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...Hits 
Compilation
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1998 – ATLANTIC
Produced By PHIL COLLINS, HUGH PADGHAM, BABYFACE, LAMONT DOZIER, ARIF MARDIN & ANNE DUDLEY

1. Another Day In Paradise
2. True Colors
3. Easy Lover
4. You Can’t Hurry Love
5. Two Hearts
6. I Wish It Would Rain Down
7. Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
8. Something Happened On The Way To Heaven
9. Separate Lives
10. Both Sides Of The Story
11. One More Night
12. Sussudio
13. Dance Into The Light
14. A Groovy Kind Of Love
15. In The Air Tonight
16. Take me Home

This is a valid question. In the 80’s, when everything was about good looking people who looked great on MTV…how in the world did this guy who had been in the background as the drummer for the prog band Genesis as early as 1970 become one of the biggest stars of the 80’s? The rise of Phil Collins is an interesting one, indeed. Much of it has to do with his voice…Collins could absolutely sing. The fact that Genesis was becoming more of a pop band than a prog band helped…the opening track of his first solo album made it reality. “In The Air Tonight” was one of the creepiest and greatest hits of the 80’s, and it opened many doors for Collins. And the hits just kept on coming.

…Hits is his first compilation. It contains most of his hits from the period that is mostly in the 80’s. There are some great moments, like “In The Air Tonight”, his duet with Philip Bailey on “Easy Lover”, and a previously unreleased cover of the Cyndi Lauper hit “True Colors”. But know this…there are also a lot of ballads that have not aged well. And this collection is practically buried in 80’s synthesizers that sound even more dated. If you dig the hits like “Sussudio”, “Against All Odds”, and his somewhat misguided covers of “You Can’t Hurry Love” and “A Groovy Kind Of Love”, then this is for you. But this would have been better had it contained, say, the excellent “I Don’t Care Any More”, or more tracks like it. The …hits are here if you want them. Could be better.
[First added to this chart: 09/15/2025]
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1998
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134
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Dust Bowl Ballads 
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2000 – BUDDHA
Produced By ROBERT P WEATHERALD

1. The Great Dust Storm (Dust Storm Disaster)
2. Talking Dust Bowl Blues
3. Pretty Boy Floyd
4. Dusty Old Dust (So Long It’s Been Good To Know Yuh)
5. Dust Bowl Blues
6. Blowin’ Down The Road (I Ain’t Going To Be Treated This Way)
7. Tom Joad, Pt. 1
8. Tom Joad, Pt. 2
9. Do Re Mi
10. Dust Bowl Refugee
11. I Ain’t Got No Home
12. Vigilante Man
13. Dust Cain’t Kill Me
14. Dust Pneumonia Blues
15. Talking Dust Bowl Blues (Alternate Version)

Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads has now been in our midst for over 80 years. It was originally released as 2 separate albums in 1940 (volumes 1 and 2) on six 78 RPM discs. The original label, Viktor, let it go out of print, so Guthrie allowed Folkways Records to copy it and reissue it in 1950. It was then reissued in 1964 as a single album. In 2000, sixty years after its original release (and 33 years after Guthrie’s death), Buddha Records put out this single disc compilation of the two albums, with a different track order and the inclusion of two tracks (“Pretty Boy Floyd” and “Dust Bowl Blues”) that were left off of the original album. History, man, history.

You can hear what was so special about Guthrie here, and why his influence has continued to reach far beyond legends like Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Bragg. The almost 7 minute song “Tom Joad”. The future pop excellence of “Do Re Mi”. Foreshadowing the Grateful Dead with “Blowing Down This Road”. All in what is considered to be the first concept album…and it’s about dust. The soundtrack to the lives of poor midwestern farmers crippled by the Depression and having their farms reduced to not more than piles of dirt. This is why Woody Guthrie is still famous to this day…these songs are true Americana, country blues, and folk music to the very core. A must have for its historical significance alone…and the music, 80 plus years later, is still perfection.
[First added to this chart: 06/19/2025]
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1964
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553
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[First added to this chart: 03/15/2025]
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1991
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1999 – SILVERTONE
Produced By JOHN PORTER, EDDIE KRAMER, BUDDY GUY & DAVID Z

1. Damn Right, I’ve Got The Blues
2. Five Long Years
3. Mustang Sally
4. Rememberin’ Stevie
5. She’s A Superstar
6. Feels Like Rain
7. She’s Nineteen Years Old
8. I Smell Trouble
9. Someone Else Is Steppin’ In (Slippin’ Out, Slippin’ In)
10. My Time After Awhile
11. Midnight Train (Feat. Jonny Lang)
12. Miss Ida B
13. Need Your Love So Bad
14. Innocent Man / Mannish Boy / Backdoor Man

The first thing that you need to know about this compilation album is this: the career of Buddy Guy goes all the way back to the 1950’s, and includes a period of time when he was the central figure of the blues revival of the 1960’s. This compilation fails to mention that…so in that way, it’s more than a bit misleading. With that said, Buddy’s Baddest actually covers this blues legend’s first of two decades with Silvertone Records, from 1991 through 1998. For Buddy Guy, this was a huge decade. 1991’s Damn Right, I’ve Got The Blues came after ten years of silence, the recording of which was encouraged and helped along by Eric Clapton, Jeff beck and Mark Knopfler, and became the first of three consecutive Grammy winners for Best Blues Album.

And for good reason. This best of culls from his four 90’s albums with Silvertone, and showcases Guy simply smoking on the guitar. If you love the blues, then this is a must have. This features “Damn Right”, a fine version of “Mustang Sally” with Jeff Beck, “Midnight Train” with Jonny Lang, and many more tracks that feature Guy simply burning on the guitar. Remember…this guy played Woodstock, and inspired most of your guitar heroes from the sixties and seventies. And here, even later in his career, and after an extended hiatus…he does not disappoint. Buddy Guy is simply one of the greatest, and quite possibly the most solid bridge between traditional blues and the blues side of rock. Which makes this, and him, simply vital. Long live Buddy Guy!
[First added to this chart: 12/04/2024]
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1999
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1985-SIRE
VARIOUS PRODUCERS

1. Rescue
2. The Puppet
3. Do It Clean
4. A Promise
5. The Back Of Love
6. The Cutter
7. Never Stop
8. The Killing Moon
9. Silver
10. Seven Seas
11. Bring On The Dancing Horses

With a name like Echo & The Bunnymen, how do you take them seriously? You listen to them. This New Wave band from Liverpool had all of the right Beatles influences...but were also big fans of The Doors, which made them a melodic band with a definite darker side. And they were better than most of their contemporaries. Songs To Learn And Sing is an early compilation from their first 4 albums plus some bonus gems ("Bring On The Dancing Horses" is from the Pretty In Pink soundtrack.) From their first hit, "Rescue", through the excellent "The Killing Moon" and everything in between, this is early 80's music at its best.

Their biggest US hit, "Lips Like Sugar", would be released later in 1985. Had they waited a year or 2, this would have been even better. But it's still a great collection. Also, the band name...the rumor always was that "Echo" was their drum machine, as they didn't have a drummer in the early days. Ian McCullouch has denied that, saying that it was just a stupid name. Their last album came in 2014. The Bunnymen soldier on.
[First added to this chart: 11/26/2024]
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1985
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174
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The Island Years 
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1996-ISLAND
Produced By JOHN CALE

1. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
2. Buffalo Ballet
3. Barracuda
4. Emily
5. Ship Of Fools
6. Gun
7. The Man Who Couldn't Afford To Orgy
8. You Know More Than I Know
9. Momamma Scuba
10. Sylvia Said
11 All I Want Is You
12. Bamboo Floor
13. Mr. Wilson
14. Taking It All Away
15. Dirty Ass Rock 'N' Roll
16. Darling I Need You
17. Rollaroll

1. Heartbreak Hotel
2. Ski Patrol
3. I'm Not The Loving Kind
4. Guts
5. The Jeweler
6. My Maria
7. Helen Of Troy
8. China Sea
9. Engine
10. Save Us
11. Cable Hogue
12. I Keep A Close Watch
13. Pablo Picasso
14. Leaving It Up To You
15. Baby, What You Want Me To Do?
16. Sudden Death
17. You & Me
18. Coral Moon
19. Mary Lou

After recording two albums with the Velvet Underground, John Cale made three solo folk albums. He then signed with Island Records and released 3 great albums in 1974 and 75: Fear, Slow Dazzle, and Helen Of Troy. That's where The Island Years comes in.

If you are ever looking for an album bargain, this may be the best you'll ever find. Not only does it contain the three aforementioned albums in full, it also has previously unreleased bonus tracks and some great liner notes...all for the cost of a double cd. And the music? Cale predates punk by a few years, and shows why he's so influential in the genre. Everything here is first rate...even his session musicians: Richard Thompson, Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno, Phil Collins, and Chris Thomas. You're not likely to find a better deal on 3 great albums than this. Well worth owning.
[First added to this chart: 08/19/2024]
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1996
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2
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An Anthology 
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[First added to this chart: 07/25/2024]
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1972
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43
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Greatest Hits 
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[First added to this chart: 05/06/2024]
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1974
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1988-BMG
Produced By ED MICHEL

This is Duke Ellington's masterpiece. Recorded between 1944 and 1946, with 58 tracks, this 3 disc set is nothing short of amazing. With the best band he ever had, and a stunning selection of songs, this is one of the best collections you'll ever find from the big band era. True story...I was listening to this in my car one day and had to pull over. I wrote over 25 pages of lyrics with music spinning through my head faster than I could get it down. That's how awe inspiring it really is. If you have any like of this type of music at all, you must get this. It simply does not get any better.
[First added to this chart: 02/13/2024]
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1988
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30
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1967 – UNITED ARTISTS
Produced By CHRIS MAXWELL & JIMMY MILLER

1. Gimme Some Lovin’
2. Keep On Running
3. Hammer Song
4. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down And Out
5. When I Come Home
6. It Hurts Me So
7. Somebody Help Me
8. Midnight Special
9. Here Right Now
10. Trampoline
11. Sittin’ And Thinkin’
12. Goodbye Stevie

13. Jump Back
14. It’s Gonna Work Out Fine
15. I’m Blue (Gong Gong Song)
16. I’m Getting Better
17. She Put The Hurt On Me
18. Blues In F
19. High Time Baby
20. Drown In My Tears

The Spencer Davis Group is notable for three things. It marked the beginning of the long and fruitful career of Steve Winwood (who joined the band at age 14), and a pair of important sixties hit songs, “Gimme Some Lovin’” and “I’m A Man”…both of which were written by Winwood. Steve and his brother Muff (later a well respected producer) left Davis in 1967, and the band began its rapid decent into obscurity before breaking up (for the first time) just 2 years later. Davis, who was never a star, forged ahead with reunions that never included the Winwood brothers, and which never produced another hit, until his death in 2020. And that’s about the entire story of the Spencer Davis Group. But those two songs and Steve Winwood keep them an important part of rock history.

The album Gimme Some Lovin’ was an American only compilation that is noteworthy as their American debut, and as the first album that the title track was featured on. The rest of the disc is from their first three British albums (it does not feature “I’m A Man”, which was later covered successfully by Chicago), along with the title track, which was a single only release. The last 8 songs are bonus tracks from the 2001 reissue. The original album shows the Davis Group as a capable, but unremarkable sixties blues band…there were several groups who did it better than they did. This is not bad by any means, and it’s worth hearing for the beginning of Winwood’s career, but it’s otherwise not much more than a curiosity. In the end, they were late to the British invasion, and they were minor players…except for that pair of great tracks.
[First added to this chart: 02/13/2024]
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1967
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My Overall Chart: 2001-2100 composition

Decade Albums %


1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 1 1%
1960s 6 6%
1970s 13 13%
1980s 13 13%
1990s 34 34%
2000s 26 26%
2010s 7 7%
2020s 0 0%
Country Albums %


United States 57 57%
United Kingdom 31 31%
Mixed Nationality 5 5%
Germany 2 2%
Australia 1 1%
Cuba 1 1%
Italy 1 1%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 84 84%
Yes 16 16%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 98 98%
Yes 2 2%

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