The Day You Went Away: The Best of M2M

The Day You Went Away: The Best of M2M is the last album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

and greatest hits

Greatest hits

A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...

compilation by Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

teen-pop band M2M

M2M (band)

M2M was a pop music duo formed by two Norwegians, Marion Elise Raven and Marit Elisabeth Larsen. They released three albums under Atlantic Records and Warner Music: Shades of Purple, The Big Room, and The Day You Went Away: The Best of M2M, a greatest hits album released by their record label after...

, now disbanded.

The compilation includes all of their singles from their two studio albums Shades of Purple
Shades of Purple
-Singles:# "Don't Say You Love Me" # "Mirror Mirror" # "The Day You Went Away"# "Pretty Boy"# "Girl in Your Dreams"# "Everything You Do"...

and The Big Room
The Big Room
The Big Room is the second and final studio album by Norwegian pop music duo M2M.The album, despite a positive response from music critics and huge success in Asia, did not perform as well as their previous album Shades of Purple and failed to chart in the United States...

, as well as acoustic

Acoustic music

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versions of some other songs. It also contains a Mandarin Chinese version of their hit "Pretty Boy" and a Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

version of "Everything You Do". It also has three new songs, "Not to Me", "Is You", and "Wait for Me".

The liner notes include lyrics to the songs; however, there is a mistake in the lyrics for "Don't Say You Love Me". Instead of "...we're sitting there and you start kissing me...", what is written is "we're sitting there and you said you love me...". The written lyrics are from the Pokémon: The First Movie
Pokémon: The First Movie
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soundtrack version of the song, where the lyrics were changed to "you said you love me" to remove the reference to kissing, which it can be assumed was deemed inappropriate, given the target audience of the film. However, the Shades of Purple
Shades of Purple
-Singles:# "Don't Say You Love Me" # "Mirror Mirror" # "The Day You Went Away"# "Pretty Boy"# "Girl in Your Dreams"# "Everything You Do"...

album version of the song was the version included in the greatest hits album.

Track listing

"The Day You Went Away" – 3:43
"Mirror Mirror
Mirror Mirror (M2M song)
"Mirror Mirror" is a song recorded by pop band M2M. It was covered by American pop singer Taylor Horn in 2006 for her album Changes.-Track listing:US promo# "Mirror Mirror" – 3:19# "Mirror Mirror" – 3:50...

" – 3:21
"Pretty Boy" – 4:40
"Don't Say You Love Me
Don't Say You Love Me (M2M song)
"Don't Say You Love Me" is a song recorded by pop band M2M in 1999. It was originally featured on the soundtrack to the movie Pokémon: The First Movie. The single had success in the United States, reaching No. 2 on US Billboard singles sales chart and reaching No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and...

" – 3:46
"Everything" – 3:07
"Everything You Do
Everything You Do
"Everything You Do" is a song recorded by pop band M2M. It peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard Hot Dance Singles Sales.-Release:M2M recorded and released the original version of "Everything You Do" in 2000. The official remixes of the song were released in the same year...

" (re-recorded vocals version) – 4:05
"Girl In Your Dreams" – 3:40
"What You Do About Me" – 3:21
"Don't" (Acoustic version) – 3:30
"Wanna Be Where You Are" – 3:26
"Not to Me" – 3:09
"Is You" – 4:01
"Wait for Me" – 3:06
"Jennifer" (acoustic version) – 2:53
"Love Left For Me" (acoustic version) – 4:14
"Pretty Boy" (Mandarin Chinese version) – 4:39
"Everything" (acoustic version) – 3:41
"Don't Say You Love Me" (Tin Tin Out Remix) – 3:33
"Todo Lo Que Haces" ("Everything You Do" Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

version) – 4:02
"Mirror, Mirror" (Power Dance Remix) – 5:56

Personnel

Marit Larsen
Marit Larsen
Marit Elisabeth Larsen is a Norwegian singer and songwriter.She began playing violins at age of 5,and played it until the age of 8. She gained international fame during her teenage years as a member of the pop duo M2M with childhood friend Marion Raven. More recently she has pursued her own music...

– 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...

, 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...
Marion Raven
Marion Raven
Marion Elise Ravn, born 25 May 1984 in Lørenskog, Norway, is a Norwegian singer-songwriter, and former child actress. Her surname is of Norse origin, with Ravn meaning Raven, which she adopted as her stage name Marion Raven as well as her trademark raven logo. She was one-half of the now defunct...

– vocals, piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

, 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...
Matt Rowe – production, arrangement
Dane DeViller – production, arrangement
Sean Hosein – production, arrangement
Per Magnusson – production, arrangement
David Kreuger – production, arrangement
Jimmy Bralower – production, arrangement
Peter Zizzo – production, arrangement
Kenneth M. Lewis – production, arrangement
Craig Kallman – production, arrangement
T-Bone Wolk – production, arrangement, bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

, acoustic guitar, mandolin
Mandolin
A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

, organ
Organ (music)
The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

, wurlitzer
Wurlitzer
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to simply as Wurlitzer, was an American company that produced stringed instruments, woodwinds, brass instruments, theatre organs, band organs, orchestrions, electronic organs, electric pianos and jukeboxes....
Dean Sharp – drum
Drummer
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s, 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...
Tron Syversion – recording
John Holbrook – recording, mixing
Damien Shannon – Assistant engineering
Audio engineering
An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
Jimi K. Bones – slide guitar
Slide guitar
Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...
Jose Ramon Florez – Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

translator ("Todo Lo Que Haces")
Neil Perry – recording
Joshua – recording production (Norwegian)

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