Winter Words - Hits & Rareties is a compilation album

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 by All About Eve

All About Eve (band)

All About Eve were a British rock/pop band. The creative core consisted of the Coventry born Julianne Regan , and the Huddersfield born Andy Cousin , with other members changing over the years...

 (or at least a compilation put out in their name) by their then former record label Mercury

Mercury Records

Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...

 with whom they had had an acrimonious split one year earlier. As it was, this album did not have the support or the backing of the band, and its deliberate release on the same day as their fourth album, Ultraviolet, could not have been timed worse for the prospects of that album.

For all this however, Winter Words was, at the time, the most comprehensive anthology of the band's music from their period with Mercury

Mercury Records

Mercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...

, and contained two previously unreleased songs. Another similar compilation, The Best of All About Eve, was released in July 1999, although both have now been superseded by Keepsakes

Keepsakes

Keepsakes - A Collection is an anthology by All About Eve released on 13 March 2006. It is available either as a double CD or as a limited edition double CD and DVD set ....

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Track listing - Winter Words

1. "Our Summer"
2. "Flowers In Our Hair"
3. "In the Clouds"
4. "Martha's Harbour
   Martha's Harbour
   "Martha's Harbour" is the 1988 hit single by British rock group, All About Eve. It has become known as the group's signature song, reaching #10 in the UK Singles Chart and helping the group's self-titled debut album reach #7 in the UK albums chart....
   
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5. "Every Angel"
6. "Wild Hearted Woman"
7. "What Kind of Fool"
8. "Road to Your Soul"
9. "Scarlet"
10. "December"
11. "Farewell Mr Sorrow"
12. "Strange Way"
13. "The Dreamer"
14. "Paradise"
15. "Candy Tree"
16. "Drowning"
17. "Wild Flowers"
18. "Theft" +
19. "Different Sky" +

Track listing - The Best of All About Eve

1. "Our Summer"
2. "Lady Moonlight"
3. "Flowers in Our Hair"
4. "Paradise"
5. "Gypsy Dance"
6. "In the Meadow"
7. "Every Angel"
8. "Martha's Harbour"
9. "What Kind of Fool"
10. "Gold and Silver"
11. "Candy Tree"
12. "Road to Your Soul"
13. "Tuesday's Child"
14. "Different Sky"
15. "Farewell Mr. Sorrow"
16. "Wishing the Hours Away"
17. "Are You Lonely"
18. "Share It With Me"