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... as it is nearing Christmas, I note that the usual batch of greatest hits albums are doing the rounds. I was thinking about what the greatest of all of these albums was.
In my opinion they have to have all the best tracks and singles of the artist in question with no omissions (which rules out the Rats sans House on Fire) and not have any "bonus" tracks or unnecessary filler or any bad tracks. The odd album track especially if well known would not go amiss.
Ideally it should capture the act at their peak, and not have tracks from their early or latter years that weren't that great. Also they are likely to be an act without a real stand out album and probably an act whose singles were regulars in the top twenty. It would also be an act that you had relatively few other singles/albums from.
Also the hits album must stand on its own as a great album, so much so that people may consider it their best album.
Given all that, and after much deliberation, my top three were.....
3. Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers 2. Snap! - The Jam 1. Street Life - Bryan Ferrry & Roxy Music
From hmv.com....
STREET LIFE is a collection that, with barely a misstep, arranges the career of Bryan Ferry into a brilliant, nearly chronological 20-track retrospective, with material from both Roxy Music and his concurrent solo career. The first ten tracks, from pre-1979, show Ferry and the band in their loose, glam rock mode, freely toying with other musical styles as the mood takes them. It includes classics like "Virginia Plain", "Pyjamarama", and "Do the Strand", along with a funny, and slightly surreal, take on Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and Ferry's smooth interpretation of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (from his ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE solo album). The second ten tracks feature the band's later period (1979 and onwards), where they explored the limits of sophistication. Every song presents a carefully polished mood, the kind of songs designed for listening to with the lights low and a glass of wine in one hand. This group includes the heartbreak of "Dance Away" and perhaps Ferry's suavest moment, "Slave to Love". The band's masterpiece, AVALON, is represented by that album's title track and "More Than This". This set is the place to start collecting the many fine efforts of Roxy Music
I'm sure Michael Jackson, Madonna and Bob Marley would be in a classic rundown but I own none of them.
I have loads of other Greatest Hits compilations, other artists I more frequently go to include Billy Joel, Madness and Dexys. If the sun's shining, I confess to the Beach Boys' hits getting an outing. If I'm in 70s nostagla mood, a greatest hits compilation by the Sweet or Slade satisfies.
If I'm in 70s nostagla mood, a greatest hits compilation by the Sweet or Slade satisfies.
Sweet compilations need skipping over the bubblegum period and often exclude Love Is Like Oxygen. Better on CD or Spotify.
Slade have two excellent double CDs. On both, first CD is mainly the big hits and the second CD the lesser hits. The abridged 24 track vinyl LP of the Cum On Feel The Hitz is near perfect.
T Rex also have a couple of good LPs (Bolan Boogie and Solid Gold) however thanks to being with different record labels neither are wholly satisfactory.
Queen and Blondie greatest are superb.I have sadly never looked for a David Bowie greatest.Elvis Costello best of I think is a bit of a bore and Simple Minds have released so many different best of that I have given up listening to them.Also the new SM single Your Name In Lights is terrible.
Queen and Blondie greatest are superb.I have sadly never looked for a David Bowie greatest.Elvis Costello best of I think is a bit of a bore and Simple Minds have released so many different best of that I have given up listening to them.Also the new SM single Your Name In Lights is terrible.
Girls +£÷ Girls =$& Girls is the best Elvis Costello compilation on CD. There are a couple of tracks on the cassette version, Girls Talk & Turning The Town Red, that should be on the CD, but overall it is more or less his best up to 1989 Excluding covers and Radio Radio.
