The Rare, the Raw and the Rest is a 1999 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...

 by British hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band Thunder

Thunder (band)

Thunder were an English hard rock band, who originally formed in 1989 when the band Terraplane broke up, leaving lead singer Danny Bowes and guitarist/main songwriter Luke Morley to form a new group, namely Thunder...

. It is a collection of b-sides

B-Sides

B-Sides is an iTunes-exclusive album from the Coventry Trio The Enemy, consisting of ten songs that were B-sides to the single releases from their debut album We'll Live and Die in These Towns.-Track list:#Fear Killed the Youth of Our Nation...

, studio out-takes and live tracks recorded during the time that the band was signed to EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

 Records, many of which were either unreleased or were unavailable on CD prior to their inclusion on this compilation. The album was compiled by the band's lead guitarist & primary songwriter Luke Morley

Luke Morley

Luke Morley is the lead guitarist and co-songwriter for the rock band The Union. From 1989 to 2009 he was the guitarist, chief songwriter and producer for the hard rock band Thunder...

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Track listing

Songs written by Luke Morley, except where noted:

1. Girl's Going Out Of Her Head
2. Another Shot of Love (live)
3. Baby I'll Be Gone (Luke Morley, Andy Taylor)
4. Stay With Me (Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood)
5. She's Like Ice (previously unreleased) (Luke Morley)
6. Bigger Than Both Of Us (Luke Morley)
7. The Fire Is Gone (Luke Morley)
8. Stand Up (live acoustic) (Luke Morley, Garry James)
9. She's My Inspiration
10. Move On
11. 5:15 (Live) (Pete Townshend)
12. Future Train (second version - previously unreleased) (Mikael Hoglund, Garry James, Luke Morley, Ben Matthews)
13. Can't Get By On Love (previously unreleased)
14. Hand In A Glove (previously unreleased) (Luke Morley, Garry James)
15. History In The Making (previously unreleased)
16. Between The Covers (previously unreleased)

Personnel

• Danny Bowes
  Danny Bowes
  Danny Bowes was the lead singer with the rock act, Thunder. Previously, he was a member of Nuthin' Fancy, 1980s group Terraplane, as well as occasionally playing the odd gig or two with his group Danny and the Doowops...
  
   - vocals
• Luke Morley
  Luke Morley
  Luke Morley is the lead guitarist and co-songwriter for the rock band The Union. From 1989 to 2009 he was the guitarist, chief songwriter and producer for the hard rock band Thunder...
  
   - guitars
• Gary James
  Gary James
  Gary Milton James, popularly known as 'Harry' James is the drummer for themelodic rock band Magnum,although he is best known as the drummer for the now defunct hard rock band Thunder....
  
   - drums, percussion
• Ben Matthews
  Ben Matthews
  Ben Matthews was the guitarist and keyboard player with the hard rock band Thunder. He is also an experienced studio engineer and mixer; he worked with progressive rock act Mostly Autumn as studio engineer on their 2005 album Storms Over Still Water. He also guested on their 2006 live album...
  
   - guitars, piano, organ
• Mark 'Snake' Luckhurst
  Mark 'Snake' Luckhurst
  Mark Luckhurst, and nicknamed Snake was a founding member of the British hard rock band Thunder, playing bass on their first two albums. Backstreet Symphony and Laughing on Judgement Day. He parted company with the band at the end of 1992 citing 'personal differences'...
  
   - bass guitar on tracks 1,2,3,6,9,13 & 15
• Nick Linden - bass guitar on track 4
• Mikael Hoglund
  Mikael Höglund
  Mikael Höglund is a Swedish bass player, previously of the bands Tryckvåg, Great King Rat and Thunder, appearing on the 1995 album Behind Closed Doors, Live Circuit and Their Finest Hour...and a bit....
  
   - bass guitar on tracks 8,10,11 and 12.
• Andy Taylor
  Andy Taylor (guitarist)
  Andy Taylor is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as a member of Duran Duran and The Power Station....
  
  - guitar on "Stay With Me"