Dashboard Confessional Unveils 20th Anniversary Best-Of and Tour

'The Best Ones of the Best Ones' will feature tracks from throughout Chris Carrabba's career

BY Brock ThiessenPublished Sep 16, 2019

Chris Carrabba is celebrating 20 years of Dashboard Confessional, both via a newly announced career-spanning compilation and an anniversary tour.

The comp is called The Best Ones of the Best Ones, and it will arrive on January 31. It features various tracks from across the project's long-running career.

A press release explains the record like this:

The album is a thoughtfully curated collection of the band's most beloved songs and features selections from all seven studio albums, the So Impossible and The Drowning EPs, and the band's legendary, Platinum-certified MTV Unplugged performance. From start to finish, The Best Ones of the Best Ones showcases the profound durability of Dashboard Confessional's music over the past two decades.

You can pre-order The Best Ones of the Best Ones as a double-LP, as well as in multiple bundles.

As for Dashboard Confessional's 20th anniversary tour, it will begin early next year just after the release of the compilation. It will find the project performing 2001's The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most and follow-up effort 2003's A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar during select two-night stints in various U.S. cities.

Other dates will find Dashboard Confessional playing a mix of songs from both albums. The Get Up Kids and Piebald will join as support on select dates of the tour.

You can see the full schedule, which unfortunately does not include any Canadian dates, below. General tickets go on sale Friday (September 20) at 10 a.m. local time.

The Best Ones of the Best Ones:

1. Screaming Infidelities (The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most)
2. The Swiss Army Romance (The Swiss Army Romance)
3. Again I Go Unnoticed (The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most)
4. Saints and Sailors (The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most)
5. The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most (The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most)
6. Hands Down (So Impossible)
7. So Impossible (So Impossible)
8. The Best Deceptions (MTV Unplugged)
9. The Sharp Hint Of New Tears (MTV Unplugged)
10. The Brilliant Dance (MTV Unplugged)
11. Drowning (The Drowning)
12. Ghost Of A Good Thing (A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar)
13. Don't Wait (Dusk and Summer)
14. Stolen (Dusk and Summer)
15. So Long, So Long (Dusk and Summer)
16. Vindicated (Dusk and Summer)
17. Fever Dreams (The Shade Of Poison Trees)
18. Belle Of The Boulevard (Alter the Ending)
19. We Fight (Crooked Shadows)
20. Heart Beat Here (Crooked Shadows)

Tour dates:

09/28 Buffalo, NY - Alternative Buffalo's Birthday Show 2019

10/10 Glasgow, UK - King Tuts Wah Wah hut

10/11 Manchester, UK - Deaf Institute

10/13 London, UK  - St. Pancras Old Church

10/14 London, UK  - St. Pancras Old Church

10/15 London, UK  - St. Pancras Old Church

10/17 Paris, FR - La Boule Noire

10/18 Brussels, BE - AB Club

10/19 Munich, DE - Feierwerk

10/20 Berlin, DE - Privatclub

10/22 Cologne, DE - Luxor

10/23 Eindhoven, NL - Dynamo

02/04 Dallas, TX - House Of Blues *

02/05 Austin, TX - Stubb's *

02/07 Phoenix, AZ - Van Buren *

02/08 Anaheim, CA - House Of Blues *

02/11 San Diego, CA – Observatory North Park *

02/14 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern *

02/15 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore *%

02/16 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore *+

02/18 Seattle, WA - The Showbox *

02/19 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom *

02/21 Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot *

02/22 Denver, CO - Ogden *

02/23 Kansas City, MO - Truman ^

02/25 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue ^

02/26 Milwaukee, WI - The Rave ^

02/28 Chicago, IL - House Of Blues ^%

02/29 Chicago, IL - House Of Blues ^+

03/03 Detroit, MI - St. Andrews%

03/04 Detroit, MI - St. Andrews+

03/06 Columbus, OH - Express Live ^

03/07 Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE

03/10 New York, NY - Webster Hall ^%

03/11 New York, NY - Webster Hall ^+

03/13 Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom ^

03/14 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club ^%

03/15 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club ^+

03/17 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre Of Living Arts ^%

03/18 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre Of Living Arts ^+

03/20 Boston, MA - Paradise ^%

03/21 Boston, MA - Paradise ^+

03/26 Orlando, FL - House Of Blues ^

03/27 Atlanta, GA - Masquerade ^

03/28 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium ^

* with Piebald

^ with The Get Up Kids

% Performing The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most

+ Performing A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar
 

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