Sweet Ride: The Best of Belly (2005)
I read somewhere that Tanya Donelly considers Sweet Ride to be Belly's third and final album on account of all the B-sides, live tracks, alternate versions, and the inclusion of the unreleased track "Lilith".
I have to agree, and I think they did a good job choosing the songs. I like the fact that they used remixes of the hits and some of their best cover versions. There are a couple songs I would've liked to have seen included: "Sexy S" & "King" would've been nice. I also think they could've dumped "Super-connected". But overall it's as close to perfect as it was gonna get.
The sleeve design was hit & miss though I like the back cover a great deal.
2 comments:
the sweet ride package was assembled outside of the previous collaboration of Chris Bigg and chris gorman. Tanya Donelly's management decided it wasn't necessary to invest in original imagery so the designer was left to re-photograph existing packaging to cobble together a faux-4ad looking thing. Kind of disappointing considering the strength of the material.
chris g.
Thank you for writing. I agree the inside was disappointing, especially considering what an opportunity it was. Instead of a couple blurry photos of a couple record sleeves they could've, at the very least, done something like the Talking Heads "Sand in the Vaseline" booklet- they could've simply used reproductions of all Belly singles, albums, and EPs sleeves- "Baby Silvertooth" and everything- and then print the text over it.
On one hand it's great that so many people bought it for the singles and got to hear a lot of the great B-sides they otherwise would've missed out on, but it's a shame that people won't get to see all the great artwork from "Slow Dust" or the "Gepetto" EPs.
"Sweet Ride" was the perfect opportunity to showcase all of it.
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