Scottish Fiction: Best of 1997 - 2007

Idlewild | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 4, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Caroline Records
• ASIN: B000VRRRN0
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #265,313 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

2007 compilation from the Scottish Alternative rockers led by the oddly-named (but enormously talented) Roddy Woomble. . The CD contains 17 of their finest singles and album tracks including 'When I Argue, I See Shapes', 'No Emotion' and 'El Capitan'. EMI. 2007. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Restrospective, December 17, 2007

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Stephen M. Quinn "Colors In Spin" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scottish Fiction: Best of 1997 - 2007 (Audio CD)

This may be the finest retrospective since Gene's best-of 'Collection' in 2006. All of the songs on this album are killer and make you appreciate how wonderful of a band Idlewild are. If you only buy one greatest hits collection this year, I would get this album. Now that they've done a best-of and a raririties companion, I'd love for a live album to be next. Idlewild rocks.

5.0 out of 5 stars Scottish Fiction - Idlewild, May 17, 2011

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This review is from: Scottish Fiction: Best of 1997 - 2007 (Audio CD)

If you have been curious about Idlewild, this would be a great place to start. This collection of some of their most popular works might just be the deciding factor of you wanting to collect all their albums as I did. Spanning a decade of their work, you get some earlier "harder" garage style rock, then their melodic and lyrical poetry in motion of their later albums.

So, give it a try and I doubt this album out of their entire library will fail to impress.

4.0 out of 5 stars Hit & Miss Bands Hit Collection, November 17, 2007

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Tony Adams (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scottish Fiction: Best of Idlewild 1997-2007 (Audio CD)

Over the course of their five album career Scotlands Idlewild have swung dramatically from early REM indie-pop to stadium filling torch songs and this very fine 'Best Of...' captures both elements to very good effect. The one problem I always had with Idlewild album releases was the inevitible filler, one good song followed by three or four not bad, but not so good songs. This streamlined collection cuts out all the dross and goes straight to the heart of the matter. All killer and no filler? Pretty much. Bookended by two songs from their last album Make Another World which saw them embrace their earlier, noisier material this 17 track collection covers all the ground inbetween and serves as both the perfect introduction to them and the only Idlewild record you'll need. From the straight up indie of 'When I Argue, I See Shapes' echoing to good effect fellow scots Teenage Fanclub, to the anthemic 'American English' this record makes you realise just how damn good Idlewild could have or possibly can be if only they maintained consistency. This is undoubtedly a great album and Idlewild deserve a place in Scottish music history but rest assured that after buying this album you don't need to investigate further.