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''A Best of Us... for the Rest of Us'' is a greatest hits compilation from ska-punk band Reel Big Fish. It was released on July 20, 2010 and sold exclusively through Best Buy stores. It was later released digitally through Amazon MP3 and iTunes with four bonus tracks and without the acoustic tracks. The physical album contains a second "skacoustic" disc of fourteen acoustic versions of Reel Big Fish songs.〔 On June 21, 2011, the album was re-released as ''A Best of Us... for the Rest of Us: Bigger Better Bonus Deluxe Version'', a three-disc deluxe edition of the album. The first disc is the same as the one from the standard version, except the two covers have been moved to the third disc and replaced with new tracks. The second disc features the "skacoustic" recordings from the standard version of the album, with a different version of "She Has A Girlfriend Now" (featuring vocals by Nicole and Simone Olivia of Tip the Van) and eight additional acoustic tracks. The third disc consists of cover songs, including two that were previously released on the standard edition of the album. On November 28, 2011, a digital edition of the twenty-two track version of the ''Skacoustic'' disc was released on its own through iTunes and Amazon. Prior to this release, the ''Skacoustic'' disc was exclusive to physical copies. On May 15, 2012, a digital edition of "Bigger Better Bonus" was released on iTunes with 64 of the 65 then-released tracks and an additional 14 tracks, including the 7 songs from ''Fame, Fortune and Fornication'' that had not already appeared in the collection. The iTunes version features all 78 songs as one disc. The only track excluded from this version is the initially released acoustic version of "She Has a Girlfriend Now" featuring Laila K of Sonic Boom Six, making that track exclusive to the original 2010 physical edition. Due to the band's former label, Jive Records, owning the master recordings of all their old material, almost all of the songs on the album are re-recorded versions. Only the last three tracks included on the first disc ("Another F.U. Song", "Party Down", and "Slow Down") are previous recordings from'' Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps for Free''.〔("Reel Big Fish detail ''A Best of Us for the Rest of Us''. ) Punknews.org. June 23, 2010.〕 Coincidentally, ''A Best of Us...'' was released mere months after ''Skaboy JFK'', another ska hits compilation by Reel Big Fish's former Jive Records labelmates and then-current Rock Ridge Music labelmates the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, which also featured several re-recordings of earlier songs due to the same conflict over master recordings. The album title is a reference to the ''Seinfeld'' episode "The Strike" in which Frank Costanza shouts "A Festivus for the rest of us!" ==Track listing== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Best of Us for the Rest of Us」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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