The Murmur Years: The Best of Something for Kate 1996 - 2007, a retrospective double album that documents a detailed collection of Something for Kate

Something for Kate

Something for Kate are a rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Members include songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Paul Dempsey, drummer Clint Hyndman and bassist Stephanie Ashworth...

 tracks spanning over 10 years of the band's career so far from 1996–2007. The band have handpicked 33 songs for the album from early EPs, their five studio albums, live favorites and covers along with recording a brand new track titled 'The Futurist' written specially to mark the release of this album.

Pre-orders of this album from a select few retailers around Australia also included a copy of the "California" CD card sleeve single, the same that had been used/given away promotionally at two previous Melbourne concerts. This single and its three b-sides were otherwise only available on iTunes.

Disc 1

1. "The Futurist"
2. "Déjà Vu"
3. "Captain (Million Miles an Hour)"
4. "Monsters"
5. "Hallways"
6. "Cigarettes and Suitcases"
7. "You Only Hide"
8. "The Last Minute"
9. "Oh Kamikaze"
10. "Beautiful Sharks"
11. "Light at the End of the Tunnel"
12. "Down the Garden Path"
13. "Twenty Years"
14. "Subject to Change"
15. "Back to You"
16. "Truly" (Live Bootleg)

Disc 2

1. "Electricity"
2. "Three Dimensions"
3. "Pinstripe"
4. "California"
5. "Say Something"
6. "Whatever You want"
7. "Kaplan/Thornhill"
8. "Working Against Me"
9. "Jerry Stand Up"
10. "Song for a Sleepwalker"
11. "Strategy"
12. "Dean Martin"
13. "The Astronaut"
14. "Hanging on the Telephone" (Live)
15. "Rock the Casbah"
16. "Dreamworld"
17. "Born to Run"

Band members

• Paul Dempsey
  Paul Dempsey
  Paul Dempsey is the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter of Australian rock group Something for Kate. Paul was a founding member of the band, and in August 2009 released his first solo album, Everything Is True whilst continuing his work with Something for Kate...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Clint Hyndman - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...
  
  
• Stephanie Ashworth
  Stephanie Ashworth
  Stephanie Ashworth is bass guitarist for Australian band Something for Kate. She joined the band, according to her in an interview "sometime in 1997 or 1998, I can't remember" replacing Toby Ralph...
  
   - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , backing vocals
  Backing vocalist
  A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...