Side A
Artist	Song
Idlewild	Stay the same
Idlewild	Actually it's darkness
Idlewild	You held the world in your arms (acoustic)
Idlewild	Disconnected
Idlewild	I'm happy to be here tonight
Idlewild	Quiet crown
Idlewild	I never wanted
Idlewild	Poor thing
Idlewild	Love steals us from loneliness
Idlewild	Close the door
Idlewild	Little discourage
Idlewild	A film for the future
Idlewild	Last night I missed all the fireworks
Idlewild	Theory of achievement
Idlewild	A modern way of letting go
Idlewild	Rusty
Idlewild	Everyone says you're so fragile
Idlewild	Out of routine
Idlewild	These wooden ideas
Idlewild	Blame it on obvious ways
Idlewild	Broken windows
Idlewild	Live in a hiding place
Idlewild	I understand it
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Idlewild	You don't have the heart
Idlewild	Mistake pageant
Idlewild	I want a warning
Idlewild	I'm a message
Idlewild	Century after century
Idlewild	Listen to what you've got
Idlewild	Paint nothing
Idlewild	Meet me at the harbour
Idlewild	I don't have the map
Idlewild	Annihilate now!
Idlewild	Too long awake (acoustic)
Idlewild	In remote part / Scottish fiction
Idlewild	Idea track
Idlewild	American English
Idlewild	El Capitan
Idlewild	When I argue I see shapes
Idlewild	Roseability
Idlewild	As if I hadn't slept
Idlewild	There's glory in your story
Idlewild	Safe and sound
Idlewild	Self healer (live, acoustic)
Idlewild	Tell me ten words
Idlewild	Not just sometimes but always

Comment:

(2 CDs) I did a best-of-Idlewild mix before, in tape format (back in those halcyon days), and it was mostly used for listening to when I was walking somewhere - and it was in tape format because my CD player really went bananas when I tried to walk and listen to it at the same time, whereas my cassette player was fine with that. Anyway, since then, I've been wanting to do another version which does more justice to Idlewild; they've pretty much been in my top ten for as long as I've been listening to them, and I've seen them live once. Unfortunately, that was just after bassist Bob Fairfoull left, but they were still on top form, and Roddy Woomble's really a very charismatic frontman.
The extra material provided by the album they put out between then and now was nice to include! That said, even though there are tracks here from the Captain EP and the albums - Hope Is Important, 100 Broken Windows, The Remote Part and Warnings/Promises - as well as B-sides, I did find out that it would practically be possible fit all of their material (from art-school emo/punk to nostalgic indie folk) across 2 CDs. So there weren't a lot of cuts!
Title from In remote part / Scottish fiction and the picture was taken at the Edinburgh book festival a couple of years ago. I'm really a horrible photographer but at least I found a use for that one.

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