the arkive

  • Luna - Best Of
    • Disc One
    1. Moon Palace
    2. Sideshow By The Seashore
    3. Anesthesia
    4. Friendly Advice
    5. California (All The Way)
    6. Slide
    7. Tiger Lily
    8. Chinatown
    9. Lost In Space
    10. 23 Minutes In Brussels
    11. Egg Nog
    12. Bobby Peru
    13. Ihop
    14. Into The Fold
    15. Superfreaky Memories
    16. Dear Diary
    17. Lovedust
    18. Black Postcards

    Disc 2
    1. Bonnie And Clyde
    2. Indian Summer
    3. Ride Into The Sun
    4. In The Flesh
    5. Season Of The Witch
    6. Jealous Guy
    7. Neon Lights
    8. Sweet Child O' Mine
    9. That's What You Always Say
    10. Everybody's Talkin'
    11. Outdoor Miner
    12. No Regrets
    13. La Poupée Qui Fait Non
    14. Only Women Bleed
    15. Dream Baby Dream
    16. Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
    17. Bonnie And Clyde

Luna

Best Of

Beggars Banquet
Released 20 June 2006
BBL2037CDD

Best of opens with "Moon Palace", the first of five tracks from Penthouse and Wareham's personal favorite Luna song. "You were stuck in a dream/ And you wanted to scream/ But it's nothing at all/ No, it's nothing at all," he sings as guitars move between stoned country and a 14-hour Technicolor dream. Penthouse's top billing in the tracklist is fortuitous-- it's their best album, and anyone who likes this comp should seek it out-- but what's remarkable is how well the rest of Luna's material stands up to it. Solid to their final days, "Astronaut"-- from the band's 2004 swan song Rendezvous-- is one of Luna's best songs, with a drumbeat about four times brisker than anything else here and one of Wareham's strongest vocal performances. - Pitchfork