Devo also, with the Hits and Misses thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo%27s_Greatest_Hits#/media/File:Devo_Greatest_Hits.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo%27s_Greatest_Misses#/media/File:Devo_Greatest_Misses.jpg
― peace, man, Friday, 15 March 2024 10:43 (one month ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo%27s_Greatest_Hits#/media/File:Devo_Greatest_Hits.jpghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo%27s_Greatest_Misses#/media/File:Devo_Greatest_Misses.jpg
― peace, man, Friday, 15 March 2024 10:44 (one month ago) link
Huh. Not sure why the image links aren't working, but these ones:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo%27s_Greatest_Hits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo%27s_Greatest_Misses
― peace, man, Friday, 15 March 2024 10:45 (one month ago) link
The Shadows, 'More Hits!'https://i.discogs.com/1LPG8oorqZ3deXqfXoc1D0dhiZ4NOzUt5EC8ZUhqGnY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE3NzAw/NTAtMTQ4NTkwMDg3/OC0yNDcyLnBuZw.jpeg
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 15 March 2024 11:32 (one month ago) link
I used to have a Gilberto Gil compilation that was shoddily packaged but the songs were perfect. It was such a good introduction to his range of music: forro, samba, tropicalia, psych, melancholy ballads, etc.
― giraffe, Friday, 15 March 2024 11:42 (one month ago) link
After reading Alfred's Pop Con talk, I looked up Garth Brooks's best of and was stunned that it sold it's 10 million copies in a little over a year before he yanked it off the market. (That was in the U.S. alone, but it did equally phenomenal business in Canada as well.) I've seen him on SNL more times than I've played his records, but I keep forgetting how humongous the guy was in the '90s.
Also came across his previous "hits" CD which was apparently a McDonald's charity release. Pretty skimpy selection, but a much better album cover that visually translates the concept, tearing apart chunks of his other album covers to Frankenstein together a photo of him. (Helps that his album covers usually just show in the same exact post over and over again in different backgrounds and clothing.)
― birdistheword, Friday, 15 March 2024 17:34 (one month ago) link
Garth Brooks' American sales are staggering, and I was there at the time.
(The Hits is terrific btw).
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:36 (one month ago) link
Oh man, I remember those McDonald's CDs, some thin greatest hits sets plus a teaser for the then-upcoming Roxette album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am4_Dcq1c6w
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:44 (one month ago) link
that's up there with the Rock Art cups Taco Bell offered for a weird pairing of artists (Scorpions and Bell Biv Devoe)
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 March 2024 17:46 (one month ago) link
Ok, one of the Taco Bell Biv Devoe cups is on ebay for $10 and I must not buy it, because the clutter in my house needs to be addressed before I buy any more tacky bullshit. But how much do I want that? A cup that asserts that its music is "mentally hip-hop smoothed out on the R&B tip with a pop feel appeal to it"?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/195705579028?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=pRzYl4DmThu&sssrc=2047675&ssuid=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
― peace, man, Friday, 15 March 2024 19:13 (one month ago) link
LOL. I'm guessing they didn't bother reaching out to Tom Waits and Iggy Pop for their Rock Art cup.
― birdistheword, Friday, 15 March 2024 19:14 (one month ago) link
poll please
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 15 March 2024 19:26 (one month ago) link
collect all five free Rock Art Cups yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 March 2024 19:32 (one month ago) link