The Best of Cold Chisel

The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You is a greatest hits album released in October 2011 by Australian rock band, Cold Chisel. It debuted at No.2 in Australia [1] A limited edition included a bonus disc that featured a dozen of the band's most loved covers.

The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You
Greatest hits album by Cold Chisel
Released	14 October 2011
Recorded	1978–2011
Genre	Rock, Blues, Classic rock
Length	73.28 (2011)
Label	Warner Music
Producer	Cold Chisel, Kevin Shirley, Mark Opitz, Nash Chambers, Peter Walker, Richard Batchens
Cold Chisel chronology
Covered (2011) The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You (2011) No Plans (2012)

A Deluxe edition was released in 28 September 2018.[2]

In 2019, the album was certified 4x Platinum in Australia.

Background

Following the death of the group’s drummer, Steve Prestwich in 2011, Jimmy Barnes and company regrouped for their first new compositions in over 13 years. The album includes two new tracks, "All For You" and "HQ454 Monroe" and 18 greatest hits. The greatest hits tracks were chosen by their fans who voted for their favourites on their website.

The album's full track listing was announced on their website on 25 September 2011.[3]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All Music	[4]
The AU Review	[5]

Anna-Maria Megalogenis from The AU Review gave the album 9/10, saying: "It is apparent that Cold Chisel produced some damn good Aussie pub rock songs, rich with lyrical imagery (penned mostly by keyboardist Don Walker), easy to sing along to and songs tinged with melancholia". She added, "Words fail to capture how damn good this album is".[5]

Jon O'Brien from All Music said; "The Adelaide quintet's tales of excess have often overshadowed their musical output, but "All for You" is a labor of love proving that they deserve their legendary status.[4]

Track listing

2011 release

CD1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Standing on the Outside"	Don Walker	East	2:56
2.	"Flame Trees"	Steve Prestwich Walker	Twentieth Century	4:24
3.	"Khe Sanh"	Walker	Cold Chisel	4:10
4.	"When the War Is Over"	Prestwich	Circus Animals	4:25
5.	"Cheap Wine"	Walker	East	3:25
6.	"Bow River"	Ian Moss	Circus Animals	4:22
7.	"Rising Sun"	Jimmy Barnes	East	3:27
8.	"Choirgirl"	Walker	East	3:25
9.	"All for You"	Walker	The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You	4:57
10.	"Saturday Night"	Walker	Twentieth Century	4:21
11.	"Forever Now"	Prestwich	Circus Animals	4:27
12.	"Breakfast At Sweethearts"	Walker	Breakfast at Sweethearts	4:10
13.	"Yakuza Girls"	Walker	The Last Wave of Summer	2:25
14.	"Four Walls"	Walker	East	2:26
15.	"You Got Nothing I Want"	Barnes	Circus Animals	3:16
16.	"My Baby"	Phil Small	East	3:16
17.	"Shipping Steel"	Walker	Breakfast at Sweethearts	3:24
18.	"Ita"	Walker	East	3:35
19.	"Hq454 Monroe"	Troy Cassar-Daley Walker	The Best of Cold Chisel	3:11
20.	"Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)"	Barnes Walker	Breakfast at Sweethearts	2:50

Uncovered (Limited edition bonus disc)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Knockin' on Heaven's Door"	Bob Dylan	5:50
2.	"Georgia On My Mind"	Hoagy Carmichael Stuart Gorrell	4:43
3.	"Wild Thing"	Chip Taylor	5:02
4.	"Long As I Can See the Light"	John Fogerty	4:46
5.	"Don't Let Go"	Jesse Stone	4:13
6.	"It's Only Make Believe"	Jack Nance Conway Twitty	2:52
7.	"River Deep – Mountain High"	Phil Spector Jeff Barry Ellie Greenwich	3:13
8.	"Let's Go Get Stoned"	Nickolas Ashford, & Valerie Simpson Josephine Armstead	5:12
9.	"When Something Is Wrong With My Baby"	Isaac Hayes David Porter	5:51
10.	"Big River"	Johnny Cash	2:51
11.	"Cry Me a River"	Arthur Hamilton	3:42
12.	"Sunshine"	Paul Hewson	5:59

2018 release (2CD set)

CD1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Standing on the Outside"	Don Walker	East	2:56
2.	"Khe Sanh"	Walker	Cold Chisel	4:10
3.	"When the War Is Over"	Prestwich	Circus Animals	4:25
4.	"Bow River"	Ian Moss	Circus Animals	4:22
5.	"Rising Sun"	Jimmy Barnes	East	3:27
6.	"Lost"	Wes Carr Walker	The Perfect Crime	4:05
7.	"Star Hotel"	Walker	East	4:07
8.	"All for You"	Walker	The Best of Cold Chisel: All for You	4:57
9.	"Saturday Night"	Walker	Twentieth Century	4:21
10.	"No Plans"	Walker	No Plans	2:37
11.	"Choirgirl"	Walker	East	3:25
12.	"Conversations"	Walker	Breakfast at Sweethearts	4:33
13.	"Merry-Go-Round"	Walker	Breakfast at Sweethearts	4:33
14.	"Janelle"	Walker	Twentieth Century	3:38
15.	"No Sense"	Barnes	Twentieth Century	2:59
16.	"Water into Wine"	Prestwich	The Last Wave of Summer	4:54
17.	"Letter to Alan"	Walker	Circus Animals	5:45
18.	"The Last Wave of Summer"	Walker	The Last Wave of Summer	5:22

CD2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"Cheap Wine"	Walker	East	3:25
2.	"Flame Trees"	Steve Prestwich Walker	Twentieth Century	4:24
3.	"Forever Now"	Prestwich	Circus Animals	4:26
4.	"Breakfast At Sweethearts"	Walker	Breakfast at Sweethearts	4:10
5.	"Yakuza Girls"	Walker	The Last Wave of Summer	2:25
6.	"Four Walls"	Walker	East	2:26
7.	"Long Dark Road"	Barnes Ben Rodgers	The Perfect Crime	4:34
8.	"Ita"	Walker	East	3:34
9.	"The Perfect Crime"	Walker	The Perfect Crime	2:41
10.	"You Got Nothing I Want"	Barnes	Circus Animals	3:16
11.	"My Baby"	Phil Small	East	3:16
12.	"Home and Broken Hearted"	Walker	Cold Chisel	3:24
13.	"The Things I Love in You"	Walker	The Last Wave of Summer	3:20
14.	"Everybody"	Walker	No Plans	3:40
15.	"Shipping Steel"	Walker	Breakfast at Sweethearts	3:24
16.	"Hq454 Monroe"	Troy Cassar-Daley Walker	The Best of Cold Chisel	3:11
17.	"One Long Day"	Walker	Cold Chisel	7:22
18.	"Goodbye (Astrid Goodbye)"	Barnes Walker	Breakfast at Sweethearts	2:50
19.	"The Party's Over"		Northbound	3:03

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2011–19)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[6]	2
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[7]	5

Year-end charts

In 2011, it was the third-highest selling album by an Australian artist after Gotye's Making Mirrors and Reece Mastin's Reece Mastin. It was No. 17 over-all.

Chart (2011)	Position
Australian Albums Chart[8]	17
New Zealand Albums Chart	35

Chart (2012)	Position
Australian Albums Chart[9]	44

Chart (2015)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[10]	51

Chart (2016)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[11]	79

Chart (2017)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[12]	47

Chart (2018)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[13]	29

Chart (2019)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[14]	37

Chart (2020)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[15]	30

Decade-end charts

Chart (2010-2019)	Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[16]	18
Australian Artist Albums (ARIA)[16]	2

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[17]	4× Platinum	280,000
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Edition(s)	Label	Catalogue
Australia	14 October 2011[18]	CD digital download streaming	Standard	Warner Music Australia	5249889762
		2CD digital download streaming 2xVinyl	Standard + Limited Edition Bonus disc		5249889775
	28 September 2018[19][20]		Deluxe Edition	Cold Chisel / Universal Music Australia	CCC003 / CCCLP003

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