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Fingerprints: Best of Powderfinger 1

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I'm a big Powderfinger fan so when this album came out I could wait to get it. It was released on the 30 November 2004 and they put out a new song for the best of called Bless My Soul. Still this release is still lastest Powderfinger cd. In 2005 Bernard Fanning went solo with Tea and Sympathy, Darren Middleton's band Drag released their debut album This Way Out. And Ian Haug and John Collins formed a new band....not really because that band is Ian Haug, John Collins and the oringal drummer of Powderfinger Steve Bishop. But instend of calling it something like Old Powderfinger they called it The Predators.

Problaby most of you have never of Powderfinger so this is what they play.

Bernard Fanning - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica & Keys
Darren Middleton - Guitar & Backing Vocals
Ian Haug - Guitar & Backing Vocals
John Collins - Bass
Jon Coghill - Drums

Parables For Wooden Ears (1994) Songs put on best of: Sink Low (9/10)
Double Allergic (1996) (The best Powderfinger album so far) Songs: Pick You Up (10/10), DAF (10/10) and Living Type (10,000/10).
Internationalist (1998) Songs: The Day You Come (9/10), Don't Wanna Be Left Out (10/10), Already Gone (7/10), Passenger (10,0000/10) and Belter (9.5/10).
Odyssey Number Five (2000) Songs: My Happiness (6/10), My Kinda Scene (10/10), Like a Dog (10,0000/10), Thrilliogy (10,00000/10), Waiting for the Sun (9.5/10).
Passenger EP (1999) Songs: These Days (10/10)

The New Songs

Bless My Soul (2004) - This is a great song. It was first played live on Triple J's Live At The Wireless Oz Music Month at the end of November. When they play this song live they have a intro song which hasn't got a name yet (10/10)

Process This (2002) - This isn't really a new song it just was unreleased until this album. It was played at their 2002 concerts. This song isn't as good as Bless My Soul (8/10)

This is my first and definitely not last Powderfinger album. This band hails from Australia with a mixture of alt rock and a taste of a unique Australian flavour that we aussies can only come up with. 'The Best of Powderfinger' features the best singles from the 1994-2000 period of their music career as well as two previously unreleased singles. Many of the songs on this album were familiar to me from Australian shows and TV Ads as well as radio listening songs. Powderfinger has also since 2000 reached out to the world and are pretty much a well-known regular name in the alt rock carousels of America and Brittain. The well known songs 'My Happiness' with hauntingly delightful piano interlude as well as 'Waiting For The Sun' are my favourites but straight behind it are the songs 'My Kind of Scene' and 'Already Gone'.

The two new songs are B-grades but still enjoyable 'These Days' & 'Process This'. I enjoyed this album and I have become a fan of Powderfinger and look forward to get the rest of their albums shortly. This is the Australian answer to the English 'Coldplay'.

'Fingerprints' is the first album to attepmt to compile all of Powderfinger's singles onto one disc. It is, without a doubt, a fantastic compilation. However, its only downside is the fact that the compilation only dates back to 2000. This means that the songs from the 'Finger's most recent album (and arguably the best), 'Vulture Street', are left of it.

Yet there is something here for everyone, from Internationalist's roaring 'Don't Wanna Be Left Out', to the sombre tones of 'These Days'. The stand-out tracks are Odyssey's huge hit 'My Happiness' and the new single 'Bless My Soul'.

It could've been beyond brilliant if some of the better non-singles were included, but hey, you can only wish for so much. Fingerprints is a great introductory album to the work of Powderfinger.

Short review...this cd is a must have....I love it..the first 9 songs are complete hits..and the rest are still good...but I am so pleased with the cd, I recomend it to anyone who loves good, melodic rock. It weird but I can hear the Australian influence in there music.. goes great with some finn brothers and a side of croweded house.

This is the ultimate road trip CD, the more you listen to it the better it gets. The first time we listened to it we weren't sure we liked some of the songs. But they grew on us and now this CD is always kept in the car.