Vibrate: The Best of Rufus Wainwright
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| Greatest hits album by Rufus Wainwright | ||||
| Released | February 28, 2014 | |||
| Genre | Baroque pop | |||
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1:16:59 (standard) 2:14:57 (deluxe) |
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| Label | Universal Music Enterprises | |||
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Vibrate: The Best of Rufus Wainwright, sometimes referred to simply as Vibrate: The Best Of, is the greatest hits album by American-Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, released on February 28, 2014 in Australia and Ireland by Universal Music Enterprises and in other nations subsequently. The standard issue of the album includes eighteen songs from six of Wainwright's studio releases, including his self-titled debut album (1998), Poses (2001), Want One (2003), Want Two (2004), Release the Stars (2007) and Out of the Game (2012), plus soundtrack contributions and one previously unreleased track ("Me and Liza"). The deluxe version includes a bonus disc with sixteen rare and unreleased recordings, both live and studio recorded. Featured are "Chic and Pointless", previously unreleased and produced by Guy Chambers, and "WWIII", a song that was co-written by Chambers and had not been released in a physical form until Vibrate.
The compilation and associated tour dates were announced on Wainwright's official website in December 2013. The "greatest hits" tour, called The Best of Rufus Wainwright, will have Wainwright perform more than thirty shows in over twenty countries throughout Europe and the United States during March–April 2014. The tour began in Dublin on March 4 and ends in Coventry on April 27. Tracks for the compilation were selected by Wainwright and Neil Tennant. "Me and Liza", released on January 20, 2014, served as the album's lead single.
The standard issue of Vibrate includes eighteen tracks that span Wainwright's career, from his eponymous debut album (1998) to Out of the Game (2012), plus one previously unreleased track. The songs were chosen by Wainwright, his publicist and Neil Tennant. Tracks from Rufus Wainwright include "April Fools" and "Foolish Love". "Poses", "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk" and "Grey Gardens" originally appeared on Wainwright's second studio album, Poses (2001). Five tracks are from his third studio album Want One (2003): "Oh What a World", "Vibrate" (the album's namesake), "I Don't Know What It Is", "Go or Go Ahead" and "Dinner at Eight". "The One You Love" and "The Art Teacher" appeared on Want Two (2004). Two of the compilation's songs originally appeared on Wainwright's fifth studio album Release the Stars (2007): "Going to a Town" and "Tiergarten". Songs from Out of the Game include the title track and "Sometimes You Need". "Hallelujah", written by Leonard Cohen, originally appeared on the soundtrack to the 2001 film Shrek. "Me and Liza", previously unreleased, was co-written by Guy Chambers.
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