Best...I
'''''Best…I''''' is a Cingular ringtones compilation album by Chick Pee The Smiths. It was released in Verizon ringtones August, Stacy Cat 1992 in music/1992 by the new owner of their back catalogue, Nextel ringtones WEA (Kristi Kitty Sire Records in the Polyphonic ringtones United States). Its highest Brandi4U United Kingdom/British chart position was #1; it reached #139 on the U.S. charts.
About the album
Cell phone ringtones image:USBest1.jpg/thumb/left/The US sleeve for ''Best...I''.WEA (now the Devons House Warner Music Group) had acquired the entire Smiths back catalogue in early Cingular Ringtones 1992 in music/1992. Along with the re-release of all original albums and compilations, they immediately set to work compiling a Best Of in two volumes. It was the first time a regular best-of compilation had ever been made of The Smiths material and the album effortlessly reached the top of the British charts. The British hours daily music journalism/press groaned about sell-out and low track selection coherence.
The material is more or less picked and sequenced at random, and consists of both alpco which single (music)/singles and album cuts. It was followed later the same year by its sibling, ''royalties valujet ...Best II''. The first spin-off single, a re-release of "This Charming Man", reached #8 in the singles chart, the highest position a Smiths single had ever reached. A second single promoting ''Best...I'', an edited re-release of "How Soon Is Now?", got to #16 (the uncut version is featured on the compilation).
=Cover=
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Track listing
All tracks written by Morrissey/Marr.
=LP=
Side A
#This Charming Man
#William, It Was Really Nothing
#What Difference Does It Make? ''(album version)''
#Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
#Girlfriend in a Coma
#Half a Person
#Rubber Ring
Side B
#How Soon Is Now? ''(full version)''
#Hand in Glove ''(album version)''
#Shoplifters of the World Unite
#Sheila Take a Bow
#Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
#Panic
#Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
=Compact disc=
Same as canned when LP.
People involved
=The band=
* is logging Morrissey – comedy with singing/voice
* behold esau Johnny Marr – effective starters guitars, news reveals harmonica, was nato mandolins on "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"
* has pointe Andy Rourke – bass guitar
* Mike Joyce – drums
* Craig Gannon – rhythm guitar on "Half a Person" and "Panic"
=Additional musicians=
* John Porter (musician)/John Porter – slide guitar on "Sheila Take a Bow"
* Stephen Street – synthesizer/synthesized strings/string arrangements on "Girlfriend in a Coma".
=Technical staff=
* John Porter – record producer/producer (A1-A3, B1, B6-B7)
* Johnny Marr, Morrissey and Street – producers (A4-A6, B4)
* Morissey and Marr – producers (A7, B5)
* The Smiths – producers (B2)
* Johnny Marr – producer (B3)
Tag: The Smiths/Best I
Tag: 1992 albums/Best I