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Nick Lowe - Basher: The Best of Nick Lowe

Track listing:
  1. So It Goes 2:31
  2. Heart of the City 2:01
  3. (I Love the Sound of) Breaking Glass 3:12
  4. Little Hitler 2:59
  5. No Reason 3:31
  6. 36 Inches High 2:58
  7. Marie Provost 2:47
  8. American Squirm 2:31
  9. Cracking Up 2:58
  10. Big Kick, Plain Scrap 2:28
  11. Born Figher 3:09
  12. Switch Board Susan 3:48
  13. Without Love 2:28
  14. Cruel to be Kind 3:28
  15. When I Write the Book 3:17
  16. Heart 3:42
  17. Raging Eyes 2:38
  18. Time Wounds All Heels 2:44
  19. Maureen 3:06
  20. Half a Boy & Half a Man 2:55
  21. 7 Nights to Rock 2:46
  22. She Don't Love Nobody 3:23
  23. The Rose of England 3:26
  24. I Knew the Bride 4:26
  25. Lovers Jamboree 3:41

Notes

Containing no less than 25 tracks, Basher: The Best of Nick Lowe is an excellent overview of Lowe's solo career, detailing how he evolved from a quirky, innovative new wave pop craftsman to a fine roots rocker. All of Lowe's absolutely essential songs — from "So It Goes" and "Heart of the City" through "Cracking Up," "Born Fighter," and "Cruel to Be Kind" to "American Squirm," "The Rose of England" "Half a Boy and Half a Man" and "Raging Eyes" — are here, and while Jesus of Cool and Labour of Lust are essential in their own right, Basher is a terrific introduction to his body of work.