The Anthology (James Reyne album)

The Anthology is a double CD greatest hits album of by Australian singer songwriter James Reyne. The album includes tracks from the last three decades. Reyne said "I've been working as a singer, musician and songwriter for a while now, and feel that it may only be that I've started to grasp how it all works relatively recently. I know I'm a better craftsman now than I was, so welcomed the idea of this Anthology/retrospective of my solo stuff. The first CD includes all the solo "hits" that I've had, but most importantly to me, provides a threshold to the later and more recent songs; tunes that many would never have heard. They are culled from the albums The Whiff of Bedlam, Design for Living, Speedboats for Breakfast, Every Man a King, and Thirteen and I hope, provide an insight into what I've really been up to."

The Anthology
Compilation album by James Reyne
Released	1 August 2014
Genre	Rock
Label	Universal Music Australia
James Reyne albums chronology
Thirteen (2012) The Anthology (2014) Live 99 (2015)

Reyne performed a series of live acoustic shows to showcase ‘'The Anthology'’, in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.

Track listing

CD1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Fall of Rome"	James Reyne	James Reyne	4:59
2.	"Hammerhead"	Reyne Simon Hussey	James Reyne	4:46
3.	"Motor's Too Fast"	Reyne Hussey	James Reyne	4:14
4.	"Always the Way"	Reyne Hussey	James Reyne	7:23
5.	"One More River"	Reyne	Hard Reyne	3:58
6.	"House of Cards"	John Hiatt	Hard Reyne	4:17
7.	"Harvest Moon"	Reyne Hussey	Hard Reyne	4:12
8.	"Five Miles Closer to the Sun"	Reyne Hussey	Hard Reyne	4:39
9.	"Wake Up Deadman"	Reyne Hussey	Hard Reyne	3:43
10.	"Slave"	Reyne Jim Vallance	Electric Digger Dandy	4:13
11.	"Any Day Above Ground"	Reyne	Electric Digger Dandy	3:38
12.	"Outback Woman"	Reyne Tony Joe White	Electric Digger Dandy	3:38
13.	"Water Water"	Reyne	Electric Digger Dandy	5:40
14.	"Some People"	Reyne Vallace	Electric Digger Dandy	4:11
15.	"Take a Giant Step"	Reyne Hussey	Electric Digger Dandy	5:01
16.	"Way Out West" (with James Blundell)	The Dingoes	The Best	4:00
17.	"Motor City (I Get Lost)" (by Company of Strangers)	J Scott Hussey	Company of Strangers	4:41

CD2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Red Light Avenue"	Wayne Burt Stewart Levine	The Whiff of Bedlam	4:28
2.	"Day in the Sun"	Reyne	The Whiff of Bedlam	5:47
3.	"It's Only Natural"	Reyne Hussey	The Whiff of Bedlam	4:43
4.	"Poor Man in the Penthouse"	Reyne Neil Larson	The Whiff of Bedlam	5:32
5.	"Design for Living"	Reyne Flanders and Swan	Design for Living	3:28
6.	"I Don’t Get Out Much Anymore"	Reyne	Design for Living	4:50
7.	"Little Criminals"	Reyne	Design for Living	4:21
8.	"Reno"	Reyne J. Kimball G. Hutchinson	Design for Living	5:10
9.	"Nothin’s Too Good for My Baby"	Reyne	Design for Living	4:21
10.	"Reckless" (acoustic)	Reyne	And the Horse You Rode in On	3:04
11.	"Bug"		Speedboats for Breakfast	4:02
12.	"The Rainbow's Dead End"		Speedboats for Breakfast	4:30
13.	"Sammy and Doofus and Our Man in New York"	Reyne Scott Kingman	Every Man a King	3:27
14.	"Superannuated Idol"	Reyne	Every Man a King	2:27
15.	"Stop Draggin' My Name Around"	Reyne	Every Man a King	4:20
16.	"English Girls"		Thirteen	3:32
17.	"Capsize"		Thirteen	4:21
18.	"Good Clean Fun"		Thirteen	5:02

Charts

Chart performance for The Anthology

Chart (2014)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)	103

Release history

Country	Date	Format	Label	Catalogue
Australia	1 August 2014	CD, digital download	Universal Music Australia	5353276