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#182: Best of Luna (US version)

Best of Luna was released in 2006 and came in two very different versions, this is the US single CD version released by Rhino.

Best of Luna (US CD)
Best of Luna (US CD)

Since I did an album breakdown for ROUNDUP last week I should do the same for this one:

Album Best of Luna (US) ROUNDUP
Penthouse 5 4
Bewitched 4 2
Lunapark 3 1
Pup Tent 2 2
The Days of Our Nights 1 3
Rendezvous 1 0
Romantica 0 4
non album track   1

Interesting that Romantica has no representaion and Rendezvous, an album Dean rated as the band’s second best only gets one. Less interesting is perhaps that Days only gets one.

Perhaps, a propos of nothing at all… Rhino is part of Warner Music Group, as is/was Elektra…

  • Tracks from the four albums released by Elektra = 14 (avg 3.50 per album)
  • Tracks from the three albums not released by Elektra = 2 (avg 0.33 per album)

Also worth noting I guess is that around the same time Rhino also released a digital only release of cover versions “Lunafied” which means that this album therefore has no covers, which does mean that we have an oddity that is a Best of Luna without Indian Summer or Bonnie & Clyde!

I guess I’ll revisit this when we come to looking at the Beggars Banquet version of Best of Luna.

The sleeve is a lovely drawing by Adrian Tomine, there was a limited edition signed print of the cover on release, but it was too pricey for me… still kind of regret that though.

Adrian Tomine - New York Drawings
Adrian Tomine - New York Drawings
  • Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/022
  • Artist: Luna
  • Title: Best of Luna
  • Notes: US edition
  • Format: CD