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The Very Best of Winger was a Winger 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...

released by Atlantic Records

Atlantic Records

Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

and Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company. It is owned by Warner Music Group.-History:Rhino was originally a novelty song and reissue company during the 1970s and 1980s, releasing compilation albums of pop, rock & roll, and rhythm & blues successes...

Company in 2001.

Most of the songs on the album were collected from the first three Winger studio albums, Winger
Winger (album)
Track 11, "Higher and Higher", was a CD bonus track. It wasn't on cassette copies of the album. It was also the B-side of the "Madalaine" single. In this day and age, just as CDs were beginning to become popular, it was not uncommon to include a bonus track like this.-Band:* Kip Winger – bass...

(1988), In the Heart of the Young
In the Heart of the Young
-Singles:*"Can't Get Enuff" / "In the Day We'll Never See"*"Miles Away / "Rainbow in the Rose"*"Easy Come Easy Go" / "Battle Stations"At least two more songs were recorded during the In the Heart of the Young sessions, but "All I Ever Wanted" and "Never" did not make it to the final album because...

(1990) and Pull (1993), but there is one new recording called "On the Inside" and a Japanese bonus track

Bonus track

In terms of recorded music, a bonus track is a piece of music which has been included on specific releases or reissues of an album. This is most often done as a promotional device, either as an incentive to customers to purchase albums they might otherwise not, or to repurchase albums they already...

from the Pull album called "Hell to Pay." According to Kip Winger

Kip Winger

Charles Frederick Kip Winger is an American rock musician, both a member of the hard rock band, Winger, and a solo artist.-Early days:Winger was born in Denver, Colorado to parents who were both jazz musicians....

, "On the Inside" was a leftover riff from the Pull sessions that he and Reb Beach

Reb Beach

Reb Beach is an American rock guitarist. He is a member of the bands Winger and Whitesnake...

worked into a complete song for the release of this compilation.

Track listing

"On the Inside" (Kip Winger, Reb Beach) – 4:24
"Blind Revolution Mad" (Winger, Beach) – 5:26
"Down Incognito
Down Incognito (song)
Down Incognito is a song by Winger, released as a single in 1993, from their album Pull. Released in 1993, it reached #15 on the Mainstream rock Billboard charts....

" (Winger, Beach) – 3:48
"Spell I'm Under" (Winger) – 3:56
"Who's the One" (Winger, Beach) – 5:46
"Junkyard Dog (Tears on Stone)" (Winger, Beach) – 6:55
"Hell to Pay" (Winger, Beach) – 3:24
"Can't Get Enuff
Can't Get Enuff
"Can't Get Enuff" is a single released in 1990 by the American Glam metal/Hard rock band Winger, from their album In the Heart of the Young....

" (Winger, Beach) – 4:24
"Under One Condition" (Winger, Beach) – 4:30
"Easy Come Easy Go" (Winger) – 4:06
"Rainbow in the Rose" (Winger, Beach) – 5:34
"Miles Away
Miles Away (Winger song)
"Miles Away" is a single released by American glam metal/hard rock band Winger, from their album In the Heart of the Young. Released in late 1990 to pop radio after already reaching number one in most AOR markets, the song peaked at #12 on the Hot 100. It is also significant for being Winger's only...

" (Paul Taylor) – 4:15
"Seventeen
Seventeen (Winger song)
"Seventeen" is a single released by the American glam metal/hard rock band Winger, from their album Winger. Released in 1988, the song charted at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite its pop metal sound, Kip Winger points out that the tune is musically a Progressive song and that it is actually...

" (Winger, Beach, Beau Hill) – 4:12
"Madalaine
Madalaine
"Madalaine" the debut single by the American glam metal/hard rock band Winger, from their self-titled debut album Winger. Released in 1988, the song reached #27 on the Mainstream rock Billboard charts. According to Kip Winger, it was one of the first 4 songs he and band mate Reb Beach wrote when...

" (Winger, Beach) – 3:47
"Hungry" (Winger, Beach) – 4:01
"Headed for a Heartbreak
Headed for a Heartbreak
"Headed for a Heartbreak" is a song released as a single by the American rock band Winger, from their self-titled debut album Winger. Released in 1988, the song reached #19 on the US Hot 100 and #8 on the US Mainstream Rock chart. The B-side to the single was "State of Emergency"....

" (Winger) – 5:15

Personnel

Kip Winger
Kip Winger
Charles Frederick Kip Winger is an American rock musician, both a member of the hard rock band, Winger, and a solo artist.-Early days:Winger was born in Denver, Colorado to parents who were both jazz musicians....

– vocals, bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

, keyboards
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
Reb Beach
Reb Beach
Reb Beach is an American rock guitarist. He is a member of the bands Winger and Whitesnake...

– 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...

s, vocals
Rod Morgenstein
Rod Morgenstein
Rod Morgenstein is an American drummer and music educator. He is best known for his work with the late '80s Heavy metal band Winger and with the Jazz fusion band Dixie Dregs. He also played with Fiona, Platypus, The Steve Morse Band, and Jelly Jam...

– drum
Drum
The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...

s and percussion
Paul Taylor – 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...

, keyboards
Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

, vocals
John Roth
John Roth (musician)
American guitarist John Roth, best known for his work with the rock bands Winger, Black Oak Arkansas, and Giant, has been touring and recording with national acts since the mid 1980‘s. John got his start at the age of 19 when Jim Dandy, Lead Vocalist of Black Oak Arkansas, asked him to join the...

– 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...

s, vocals

Track listing

Personnel

See also