LOULAM1 Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 The top 10 Greatest Hits albums in your own collection: Decade by Neil Young Story of the Clash, Vol. 1 Chronicles by Rush Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits 1974-1978 The Ultimate Yes Kettle Whistle by Jane's Addiction Cars - Complete Greatest Hits Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings [bOX SET] The Police The Who: The Ultimate Collection [LIMITED EDITION] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] Led Zeppelin [bOX SET] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruins4777 Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 (edited) decade is...i don't know. i don't like greatest hits in the first place, but i don't feel decade does him justice anyways. 2 songs from tonights the night are tired eyes and the title song? come on baby let's go downtown, world on a string, and mellow my mind are all significantly better. but to be fair tonights the night is an album that is just so much better as a full album then random songs here and there. 2 songs from on the beach, neil's finest album. ambulance blues is a top 5 neil song. the entire second side of that vinyl is pure freaking bliss. i just have a lot of issues with this album. but perhaps the biggest gripe is the fact that there is one song from zuma on there. zuma is just a terribly underrated album, imo neil's 3rd or fourth best. and the only one they have is cortez the killer, yes i realize most people identify the album with that song, but if more people would hear dangerbird they'd be swung. there's just a lot of problems i have with decade, what i've said so far is just a tip of the iceberg. the one thing i did enjoy a lot about it though was how it ends with "long may you run" though to be perfectly honest, throwing together a bunch of random neil young songs from every album is a pretty decent formula for a great album. well onto the actual topic. pearl jam's greatest hits isn't that bad.... bruce's greatest hits isn't great...but the inclusion of blood brothers and murder incorporated makes it worthwhile. all of bob dylan's greatest hits suck. Edited August 12, 2006 by bruins4777 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threestars Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Meh...I don't do greatest hits. If I like the band I have their albums, why would I need the greatest hits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammyk Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Sometimes you may not like all their songs? Just their umm greatest ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threestars Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Me not so much....I take the rough with the smooth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruins4777 Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 i pretty much have the same stance as three stars...though i'm somewhat of a completist with certain artists, so i get everything, even if it's a stupid greatest hits i know i'll end up criticizing. greatest hits helped me out with bruce though. i didn't really know where to go with him, so i found his greatest hits and worked my way from there and now i'm a pure bruce addict. so i guess greatest hits can work in that sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 (edited) I get what you are saying. For artists that I love, I always find the greatest hits albums lacking because there are always those personal favorites that weren't big hits, but moved you personally. And it's those songs that mean more to you. One example for me, is Don Henley - "Actual Miles" is still one of my favorite "Greatest Hits" albums, mostly because there are a couple good new songs added to it and a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows". But after listening to "Actual Miles" I'm left feeling like it's incomplete with "Gimme What You Got", "Johnny Can't Read" and "A Month of Sundays". On the other hand, there are artists who I can ONLY listen to their Greatest Hits. For example, Kate Bush. I just can't get into her other albums. Some of my rather snooty friends stick their nose in the air about "The Whole Story" saying that I'm not getting the context, the flow of listening to these songs in their original order as they were meant to be heard. That and I don't know what I am missing with all her other wonderful songs. But I just really can't get into it. Given the caveat that my top 20 greatest hits albums does in not fully reflect my favorite artists (except #1 and #9). For many of the artists listed, I have no album EXCEPT the greatest hits. Note that I couldn't filter down "rock" because I can never figure out what is rock and what isn't. Is John Mellencamp "rock" or "pop" or "country" or "folk" or "alternative" or.... (1) Waiting for a Miracle - Bruce Cockburn (2) Billy Joel - Greatest Hits (3) Gorden Lightfoot - Gord's Gold Volume I (didn't like Volume II except "Wreck") (4) David Bowie - Best of Bowie (5) Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget (6) Reba McEntire - Greatest Hits Volume II (7) Billy Idol - Greatest Hits (8) Diana Ross - Millennium Collection (9) John Lennon - John Lennon Collection (10) Joni Mitchell - Hits (11) Melissa Ethridge - Road Less Travelled (12) Roy Orbison - All Time Greatest Hits (13) Reba McEntire - I'm a Survivor (Greatest Hits Volume III) (14) ZZ Top - Chrome, Smoke and BBQ (15) Sloan - A-Sides Win (16) Murray McLachlan - Murray McLauchlan: Greatest Hits (17) Rob Zombie - Past, Present and Future (18) Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits (19) John Mellencamp - Words & Music (20) Supertramp - The Very Best of Supertramp Honourable mention goes to: Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet, Hole - Live Through This and Faith No More- The Real Thing. Hrm. I expanded to a top 20 and still feel that it is incomplete without Smashing Pumpkins -"Rotten Apples", Anthrax - "Persistance of Time 1990-1998", BNL - Disc One, Black Sabbath's "We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'N' Roll", Spirit of the West - "Hit Parade", Bond - Explosion and as mention previously, "Actual Miles". Edited August 12, 2006 by Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOULAM1 Posted August 13, 2006 Author Share Posted August 13, 2006 I get what you are saying. (1) Waiting for a Miracle - Bruce Cockburn (2) Billy Joel - Greatest Hits (3) Gorden Lightfoot - Gord's Gold Volume I (didn't like Volume II except "Wreck") (4) David Bowie - Best of Bowie (5) Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget (6) Reba McEntire - Greatest Hits Volume II (7) Billy Idol - Greatest Hits (8) Diana Ross - Millennium Collection (9) John Lennon - John Lennon Collection (10) Joni Mitchell - Hits (11) Melissa Ethridge - Road Less Travelled (12) Roy Orbison - All Time Greatest Hits (13) Reba McEntire - I'm a Survivor (Greatest Hits Volume III) (14) ZZ Top - Chrome, Smoke and BBQ (15) Sloan - A-Sides Win (16) Murray McLachlan - Murray McLauchlan: Greatest Hits (17) Rob Zombie - Past, Present and Future (18) Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits (19) John Mellencamp - Words & Music (20) Supertramp - The Very Best of Supertramp Honourable mention goes to: Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet, Hole - Live Through This and Faith No More- The Real Thing. Hrm. I expanded to a top 20 and still feel that it is incomplete without Smashing Pumpkins -"Rotten Apples", Anthrax - "Persistance of Time 1990-1998", BNL - Disc One, Black Sabbath's "We Sold Our Soul for Rock 'N' Roll", Spirit of the West - "Hit Parade", Bond - Explosion and as mention previously, "Actual Miles". Don, I wish I owned your collection! I forgot my David Bowie, ELO and Supertramp is a great call! I know you understand what I'm trying to get at here. I'm 40 years old and own many "albums", for me to upgrade has cost me a fortune! So for bands that I love and "sorta" love (like the CCR), greatest hits albums have been great. I just picked up Blink 182's greatest for my Ipod for 10 bucks and that was a steal! Thanks for the head's up on Petty and Supertramp as I'm going to Amazon as we speak! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerrydevil Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 I don't have a ton of "Greatest Hits" CDs, and some of them aren't rock (Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire, Steely Dan). My favorite rock one has to be Fleetwood Mac but I have a Poison greatest hits album that is a lot of fun to listen to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJDevChick Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 I just picked up Blink 182's greatest for my Ipod for 10 bucks and that was a steal! Thanks for the head's up on Petty and Supertramp as I'm going to Amazon as we speak! Gotta love Blink 182! I have all their albums so I didn't bother with the greatest hits. And it so sucks that they broke up, I am not digging Tom's new band Angels and Airwaves either. Mark's band Plus 44 isn't bad though. Still love Blink though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilsadvoc8 Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 (edited) I love certain greatest hits albums as they let you get to the best of a marginal band that didn't have deep albums but had some great stuff sporadically. For example: Simple Minds: Glittering Prize ABBA Gold Berlin: Best of Def Leopard: Vault Loverboy: Classics Squeeze: Singles Steve Winwood: Chronicles Blondie: Best of Bob Marley: Legend There are other best of CDs that are just good music from start to finish that IMO are great to have even though you have all of the albums that support the best of such as Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits Clash on Broadway Elvis Costello: Girls Girls Girls Cure: Staring at the Sea Duran Duran: Decade Paul Simon: Negotiations and Lovesongs Edited August 14, 2006 by devilsadvoc8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruins4777 Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 don't the clash have like a gazillion greatest hits compilations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOULAM1 Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 don't the clash have like a gazillion greatest hits compilations? They do, but so does Neil, Dylan and every other great artist out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOULAM1 Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 If you could choose from the best Aussie band and their greatest hits, who would it be... INXS or AC/DC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Easy. I deleted half of "INXS: The Greatest Hits" while I played "Who Made Who" so many times that the cassette tape snapped. Heck, I remember making a 60 minute tape of "DT" and put it in a auto-flip cassette deck and played all-nighters of "Test Drive" when I was in high school. Now that everything is on the iPod, I did remove "Ride On" as it didn't fit in with the rest of the Brian Johnson. But other that, it's almost a perfect album. Besides, I preferred the way that AC/DC replaced their dead lead singer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOULAM1 Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 Easy. I deleted half of "INXS: The Greatest Hits" while I played "Who Made Who" so many times that the cassette tape snapped. Heck, I remember making a 60 minute tape of "DT" and put it in a auto-flip cassette deck and played all-nighters of "Test Drive" when I was in high school. Now that everything is on the iPod, I did remove "Ride On" as it didn't fit in with the rest of the Brian Johnson. But other that, it's almost a perfect album. Besides, I preferred the way that AC/DC replaced their dead lead singer. Lol... I'm not a big INXS fan but was just looking for a great selling Aussie band that stands up against one of the greatest rock bands of all time! The Little River Band doesn't cut it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 There is only one Australian band I listen to more than AC/DC. Midnight Oil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOULAM1 Posted August 15, 2006 Author Share Posted August 15, 2006 There is only one Australian band I listen to more than AC/DC. Midnight Oil. Great call. I remember the lead singer was actually a politician and or a member of Parliament. Owned Diesel and Dust or one of their earlier recordings but I forget. Nice call. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devilsdude530 Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Haha, Don, is it true that they give you BNL's Disc One when you get your Canadian citizenship? I own that. The only other hits "package" I own is Message in a Box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruins4777 Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 (edited) damn midnight oil. blue sky mining is a top 5 album for me. i always forget about them, because i don't have any of their other stuff. everybody keeps on telling me how good diesel and dust is..still haven't gotten around to that though. holy crap how did i forget wave of mutilation by the pixies. thats the best of record i listen to more than any other. i listen to that album more than any other pixies album for that matter. Edited August 15, 2006 by bruins4777 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moustic Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine Devin Townsend - Terria Strapping Young Lad - City Clawfinger - Clawfinger Ac/Dc - Black Album Gun's N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction Rammstein - Reise/Reise & Sehnsucht Sepultura - All and for the last, a mix of lot of album (Sick of it all, Slayer, Machine Head, Queen of the Stone Age, Sisters of Mercy, Joe Satriani, Prodigy, Paradise Lost, Oomph!, Nine Inch Nails, Metallica of course... and many more !) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilsadvoc8 Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 damn midnight oil. blue sky mining is a top 5 album for me. i always forget about them, because i don't have any of their other stuff. everybody keeps on telling me how good diesel and dust is..still haven't gotten around to that though.holy crap how did i forget wave of mutilation by the pixies. thats the best of record i listen to more than any other. i listen to that album more than any other pixies album for that matter. Look into an album called Head Injuries by Midnight Oil. Its a bit harder/punkish from their early days but its my favorite cd of theirs. Diesel & Dust and Blue Sky Mining are good as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOULAM1 Posted August 16, 2006 Author Share Posted August 16, 2006 Was 12 years old when I found this gem... Grab it!!!! http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/...or+The+Road.htm If you like the Kinks, or just a few of their songs (I've seen them 3 times) you'll love this and is not expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Devil Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 (edited) Yo Don, if you could find a way to get the Sloan CD (or a copy) to me, you'll be even more ultra-cool than you already are. Heeeeyyy. Post 1,000. I'm an all-star now. Edited August 16, 2006 by GA Devil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisg19 Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 I'm not a big fan of Greatest Hits albums, but there are a few that I own... Bob Segers Greatest Hits Jackson Browne - The Very Best of Patsy Cline - 12 Greatest Hits Roy Orbison - In Dreams (Greates Hits) Buddy Holly - From the Original Master Tapes Thats about it, I guess they are not all rock, but I enjoy them. chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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