The Best "Greatest Hits" Compilation Ever

[Steels]

What do you consider to be the best "Greatest Hits" compilation ever released?

No box sets or double CD's please unless you are choosing one "compact disk" from whatever respective package.

You may choose and post only one. Please respect this stipulation and remember a large part of this process is making difficult choices.

My choice was released in 1981 and only available in select record stores due to it being an import from England. Years later it was pulled and has been out of print for well over a decade to better increase sales for their box set. This is the ORIGINAL (I own a copy) and is extremely hard to find.

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Queen's Greatest Hits

1. Bohemian Rhapsody
2. Under Pressure
2. Another One Bites The Dust
3. Killer Queen
4. Fat Bottomed Girls
5. Bicycle Race
6. You're My Best Friend
7. Don't Stop Me Now
8. Save Me
9. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
10. Somebody To Love
11. Now I'm Here
12. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy
13. Play The Game
14. Flash
15. Seven Seas Of Rhye
16. We Will Rock You
17. We Are The Champions


Follow smoke..


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[Heavy]

Well Lionel richies "Backto front is a good one, and so is the commodores (all the great love songs). I'll tell you what great is "The Very Best Of Al Green". Now thats one bad ass mutherfucker. Now "Eternal E" is just a great collection of Easy- E classic and some newer releases. Very Good. I also Have that Queen CD you spoke of. I'll have to give it a listen tonight after hearing you rave about it, I didnt even know it was rare.

I have a very good Nirvana Cd called singles that none of you could ever possibly have, and i just stay hard throughout the whole thing cause it so good. Id say those are all my favs
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[Reephdweller]

My all-time favorite compilation is "Message In a Box" by The Police. It includes every single album, all the songs, all the b-sides to singles, as well as live performances. It also has a book that tells the story of the band, shows what all the albums, singles, tour paraphenalia, posters, etc...what they all looked like.

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Aside from thatas far as "Greatest Hit's" compilations go I've always liked "Hot Rocks 1964-1971" by The Rolling Stones

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As well as The Beatles "1967-1970"

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Elton John's Greatest Hits - 1974

1. Your Song
2. Daniel
3. Honky Cat
4. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
5. Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
6. Rocket Man
7. Bennie And The Jets
8. Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
9. Border Song
10. Crocodile Rock

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As for a Greatest Hits rcord that is only 1 cd I say its Dylan Greatest Hits.


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1. Rainy Day Women
2. Blowin' In The Wind
3. The Times They Are A-Changin'
4. It Ain't Me, Babe
5. Like A Rolling Stone
6. Mr. Tambourine Man
7. Subterranean Homesick Blues
8. I Want You
9. Positively 4th Street
10. Just Like A Woman




But as my all time favorite Greatest hits collection it is no doubt The Essential Johnny Cash.

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Disc: 1

1. Hey Porter
2. Cry, Cry, Cry
3. I Walk The Line
4. Get Rhythm
5. There You Go
6. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
7. Big River
8. Guess Things Happen That Way
9. All Over Again
10. Don't Take Your Guns To Town
11. Five Feet High And Rising
12. The Rebel-Johnny Yuma
13. Tennessee Flat-Top Box
14. I Still Miss Someone
15. Ring Of Fire
16. The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
17. Orange Blossom Special
18. Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)


Disc: 2

1. It Ain't Me, Babe (w/ June Carter Cash)
2. The One On The Right Is On The Left
3. Jackson (w/ June Carter Cash)
4. Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
5. Daddy Sang Bass
6. Girl From The North Country (w/ Bob Dylan)
7. A Boy Named Sue (Live)
8. If I Were A Carpenter
9. Sunday Morning Coming Down
10. Flesh And Blood
11. Man In Black
12. Ragged Old Flag
13. One Piece At A Time
14. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky
15. Song Of The Patriot (w/ Marty Robbins)
16. Highwayman (w/ Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson)
17. The Night Hank Williams Came To Town (w/ Waylon Jennings)
18. The Wanderer (w/ U2 )



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Mariah Carey's Greatest Hits
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Ritchie Valens Greatest Hits
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Buddy Holly - Greatest Hits
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Chuck Berry - Greatest Hits Live
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Dwight Yoakam's "Last Chance for A Thousand Years" Greatest Hits of the 90's...

I also have that Queen Greatest hits album, but I got it packaged with Greatest Hits II, which has that great song from "Highlander" on it...

EDIT:

Forgot about this one:
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[McNabbShouldDie]

Dont know if itd be considered a "greatest hits" CD but:

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[Steels]

No box sets or double CD's please unless you are choosing one "compact disk" from whatever respective package.

You may choose and post only one. Please respect this stipulation and remember a large part of this process is making difficult choices.

Thanks to the people that had the "discipline" to follow a few simple rules. The reason I put these stipulations in is to create a more focused and interesting topic that makes you pit some of your favorite "Greatest Hits" against each other. As for those that sadly can't control their impulses I feel sorry for. In the future please stay away from my threads because it's posts like that that can quickly create a negative snowball effect.

Honorable Mention

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[Heavy]

Lighten up Francis.

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[GaryWyze]

As for those that sadly can't control their impulses I feel sorry for. In the future please stay away from my threads

[color=purple]Then keep your threads off our board.

People are gonna post what ever and where ever they want. If it really bothers you, maybe some you time is in order.

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[TheMojoPin]

Thanks to the people that had the "discipline" to follow a few simple rules.

Come on, any "best of" worth its salt is usually two discs. I can see excluding box sets, but not allowing more than one disc is ridiculous. You'd be cutting out a good 75% of the best stuff out there, and most "best of's" put out in the last 10 years.

Besides, around half of mine are single disc and only one more than two (The Cash set, which is three). And they fuckin' RULE. Why would I put a "best of" that ISN'T the best just because the band's best one has multiple discs? If it's not a box set, I say it's fair game. So there.

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This message was edited by TheMojoPin on 11-8-03 @ 12:23 AM

[TheMojoPin]

Dont know if itd be considered a "greatest hits" CD but:

Nah, it wouldn't be. That final Jawbox collection is just rarities, B-sides, live cuts and covers. But either way, it's a fuckin' beatiful slice of an album. You KNOW a band was great when their "throwaways" are better than most "real" albums bands today can put out.

All hail Jawbox.

R.I.P.

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[Steels]

[quote]Then keep your threads off our board.[quote]

Watch your fat mouth pal.

I started a thread with 2 simple rules and the first two responses (amongst too many others) completely disregarded them causing everyone else to follow to get an immediate false impression of what I was asking for. If you don't like it don't participate but I'll be damned if I sit quiet while the thread goes to shit as it just did. Again, if you cannot control your impulses either take a timeout or just stay away from my threads. Remember, I wasn't asking for plutonium.





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[TheMojoPin]

but I'll be damned if I sit quiet while the thread goes to shit as it just did

SHIT?!?!

Those are good fucking albums!

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[JustJon]

In the future please stay away from my threads because it's posts like that that can quickly create a negative snowball effect.
Shit happens, get over it. You cannot control people's responses. They can and will post whatever they want in a thread as long as they are posting within RF.Net's guidelines. You don't like it, you're welcome to talk to me privately.

Return to the topic at hand, if this thread continues to degrade, it will be locked. Thank you, have a good evening.

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[Steels]

You cannot control people's responses. They can and will post whatever they want in a thread as long as they are posting within RF.Net's guidelines.

I agree and am fully aware of this yet it is ridiculous that just about every thread of the kind in question is derailed due to this nonsense. I am a big fan of lists and other such oddities so I get frustrated when threads like this one get constantly screwed up. I am always very polite when I ask people to please respect the guidelines.

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[TheMojoPin]

Yeah, but at least we were all actually listing "best of" comps. Compared to how badly most other threads are derailed, I think you lucked out....

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Watch your fat mouth pal.

Pal??? See, here's the thing, tough guy... people don't talk here, they type, bud. And my fat finger will type whatever the fuck they want, chief.

I started a thread with 2 simple rules and the first two responses.....bla, bla, bla, bla, bla

The point is that you don't get to make the rules, dude. You had one idea, people had an other, guy. Such is life, friend. It's beyond retarded for this to even be an issue, bro. So stop derailing this thread, chum!

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My store sells that Anthrax CD for $3.

Guess it's back to balogna on hand for them.

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[furie]

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As for those that sadly can't control their impulses I feel sorry for.

I guess I've been a bad boy, what with the humor and all.


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[The Chairman]

Thanks to the people that had the "discipline" to follow a few simple rules. The reason I put these stipulations in is to create a more focused and interesting topic that makes you pit some of your favorite "Greatest Hits" against each other. As for those that sadly can't control their impulses I feel sorry for. In the future please stay away from my threads because it's posts like that that can quickly create a negative snowball effect.

So follow your "rules" and stay away from other people's threads if you have nothing to contribute except insults. Cause you've been violating the Board rules for a long time.

I started a thread with 2 simple rules and the first two responses (amongst too many others) completely disregarded them causing everyone else to follow to get an immediate false impression of what I was asking for. If you don't like it don't participate but I'll be damned if I sit quiet while the thread goes to shit as it just did. Again, if you cannot control your impulses either take a timeout or just stay away from my threads. Remember, I wasn't asking for plutonium.

You don't like my contribution to the Strokes thread or my "Infinimatrix" post? Don't read it or post a dumb ass reply. Or did I need to say spell it out for you and add to my original post that "no dumb ass replies" were allowed?

You called me manic in a thread. Who suggested that to you? Expound if you'd like. But be prepared for me to get all Maximus Decimus Meridius on you in my reply.

Why not embrace the fact that some people are just into different things and at a different level than, say, a person who wants to know what people's favorite hot and cold sandwiches are?

(nota bene: I'm still thinking about how to craft my response to your sandwich post; but I need to re-read your original post to see if you set guidelines specifying what temperature range defined "hot" as opposed to just warm and whether I needed to reference exactly how thin, in millimeters, the meat needs to be.)

Do you realize how funny your replies were?

I'm wondering if it's time for you to step out from behind that computer of yours and show your face. Maybe you're really just a teddy bear at heart and we all need to just give each other a big hug.

If you're not, after all this time, I, for one, would like to see if you'd talk your shit in person.

If you do, you'll find out all about the opportunity cost of violating some other simple rules. And they're not for dating my teenage daughter.

You need to chill.

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Now.

In answer to your question:

The Best of Bread.


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[TheMojoPin]

Elvis Costello is Irish.

Is he from Northern Ireland?

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[Steels]

I'm wondering if it's time for you to step out from behind that computer of yours and show your face.

If you're not, after all this time, I, for one, would like to see if you'd talk your shit in person.


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i'm gonna break the rules, but just a little bit...

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1. This Charming Man
2. William, It Was Really Nothing
3. What Difference Does It Make?
4. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
5. Girlfriend in a Coma
6. Half A Person
7. Rubber Ring
8. How Soon Is Now?
9. Hand in Glove
10. Shoplifters of the World Unite
11. Sheila Take a Bow
12. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others
13. Panic
14. Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want


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1. Boy With the Thorn in His Side
2. Headmaster Ritual
3. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
4. Ask
5. Oscillate Wildly
6. Nowhere Fast
7. Still Ill
8. Bigmouth Strikes Again
9. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
10. Shakespeare's Sister
11. Girl Afraid
12. Reel Around the Fountain
13. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
14. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out


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[TheMojoPin]

And along those lines...

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...even if it does have "Novemeber Spawned a Monster"...

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[Steels]

Part of the fun is finding gems like this which is one CD packed with 2 albums worth of songs. This is a close second to the "Queen" CD in my book.

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

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Not a "Best of" but still really good:
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[McNabbShouldDie]

Did I miss something or did everyone forget about:

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[Arienette]

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good call.. you're my new hero

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[TheMojoPin]

Let's get twee.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004S5GA.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

And this is one brand new, but still, give it up and all hail.

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[Leadbottom]

Dean Martins Greatest Hits! VOLARE!

McHALE!

[The Chairman]

What do you consider to be the best "Greatest Hits" compilation ever released?
No box sets or double CD's please unless you are choosing one "compact disk" from whatever respective package.

I need a ruling:

Alice Fuzzybutt posted The Replacements All For Nothing - Nothing For All. Now it's one cd package, but has two cd's in it. By my read of the rules, she would have had to have picked either the "All For Nothing" disc 1 or the "Nothing For All" disc 2. I considered this to be a "double cd."

Either way, The Replacements are my favorite group (the current issue of Rolling Stone calls them "The Greatest Indie Rock Band of the 80's") but I wouldn't have picked them because the double cd doesn't contain their pre-Reprise albums. Can't be a greatest in my book if it doesn't contain their best album (Let it Be) not to mention the others.

Some other quick notes:

Further Man = Uncle Tupelo Anthology....monolithic, amazing.

Arienette: Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

Mojo: I thought of that Jam album, but it needs Snap. No That's Entertainment? No Going Underground? No In the City? No Down by the Tube Station? No Town Called Malice? I'll take Snap!.

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I assassin down the avenue.

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[ChickenHawk]

This isn't the "Favorite Compilation Ever" thread, it's the "Best Compilation Ever" thread. That means there is only ONE correct answer, and so far no one's got it right.

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[JohnnyCash]

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Death To The Pixies 1987-1991



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[TheMojoPin]

Mojo: I thought of that Jam album, but it needs Snap. No That's Entertainment? No Going Underground? No In the City? No Down by the Tube Station? No Town Called Malice? I'll take Snap!.

Well, I've got two other Jam Collections (I find it ironic I've always found these cheaper than the actual out of print albums) that should do you just fine.

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1. In The City
2. Away From The Numbers
3. The Modern World
4. David Watts
5. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
6. To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time)
7. Mr. Clean
8. English Rose
9. The Butterfly Collector
10. The Eton Rifles
11. Thick As Thieves
12. Going Underground
13. Start!
14. Liza Radley
15. Pretty Green
16. That's Entertainment
17. Tales From The Riverbank (Fan Club Version)
18. Town Called Malice
19. Ghosts
20. Beat Surrender

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1. In the City
2. All Around the World
3. Modern World
4. News of the World
5. David Watts
6. Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
7. Strange Town
8. When You're Young
9. Eton Rifles
10. Going Underground
11. Start!
12. That's Entertainment
13. Funeral Pyre
14. Absolute Beginners
15. Town Called Malice
16. Precious
17. Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?
18. Bitterest Pill (I Ever Had to Swallow)
19. Beat Surrender

Top it off with the following...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001DWP.01._PE_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

...and I've ultimately no need to pick up "Compact Snap!".

Here's a few more that get me going...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000898R.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005NOZD.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004WGYB.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000006NTV.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

And if anyone else has ever listened to these guys, I'll kill them with kisses.

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[Steels]

I don't know how the hell I forgot about this one but the "Queen" CD is "1 a." and this is "1 b." also surpassing the Sabbath CD. Coincidentally this is an import as well. Again a reason why I am particular with the rules is so this can be a tad challenging as well. For example instead of just posting "Hot Rocks" you have submissions such as this below.

http://www.toru.com/sv/album/rolling_stones/jump_back_j.html

If we are playing within the guidelines you can only choose one from a box set or a double CD. For example I would choose Disk II from Rush's "Chronicles".

Why set any rules at all?

A line has to be drawn because we have two, three, four and sometimes eight disk box sets. I think it wouldn't be very fair if I commenced this thread with Pink Floyd's "Shine". The only way to keep this topic within reason is to restrict people to one disk. The bottom line is I'm trying to make this fair while forcing people to make an actual decision opposed to just posting ALL their favorites. That's way to easy, repetitious and boring.

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[TheMojoPin]

Then why own more than one "best of" comp, period? This is a chance to turn people on to albums they might not have known were out there.

And again, double-albums shouldn't be put with box sets. Double-albums usually have more in common with single disc "best of's" than the more extensive box sets. And box sets are only three discs or more to begin with. Can't leave double-albums out into the cold.

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This message was edited by TheMojoPin on 11-10-03 @ 1:43 AM

[Steels]

Then why own more than one "best of" comp, period? This is a chance to turn people on to albums they might not have known were out there.

That's not what this thread's about, I'm really trying to make myself clear and I'm losing.

And again, double-albums shouldn't be put with box sets. Double-albums usually have more in common with single disc "best of's" than the more extensive box sets. And box sets are only three discs or more to begin with. Can't leave double-albums out into the cold.

I'm not completely following your point but I just posted a double album transferred to one CD earlier.

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This message was edited by Steels on 11-10-03 @ 1:53 AM

[Reephdweller]

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Definitely another one of my favorite greatest hits albums.

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[TheMojoPin]

That's not what this thread's about, I'm really trying to make myself clear and I'm losing.

Nah, we get it. I just don't think we can pick just one. They're are too many good ones out there.

I'm not completely following your point but I just posted a double album transferred to one CD earlier.

You had mentioned that there are two-disc box sets. Box sets are actually three discs or more.

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[The Chairman]

See I read it right. Also, I would imagine that the album has to include "hits", so The Best of Bread had "hits" while The Replacements would be a "Best Of" anyway.

Hmmm. Now I'm thinking Decade by The Allmans is pretty damn good.




I assassin down the avenue.

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[TheMojoPin]

I like these Cure collections better.

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drd700/d777/d77797p2tw5.jpg

http://pages.infinit.net/cureshop/Galore.jpg

This is what I'm talking about, Steels. You've got a single disc Cure collection, but then two other single discs that cover the early and latter parts of their career as a whole much better.

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[WintersEmbers]

im sure ill get laughed at for this but....

Tears Roll Down- Tears for Fears

thats probbably my fave right now...

I will not go quietly into the nite...

[Steels]

This is what I'm talking about, Steels. You've got a single disc Cure collection, but then two other single discs that cover the early and latter parts of their career as a whole much better.

YES!!! This is the whole point. You have to choose which is the goal of any kind of list. This thread ceases to be a "list" when people stop making difficult cuts and choices.

You had mentioned that there are two-disc box sets. Box sets are actually three discs or more.

There are a handful (I don't agree that they should be labeled as a box set) of 2 disk box sets available.

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[Reephdweller]

I like these Cure collections better.



Staring at The Sea is a great album. I don't have the Galore album yet though.

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[Wormwood]

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It's the soundtrack to getting laid.

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I WANT CANDY, BUBBLEGUM OR TAFFY!!!

[high fly]

BIOGRAPH ----Bob Dylan

" and they ask me why I drink"

[sr71blackbird]

The Moody Blues, Simon and Garfunkle and Billy Joel are well worth mentioning too.

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Alice Fuzzybutt posted The Replacements All For Nothing - Nothing For All. Now it's one cd package, but has two cd's in it. By my read of the rules, she would have had to have picked either the "All For Nothing" disc 1 or the "Nothing For All" disc 2. I considered this to be a "double cd."


Aww! Don't give me a hard time! It IS a double CD, but it makes me happy.

And I dig

http://www.the-gothicworld.de/cdreviews/10-2001/cure-greatest-hits-cover.jpg

because it offers an "unplugged" disc.

And I'm all over

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I still consider "All Mod Cons" a perfect album.

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[Tall_James]

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[TheMojoPin]

Billy Childish has two great "best of's".

Get them.

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[Gringo Star]

My whole thing with greatest hits albums is that if I like a band I'll probably have everything by them that I want. I'll buy a compilation if it has a decent unreleased track or two, or if it's a band that I've been waiting for a greatest hits from so I can have all the songs I know (and like) on one disc. There are times that a greatest hits album surpasses anything else an artist may have done. With that said, I give you...

http://home.planet.nl/~barie/rommelhok/vynil/albums-marley/legend.jpg

... and I'm shocked no one else has posted it yet.

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[zoom2457]

I'm going to go bang an asian hooker.


I know this is off topic. But that's hot...

"Excuse me, excuse me I believe you have my stapler"

[TheMojoPin]

Sometimes "best of's" are a sad affair, a capper to a band that's essentially over...a brilliant band that spent far, FAR too much time being ignored and who's time at the top was much too short...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00007A3GE.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

And then other times, "best of's" are joyous celebrations of bands that are still going strong and have a ton of both albums and possibility ahead of them...

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000C0FJD.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

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[A.J.]

I can't believe I forgot this one:

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[high fly]

Ahem.

"Best" is a superlative. There can only be one.







(hey, what the fuck, I'm feeling pedantic today)




" and they ask me why I drink"

[TheMojoPin]

high fly, you're Steels' new best friend.

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This message was edited by TheMojoPin on 11-19-03 @ 3:55 PM

[high fly]

Gonna take us for pony rides unca Mo?
Oh please, pretty please?

We'll be good, we promise. No really, this time for sure.

" and they ask me why I drink"

This message was edited by high fly on 11-19-03 @ 3:59 PM

[JustJon]

I like the last one, Mojo. In college, one of the music professors that I often helped in teh computer lab was the father of the guitarist for MSP. Used to talk him about it all the time.

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[TheMojoPin]

Nice!

But is he the father of the guitarist/singer or the guitarist that vanished from the band and the face of the Earth more than seven years ago?

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[El Mudo]

I picked this up early yesterday and haven't stopped listening to it yet

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If you don't have this.....get it....

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[Justice4all]

My all-time favorite compilation is "Message In a Box" by The Police. It includes every single album, all the songs, all the b-sides to singles, as well as live performances. It also has a book that tells the story of the band, shows what all the albums, singles, tour paraphenalia, posters, etc...what they all looked like.

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Reef...YOU FUCKING ROCK! That is exactly what my pick is....I have that in my car right now....singing along to all the tunes. They were my favorite band and still are....
I could listen to the police for hours and hours and hours. I recommend to anyone who is a music lover to get that box set!
I even have all the albums on LP vinyl!


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NyQuil..NyQuil..NyQuil....We LOVE you...you GIANT FUCKING Q!!!!!!!!

[FUNKMAN]

I can't believe I forgot this one:


AJ,

I bought this CCR Chronicle but with a bit of disappointment. My favorite song by them "Born On The Bayou" didn't make it.

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[Steels]

If we are playing by the rules then my selection below would be perfect for "The Police".

http://movietyme.isys.ca/n_s_imgs/police_greatesthits.jpg

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[TheMojoPin]

DVD's are OK?

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[Steels]

DVD's are OK?

I have people posting "Message in a Box" which is everything "The Police" ever recorded. It's safe to say I've lost all creative control.


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