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Release date

11 October 2004

Tracklisting

Disc one

1.  Sketch For Summer
2.  Conduct
3.  Sketch For Winter
4.  Lips That Would Kiss
5.  For Belgian Friends
6.  Danny
7.  Never Known
8.  Jacqueline
9.  The Missing Boy
10. Prayer
11. Spent Time
12. Without Mercy 1
13. Without Mercy 2
14. The Room
15. Tomorrow
16. LFO Mod

Disc two

1.  What Is It To Me (Woman)
2.  Otis
3.  Requiem Again
4.  Home
5.  Contra Indications
6.  People's Pleasure Park
7.  My Irascible Friend
8.  Fado
9.  Sing To Me
10. Pigeon
11. Mello (Part 1)
12. Falling
13. Woman
14. Requiem For Mother

Credits

Title: The Best of The Durutti Column
Label: Warner
Catalogue number: 5046753932
Release date: 11 October 2004

Reviews

UNCUT (December 2004) ****

"If most rock guitar still roots itself in the earthy, wooden fire of the blues, over the last 25 years Vini Reilly has explored a liquid, airy form, notes bent by the other gravities and atmospheres of whichever planet Martin Hannett now calls home. Essentially an update of 1986's Valuable Passages, the extra disc showcases Reilly's experiments with vocal samples ("Otis"), sequenced beats ("Contra-indications" and female singers ("Sing To Me") - all remarkably successful. A much-needed introduction to the fugitive pieces of a neglected career." Stephen Trousse.

Mojo (December 2004) ****

"2-CD set documenting the minimalist history of Factory's most precious commodity, Vini Reilly and his haunting guitar trickery. 1980 to the present, spectral ragtime to melancholic Hawaiian weeping." AM.

Word (December 2004)

Extract: "Never a band to sell many records, The Durutti Columm appeared in the late '70s sounding for all the world like Joy Division trying to make lift music."

The Best of The Durutti Column; insert detail [3]

The Best of The Durutti Column; advertisement in November 2004 edition of UNCUT magazine