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The Best of The Vines
Greatest hits album by The Vines
Released	11 March 2008 (U.S.)
Recorded	Jul 2001–Feb 2002 The Sound Factory (Hollywood, California), 2003 Bearsville Studios (New York), 2005 BJB studios (Sydney)
Genre	Alternative rock, garage rock, post-grunge, neo-psychedelia
Length	54:37
Label	Capitol
Producer	Rob Schnapf, Wayne Connolly, The Vines
The Vines chronology
Vision Valley (2006) The Best of The Vines (2008) Melodia (2008)

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The Best of The Vines is a compilation album by The Vines and contains a selection of singles and album tracks from their first three albums released under Capitol Records. The band did not have a say in the release having been dropped by Capitol Records in 2007, however they picked the songs.

Track listing

Personnel

• Craig Nicholls – vocals, guitars, keys, moog
• Ryan Griffiths – guitars, keys, percussion, backing vocals
• Hamish Rosser – drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Dave Oliffe – drums on "Highly Evolved", "Autumn Shade", "Outtathaway", "Homesick" (outro only)
• Joey Waronker – drums on "Get Free"
• Pete Thomas – drums on "Factory", "Homesick" (excerpt)
• Patrick Matthews – bass
• Andy Kent – bass
• Amanda Brown – violin
• Rowan Smith – violin
• Sophie Glasson – cello
• Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - Keyboards

Other Credits

• Rob Schnapf – Additional Guitars ("Homesick" and "Factory"), Producer, Mixing
• Doug Boehm – Engineering, Mixing
• Ted Jensen – Mastering
• Ethan Johns – Additional Percussion ("Get Free", "Autumn Shade", "Factory")
• Andrew Slater – Executive Producer
• Andy Wallace – Mixing ("Get Free")
• Doug Boehm – Engineer
• Steven Rhodes – Additional Percussion ("Get Free", "Autumn Shade", "Factory"), Additional Engineering
• Wayne Connolly – producer, recorder, mixing
• Dan Clinch – additional engineering
• Anthony The – additional engineering
• Veit Mahler – additional engineering

Release history

References

1. "The Vines: The Best of The Vines" at AllMusic. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
2. Q. May 2008. ISSN 0955-4955. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. "The Best of The Vines". The Vines' Top Hits and Album Tracks Gathered for New Capitol/EMI Collection. PR Newswire. 4 March 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2008.

External links

• The Vines - Official Website
• The Vines Myspace page

• The Vines (band) albums
• Albums produced by Rob Schnapf
• 2008 greatest hits albums
• Capitol Records compilation albums