Sadly it is true. There is no AC/DC greatest hits.
― steampig67, Friday, 2 November 2007 13:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Although why you would need an AC/DC greatest hits is beyond me. After all, you should own them all already. At least thru 1990 anyway.
― steampig67, Friday, 2 November 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Sly & the Family Stone's Greatest Hits will probably always be my favorite.
― JN$OT, Friday, 2 November 2007 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
AC/DC's "Greatest Hits" was released in 1980 and is called "Back In Black".
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 2 November 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link
No Bon, no cred.
― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 2 November 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Bingo
― Bill Magill, Friday, 2 November 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Billy Pilgrim, Friday, 2 November 2007 14:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's a few that haven't been mentioned:
The Guess Who - Their first GH compilation is a wonderfully concise and sequenced song cycle - those original records are pretty spotty. I usually place the first Blood Sweat & Tears GH alongside the Guess Who pick, but the BS&T GH leaves too many solid album tracks off the list making this a near-perfect near-miss.
A couple of recording from The Record PLant in Sausalito should be represented, if only for their outstanding soumd quality and song selection.
Bob Marley & The Wailers - From the Record Plant (tracks also appear on "Talking Blues") this never was a properly released as a GH, but those original Wailer's day's are super tight.
Kinky Friedman - Mayhem Afterthought (Stooooopid Good!) If you only own 1 Kinky record - this is THE one to have.
― christoff, Friday, 2 November 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Swell Maps Collision Time Revisited. Not technically a greatest hits, I guess. It's my favorite band anthology, anyway.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 2 November 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
The Pretenders, The Singles has a legit shot at the top spot here - pretty incredible run of hits
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 2 January 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
It sure is.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 January 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
A few that I played frequently in high school and into my 20s: Neil's Decade, Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy, The Worst of the Jefferson Airplane, Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield, Heavy Cream, Dionne Warwick's My Greatest Hits (more my 30s with that one). The first attempts at Madonna and PSB compilations were impressive, although I was past the point where they ever became part of my life. I'm sure I've forgotten some.
― clemenza, Monday, 2 January 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
a few favorites:
Merle Haggard - HagP-Furs - All This And NothingSaint Etienne - Travel Edition
A quasi-comp: Loretta Lynn Writes 'em & Sings 'em
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 January 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
love that Loretta album but disagree w/P-Furs, too much late period stuff sinks it
― no longer the deli llama (m coleman), Monday, 2 January 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
What do you consider late-period Furs? All of This... only sports "Heartbreak Beat" (and concludes by returning to the beginning with the title track).
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 January 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
patsy cline
― mookieproof, Monday, 2 January 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
My vote goes here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4b/SmithsSingles.jpg/220px-SmithsSingles.jpg
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Monday, 2 January 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
Oh -- that single disc Earth Wind and Fire comp.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 January 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium Vol. 1.
Should have added Patsy Cline (the single-LP green compilation). I played that all the time after Sweet Dreams came out.
― clemenza, Monday, 2 January 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
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my bad - i confused P Furs Greatest Hits, which is weighted down w/post-1988 comeback tracks. All of This lineup is rock solid. these guys were great in the early 80s, definitely deserve some love
― no longer the deli llama (m coleman), Monday, 2 January 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
Johnnie Taylor's Chronicle The 20 Greatest Hits is non-stop stax soul finery
― no longer the deli llama (m coleman), Monday, 2 January 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah when All of This is playing it def sounds like the greatest comp of all.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 January 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
Is "Jody" one of his 20 Greatest, lovebug?
― Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 2 January 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
includes "Jody's Got Your Girl And Gone" AND "Standing In For Jody" - Jody got around
― no longer the deli llama (m coleman), Monday, 2 January 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
my favorite greatest hits is probably George Jones Anniversary - 10 Years Of Hits
― no longer the deli llama (m coleman), Monday, 2 January 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
covers his work on Epic w/Billy Shrerrill producing
― no longer the deli llama (m coleman), Monday, 2 January 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
The Pretenders singles collection is a great compilation but sadly not a perfect one thanks to I Got You Babe with UB40 tagged on at the end.
Other great ones I've played to death,
The Four Tops-The Ultimate CollectionMadness-Divine MadnessRoxy Music-Greatest hits (from 77)Bjork-Greatest Hits
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 2 January 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^ EWF Greatest Hits is pretty much game over for other greatest hits comps actually
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 2 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
like "September" is the best new song recorded for a comp.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 January 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
which is weighted down w/post-1988 comeback tracks
Gotta say, I love the late-period Psychedelic Furs stuff. I mean, yeah, it's patchy but the best stuff is awesome (i.e. "Get A Room" and "There's A World Outside") in a completely different way than "Into You Like A Train".
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
Anyway, my fave greatest hits is The Go-Betweens "1978-1990". Good god damn what a goldmine.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
I love that one too, especially the B-side portion.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
This is the greatest Greatest Hits with the greatest cover:
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/dfb3d476befe19c24a84db0f140196f7/6537.jpg
― henry s, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
not a popular pic, probably, because they obv had a bunch of good stuff that was released after it came out, but the Cure's Standing on the Sea is probably the "Greatest Hits" that I've listened to more than any other, and it might be my most played played release of ALL TIME. every single song is unimpeachably brilliant.
― your pain is probably equal (Z S), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 03:20 (twelve years ago) link
someone should start a thread on it oh wait The Cure - Standing on the Beach/Staring at the Sea
― your pain is probably equal (Z S), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
also, Substance, duh
― your pain is probably equal (Z S), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
Standing on the Beach was one of the first ones I thought of as well. Also, Elton John's Greatest Hits Vol. 1.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago) link
thirding the Patsy Cline 12 Greatest Hits collection -- has to be one of the earliest examples of greatest-hits-as-concept-album. I don't know how much editorializing influenced the selection, or whether all of her highest chart placements really were all the heartbroken numbers. The latter is certainly likely, but I remember being surprised when I dug into her catalog and realized she sang about cheating or having a good time herself just as often. But the Hits collection is the one release she has that actually works as a coherent suite, just one dagger after another, it is almost too much -- when you get to the one happy one at the beginning of side 2, 'Back In Baby's Arms' it is almost more agonizing just because you know there are still five utterly broken songs to go
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
This is totally Chuck Berry, The Great Twenty-Eight
― waka flocka dimes (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 06:40 (twelve years ago) link
i mean duh
― waka flocka dimes (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 06:41 (twelve years ago) link
Sade.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 08:43 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^^
(but really you need all the albums and then it becomes redundant)
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 09:07 (twelve years ago) link
the greatest Greatest Hits would probably be a compilation that's front-to-back gold and also exhaustive when it comes to that artist's career (ie it obviates the need for anything else). no one springs to mind tbh.
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
Emperor
― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 09:51 (twelve years ago) link
Stones - The London Years. Which cuts off in 1971, obviously, but perfectly traces in chronological order how they got from callow blues copyists to conquerors of the world.
― Viva Brother Beyond (ithappens), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
Chronicle Vol. 1.
― beachville, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
Scanning the songlist, looks perfect. I've always had this
http://991.com/newGallery/Chuck-Berry-Motorvatin-252056.jpg
plus all three Golden Decades, but the problem with GD I is that it leaves off "Come On" and "Let It Rock." The Great Twenty-Eight gets them all.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
Should also mention Endless Summer. The perception of the Beach Boys has really changed over the years--"Oh yeah, the surf stuff" is probably how a lot of people would look upon Endless Summer today--but we played it to death when my friends and I discovered it in the mid-'70s. (Besides which, you get key proto-Pet Sounds stuff like "Girl Don't Tell Me" and "Don't Worry Baby.")
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
Taking advantage of rare occasion to say Whiney otm
― WATERMELON MAYNE aka the seed driver (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 January 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link