Soul Asylum Greatest Hits Coming In September

07/07/2000 3:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(7/7/00, 3 p.m., ET) - Soul Asylum will release The Best Of Soul Asylum on September 12 on Columbia Legacy records. The album includes "Runaway Train," "Somebody To Shove," and "Misery,", and 16 other tracks.

Singer Dave Pirner and guitarist Dan Murphy told LAUNCH that they can trace the evolution of the band in the songs. "It's interesting to play a song you wrote 10 years ago and see how things have changed" said Pirner. "You know, you're just playing this song, going, 'Wow, this is how I used to play this chord,' or 'This is how I used to sing,' or 'These are the things I used to talk about in my tunes. You know, I forgot.' And it takes you back to that time pretty instantly. It's like, 'Oh, this is what I was thinking about years ago."

The track listing is as follows:

Song/album of origination (non-Columbia songs have date):

"Just Like Anyone" - Let Your Dim Light Shine
"Cartoon" - Hang Time (1988)
"Closer To The Stars" - While You Were Out (1986)
"Somebody To Shove - Grave Dancers Union
"Close" - Candy From A Stranger
"String Of Pearls" - Let Your Dim Light Shine
"Tied To The Tracks" - Made To Be Broken (1986)
" Runaway Train" - Grave Dancers Union
"Sometime To Return" - Hang Time (1988)
"Can't Even Tell" - Clerks soundtrack
"Misery" - Let Your Dim Light Shine
"We 3" - Soul Asylum And The Horse They Rode In On (1990)
"Without A Trace" - Grave Dancers Union
"I Will Still Be Laughing" - Candy From A Stranger
"Black Gold" - Grave Dancers Union
"Summer Of Drugs" - Sweet Relief: A Benefit For Victoria...
"Candy From A Stranger" - Candy From A Stranger
"Stranger" - Say What You Will (1984)
" Lonely For You" - (previously unreleased)

-- Darren Davis, New York

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