) 4:20
22. "Brown Eyed Girl" (Originally by Van Morrison) 3:03

Disc 2: Skacoustic

No. Title Length
1. "Sell Out"   3:56
2. "Beer"   3:51
3. "Take On Me" (Originally by a-ha) 3:14
4. "She Has A Girlfriend Now" (featuring Laila K of Sonic Boom Six) 3:04
5. "Another F.U. Song"   1:03
6. "Your Guts (I Hate 'Em)"   1:55
7. "Suckers"   3:39
8. "Where Have You Been?"   4:01
9. "Don't Start A Band"   3:17
10. "S.R."   1:37
11. "241"   2:41
12. "The Kids Don't Like It"   3:24
13. "Scott's A Dork"   3:04
14. "Nothin'"   2:06

Disc 3: The Best Songs We Never Wrote

No. Title Original artist Length
1. "Take On Me"   a-ha 3:19
2. "Brown Eyed Girl"   Van Morrison 3:03
3. "Kiss Me Deadly"   Lita Ford 3:46
4. "Boss DJ"   Sublime 3:08
5. "Boys Don't Cry"   The Cure 2:16
6. "Another Day in Paradise"   Phil Collins 2:40
7. "Nothin' but a Good Time"   Poison 3:00
8. "Monkey Man"   Toots & the Maytals 2:27
9. "Veronica Sawyer"   by Edna's Goldfish 3:23
10. "Give It to Me"   The J. Geils Band 3:01
11. "Stray Cat Strut"   The Stray Cats 3:16
12. "Unity"   Operation Ivy 2:43
13. "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful"   Morrissey 2:25
14. "Talk Dirty to Me"   Poison 3:42
15. "We Close Our Eyes"   Oingo Boingo 3:52

Personnel

Reel Big Fish

Additional Musicians

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Reel Big Fish detail A Best of Us for the Rest of Us. Punknews.org. June 23, 2010.

External links

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