Only the Bones

Only the Bones - Deborah Conway's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by
Deborah Conway
Released15 July 2002
Recorded1985–2001
GenrePop
LabelFestival Mushroom Records
Deborah Conway chronology
PC: The Songs of Patsy Cline
(2001) 		Only the Bones - Deborah Conway's Greatest Hits
(2002) 		Summertown
(2004)

Only the Bones – Deborah Conway's Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by Australian artist Deborah Conway, released in July 2002.[1] Conway toured Australia in support of the album.[2] It was re-released, with a different cover, in July 2004 as The Definitive Collection.[3]

Australian freelance music journalist, Debbie Kruger of Melbourne Weekly Bayside, described how Conway "put together a greatest hits collection of her work, Only the Bones, and then drew a line, as many mature artists do, from which she could move forward, redefined."[4] Michael Dwyer opined that "It's 20 years since Deborah Conway's first EPs with Do Re Mi; an even dozen since her smash solo debut, String of Pearls. Last year's Only the Bones compilation summed up a commercially erratic but always interesting career."[5] The original cover art, by Pierre Baroni, of Only the Bones depicts Conway at a table picking over a meal (see infobox).

Track listing

  1. "Man Overboard" (by Do-Re-Mi)
  2. "It's Only the Beginning"
  3. "Release Me"
  4. "White Roses"
  5. "Alive and Brilliant"
  6. "Today I Am a Daisy"
  7. "She Prefers Fire"
  8. "3 Love" (by Ultrasound)
  9. "Only the Bones (Will Show)"
  10. "All of the Above"
  11. "Here in My Arms"
  12. "Radio Loves This"
  13. "Never Far Away"
  14. "Exquisite Stereo"
  15. "Walking After Midnight"
  16. "Sweet Dreams"
  17. "Everybody Wants to Touch Me"
  18. "It’s Only the Beginning" (Show Us Your Hits Mix)

References

  1. ^ "The ARIA Report issue 646" (PDF). webarchive.nla.gov.au. 15 July 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 August 2002. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  2. ^ Eliezer, Christie (27 August 2002). "Conway at the Athenaeum". Music & Media Business News. Archived from the original on 4 February 2003. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Week Commencing ~ 5th July 2004 ~ Issue #749" (PDF). The ARIA Report (749). Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA): 26. 5 July 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 July 2004. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  4. ^ Kruger, Debbie (14 July 2004). "Deborah Conway: Once More with Feeling". Melbourne Weekly Bayside. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  5. ^ Dwyer, Michael (May 2003). "Deborah Conway". femail.com.au. Fairfax Media. Archived from the original on 2 July 2003. Retrieved 16 February 2017.