Best Ever Albums

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

Anonymous — Tue, 6 Mar 2018 17:51:53 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/06/2018 22:51

Yann wrote:

Elton John
Billy Joel
Madonna
The Kinks
Franck Sinatra
Human League
Duran Duran
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Simply Red
Eminem
The Police
Leonard Cohen
Prince
The Fall
James Brown
Toto
Foreigner
Tangerine Dream
Cat Stevens
Elvis Costello
The Byrds
John Lennon
Rod Steward
The Jam
Eurythmics
Blondie
Jamiroquai
etc

oops, there are more than expected 😄

counterexample: Pink Floyd because of the care they put on the tracklist of their albums and the transition between the songs

That John Lennon Comp is cool if it's the one I'm thinking of. It may be controversial but I've never once felt the need to check out any of his albums though I really like the comp.

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

Anonymous — Tue, 6 Mar 2018 17:25:14 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/06/2018 22:25

Elton John
Billy Joel
Madonna
The Kinks
Franck Sinatra
Human League
Duran Duran
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Simply Red
Eminem
The Police
Leonard Cohen
Prince
The Fall
James Brown
Toto
Foreigner
Tangerine Dream
Cat Stevens
Elvis Costello
The Byrds
John Lennon
Rod Steward
The Jam
Eurythmics
Blondie
Jamiroquai
etc

oops, there are more than expected 😄

counterexample: Pink Floyd because of the care they put on the tracklist of their albums and the transition between the songs

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

RoundTheBend — Tue, 6 Mar 2018 12:11:57 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 03/06/2018 17:11

Great thread.

I second the absurdity to give someone a hard time for putting a comp on their overall. Some artists just don't have great albums, yet are still great. Comps are for them. Sometimes the comp really is better than any single album the artist released.

Furthermore, I'd totally agree that sometimes the best comps are live albums.

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

bobbyb5 — Tue, 6 Mar 2018 09:51:49 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 03/06/2018 14:51

Will58 wrote:

Given that, as someone mentioned, Greatest Hits albums are a somewhat outmoded concept, my nominations for bands best listened to via compilations rather than studio albums are:

Chuck Berry (as long as it doesn't have My Ding-a-Ling on it which it will)
Elvis
Smokey Robinson
The Kinks
The Monkees
The Eagles
Mott the Hoople
Status Quo
Squeeze
Madness

That's just for starters, off the top of my head

Hopefully I've enraged somebody there...

I like all those acts you named, and their greatest hits albums are awesome. But a few of them also have albums that are worthwhile to have the whole thing. I have full albums by Squeeze, Mott the Hoople and Madness that are pretty good albums. Kinks also.

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

Anonymous — Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:35:12 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/06/2018 13:35

Given that, as someone mentioned, Greatest Hits albums are a somewhat outmoded concept, my nominations for bands best listened to via compilations rather than studio albums are:

Chuck Berry (as long as it doesn't have My Ding-a-Ling on it which it will)
Elvis
Smokey Robinson
The Kinks
The Monkees
The Eagles
Mott the Hoople
Status Quo
Squeeze
Madness

That's just for starters, off the top of my head

Hopefully I've enraged somebody there...

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

elo269megv — Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:47:59 GMT

Author: elo269megv

Posted: 03/05/2018 16:47

Here's some that came to mind fpr me, even though some were mentioned already...

History: America's Greatest hits
Steve Miller Band - Greatest
Aerosmith - Greatest
Cat Stevens - Greatest
Eagles 71-75 or Vol II 76-80
Avenged Sevenfold Best Of 2005-13[/img]

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

bobbyb5 — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 14:24:46 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 03/04/2018 19:24

hereforashortime wrote:

Elvis, now there is some debate on which compilation is the best, but for my money I'm gonna go with:
Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits by Elvis Presley

I don't think I ever listened to an Elvis album until one day I just felt like buying some music by the old 50s rock and rollers. And I think I bought Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Brenda Lee, Gene Pitney and a few others I can't remember. And I grabbed an Elvis one called I Was the One. And I liked it more than I thought I would. Especially the title song. It's still my favorite Elvis song. So then I bought a couple more Elvis like Sun Sessions. And I liked that one a lot too. I Was the One and Sun Sessions were compilations too but not like a big huge career spanning compilation. They were more like specialty albums. So this would probably a be a good one for me to hear.

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

Liedzeit — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 12:19:37 GMT

Author: Liedzeit

Posted: 03/04/2018 17:19

😉

https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=38199

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

glynspsa — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 06:36:57 GMT

Author: glynspsa

Posted: 03/04/2018 11:36

bobbyb5 wrote:

This is my awesome Best-ofs chart. 😎 😎

Best Best-ofs / Greatest Greatest Hits Albums by bobbyb5

Here is my chart of the same: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=38480

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

Anonymous — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 06:24:40 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 03/04/2018 11:24

This thread is turning out to be really helpful.

Regretting my earlier comment that the only comp you need is ABBA Gold 🫢 🤣

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

Liedzeit — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 05:58:49 GMT

Author: Liedzeit

Posted: 03/04/2018 10:58

History: America's Greatest Hits by America

They have made a number of records. But does anyone need more than their greatest Hits?

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

PurpleHazel — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 04:00:04 GMT

Author: PurpleHazel

Posted: 03/04/2018 09:00

Since in the 50s and 60s, soul, R&B and blues were singles genres, and the producers/artists for the most part weren't trying to make album statements, compilations are often necessary. Even as Sly Stone, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and P-Funk fought to reverse this mindset, it continued to an extent in the 70s and beyond.

James Brown is a top 3 artist for me, and even though the first Live at the Apollo proved to the music industry that R&B albums were a viable business model, he's still primarily a singles artist, so a comprehensive compilation like this one is essential:

Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:

Because I like James Brown so much, I need at least 70 tracks worth to make me happy.

Star Time by James Brown

Some other justifiable compilations:

Moanin' In The Moonlight by Howlin' Wolf

The Best Of Muddy Waters by Muddy Waters

The Best Of Solomon Burke by Solomon Burke

Anthology by The Temptations

The Best Of Sam & Dave by Sam & Dave

Greatest Hits 1974–78 by Steve Miller Band

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

bobbyb5 — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 03:59:45 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 03/04/2018 08:59

Tilly wrote:

Simon And Garfunkel's Greatest Hits by Simon And Garfunkel

I LOVE (most of) their singles. Yet none of their albums would ever make my overall. I don't think they ever made a GREAT album.

Even better than hot rocks (for me) is the collection of The Stones Singles Collection from the 60s. But I LOVE all their albums from the 60s too. Even the really early stuff.

Singles Collection: The London Years by The Rolling Stones

I didn't know that Rolling Stones Singles collection even existed. I just looked at the tracklist and it's awesome. Maybe better than Hot Rock's..

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

Repo — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 03:46:08 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 03/04/2018 08:46

Simon And Garfunkel's Greatest Hits by Simon And Garfunkel

I LOVE (most of) their singles. Yet none of their albums would ever make my overall. I don't think they ever made a GREAT album.

Even better than hot rocks (for me) is the collection of The Stones Singles Collection from the 60s. But I LOVE all their albums from the 60s too. Even the really early stuff.

Singles Collection: The London Years by The Rolling Stones

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

PurpleHazel — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 02:25:19 GMT

Author: PurpleHazel

Posted: 03/04/2018 07:25

Ashmark wrote:

1) I included a number of greatest hits, best of, compilation albums in my best ever chart. Criticism followed, of course, which was expected and fair.

You include compilations for The Beatles, Zeppelin, The Doors, Bowie, Neil Young and The Pixies on your overall chart on this site, you're going to get some shit. That's just how it is. 😄 On the other hand, including Legend, which was a hugely popular comp., or one for Queen seems reasonable.

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

Tha1ChiefRocka — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 00:18:45 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 03/04/2018 05:18

Not every band has hits, so best of's, obviously.

Edit: Sorry, I read the title of your post and not the actual question.

This album cut of "Tears Roll Down" is better than the original. Plus, they had some wonderful songs.

Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82-92) by Tears For Fears

Because I like James Brown so much, I need at least 70 tracks worth to make me happy.

Star Time by James Brown

Then there are those bands that didn't quite achieve success in their time, but had a great compendium of their work issued later.

Boom In The Night (Original Studio Recordings 1980-1983) by Bush Tetras

Northern Stories 1978/80 by Manicured Noise

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

hereforashortime — Sun, 4 Mar 2018 00:15:50 GMT

Author: hereforashortime

Posted: 03/04/2018 05:15

Elvis, now there is some debate on which compilation is the best, but for my money I'm gonna go with:
Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits by Elvis Presley

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

bobbyb5 — Sat, 3 Mar 2018 19:21:14 GMT

Author: bobbyb5

Posted: 03/04/2018 00:21

Fischman wrote:

ECUpirate wrote:

Many will disagree probably but The Rolling Stones are that one for me. I always thought every album they released had at least a couple throwaway tracks that brought the album down. I prefer 40 licks.

Greatest hits albums do feel like cheating when ranking albums though.

While I love a lot of Stones' deep tracks what will never make it on a compilation, Hot Rocks is fantastic. Probably the best greatest hits collection ever, and a great way for people who don't want to dig deeper to really enjoy their biggest tunes.

Well, it's between Hot Rocks and CCR for number one greatest hits collection ever of all time. But I put CCR at number 1 and Hot Rocks at number two. But only because I couldn't decide. They're both so awesome.

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

Fischman — Sat, 3 Mar 2018 19:12:14 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 03/04/2018 00:12

Artists for whom I've been satisfied with a greatest hits collection, and prefer to an album catalog:

Marshall Crenshaw
Joe Jackson
Dusty Springfield
Petula Clark
The Carpenters

Re: Greatest Hits or Best Of Bands

Fischman — Sat, 3 Mar 2018 19:09:43 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 03/04/2018 00:09

ECUpirate wrote: