Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss

Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss is a compilation album by American stoner rock band Kyuss, released in 2000 through Elektra Records. Although promoted as a "best of" album, it features mostly rare tracks and B-sides and includes only five tracks from the band's four studio albums. The final four tracks are live recordings from a May 24, 1994 performance in Hamburg, previously released as the Live at Marquee Club EP which was included with the first 3,000 copies of the band's 1994 album Welcome to Sky Valley released in Germany and Australia; the tracks were also included on various editions of the "Demon Cleaner" single that same year.

Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss
Compilation album by Kyuss
Released	November 28, 2000
Recorded	1991–1995
Genre	Stoner rock, heavy metal
Length	75:13
Label	Elektra
Producer	Kyuss, Chris Goss, Catherine Enny, Ron Krown, Hutch
Kyuss chronology
Kyuss / Queens of the Stone Age (1997) Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss (2000)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]

Track listing

Writing credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[3]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Un Sandpiper" (from the "Gardenia" single, 1995)	Josh Homme, Scott Reeder, John Garcia, Alfredo Hernández	8:16
2.	"Shine" (from a split single with Wool, 1996)	Reeder	5:55
3.	"50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up)" (from Blues for the Red Sun, 1992)	Brant Bjork	5:45
4.	"Mudfly" (from the "One Inch Man" single, 1995)	Homme	2:26
5.	"Demon Cleaner" (from Welcome to Sky Valley, 1994)	Homme	5:20
6.	"A Day Early and a Dollar Extra" (from the "One Inch Man" single, 1995)	Homme	2:17
7.	"I'm Not" (from Wretch, 1991)	Homme, Garcia	4:30
8.	"Hurricane" (from ...And the Circus Leaves Town, 1995)	Homme, Garcia	2:42
9.	"Flip the Phase" (from the "One Inch Man" single, 1995)	Homme	2:16
10.	"Fatso Forgotso" (from the "Into the Void" single, 1996)	Reeder	8:34
11.	"El Rodeo" (from ...And the Circus Leaves Town, 1995)	Homme	5:36
12.	"Gardenia" (live; from Live at the Marquee Club and the "Demon Cleaner" single, 1994)	Bjork	6:46
13.	"Thumb" (live; from Live at the Marquee Club and the "Demon Cleaner" single, 1994)	Homme, Bjork	4:38
14.	"Conan Troutman" (live; from Live at the Marquee Club and the "Demon Cleaner" single, 1994)	Homme	2:18
15.	"Freedom Run" (live; from Live at the Marquee Club and the "Demon Cleaner" single, 1994)	Homme, Bjork	7:54

Tracks 12–15 recorded May 24, 1994, at the Marquee Club in Hamburg, Germany.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[3]

Band John Garcia – vocals, producer Josh Homme – guitar, producer Scott Reeder – bass guitar on tracks 1, 2, 4–6, and 8–15; producer Nick Oliveri – bass guitar on tracks 3 and 7; producer Alfredo Hernández – drums on tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8–15; producer Brant Bjork – drums on tracks 3, 5, and 7; producer

Production Niels Anderson – track compiler Batterman – track compiler Henning Mielke – compilation supervisor Chris Goss – producer of tracks 1, 3, and 5 Catherine Enny – producer of track 7 Ron Krown – producer of track 7 Patrick "Hutch" Hutchinson – recording engineer and producer of tracks 12–15 Der Diener – cover design Arne Ketelsen – cover photography

References

1. Rivadavia, Eduardo. "allmusic ((( Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss > Review )))". AllMusic. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
2. Brackett, Nathan. "Kyuss". The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. November 2004. pg. 473, cited March 17, 2010
3. Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss (CD liner notes). Kyuss. New York: Elektra Records. 2000. 7559-62571-2.CS1 maint: others (link)