Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger, 1994-2000
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| Greatest hits album by Powderfinger | ||||
| Released | 30 October 2004 (Australia) | |||
| Recorded | Various | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock | |||
| Label | Universal Music Australia | |||
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Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger, 1994 - 2000 is a greatest hits album by Australian alternative rock band Powderfinger, released on 30 October 2004 in Australia.
The album contained tracks from the Powderfinger's first four albums, as well as two previously unreleased songs, "Bless My Soul" and "Process This". "Bless My Soul" was also released as a single. On 17 February 2009, Fingerprints was released in the United States with an alternate track listing including more recent songs and discarding older songs to align with releases that had previously been released in the US. The album was released on the back of the band's success on the TV show, Grey's Anatomy, which featured two songs from the album "Dream Days at the Hotel Existence".
Prior to the release of Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger, 1994-2000, there was some talk of the idea that a best of album would be a mistake by the band, as they were generally seen as the "end of an artist's creative haul". Australian Music Online, publishing a Universal Music Australia press release, said these fears were not justified, and that the album would be "a Powderfinger biography that really tells the story better than anyone can on paper".
MTV Scene writer Craig Tangsley also commented on fears about the "death" of the band, stating that he spoke to Bernard Fanning about the band's death as "it's inevitable to talk when someone releases a best of album". Fanning denied that the band was finished, instead claiming that Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger, 1994-2000 was spawned due to a deal with the band's record label. He also assured readers that the band had another album planned.
Ciao reviewer cocoklo agreed with Universal's assessment, stating that "If there ever was a band, in my opinion, that needed a greatest hits album, it's Powderfinger". However, he noted another issue which had some influence on the production of the album - the issue of which songs to include. As the band had only released five albums, they were forced to mostly include the singles they had previously released.
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