(2022) The Divine Comedy – Charmed Life: The Best of The Divine Comedy [Deluxe Edition]          


Review:
A career-spanning 24 track collection of hit singles and fan favourites including National Express, Something For The Weekend, Songs of Love, Our Mutual Friend, A Lady of A Certain Age, To The Rescue and Norman and Norma. It also includes a brand new track The Best Mistakes. Remastered at Abbey Road, the new ‘Best Of’ offers a comprehensive guide to The Divine Comedy as curated by Neil Hannon himself and will be released on his own Divine Comedy Records. ‘Charmed Life’ follows 2019’s top five album ‘Office Politics’ and 2020’s extensive ‘Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time’ reissues project. “I’ve been luckier than most,” Neil Hannon reflected. “I get to sing songs to people for a living and they almost always applaud. So when asked what to call this collection I thought of Charmed Life. I like the song and it rather sums up how I feel about my life.” Discussing the bonus album, Neil continues: “It felt right to celebrate thirty years of The Divine Comedy. I can’t give you an overview of these songs. They’re a crazy mixed up bunch. Some are strangely seasonal, some relate to what we’ve all been going through recently, some are just nuts. Enjoy!” In 1990 musical history was made when a 20-year-old Neil Hannon signed his first record deal and began releasing one glorious album after another under the name The Divine Comedy. Twelve magnificent albums and hundreds of spellbinding shows later, Neil Hannon is now, without doubt, a national treasure and one of the finest singer-songwriters of his generation.





Track Listing:

Disc 1:
1.Charmed Life
2.National Express
3.Norman And Norma
4.Something for the Weekend (2020 remaster)
5.Songs of Love (2020 remaster)
6.The Best Mistakes
7.At The Indie Disco (2020 remaster)
98.Bad Ambassador
9.A Lady of a Certain Age
10.Becoming More Like Alfie (2020 remaster)
11.Come Home Billy Bird
12.Have You Ever Been In Love (2020 remaster)
13.Our Mutual Friend
14.Generation Sex (2020 remaster)
15.How Can You Leave Me on My Own
16.Perfect Lovesong
17.Your Daddy's Car (2020 remaster)
18.You'll Never Work In This Town Again
19.Absent Friends
20.Everybody Knows (Except You) (2020 remaster)
21.The Certainty Of Chance
22.Sunrise (2020 remaster)
23.To the Rescue
25.Tonight We Fly (2020 Mix)

Disc 2:
1.I'll Take What I Can Get
2.Don't Make Me Go Outside
3.Who Do You Think You Are
4.The Adventurous Type
5.When When When
6.Home For The Holidays
7.Te Amo España
8.Perfect Lovesong 2021
9.Simple Pleasures
10.Those Pesky Kids
11.Butterfly


Media Report:
Genre: chamber pop, indie-pop
Country: UK
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits

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