Every Word Means No - Smashmouth

Delicious - Semisonic

Trouble With Boys - Loreta

I wouldn’t normally Do This Kind Of Thing - Robbie Williams

Summer - Lisa Loeb

What Reasons - Deckard

Beats The Hell Out Of Me - Waltons

Question Everything - 8Stops7

Smelly Cat (1-2) What’s That Smell - Chrissy Hynde and Lisa Kudrow

View From The Other Side - Duncan Sheik

Angel And The Jerk - Billie Joe Armstrong and Penelope Houston

Friends Til The End (I’ll Be There For You) - Thor El

Including such artists as SMASHMOUTH, SEMISONIC, and a duet by BILLY JOE ARMSTRONG (GREEN DAY) and PENELOPE HOUSTON, this is a must have compilation in and of itself. But this record also includes audio clips from the show, and an unforgettable rendition of SMELLY CAT performed by Lisa Kudrow and the PRETENDERS, a track produced by Chrissy Hynde. I am sure you all remember her guest appearance on the show when she played Phoebe’s replacement as resident singer at Central Perk!

What follows are some excerpts from the press release on the Reprise Records Website (check that out at www.repriserec.com)

"'Friends' appeals to a very wide demographic cross section," explains Karen Glauber, who served as Music Supervisor on "Friends Again." "Because of that, we wanted to reflect a broader range of music on this album. At the same time, all of the songs had to be something you might actually hear on the show."

Contributing to the "Friends"-familiar feeling of the collection, "Friends Again" includes selected sound bytes taken from various episodes as well as one of the show's most memorable musical highlights: a rendition of "Smelly Cat" as performed by Lisa Kudrow in her role as frontwoman for Phoebe Buffay And The Hairballs. The track features The Pretenders and was produced by Chrissie Hynde and Kevin Bright. "We knew we had to include 'Smelly Cat'," Glauber says, "especially when Chrissie agreed to be involved."

"Friends Again" reads like a veritable Who's Who of today's most promising rock and pop artists, including the Grammy-nominated and platinum-selling Semisonic who contributed a newly recorded version of their original "Delicious," first heard on the group's debut release, "Great Divide." "We had played the song live during the past year," remarks Semisonic's founder and frontman Dan Wilson, "and that turned it into a much more rousing, tear-the-roof-off-the-sucker moment. When we were asked to get involved in the "Friends" project, I thought it would be great to record it the way we play it live. We even used a live audience to sing along with the chorus. It's a crowd from Toledo, Ohio, in April of this year - they were especially in the groove that night."

"Friends Again" also includes a rendition of the Pet Shop Boys' "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing" as performed Robbie Williams, "Summer" by Lisa Loeb and Duncan Sheik's "View From The Other Side." The Smash Mouth original "Every Word Means No," provides an audio sneak peak at an upcoming episode featuring the band's lead singer, Steve Harwell. The album also features a rap version of the show's theme song "'Til The End (I'll Be There For You)" by newcomer Thor-El and selections from such promising new Reprise groups as Deckard ("What Reason") and 8STOPS7 ("Question Everything"). Rounding out the "Friends Again" assortment is "Beats The Hell Out Of Me," performed by the Waltons and produced by Ed Robertson of Barenaked Ladies and a once-in-a- lifetime duet between Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and punk music legend Penelope Houston on "Angel And The Jerk."

Friends Again" enters the music marketplace on November 23,1999.

The television series "Friends" is produced by Bright / Kauffman / Crane Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.