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Everclear - Ten Years Gone: The Best of Everclear, 1994-2004 Audio CD

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Everclear Band: Everclear
Title: Ten Years Gone: The Best of Everclear, 1994-2004
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Release Date: 2004-10-05
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Wonderful 2: Santa Monica 3: Everything to Everyone 4: A.M. Radio 5: Volvo Driving Soccer Mom 6: I Will Buy You a New Life 7: Learning How to Smile 8: Strawberry 9: Local God 10: Summerland 11: Fire Maple Song 12: When It All Goes Wrong Again 13: Father of Mine [Radio Mix] 14: Boys Are Back in Town 15: Heroin Girl 16: Brown Eyed Girl 17: Sex With a Movie Star (The Good Witch Gone Bad) 18: New Disease 19: New York Times 20: Song From an American Movie, Pt. 1 21: Rock Star

Great Cd
This is a great cd that brought back a lot of memories. I never realized how many songs these guys have had on the radio over the years! There are probbiliy 10 songs on here I remember from the radio with Heroin Girl being my favorite.


Always and ForEverclear
In 1995, this turned him into a rock star when a song about his girlfriend's suicide became an alternative hit in "Santa Monica. Art Alexakis took the disappointments and tragedies of his life and wrote intensely personal songs about them. " While Everclear wasn't doing anything groundbreaking musically, Alexakis was an oldster by the young grunge standards. His adulthood (he was already in his 30's when the hits started) helped the two best Everclear albums, Sparkle and Fade and So Much for the Afterglow, come off as both inspired and mature.

The hits from "Afterglow" are probably the best knows and the band's high water mark. "Father Of Mine" and "I Will Buy You a New Life" were universally understandable. Alexakis has a distinctive voice, and the band had an "Everclear" sound. As would be expected though, success took some of the edge off even if it still led to a couple of good slices of pop-rock like "Wonderful" (the band's biggest chart hit) and the hooky "AM radio. " "AM Radio" also was part of what made Everclear such an odd bird in the modern rock world. Alexakis was singing about listening to transistor radios and watching "Chico and The Man" to kids that probably didn't know either.

Interestingly enough, Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile became the band's highest charting album, and five of this album's 21 songs are from that album (Billboard peak #9). I kind of felt the band had gotten ahead of itself by this point (and the "Vol II" of this pairing), and the main single from Slow Motion Daydream, "Volvo Driving Soccer Mom" seemed a more interesting title than song. But "New York Times" is up their with Alexakis' best songs (written post-9/11).

There are some bonus cuts here, with a pair of soundtrack singles. "The Boys are Back In Town" cover is respectable (Detroit Rock City) and "Local God" was one of the better songs from William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. There are a pair of new songs, "Sex With a Movie Star" and "The New Disease," both good. "Ten Years Gone" sums up Everclear well, a good decade for these West Coast rockers.


Best of the Best
A must have for any fan!. Love this compliation, after looking for a greatest hit album for a while I was happy to have this one in my collection.


Why couldn't I find them sooner?
I went on a bus trip to Hershey Park and they were having a concert, so I thought, hey why not? I've heard of them and I know I like a couple of their songs. I have a couple of great Everclear songs on some mixed CD's and movie soundtracks, but I never really connected them together as being from the same group.

Boy am I happy I went. The concert was fantastic! Song after song was just better and better. Where had this band been my whole life? The group even signed autographs, shook hands and took pictures with the fans afterwards. How many people have a photo of themselves with Art in their cell phone? I was surprised at how star-struck I was, but I had never met a famous person before. I immediately bought two of their albums, including this one.

I am now obsessed with this CD and wish I could buy a copy for everyone I know. What a fantastic collection of songs from a very under-rated group. Art has the most wonderful voice, and coming from a background of loving groups like Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Oasis, and Stained, I really wish I had discovered how amazingly talented Everclear is earlier. I could have been listening to this CD for the past 4 years.

Although I truly love all songs on "Ten Years Gone", my favorite is "Wonderful" and I find myself humming or singing it all day long. Fantastic album!!! One of the best I've heard. I just hope their concern tour brings them to the Baltimore/DC area soon!!!.


best of everclear
I like it better each time I listen to it. Great CD lots of songs I like that I never knew Everclear did.


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