The Very Best of Bananarama

Infobox Album | Name = The Very Best of Bananarama
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Bananarama


Released = October 15, 2001
Recorded = 1981 – 2001
Genre = Pop
Length =
Label = WEA International
Producers = Swain & Jolley, Stock Aiken & Waterman, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward, O'Sullivan, Fun Boy Three, Dave Jordan, Little Paul Cook, Big John Martin, Youth
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2sw67ue030jw link]
Last album = "Exotica"
(2001)
This album = The Very Best of Bananarama
(2001)
Next album = "The Essentials"
(2002) |

"The Very Best of Bananarama" is one of several greatest hits collections by English girl group Bananarama.

Released by Warner Music Group, parent company of Bananarama's label London Records, this set is the "official" hits package released to celebrate the group's twentieth anniversary. Hits included here span their history from 1981 to 1993 and it is the only Bananarama release to feature all four members on its cover (Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, Jacquie O'Sullivan and Keren Woodward). It reached #43 on the UK album chart.

This compilation features the "single" versions of the songs. Various tracks had been edited or remixed from their original album versions for their releases as singles and in the case of "I Want You Back" and "Nathan Jones", the vocals were re-recorded after original member Siobhan Fahey had left the group and been replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan. "Nathan Jones" was also included on the "Rain Man" soundtrack as well as their "Greatest Hits Collection". This new version was remixed for its release as a single (this is the version included here).

A limited edition of "The Very Best of Bananarama", released in 2002, contained a second disc of remixes and replaced the "Tempus Fugit megamix" for the Miami mix of "I Heard a Rumour".

Track listing

# "Venus"
# "Love in the First Degree"
# "Robert De Niro's Waiting..."
# "I Heard a Rumour"
# "Cruel Summer"
# "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"
# "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" "(with Fun Boy Three)"
# "Really Saying Something" "(with Fun Boy Three)"
# "I Want You Back"
# "Nathan Jones"
# "Shy Boy"
# "More, More, More"
# "Only Your Love"
# "I Can't Help It"
# "Love, Truth and Honesty"
# "Rough Justice"
# "Last Thing on My Mind"
# "Long Train Running"
# "Preacher Man"
# "Movin' On"
# "Help!" "(with Lananeeneenoonoo)"
# "Tempus Fugit Megamix"

Limited 2-CD edition

Disc one

# "Venus"
# "Love in the First Degree"
# "Robert De Niro's Waiting..."
# "I Heard a Rumour"
# "Cruel Summer"
# "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye"
# "T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" "(with Fun Boy Three)"
# "Really Saying Something" "(with Fun Boy Three)"
# "I Want You Back"
# "Nathan Jones"
# "Shy Boy"
# "More, More, More"
# "Only Your Love"
# "I Can't Help It"
# "Love, Truth and Honesty"
# "Rough Justice"
# "Last Thing on My Mind"
# "Long Train Running"
# "Preacher Man"
# "Movin' On"
# "Help!" "(with Lananeeneenoonoo)"
# "I Heard a Rumour" (Miami Mix)

Disc two

# "Venus" (Hellfire Mix)
# "Love in the First Degree" (Eurobeat Style)
# "Movin' On" (Bumpin' Mix)
# "Cruel Summer" (Swing Beat Mix)
# "Only Your Love" (Milky Bar Mix)
# "Tripping on Your Love" (Euro Trance Mix)
# "I Want You Back" (Extended European Version)
# "Nathan Jones" (Extended Version)
# "I Can't Help It" (Extended Version)