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Track List
01) Just Like Anyone
02) Cartoon
03) Closer to the Stars (live)
04) Somebody to Shove
05) Close
06) String of Pearls
07) Tied to the Tracks
08) Runaway Train
09) Sometime to Return
10) Misery
11) We 3
12) Without a Trace
13) I Will Still Be Laughing
14) Black Gold
15) Summer of Drugs
16) Candy From a Stranger
17) Stranger (live)
18) Can't Even Tell
19) Lonely for You
01) Just Like Anyone
02) Cartoon
03) Closer to the Stars (live)
04) Somebody to Shove
05) Close
06) String of Pearls
07) Tied to the Tracks
08) Runaway Train
09) Sometime to Return
10) Misery
11) We 3
12) Without a Trace
13) I Will Still Be Laughing
14) Black Gold
15) Summer of Drugs
16) Candy From a Stranger
17) Stranger (live)
18) Can't Even Tell
19) Lonely for You
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3:53
3:52
3:15
4:34
4:52
2:43
4:27
3:30
4:26
4:08
3:40
3:45
3:57
4:07
4:16
4:07
3:14
4:09
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First Released
2000
Alternative Rock
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Rock/Pop
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Unusually, for a best-of by a band that started indie and didn't become stars until hooking up with a major, Black Gold: The Best of Soul Asylum spans their entire pre-2000 career, starting with a 1985 track from their second LP. Naturally, their output on the major label that issued this compilation, Columbia, is emphasized; there are just four songs from the Twin/Tone era, and nothing at all from their 1984 debut, Say What You Will Clarence...Karl Sold the Truck. So it's mostly Soul Asylum the 1990s stars you hear here. Its appeal to collectors, and simultaneous aggravation to completists who have most of this but need everything, is guaranteed by the inclusion of a few rarities. There are previously unreleased live versions of "Stranger" (from MTV Unplugged) and "Closer to the Stars" and the Candy From a Stranger outtake "Lonely for You." There's also the song that's actually titled "Candy From a Stranger," although, oddly, this didn't make it onto the actual Candy From a Stranger album; before this compilation, it was only released on a commercially unavailable promo CD. And, finally, there's "Summer of Drugs" from the benefit album Sweet Relief: A Benefit for Victoria Williams. In addition, Lenny Kaye, who produced the band's Hang Time LP, contributes liner notes.
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Unusually, for a best-of by a band that started indie and didn't become stars until hooking up with a major, Black Gold: The Best of Soul Asylum spans their entire pre-2000 career, starting with a 1985 track from their second LP. Naturally, their output on the major label that issued this compilation, Columbia, is emphasized; there are just four songs from the Twin/Tone era, and nothing at all from their 1984 debut, Say What You Will Clarence...Karl Sold the Truck. So it's mostly Soul Asylum the 1990s stars you hear here. Its appeal to collectors, and simultaneous aggravation to completists who have most of this but need everything, is guaranteed by the inclusion of a few rarities. There are previously unreleased live versions of "Stranger" (from MTV Unplugged) and "Closer to the Stars" and the Candy From a Stranger outtake "Lonely for You." There's also the song that's actually titled "Candy From a Stranger," although, oddly, this didn't make it onto the actual Candy From a Stranger album; before this compilation, it was only released on a commercially unavailable promo CD. And, finally, there's "Summer of Drugs" from the benefit album Sweet Relief: A Benefit for Victoria Williams. In addition, Lenny Kaye, who produced the band's Hang Time LP, contributes liner notes.
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