All the Best (Stiff Little Fingers album)

Infobox Album |
Name = All the Best
Type = Album
Artist = Stiff Little Fingers


Released = 1983
Recorded = 1978 - 1983
Genre = Punk rock, pop punk, New Wave
Length = ???
Label = Chrysalis
Producer = ???
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5
Last album = "Now Then..."
(1982)
This album = "All the Best"
(1983)
Next album = "Flags and Emblems"
(1991)

"All the Best" is a compilation album by the band Stiff Little Fingers, released in 1983.

The album consists of the A- and B-sides of all the band's singles and EPs recorded and released between 1978 and 1983. It was originally released to coincide both with the release of the band's final single "Price of Admission" and with their two "farewell shows" which took place in February 1983. The band reformed in 1987 and released further singles and the tracks on this album would later form a substantial part of the compilation album "Anthology", released in 2002.

"All the Best" peaked at #19 on UK Album Chart's Pop Albums chart.

Track listing

CD1
#"Suspect Device" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:29
#"Wasted Life" (Fingers) – 3:03
#"Alternative Ulster" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:41
#"78RPM" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:36
#"Gotta Gettaway" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:40
#"Bloody Sunday" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:29
#"Straw Dogs" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:20
#"You Can't Say Crap on the Radio" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:50
#"At the Edge" (Fingers) – 2:57
#"Running Bear" (live) (Richardson/Preston) – 3:15
#"White Christmas" (live) (Irving Berlin) – 2:24
#"Nobody's Hero" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 4:12
#"Tin Soldiers" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 4:49
#"Back to Front" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:58
#"Mr Coal Fire Man" (Wailing Souls) – 4:54

CD2
#"Just Fade Away" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:03
#"Go for It" (Fingers) – 3:04
#"Doesn't Make It Alright" (live) (Goldberg/Dammers) – 3:26
#"Silver Lining" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:01
#"Safe as Houses (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 5:29
#"Sad Eyed People" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:53
#"Two Guitars Clash" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 4:28
#"Listen" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 4:11
#"That's When Your Blood Bumps" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:41
#"Good for Nothing" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:44
#"Talkback" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:47
#"Stands to Reason" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:01
#"Bits of Kids" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:35
#"Touch and Go" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:20
#"Price of Admission" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:20

Personnel

*Jake Burns - Vocals/Guitar
*Henry Cluney - Guitar/Vocals (lead vocals CD1 tracks 10 & 11)
*Ali McMordie - Bass
*Brian Falloon - Drums (CD1 racks 1-4)
*Jim Reilly - Drums (CD1 tracks 5-15 and CD2 tracks 1-5)
*Dolphin Taylor - Drums/Vocals (CD2 tracks 6-15)