A Secret History… The Best of The Divine Comedy

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  National Express
  5:06
  5.0 ★
• 2
  Something for the Weekend
  4:20
  4.6 ★
• 3
  Everybody Knows (Except You)
  3:48
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Generation Sex
  3:29
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Becoming More Like Alfie
  3:00
• 6
  The Summerhouse
  4:14
• 7
  Your Daddy’s Car
  4:03
• 8
  The Pop Singer’s Fear of the Pollen Count
  3:54
  5.0 ★
• 9
  The Frog Princess
  5:13
• 10
  Gin Soaked Boy
  5:03
• 11
  Lucy
  4:39
• 12
  Songs of Love
  3:23
• 13
  In Pursuit of Happiness
  3:29
• 14
  I’ve Been to a Marvellous Party
  3:42
• 15
  The Certainty of Chance
  6:12
• 16
  Too Young to Die
  4:20
• 17
  Tonight We Fly
  2:57
  4.0 ★
• CD 2: Rarities
• 1
  Bernice Bobs Her Hair (live)
  3:35
• 2
  Bleak Landscape (demo)
  3:45
• 3
  The Booklovers (live)
  4:12
• 4
  The Certainty of Chance (demo)
  3:27
• 5
  Commuter Love (live)
  5:01
• 6
  Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (live)
  3:51
• 7
  A Drinking Song (live)
  3:39
• 8
  The Frog Princess (live)
  6:29
• 9
  Generation Sex (demo)
  3:42
• 10
  Life on Mars (live)
  3:12
• 11
  Life’s What You Make It (acoustic)
  2:52
• 12
  The Model (live)
  3:56
• 13
  National Express (live)
  4:32
• 14
  Painting the Forth Bridge (demo)
  4:04
• 15
  Queen of the South (acoustic)
  4:02
• 16
  The Summerhouse (live)
  4:38
• 17
  Soul Destroyer (demo)
  1:58
• 18
  Your Daddy’s Car (demo)
  4:03
• 19
  Moon River
  1:24

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Absent Friends

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Release credits

• Alex McRonald
  flute [5]
• Alex Postlethwaite
  violin [5]
• Alice Pratley
  violin [5]
• Alison Fletcher
  viola [5]
• Anna Giddey
  violin [5]
• Charlotte Glasson
  viola [5]
• Chris Worsey
  cello [5]
• Crouch End Festival Chorus
  background vocals [4]
• Darren Allison
  engineer [5-7, 11, 17], membranophone [5], mix [5-7, 11, 17], percussion [5], producer [2, 5-7, 9, 11-12, 17]
• Emil Chitakov
  violin [5]
• Eos Counsell
  violin [5]
• Jo Richards
  cello [5]
• Joby Talbot
  arranger [1, 3-4, 8, 13, 15], conductor [4-5], harpsichord [4]
• Jon Jacobs
  engineer [3-4, 13], mix [3-4, 13], producer [1-4, 8, 10, 13, 15-16], remixer [7]
• Kathy Brown
  cello [5]
• Katie Puckrik
  guest [4], spoken vocals [4]
• Laura Samuel
  violin [5]
• Lucy Wakeford
  harp [4]
• Neil Hannon
  Hammond organ [5], co [4], guitar [5], percussion [5], piano [5], producer [2, 5-6, 9, 12, 17], vocal [5]
• Padraic Savage
  violin [5]
• Quentin Hutchinson
  French horn [11]
• Robin Smith
  flugelhorn [5], trumpet [5]
• Ruth Goldstein
  cello [5]
• Stephen Hilton
  programming [14]
• Yuri Kalnits
  violin [5]
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Issues

• A
  (Combined release view)
• A
  A Secret History… The Best of The Divine Comedy

  CD
  25 August 1999
• A
  A Secret History

  2x CD
  30 August 1999
• 

  A
  A Secret History

  CD
  30 August 1999
• 

  A
  A Secret History… The Best of The Divine Comedy

  CD
  1999
• 

  A
  A Secret History… The Best of The Divine Comedy

  Digital Media