Scottish Fiction - Best of 1997–2007

Infobox Album | Name = Scottish Fiction: Best of 1997-2007
Type = Greatest hits
Artist = Idlewild


Released = 1 October 2007
Recorded = 1997-2007
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = Parlophone/EMI
Producer =
Reviews = *Pitchfork Media (7.7/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/47537-scottish-fiction-the-best-of-idlewild-1997-2007 link]
*Rocklouder rating|4|5 [http://www.rocklouder.co.uk/articles/4241/Idlewild---Scottish-Fiction-Best-Of.html link]
* stv.tv rating|4|5 [http://www.stv.tv/content/out/music/album_reviews/display.html?id=opencms:/out/music/album_reviews/Idlewildx_Scottish_Fiction link]
*Q rating|3|5 (November 2007, p.155)
Last album = "Make Another World"
(2007)
This album = "Scottish Fiction - Best of 1997-2007"
(2007)
Next album = "A Distant History - Rarities 1997-2007"
(2007) | "Scottish Fiction: Best of 1997-2007 " is a best of compilation by Idlewild. It was released in the United Kingdom on 1st October 2007.

The album is available in a 'special edition' with a bonus DVD featuring a live concert recorded at the Aberdeen Music Hall in 2007, all the band's promotional videos and a documentary.

CD track listing

#"You Held the World in Your Arms" – 3:23
#"No Emotion" – 3:05
#"Roseability" – 3:40
#"When I Argue I See Shapes" – 4:25
#"Love Steals Us from Loneliness" – 3:14
#"American English" – 4:35
#"These Wooden Ideas" – 3:54
#"El Capitan" – 3:57
#"A Modern Way of Letting Go" – 2:25
#"Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror)" – 3:23
#"I'm a Message" – 2:31
#"In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction" – 3:50
#"I Understand It" – 3:21
#"Little Discourage" – 3:11
#"As if I Hadn't Slept" – 3:37
#"Live in a Hiding Place" – 3:16
#"Make Another World" – 4:08

Music for Documentary: Interludes Between Live Songs

#"Scottish Fiction" (alternative version 2002)
#"A Distant History"
#"Safe and Sound" (recording studio audio 1998)
#"'demo tape scratchings'" (1999)
#"Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror)" (demo version 1999)
#"In Words We Walk On" (unreleased demo 2004)
#"I'm Happy to Be Here Tonight" (acoustic live version at Newbury comics, Boston MA 2003)
#"We Live for Fate" (unreleased demo 2004)
#"Gone Too Long"
#"Easier to Learn" (unreleased demo 2001)
#"These Wooden Ideas" (acoustic version live at Virgin Megastore, London 2002)
#"Palace Flophouse
#"Maybe I'm Saying This to Someone" (unreleased demo 2004)
#"I Misunderstood" (unreleased demo 2004)
#"'unnamed noisy song'" (unreleased demo 2004)
#"Logic Always Dictates" (unreleased demo 2001)
#"I Understand It" (recording studio audio 2004)
#"Royal Glue" (unreleased demo 2004)
#"Actually It's Darkness" (acoustic version 2000)
#"Love Steals Us From Lonliness" (acoustic version live at the Shaw Theatre, London 2005)
#"Make Another World"
#"Someone, Somewhere" (unreleased demo 2004)
#"Roseability" (demo version 1999)

External links

* [http://www.list.co.uk/article/4741-idlewild-interview/ Small Interview at time of release]

References