Films About Ghosts (The Best Of...)

This article is about the album. For films about ghosts, see List of ghost films.

Films About Ghosts
Greatest hits album by Counting Crows
Released	November 25, 2003
Recorded	1993–2003
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	67:14
Label	Geffen
Producer	David Bryson, T Bone Burnett, Dennis Herring, Steve Lillywhite, David Lowery, Gil Norton, Brendan O'Brien
Counting Crows chronology
Hard Candy (2002)Hard Candy2002 Films about Ghosts (The Best Of...) (2003) New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 2003 (2006)New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall 20032006

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Films About Ghosts (The Best of Counting Crows) is a greatest hits album by the popular alternative rock band Counting Crows. It was released by Geffen Records on November 25, 2003. The album contains songs from all of their studio albums. The album takes its name from a line in "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby": "If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts."

Track listing

United States version

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Angels of the Silences" (from Recovering the Satellites)	Adam Duritz, Charlie Gillingham	3:39
2.	"Round Here" (from August and Everything After)	Duritz, David Bryson, Dave Janusko, Dan Jewett, Chris Roldan	5:32
3.	"Rain King" (from August and Everything After)	Duritz, Bryson	4:17
4.	"A Long December" (from Recovering the Satellites)	Duritz	4:58
5.	"Hanginaround" (from This Desert Life)	Duritz, Bryson, Dan Vickrey, Ben Mize	4:16
6.	"Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" (from This Desert Life)	Duritz	7:46
7.	"Mr. Jones" (from August and Everything After)	Duritz, Bryson	4:33
8.	"Recovering the Satellites" (from Recovering the Satellites)	Duritz	5:25
9.	"American Girls" (from Hard Candy)	Duritz	4:35
10.	"Big Yellow Taxi" (from Two Weeks Notice / with Vanessa Carlton)	Joni Mitchell	3:46
11.	"Omaha" (from August and Everything After)	Duritz	3:41
12.	"Friend of the Devil" (previously unreleased Grateful Dead cover)	Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, John Dawson	4:37
13.	"Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)" (from compilation album DGC Rarities Vol.1)	Duritz, Bryson	3:53
14.	"Anna Begins" (from August and Everything After)	Duritz, Bryson, Marty Jones, Toby Hawkins, Lydia Holly	4:32
15.	"Holiday in Spain" (from Hard Candy)	Duritz	3:50
16.	"She Don't Want Nobody Near" (previously unreleased)	Duritz, Brendan O'Brien	3:08

Later versions of this disc include "Accidentally in Love", the Crows' hit single from the May 2004 hit movie Shrek 2. The Dutch version of this album includes a new version of "Holiday in Spain", recorded as a duet with Dutch band Bløf. The single, in English and Dutch, went number one in the Netherlands, as did the album after the success of the single.

The original English version contained the song "Blues Run the Game", a cover of a Jackson C. Frank song. The South American version contained the song "4 White Stallions" (Live from Amsterdam) and Enhanced CD data.

This album was released twice in Australia, the second release containing a DVD of live performances. A version with a second disc containing the Music-Video-Edited versions of "American Girls", "Mrs. Potter's Lullaby", "Angels of the Silences", "Round Here", "Daylight Fading", "A Long December" and "Mr. Jones" was also released in the United Kingdom.

Release history

Country	Date
United States	November 25, 2003
United Kingdom	January 26, 2004

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2003	US Billboard 200	32
2004	Dutch Album top 100	1
	UK Album Charts	15

Single

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2004	"Accidentally in Love"	UK Singles Chart	28