Greatest Hits albums that don't suck.

I know they're generally looked down on by purists. But there are some Greatest Hits albums that are just heaven to me. One of them is Crowded House's Recurring Dream, which I've had on repeat for about the last week.

Any others you can think of that don't suck?

The first album I ever got was Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits. I still think it is a great album.

Worst of Jefferson Airplane is a great one too.

I see nothing wrong with Greatest hits albums of bands that you really only want the hits.

I see nothing wrong with Greatest hits albums of bands that you really only want the hits.

that's what the iTunes music store is for.

I really love XTC's Fossil Fuel.

Am I going to be forever scorned if I say I like the Beatles 1 album?

Best of U2 1980-1990 (I think those are the years) is good too.

The Smiths and James!

Matthew Sweet - Time Capsule. A slightly eclectic selection of his works (Until You Break!) from '90-'00, and two bonus tracks that rock.

Classic Queen - Can't beat it.

i *heart* recurring dream.

ye gads... why hasn't that "I heart" expression died yet?

ye gads...what is your problem?

Boy... where do I start? :D

"ye gads"? I'm thinking you mean "egads!"

It's kind of a combination of "ye gods" and "egads".

"Egads" is a contraction of "ye gods"

My favorite contraction is "'sblood" for God's Blood.

how about "zounds!" for God's Wounds?

marvel's thor always went around saying that, it was quite un-pagan of him.

I never realized that was the origin of Zounds. makes sense though.

I like Thor saying that, a nice irony. In James Branch Cabell's, Teh Silver Stallion, Donander, A christian knight through a mix up in the afterlife becomes a Norse god. He is a believer in the cult of Manuel, a character in Cabell's books. Cabell said, in the end the only believer in Manuel was Donander, but Donander was god. I always liked that.

yay! homophones!

I hope you aren't homphonephobic.

E.T. homophoooooone

no! I'm homophone-o-philic!

Too close to homophone-o-phallic.

ummm, yes, that's good too *wink*

o/~ greatest hits packages are for housewives and little girls ~/o

Bah, I'll never understand you Doors fans ;-)

Dude, you get cookies for getting that. :-)

Yay cookies! :-D

I miss KiTH. Someday I'll get the DVDs though.

Oh! To make this slightly on topic.

Monty Python's The Final Rip Off is really good for a general overview of their recordings.

heeeeeee! yay bruce.

Oddly enough, Blind Melon's "Classic Masters" didn't quite suck..

thankfully Richard Harris never made one x_x;

BLANK CD-R! Who doesn't need a blank cd-r?!?!

Awww, come on.
"The Right Stuff" is so quality.
O:)

Barenaked Ladies - Rock Spectacle.

What? That's a live album?

hahaha!

I was just about to post that one. :)

Disc One isn't bad either, although I prefer the whole albums vs. the greatest hits. Talking Heads' Sand in the Vaseline is pretty good.

his Very Best Of has gotten a lot of mileage in my cd player. And I, too, love Recurring Dream.

My problem is that if I start w/ a greatest hits CD of a band, I sometimes find it hard to make the leap to buying the back catalog of albums, since I figure I already own the music in one form already... which is probably why I don't own more Elvis Costello CDs than I do.

Elvis also has a huge catalog-- and now the old albums are re-released so you get two discs for each one (for an added cost) and it can be pretty overwhelming.

I second Elvis, Crowded House, and Matthew Sweet (I also like to listen to his Early Recordings collection to hear the phase before he got really good, interesting hooks he wrote early on).
Also: Stevie Wonder's Definitive Collection is a pretty great retrospective. TMBG's Dial-a-Song is decent for folks like me who enjoy them but aren't hardcore. Same goes for Robyn Hitchcock's greatest hits. Tears Roll Down is a good Tears for Fears collection IMO. Very Best of Cat Stevens I like, it has a couple of the really early songs... hm. Oh, and the Bee Gees. I like to listen to hyper stuff like that while taking a walk. That's about all I can think of right now.

Not gonna lie, living on LI makes a girl love her Billy Joel, and his greatest hits volume 1 and 2 package set is pretty damn impressive.

Has anyone had a look at the Legendary Sun Records three-CD new release? I picked it up in London a few weeks ago and its a ton of hard-to-find, old school rock and roll. We're talking early-Elvis fun. Its really entertaining if you at all into that rough, old-record sound.

And I agree on Stevie Wonder.

agreed.

Joni Mitchell's Hits is pretty good.

Its sister album, Misses, however undergroundy and culty my expectations were, is IMO a pretty crap collection of songs.

Good title then.

....you mean she had more than one of them?

but seriously....Simon and Garfunkle's "Old Friends" collection is pretty good as well as Billy Joel's collection (the box set has all 3 greatest hits albums plus a Q and A session). Richard says Sqeeze's album "45s and Under" wasn't bad either.

I have the "Old Friends" box, It's in my CD player a lot, especialy disc 3.

I adore that Squeeze collection. Excellent.

the best of george harrison

BNL's Disc One is quite good too, right down to the track order.