Ten Years Gone: The Best of Everclear is a compilation album by the American rock band Everclear, released on November 11, 2008. The album celebrates the band's 10-year anniversary and features a selection of their most popular songs, as well as two new tracks.

The album’s title and cover art pay homage to classic rock legends: the title references a Led Zeppelin song, while the art mimics the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St.. This reflects Alexakis’s ambition to elevate his songwriting to the level of classic American storytellers like Bruce Springsteen or John Mellencamp.

Executive Summary

  1. Heroin Girl (from the album Sparkle and Fade, 1995)
  2. Everything to Everyone (from the album Slow Motion Daydream, 2001)
  3. Lucky Denver Mint (from the album Sparkle and Fade, 1995)
  4. All of This (from the album Slow Motion Daydream, 2001)
  5. Big Casino (from the album Songs from an American Movie Vol. Two: Good Time for a Bad Attitude, 2000)
  6. The Lonesome Crowded West (from the album The Lonesome Crowded West, 1997)
  7. Everything to Everyone (Acoustic) (new recording)
  8. Last Song (from the album Slow Motion Daydream, 2001)
  9. Brown Eyed Girl (from the album Songs from an American Movie Vol. Two: Good Time for a Bad Attitude, 2000) - a cover of the Van Morrison classic
  10. Summer of '69 (from the album Ten Years Gone: The Best of Everclear, 2008) - a new song
  11. Mona Lisa Smile (from the album Slow Motion Daydream, 2001)

"Sex with a Movie Star (The Good Witch Gone Bad)": An exclusive track that did not appear on previous studio albums.

Unique Tracks: Includes "The New Disease" (previously only on a CD single) and the otherwise unreleased "Sex With a Movie Star (The Good Witch Gone Bad)".

The Verdict If there is a criticism to be levied at Ten Years Gone, it is the same criticism levied at the band itself during their peak: the production is very much of its time. The late-90s studio sheen can feel a bit over-polished, stripping away some of the grit that made their 1995 debut, Sparkle and Fade, so compelling. The focus on their pop-rock era (the So Much for the Afterglow period) overshadows their punk roots, but commercially, this is the correct move.

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