your favorite "best of" disks

[lukeyd]

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)

listening to a best of is a bit like playing a computer game with all the cheats on

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

[joethelion]

• 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

[holden]

Originally Posted by joethelion

• New Order - Substance

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.

Originally Posted by joethelion

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

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!

[dubman]

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.

[patrick]

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?

[//\/\/]

the orb's is pretty tasty...

[Jason Roth]

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

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

[undarrenworld]

Originally Posted by //\/\/

the orb's is pretty tasty...

Thats for sure!

[darktrain]

Originally Posted by patrick

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

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

[ceramic'cow]

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.