![]() ![]() Q and most of the broadsheet newspapers ran features and articles on the band recognising the longevity, quality and consistency of the band. Press coverage of the Best Of was almost universally favourable. ![]() It remained in the Top 10 for over ten weeks and spent exactly a year in the Top 75. ![]() It dropped to number 2 the following week, selling only a few hundred copies less than Pulp’s new album. The promotional barrage worked – the album went straight to number 1, even beating the Titanic soundtrack in Oscar week. The album release a week later saw a full-on promotional blitz by James – radio sessions for GLR, Virgin FM, XFM and Radio 1, an instore gig at London’s Virgin Megastore and a show for Manchester’s Key 103 on a barge in the Castlefields complex. ![]() Given the acrimonious end to the relationship between the band and Sire Records, there were no tracks from either the Stutter or Strip Mine albums.Īs a bonus for early purchasers of the album, James played a secret industry-only acoustic show at London’s Whitfield Street Studios in January 1998, which was recorded for inclusion on a second “Unhinged” CD.ĭestiny Calling was released a week before the Best Of in March and went to number 17 in the charts. To go alongside the fourteen hits, James recorded two new tracks Destiny Calling and Runaground to be released as singles and added live favourite Out To Get You from the Laid LP and Hymn From A Village from the 1985 James II EP, which had been remastered for the Palatine Factory Records retrospective. The band made all the noises about being surprised at the number of hit singles they’d had and given that, a Best of seemed the right thing to do, when there was no reason at all for them to justify it. With fourteen hit singles under their belts, a Best Of compilation was inevitable – a guaranteed hit album, minimum outlay and the chance for the band to pay off some of their debt to Mercury and secure the funds to make the next album. ![]()
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