The Anthology (James Reyne album)

The Anthology
Compilation album by
James Reyne
Released1 August 2014
GenreRock
LabelUniversal Music Australia
James Reyne albums chronology
Thirteen
(2012) 		The Anthology
(2014) 		Live 99
(2015)

The Anthology is a double CD greatest hits album of by Australian singer songwriter James Reyne. The album includes tracks from the last three decades. Reyne said "I've been working as a singer, musician and songwriter for a while now, and feel that it may only be that I've started to grasp how it all works relatively recently. I know I'm a better craftsman now than I was, so welcomed the idea of this Anthology/retrospective of my solo stuff. The first CD includes all the solo "hits" that I've had, but most importantly to me, provides a threshold to the later and more recent songs; tunes that many would never have heard. They are culled from the albums The Whiff of Bedlam, Design for Living, Speedboats for Breakfast, Every Man a King, and Thirteen and I hope, provide an insight into what I've really been up to."

Reyne performed a series of live acoustic shows to showcase ‘'The Anthology'’, in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.[1]

Track listing

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CD1
No.TitleWriter(s)AlbumLength
1."Fall of Rome"
James Reyne4:59
2."Hammerhead"
James Reyne4:46
3."Motor's Too Fast"
  • Reyne
  • Hussey
James Reyne4:14
4."Always the Way"
  • Reyne
  • Hussey
James Reyne7:23
5."One More River"
  • Reyne
Hard Reyne3:58
6."House of Cards"
Hard Reyne4:17
7."Harvest Moon"
  • Reyne
  • Hussey
Hard Reyne4:12
8."Five Miles Closer to the Sun"
  • Reyne
  • Hussey
Hard Reyne4:39
9."Wake Up Deadman"
  • Reyne
  • Hussey
Hard Reyne3:43
10."Slave"
Electric Digger Dandy4:13
11."Any Day Above Ground"
  • Reyne
Electric Digger Dandy3:38
12."Outback Woman"
Electric Digger Dandy3:38
13."Water Water"
  • Reyne
Electric Digger Dandy5:40
14."Some People"
  • Reyne
  • Vallace
Electric Digger Dandy4:11
15."Take a Giant Step"
  • Reyne
  • Hussey
Electric Digger Dandy5:01
16."Way Out West" (with James Blundell)
The Best4:00
17."Motor City (I Get Lost)" (by Company of Strangers)
  • J Scott
  • Hussey
Company of Strangers4:41
CD2
No.TitleWriter(s)AlbumLength
1."Red Light Avenue"
The Whiff of Bedlam4:28
2."Day in the Sun"
  • Reyne
The Whiff of Bedlam5:47
3."It's Only Natural"
  • Reyne
  • Hussey
The Whiff of Bedlam4:43
4."Poor Man in the Penthouse"
  • Reyne
  • Neil Larson
The Whiff of Bedlam5:32
5."Design for Living"
  • Reyne
  • Flanders and Swan
Design for Living3:28
6."I Don’t Get Out Much Anymore"
  • Reyne
Design for Living4:50
7."Little Criminals"
  • Reyne
Design for Living4:21
8."Reno"
  • Reyne
  • J. Kimball
  • G. Hutchinson
Design for Living5:10
9."Nothin’s Too Good for My Baby"
  • Reyne
Design for Living4:21
10."Reckless" (acoustic)
  • Reyne
And the Horse You Rode in On3:04
11."Bug" Speedboats for Breakfast4:02
12."The Rainbow's Dead End" Speedboats for Breakfast4:30
13."Sammy and Doofus and Our Man in New York"
  • Reyne
  • Scott Kingman
Every Man a King3:27
14."Superannuated Idol"
  • Reyne
Every Man a King2:27
15."Stop Draggin' My Name Around"
  • Reyne
Every Man a King4:20
16."English Girls" Thirteen3:32
17."Capsize" Thirteen4:21
18."Good Clean Fun" Thirteen5:02

Charts

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Chart performance for The Anthology
Chart (2014) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[2] 103

Release history

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Country Date Format Label Catalogue
Australia[3][4] 1 August 2014 CD, digital download Universal Music Australia 5353276

References

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  1. ^ "James Reyne, The Anthology (2CD)". www.ovationchannel.com.au. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  2. ^ "James Reyne ARIA Albums chart history 1988 to 2022, received from ARIA in 2022 page 3". ARIA. Retrieved 2 December 2023 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
  3. ^ "The Anthology by James Reyne". JBHiFi. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  4. ^ "The Anthology by James Reyne". iTunes Australia. November 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
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