Album of the day (#2560): The Great Twenty-Eight - Music

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Today's album of the day

The Great Twenty-Eight by Chuck Berry (View album | Buy this album)
Compilation

Year: 1982.
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Overall rank: 945
Average rating: 79/100 (from 235 votes).

Tracks:
1. Maybellene
2. Thirty Days
3. You Can't Catch Me
4. Too Much Monkey Business
5. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
6. Roll Over Beethoven
7. Havana Moon
8. School Days
9. Rock And Roll Music
10. Oh Baby Doll
11. Reelin' And Rockin'
12. Sweet Little Sixteen
13. Johnny B. Goode
14. Around And Around
15. Carol
16. Beautiful Delilah
17. Memphis
18. Sweet Little Rock And Roller
19. Little Queenie
20. Almost Grown
21. Back In The U.S.A.
22. Let It Rock
23. Bye Bye Johnny
24. I'm Talking About You
25. Come On
26. Nadine
27. No Particular Place To Go
28. I Want To Be Your Driver

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Fantastic comp. Highest ranked album of his.

It kind of makes sense, even if BEA hates comps.

Favorite album is Chuck Berry is On Top.

Haven't rated this song for song against that album, which I gave a 90. Curious how it stacks up, song for song.

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Chuck Berry Is On Top is a deceptive album. It's officially a studio album, but every track except for one had already been released on singles. But because it's a "studio" release, it gets a ton of love here. Never mind that The Great 28 contains zero filler, has more than twice the music, and documents the very best of the entire period when Berry dominated rock and roll. There's no contest. And the discussion wouldn't even exist, I believe, if On Top was officially what it really is...a weaker compilation album.

I'll never get the hate for compilation albums on BEA. Especially ones as great as this one.
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Romanelli wrote:

Chuck Berry Is On Top is a deceptive album. It's officially a studio album, but every track except for one had already been released on singles. But because it's a "studio" release, it gets a ton of love here. Never mind that The Great 28 contains zero filler, has more than twice the music, and documents the very best of the entire period when Berry dominated rock and roll. There's no contest. And the discussion wouldn't even exist, I believe, if On Top was officially what it really is...a weaker compilation album.

I'll never get the hate for compilation albums on BEA. Especially ones as great as this one.

Makes sense - had no idea. I mean I think this idea that the artist carefully crafts an album is 67% bunk as well. Maybe even as high as 80% and for some artists 100% for sure. They just writes songs or perform songs and someone else puts the album track order together. And RARELY do artists actually write songs to match a specific order. I say rarely because like 10,000 albums do and 1,000,000 don't or whatever.

Overall - I think Chuck is one of those artists I love for his songs, not albums. He wasn't an album crafter, with concepts or tone or feel that covered the whole album - he was however a decent songwriter (in my opinion he stole too many of his own ideas to be a great one).

Anyway - I agree. Certain types of music lend better as songs and there for compilations, not studio albums are the best. You can blame the Beatles for that (then someone will so, no, it was the Beach Boys... ok fine.)