{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{refimprove|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Nature's Best 2 | type = Compilation album | artist = Nature's Best series | cover = Nature's_Best_2_album_cover.jpeg | alt = | released = 4 October 2002 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = 140:21 | label = Sony Music New Zealand | producer = | prev_title = Nature's Best | prev_year = | next_title = Nature's Best 3 | next_year = }}
'''''Nature's Best 2''''' is a two-disc compilation album of 35 New Zealand popular music songs, numbers 31-65 on the APRA 75th Anniversary Top 100 New Zealand Songs of All Time. See ''Nature's Best'' for more information on the selection process of this list. <ref>{{Citation |title=Various - Nature's Best 2 - More Of New Zealand's Top Songs Of All-Time |date=2002 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/3020896-Various-Natures-Best-2-More-Of-New-Zealands-Top-Songs-Of-All-Time |access-date=2025-12-06 |language=en}}</ref>
''Nature's Best 2'' was released as part of a Nature's Best Box Set on 29 November 2005.
==Track listing==
===Disc one=== #"Outlook For Thursday" – DD Smash (Dave Dobbyn/DD Smash, 1983) #"Down In Splendour" – Straitjacket Fits (Andrew Brough, 1990) #"Better Be Home Soon" – Crowded House (Neil Finn, 1988) #"How Bizarre" – OMC (Alan Jansson/Pauly Fuemana, 1995) #"Language" – Dave Dobbyn (Dave Dobbyn, 1994) #"Message to My Girl" – Split Enz (Neil Finn, 1984) #"Poi E" – Pātea Māori Club (Dalvanius Prime, 1984) #"Stuff And Nonsense" – Split Enz (Tim Finn, 1979) #"Venus" – The Feelers (James Reid, 1998) #"System Virtue" – Emma Paki (Emma Paki, 1993) #"Fraction Too Much Friction" – Tim Finn (Tim Finn, 1983) #"French Letter" – Herbs (Tony Fonoti/Spencer Fusimalohi/Dilworth Karaka, 1995) #"Maxine" – Sharon O'Neill (Sharon O'Neill, 1983) #"Out on the Street" – Space Waltz (Alastair Riddell, 1974) #"Slippin' Away" – Max Merritt & The Meteors (Max Merritt, 1975) #"Violent" – Stellar* (Boh Runga, 1999) #"Why Does Love Do This To Me?" – The Exponents (Jordan Luck, 1992) #"1905" – Shona Laing (Shona Laing, 1972)
===Disc two=== #"Anchor Me" – The Mutton Birds (Don McGlashan, 1994) #"Bliss" – Th' Dudes (Dave Dobbyn/Ian Morris, 1979) #"For Today" – Netherworld Dancing Toys (Nick Sampson/Malcolm Black, 1984) #"Screems From Tha Old Plantation" – King Kapisi (Bill Urale/Kas Futialo, 2000) #"Cheryl Moana Marie" – John Rowles (John Rowles, 1969) #"Blue Day" – Mi-Sex (Murray Burns/Colin Bayley, 1985) #"Glorafilia" – Zed (Ben Campbell/Nathan King/Adrian Palmer, 1999) #"Good Morning Mr Rock 'N' Roll" – Headband (Tommy Adderley/Billy Kristian, 1972) #"History Never Repeats" – Split Enz (Neil Finn, 1981) #"In The Neighbourhood" – Sisters Underground (Alan Jansson/Hassanah Orogbu/Brenda Makaoeafi, 1994) #"Julia" – Citizen Band (Geoff Chunn, 1978) #"Pacifier" – Shihad (Karl Kippenberger/Tom Larkin/Phil Knight/Jon Toogood, 1999) #"Let's Think of Something" – Larry's Rebels (Roger Skinner, 1967) #"Bursting Through" – Bic Runga (Bic Runga, 1997) #"Liberty" – Greg Johnson (Greg Johnson, 1997) #"Sweet Disorder" – Strawpeople (Paul Casserly/Mark Tierney/Anthony Ioasa, 1994) #"Asian Paradise" – Sharon O'Neill (Sharon O'Neill, 1979)
==See also== * ''Nature's Best'' * ''Nature's Best 3'' * ''More Nature'' * ''Nature's Best DVD'' * Australasian Performing Right Association * Music of New Zealand * New Zealand rock
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