All the Best is a compilation album

Greatest hits

A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...

 by the band Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers

Stiff Little Fingers are a punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. They formed in 1977, at the height of the Troubles. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk. They split up after six years and four albums, although they...

, released in 1983

1983 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1983.-January-April:*January – ZTT Records is founded.*January 8 – The UK singles chart is tabulated from this week forward by The Gallup Organization...

.

The album consists of the A- and B-sides

A-side and B-side

A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...

 of all the band's singles

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 and EPs

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 recorded and released between 1978 and 1983. It was originally released to coincide both with the release of the band's final single "Price of Admission" and with their two "farewell shows" which took place in February 1983. The band reformed in 1987 and released further singles and the tracks on this album would later form a substantial part of the compilation album Anthology, released in 2002.

All the Best peaked at #19 on the UK Album Chart.

Track listing

CD1

1. "Suspect Device" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:29
2. "Wasted Life" (Fingers) – 3:03
3. "Alternative Ulster" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:41
4. "78RPM" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:36
5. "Gotta Gettaway" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:40
6. "Bloody Sunday" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:29
7. "Straw Dogs" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:20
8. "You Can't Say Crap on the Radio" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:50
9. "At the Edge" (Fingers) – 2:57
10. "Running Bear
    Running Bear
    "Running Bear" is a song written by J. P. Richardson sung most famously by Johnny Preston in 1959. Preston first sang the song in 1959 with background vocals by Richardson and George Jones, who do the Indian chanting of "UGO UGO" during the three verses, as well as the Indian war cries...
    
    " (live) (J.P. Richardson, Johnny Preston
    Johnny Preston
    Johnny Preston was an American pop music singer, who was best known for his international number one hit in 1960, "Running Bear".-Life and career:...
    
    ) – 3:15
11. "White Christmas
    White Christmas
    A white Christmas refers to the presence of snow on Christmas Day. This phenomenon is most common in the northern countries of the Northern Hemisphere...
    
    " (live) (Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
    
    ) – 2:24
12. "Nobody's Hero" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 4:12
13. "Tin Soldiers" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 4:49
14. "Back to Front" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:58
15. "Mr. Coal Fire Man" (Wailing Souls) – 4:54

CD2

1. "Just Fade Away" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:03
2. "Go for It" (Fingers) – 3:04
3. "Doesn't Make It Alright" (live) (Dave Goldberg, Jerry Dammers
   Jerry Dammers
   Jeremy David Hounsell "Jerry" Dammers is a British musician who is a founder and keyboard player of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A...
   
   ) – 3:26
4. "Silver Lining" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:01
5. "Safe as Houses (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 5:29
6. "Sad Eyed People" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:53
7. "Two Guitars Clash" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 4:28
8. "Listen" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 4:11
9. "That's When Your Blood Bumps" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:41
10. "Good for Nothing" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:44
11. "Talkback" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 2:47
12. "Stands to Reason" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:01
13. "Bits of Kids" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:35
14. "Touch and Go" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:20
15. "Price of Admission" (Fingers/Ogilvie) – 3:20

Personnel

• Jake Burns
  Jake Burns
  Jake Burns is a singer and guitarist, and is best known as the frontman of Stiff Little Fingers.-Career:...
  
  –Vocals/Guitar
• Henry Cluney
  Henry Cluney
  Henry Cluney was a guitarist in Highway Star, the school band that became Stiff Little Fingers in 1977...
  
  –Guitar/Vocals (lead vocals CD1 tracks 10 & 11, CD2 track 7)
• Ali McMordie
  Ali McMordie
  Alistair Jardine "Ali" McMordie is a bass guitarist, who made his name with, and was a founding member of, Stiff Little Fingers...
  
  –Bass
• Brian Faloon–Drums (CD1 tracks 1-4)
• Jim Reilly
  Jim Reilly
  James G. "Jim" Reilly is the second drummer for the Northern Ireland based punk band Stiff Little Fingers, with whom he played from 1979 to 1981. He played on the LPs Nobody's Heroes, Go for It and Hanx. In 1981 he moved to the United States, where he played in two bands, Red Rockers, followed by...
  
  –Drums (CD1 tracks 5-15 and CD2 tracks 1-5)
• Dolphin Taylor
  Dolphin Taylor
  Brian "Dolphin" Taylor is a British drummer.-Tom Robinson Band:His career started when he gave a friend a lift to an audition as bass guitarist for the Tom Robinson Band in 1976. As the band had no drummer at that point, Dolphin filled in...
  
  –Drums/Vocals (CD2 tracks 6-15)

Chart Position

Chart (1983)	Peak position
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	19