RetroPop

Busted are celebrating 20 years since their debut album with their brand new ‘Greatest Hits’ package. 

Having shared reimagined 2.0 versions of Loser Kid (feat. Simple Plan), Meet You There (feat. Neck Deep) and Crashed The Wedding (feat. All Time Low), the group return with their first-ever best-of collection on September 15.

The album is launched alongside another crowd-pleasing collab as Busted are joined by Jonas Brothers for a rejuvenated take on Year 3000.

Switching things up, the LP sees Charlie Simpson, James Bourne and Matt Willis collate newly recorded versions of all of Busted’s biggest hits, fan favourites and live staples.

Meanwhile, the album’s deluxe formats also feature a host of previously unreleased dream collaboration special guests with McFly, James Arthur, You Me At Six, The Vamps, Bowling For Soup, Dashboard Confessional, Deaf Havana, Wheatus and rising newcomer Charlotte Sands.

Also featured is a new version of Hanson’s MMMBop, a collaboration with the sibling trio, and the brand new song, Good One.

‘Greatest Hits’ is available to pre-order now.

Tracklist: Busted – Greatest Hits

1. Year 3000 2.0 (Feat. Jonas Brothers)
2. Loser Kid 2.0 (Feat. Simple Plan)
3. 3AM 2.0 (Feat. James Arthur)
4. Crashed The Wedding 2.0 (Feat. All Time Low)
5. Meet You There 2.0 (Feat. Neck Deep)
6. Air Hostess 2.0 (Feat. You Me At Six)
7. Everything I Knew 2.0 (Feat. Dashboard Confessional)
8. What I Go To School For 2.0 (Feat. The Vamps)
9. Sleeping With The Light On 2.0 (Feat. Deaf Havana)
10. MMMBop 2.0 (Feat. Hanson)
11. You Said No 2.0 (Feat. Charlotte Sands)
12. Thunderbirds Are Go 2.0 (Feat. McFly)
13. She Want’s To Be Me 2.0 (Feat. Bowling for Soup)
14. Who’s David 2.0 (Feat. Wheatus)
15. Year 3000 (Hits Version)
16. Loser Kid (Hits Version)
17. Good One
18. 3AM (Hits Version)
19. What I Go To School For (Hits Version)
20. Crashed The Wedding (Hits Version)
21. You Said No (Hits Version)
22. Sleeping With The Light On (Hits Version)
23. Air Hostess (Hits Version)
24. Thunderbirds Are Go (Hits Version)
25. Who’s David (Hits Version)

Marking their latest milestone, the band will also embark on a huge arena tour, kicking off in September and playing across the UK and Ireland through October – with Matt promising it will be their “best ever”.

Speaking exclusively in RETROPOP’s May 2023 cover feature, he says: “We have so many ideas,. We’re in the stage where we’re throwing everything at people and they’re saying, ‘Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.’ Then they come back and say, ‘No, no, no, no, no – that’s gonna cost you all of your money. You can’t do that!’

“But at the moment, we’re just coming up with the coolest shit we can think of and if 30 per cent of what we’ve come up with happens, it will be the best show ever.”

Time

Do you enjoy ironic pop-music syncs? Would you cheer at the spectacle of a cop car exploding to the guileless, pubescent harmony of Hanson’s “MMMBop”? Does the thought of an aerial apocalypse scored by Len’s cartoonishly upbeat “Steal My Sunshine” absolutely crack you up? Do you thrill at the prospect of watching a bad guy get shot between the legs, on the roof of a speeding car, as Oasis’ coruscating “Champagne Supernova” blares in the background? If so, you’re going to love Peacock’s new action comedy, Twisted Metal, premiering July 27.

But if the above juxtapositions don’t strike you as the height of wit, well then, I regret to inform you that they are all real, representative examples of the show’s sense of humor. In a serendipitous nod to Barbie mania, there’s also a torture montage set to Aqua’s “Barbie Girl.” It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that this bloody, quippy, self-satisfied adaptation of the ’90s Playstation vehicular combat games comes from the minds of Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (with Cobra Kai’s Michael Jonathan Smith serving as showrunner).