your favorite "best of" disks
 

so! llet's hear it. what is everyone's favorite best of or greatest hits set. i guess there should be a 2 disk maximum cause you can have like a box set of the persons whole catalog, but really i think that a shorter one can be better too... also, no live albumns, as that's a different catagory

anyhow, i'll say mines is bob marley - legend

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The following get the most play's on my MP3 player:

Prince - The Hits 1 & 2 / with the B-sides
Pink Floyd - Echoes

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Some "Best-Of's" that i enjoy:

Underworld: "1992-2002" (of course!;) )
Orbital: "Work 1989-2002"
The Chemical Brothers: "Singles 1993-2003
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: "Greatest Hits" (don't laugh. they rock!)
Peter Gabriel: "Hit"
Fluke: "Progressive History X"
Green Day: "International Superhits"
The Cure: "Greatest Hits"

um, i guess that's a start. i've plenty of others, but i don't like them as much!

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solesides greatest bumps
beastie boys - sounds of science
lush - ciao!

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The Smiths - Singles
Sade - Best Of

i play those more than the individual albums.

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swervedriver - juggernaut rides
smiths - best of
buffalo tom - asides from
stone roses - best of (although not entirely sure its called best of)

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im not really a great fan of best of's. one way i've seen it put (probably on an earlier version of these forums)
that being said, my faves are

super furry animals - songbook
bob marley and the wailers - legend
blur - best of

i've also got best of's by pink floyd, orbital, new order, joy division, marvin gaye and a few others probably, but ones above are my favourites

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• New Order - Substance
• Primal Scream - Dirty Hits (x2cd version)
• Massive Attack - Collected (x2cd version)
• Solesides Greatest Bumps
• Time Machine: A Mo'Wax Retrospective Mix
• Depeche Mode - the Singles 86->98
• the Chemical Brothers - the Singles
• the Prodigy - Their Law (x2cd version)


...and they've never made a decent 'greatest hits' for Bowie, but that "Sound & Vision" Boxset was pretty nice

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That's a good one, for the 80's hits. I have "Best Of" from '95, and though i like the tracks from Republic, can't really get behind that greatest hits collection.

Shocking! Aren't there about 5 Bowie Best Of's?!;)
i suppose though that once you have as many hits over a career spanning close to 40 years, it'd be hard to please everyone with the inclusions on a 1 or 2 Disc collection. Box set city!

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prodigy - their law
pink floyd - echoes

simply because i'm not huge fans of their entire albums and this makes it ridiculously convenient.
i lost all of my prodigy albums awhile back and now i dont have to buy them back. i just buy that one thing for $13 (with the bonus disk) and i'm okay.

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i agree with dubman on the pink floyd B.O., i like it more than their albumns (except the wall is nice).

what is the solesides one about? that one sounds interestiung. is this soul sides like the dj shadow/blackalicious thing?

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the orb's is pretty tasty...

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Al Green - Greatest Hits (just check out my man on the cover - superstar)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=glance&n=5174

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songbook super furry animals

probably one of the greatest 'best ofs' ever :)

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I understand the goal of this thread, but it's still hard for me to pick out Best Of discs that I like more than others. It really boils down to bands whose greatest hits or singles I like that I don't own the albums of. Or just bands I like that happened to have put out Best Of albums.

I suppose I would say

Underworld '1992 - 2002'
Smashing Pumpkins 'Rotten Apples'
Soundgarden 'A-Sides'
Pixies (Whatever the cd is called)
Violent Femmes 'Add It Up 1983-1993' (Used to love this, and it's still great, but now I prefer their self-titled first release)
Jimi Hendrix 'Ultimate Experience'

I guess my final answer is The Vaselines 'The Way of the Vaselines' but that's not really fair because it's their entire recorded output.

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Thats for sure!

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I'm on my third copy of Eurythmic's "best of" as the other two began to skip from over playing.

Only complaint is "Listen To Beethovan" was left off the CD.

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slowdive : catch the breeze
love and rockets: best of
REM: IRS years
the very best of al green
the definative simon and garfunkel

the list goes on...but i actually listen to those quite a bit. i have so much underworld from so many different sources, that even though i like the best of, i rarely listen to it.

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Underworld "1992 - 2002"
New Order "Substance 1987"
Yello "Essential"
Joy Division "Substance 1977-1980"
Fluke "Progressive History X"

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yes it is and you need it:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...Fencoding=UTF8

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Substance - New Order
Substance - Joy Division
Greatest Hits - The Cure (the recent one, blue cover, loads of stars. only bad thing on it was that abomination of a track with that girl that used to be in republica. and used to go out with Karl, i believe?)
REM - Best of (the first one)
The Pixies one, definitely. i'd forgotten about that. i don't really listen to best ofs very much, but when you've got a good one, it's an absolute winner.

oh, and i just bought Supergrass' Best of for a fiver, but i haven't got around to listening to it yet.

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New Order - Substance 1987
The Smiths - Best I
The Police - Greatest Hits 1986

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you have to go a long way to beat:

omd - the singles
the pet shop boys - popart (although the 3 disc set is better)
new order - substance
madonna - GHV2 and perhaps the first one
kylie
embrace - fireworks
the cure - staring at the sea
duran duran - greatest

i think greatest hits albums suit pop bands / artists much better, beacuse you can get a whole bunch of 3-4 minute tracks on one disc and its like a whirlwind ride through their history

as much as i love Underworld and their long tracks, sometimes you just need a few 4 minute fixes of stuff, and a 13 minute mix of skyscraper sometimes doesn't do that...

i personally prefer GH albums to standard LP's because, despite great love of certain bands, even they produces shite tracks for albums and it kinda ruins it for me...(then again some singles can be pretty duff... )

i've always been a singles man, and the greatest hits packages are ideal for that, generally there are reasons why tracks are b-sides or not picked as singles - because they are shite, there are many exceptions, but greatest hits generally do what they say - supply the 'greatest' hits of that artist. And sometimes that is all you need.