Scottish Fiction: Best of 1997âÂÂ2007 is a best of compilation album by Scottish rock band Idlewild, released on 1 October 2007 through Parlophone. The album was released following Idlewild's split from Parlophone/EMI, and, as a result, only features two songs from 2007's Make Another World, which was released through Sequel Records.
A limited-edition version of the album was released which included a DVD. The DVD featured a documentary on the band, a live concert recorded in Aberdeen during 2007's Make Another World tour, and all the band's promotional videos.
The album entered the UK Album Chart at #79.
CD track listing
- "You Held the World in Your Arms" â 3:23
- "No Emotion" â 3:05
- "Roseability" â 3:40
- "When I Argue I See Shapes" â 4:25
- "Love Steals Us from Loneliness" â 3:14
- "American English" â 4:35
- "These Wooden Ideas" â 3:54
- "El Capitan" â 3:57
- "A Modern Way of Letting Go" â 2:25
- "Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror)" â 3:23
- "I'm a Message" â 2:31
- "In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction" â 3:50
- "I Understand It" â 3:21
- "Little Discourage" â 3:11
- "As if I Hadn't Slept" â 3:37
- "Live in a Hiding Place" â 3:16
- "Make Another World" â 4:08
Music for Documentary: Interludes Between Live Songs
- "Scottish Fiction" (alternative version 2002)
- "A Distant History"
- "Safe and Sound" (recording studio audio 1998)
- "'demo tape scratchings'" (1999)
- "Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror)" (demo version 1999)
- "In Words We Walk On" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "I'm Happy to Be Here Tonight" (acoustic live version at Newbury comics, Boston MA 2003)
- "We Live for Fate" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "Gone Too Long"
- "Easier to Learn" (unreleased demo 2001)
- "These Wooden Ideas" (acoustic version live at Virgin Megastore, London 2002)
- "Palace Flophouse
- "Maybe I'm Saying This to Someone" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "I Misunderstood" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "'unnamed noisy song'" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "Logic Always Dictates" (unreleased demo 2001)
- "I Understand It" (recording studio audio 2004)
- "Royal Glue" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "Actually It's Darkness" (acoustic version 2000)
- "Love Steals Us From Loneliness" (acoustic version live at the Shaw Theatre, London 2005)
- "Make Another World"
- "Someone, Somewhere" (unreleased demo 2004)
- "Roseability" (demo version 1999)
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