The fifth release in Edsel's series of Deacon Blue reissues collects up all the songs and recordings, originally issued on Riches, Ooh Las Vegas and Walking Back Home, that do not belong on any of the core parent albums. These songs were not associated with any of the studio albums so the band has created this new casebound book compilation that they have called The Rest .

Starting with the band s biggest singles chart success, the Bacharach & David EP , the collection takes in the three new tracks added to the 1994 hits compilation Our Town (another # 1 Double Platinum success) and the b-sides from the singles, along with the seven new songs on 1999 s old and new release Walking Back Home , the three new songs on 2006s Singles package and two live b-sides.

The DVD features the promo videos while the booklet features a newly-written note by Ricky Ross, all the lyrics to his songs, and ephemera and photos from his own collection.

TRACKLISTING:
Disc 1
"FOUR BACHARACH AND DAVID SONGS EP"
1. I ll Never Fall In Love Again
2. Look Of Love
3. Are You There (With Another Girl)
4. Message To Michael
"First released on OUR TOWN"
5. I Was Right And You Were Wrong
6. Bound To Love
7. Still In The Mood
"OUR TOWN Singles B-sides"
8. Fergus Sings The Blues [live]
9. Loaded [live]
10. Chocolate Girl [live]
11. Beautiful Stranger
12. Waves Of Sorrow [piano and vocal version]
13. Bethlehem s Gate [piano and vocal version]
14. I Was Right And You Were Wrong
[extended version]
15. Mexico Rain
16. Goin Back [live]
17. Wages Day [piano version]

Disc 2
"First released on WALKING BACK HOME"
1. Love Hurts
2. Jesus Do Your Hands Still Feel The Rain
3. Christmas And Glasgow
4. When You Are Young
5. Plastic Shoes
6. All I Want
7. Walking Back Home
"First released on SINGLES"
8. Bigger Than Dynamite
9. Haunted
10. The One About Loneliness
"SINGLES B-sides"
11. Deportee [live]
12. Wild Horses [live]

Disc 3 - DVD
"PROMO VIDEOS"
1. I ll Never Fall In Love Again
2. I Was Right And You Were Wrong
3. Love Hurts
4. Bigger Than Dynamite

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008XZTPEQ/?tag=imwan-21

this band got compared (probably unjustly) with steely dan when they first came out. i have a best of comp, had a few individual CD's but the best of was enough. not bad, but not great either.

this is one of those bands that, although i don't care for their albums from beginning to end,
i DO feel that their are enough gems on each album to make it worth the price of admission.
i'm happy to see this compilation.
AND...
it should be noted that their entire catalog is being remastered and re-released in deluxe-bonus-track,
2-3 disc editions over the next few months (ricky ross's solo material not included).
i'm anxious to add these (delete the else) to my collection.