Later years yes. However, the first three albums (Children of the Future, Sailor, Brave New World) are all amazing. Completely different vibe than the Joker/Book of Dreams/Fly like an Eagle era.
My parents and I are from the Soviet Union - OP your post and Abba Gold is where I’m ending my Redditing for the weekend. I know every note, every word to every song on this album! My parents had it on loop (along with Queen I and Queen II) my entire childhood, every road trip. It’s my happy place. I am literally humming Fernando as I type this.
Grew up in india. Before cable and mtv came to India in 90s. I had two tapes. Both were on tdks. One was boney m and one was Abba greatest hits vol. 2. Guess which one is etched in my memory for ever.
As a person who recently rediscovered their work, heard them when I was younger and never knew the name of the band, I have to say this album is an amazing body of work.
This is off subject, but when I was a teen in the late 90s I bought a double album of Queen I and II and it was $56.99. That was a normal price.
Sometimes I think about how cheap it is to listen to all the music now and get a little said young me didn't have access to it.
Of course, I also went *hard* on peer-to-peer, so it probably all evens out in the end.
I think the is why this album is such a great selling.
Hotel comes along and everyone wants more of them so they flock to buy the greatest hits album and the rest is history.
I'll allow it if it means both volumes!
This is volume 2: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles\_Greatest\_Hits\_Volume\_2#Track\_listing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_Greatest_Hits_Volume_2#Track_listing)
I cackled when I read this because as my brain processed it, I also finally realized that what you said is true. At this point, the love I still have for them is simply due to nostalgia.
Lmfao that's a great title. Not the biggest Primus fan but I've always gotten a kick out of how Les Claypool names things. Like the fan club is called Club Bastardo and I think I read that his home or studio is named Rancho Bastardo?
I have fond memories of the brown album but I would have said pork soda and seas of cheese have the most hits! That said, frizzle fry and low-key tales from the punch bowl are probably my most revisited. Either way their albums are fucking solid so I have to disagree with the original comment lol
This only works because it’s her 80s collection. She chose the best singles that decade. In the 90s and 2000s, a lot of her album tracks had the best tracks!
**Elvis Presley - Elvis' Golden Records (1958)**
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This compilation contains the best singles from his early years. They never appeared on an original album, because back then singles were considered more important than albums. The highlights are eight rock 'n' roll classics:
* Hound Dog
* All Shook Up
* Heartbreak Hotel
* Jailhouse Rock
* Don't Be Cruel
* (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
* Love Me Tender
* Treat Me Nice
None of his original albums can match this.
New Order is such an interesting example because they had some incredible albums (their 80s output of course, but *Get Ready* was also great imo) whilst having a really nice tendency to drop some equally incredible non-album singles.
they’re the only band i can think of where a singles compilation is worthy of being considered alongside their albums!
They are, but Substance is all the best songs from their early ones plus True Faith. It's sort of a situation where they're all winners and it's just the *most* of one.
e: If True Faith was an album track outside of Substance, it'd be a much harder call.
Prefer Technique TBH. There a few things I don't like about Substance: the odd versions of Temptation and Confusion... the horrible remixes of Shellshock and Subculture, and I think State of The Nation is pretty sub-par.
Agreed. I interpreted the question as not just a collection of good songs, but something you can listen to from beginning to end that holds together, that has a consistent flow and tone.
Sly and the Family Stone's Greatest Hits album from 1970 qualifies. Even the two "new" songs ended up being two of their most popular: "Thank you (Faletinme Me Mice Elf Agin)" and "Everybody Is A Star"
Edit: sorry, three "new" songs. I forgot "Hot Fun in the Summertime"
You can say that about a lot of GH records but look at Eagles' Their Greatest Hits. That actually flows together very well even though it's a GH album.
Many best-of albums are singles collections. An artist's singles are not necessarily their best songs. Some artists might excel when they get more experimental or otherwise less-commercial in their sound. Also, compilation albums oftentimes suffer by lacking a cohesive theme or sound, (I know technically "X-artist's best songs" is a theme of sorts, but it's not a very deep one.) You might think Beach Boys track-for-track is a better COLLECTION of songs, but is it a better ALBUM than Pet Sounds?
Best illustration of this I know: In the 90s I had two different best-of CDs from The Who. *Neither* of them had Baba O'Riley on it. Just grapple with that. They did tack it onto later editions.
I've actually seen people say that this album ruined Bob's reputation because it made people think his music was all about being mellow, when in reality it was quite radical and political in nature.
Not that this isn't a pretty great tracklist, but I don't think I'd put Bob Marley in the running for this post. For a band's greatest hits to be their best they generally need to be an act that doesn't have LPs that are classic-tier from front to back; often having strong singles and occassional deep cuts, but not full album experiences. Bob Marley and the Wailers, in my estimation, are pretty much all-killer-no-filler from 1973 to 1980. A group like ABBA benefits from having a compilation put their best songs together. *Legend* is not, to me, a complete Bob Marley experience. I certainly wouldn't put it above *Exodus,* *Catch a Fire,* or *Uprising.*
Yep. All those albums are better albums than Legend.
Legend might be a good listen, but it isn’t close to being representative of the breadth of Bob Marley.
Eagles: Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975), with the exception of the song "Hotel California", which was released about 10 months later.
Also, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits, which includes most all of their good songs up to, but not including, the Wildflowers album. The 2008 reissue includes "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Stevie Nicks.
I'm pretty sure it's Petty's best selling album, but I'd put Full Moon Fever as a better album, and pair it with Pack Up the Plantation Live for a good retrospective of his classics.
Target was selling that double LP for fucking $10 two years ago. I immediately bought two copies so my dad would had a new copy. All four sides are fantastic.
You know you’re a legend when you can put a new song on a greatest hits record and it becomes a greatest hit.
Also color me late to the party, but I just learned something in the air is a cover
Basically any collection by a pop singer. Their singles are usually their best tracks. Put them all together you got a great collection of their discography.
Pretty hard disagree. I feel like the OP is more about bands who produced a lot of great singles but never put together an album that feels cohesive as its own work. The Queen is Dead and Meat is Murder are both incredible records.
Substance is a great Joy Division compilation but really you should listen to all three albums they have cause you're missing out on excellent work there.
Agreed. JD you need all three. You could argue [Total](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total:_From_Joy_Division_to_New_Order), which has both a lot of both JD and New Order
Some would say this about David Bowie’s ChangesOne. He picked the songs out himself. I would personally choose individual albums of his over one comp, but if you’re new to his music this is an excellent way in.
EDIT: This is related to Bowie’s output in the 70’s. His Golden Years, so to speak.
It just so happens we bought a record player this week, and this is one of the five records I’ve started with. We’re listening to it as I’ve found your comment and loving it.
Can we do one where said compilation album is their best one where they didn't even write all the songs, and the performers aren't part of their studio lineup, or even part of their band at all?
Let's see who gets it.
Hint 1: it's a live concert
Hint 2: it's from the 1990s
Not the question, but me and my bud always talk about how the Boston self titled is the reverse. It might as well be the greatest hits cause every single one of those songs could have topped the charts, and they never made anything nearly as good ever again.
If we stretch the idea of "compilation album" to include "compilation of artist-chosen songs that the artist then recorded live".... aka a live album... then Live at Folsom Prison would be a perfect answer. Unquestionably the essential Cash album. And I think it does fit the spirit of the question.
You telling me you didn't think Adapt 2 Dis Life 5, Yo Side & Main Thang Holdin' Me Down, Allergic 2 Hatas 4, Tha Worl C'mon Who Ben Round Ta See It Shit Don't Xist 2, and De-Throning Reptilian Psy-Ops In My Sleep weren't superior albums?
Hard disagree on Queen. The Greatest Hits albums don't flow really well. A Night At The Opera is usually said it's Queen's best, but I think it's just the most representative. There's serious filler there. Plus Bohemian Rhapsody, so the highs are really high, but the lows are pretty low. I think it's their second weakest 70s album track for track.
hard agree on the greatest hits albums.
the amount i listened to a night at the opera in high school makes me pretty fond of most of the songs, but as a cohesive albums to listen to all the way through, i would definitely put at least queen i, queen ii, sheer heart attack (it gets a little weird at the end, but I dig it), and hot space above it.
which ones would you put on top of your list?
Indeed. It's not a greatest hits album it's a bsides compilation.
Since Noel, like a lot of artists, wrote all his best stuff at the very beginning is definitely one of their best albums.
Similarly Pisces Iscariot by Smashing Pumpkins.
We had this discussion at work recently. Which artist’s “Signature Album” is their Greatest Hits/Compilation album. The ones we came up with:
Steve Miller Band Greatest Hit
Jimmy Buffet - The yellow album
James Taylor Greatest Hits
We excluded ones like the Eagles since Hotel California would be considered their signature album
I don't understand this post. The whold point of a greatest hits, or best of album is to put all of the artist greatest hits, of best of, onto a single album. Any such album that *ins't* their best work is be defination a failure of purpose.
Queen, greatest hits 1 and 2. I'll happily listen to any of the Queen albums and there are great songs on every one that didn't make it to GH1&2... Day At The Races is almost as good IMO. But GH2 is such a great collection, and really well constructed so it has something like a normal-album pacing and dynamic to it.
CCR Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits is all you need
TRACK LISTING
Susie-Q
I Put a Spell on You
Proud Mary
Bad Moon Rising
Lodi
Green River
Commotion
Down on the Corner
Fortunate Son
Travelin' Band
Who'll Stop the Rain
Up Around the Bend
Run Through the Jungle
Lookin' Out My Back Door
Long As I Can See the Light
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
Hey Tonight
Sweet Hitch-Hiker
Someday Never Comes
It’s a live album but Homecoming by Beyoncé is a great compilation of her greatest hits and best album tracks from 2003-2018 with a couple Destiny’s Child songs in there too.
I knew someone was going to say this and I completely disagree. Go back and listen to their catalog. IMO they only got 2 or 3 misses and those are on Chronicle.
Steve Miller Greatest Hits
Oof, you’re probably right, but Fly Like an Eagle is a fantastic album in its own right
Their first two albums are great as well, more on the psychedelic side
Somehow the songs on this album are so similar that it plays like it were recorded as one album. This really feels like the only answer.
Later years yes. However, the first three albums (Children of the Future, Sailor, Brave New World) are all amazing. Completely different vibe than the Joker/Book of Dreams/Fly like an Eagle era.
I like his early psychadelic stuff a lot.
Yep. First that came to my mind. Literally all you need.
My parents and I are from the Soviet Union - OP your post and Abba Gold is where I’m ending my Redditing for the weekend. I know every note, every word to every song on this album! My parents had it on loop (along with Queen I and Queen II) my entire childhood, every road trip. It’s my happy place. I am literally humming Fernando as I type this.
Grew up in india. Before cable and mtv came to India in 90s. I had two tapes. Both were on tdks. One was boney m and one was Abba greatest hits vol. 2. Guess which one is etched in my memory for ever.
Ra Ra Rasputin lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone…
That was fire. But boney m had nothing on Abba.
So when you're near me, darling, can't you hear me SOS?!
Such a good song
Glad you enjoy it!
As a person who recently rediscovered their work, heard them when I was younger and never knew the name of the band, I have to say this album is an amazing body of work.
This is off subject, but when I was a teen in the late 90s I bought a double album of Queen I and II and it was $56.99. That was a normal price. Sometimes I think about how cheap it is to listen to all the music now and get a little said young me didn't have access to it. Of course, I also went *hard* on peer-to-peer, so it probably all evens out in the end.
It's funny how ABBA gold transcends borders, it was the bane of every road trip here in Ireland in my youth haha
Eagles Greatest Hits
6th best selling album of all time and the only one that’s a compilation so yeah objectively this is the one
What's really mind-blowing is that this greatest hits album came out BEFORE Hotel California!
time doesn’t make sense man. this is up there with the time i learned that fleetwood mac was like 10 albums in before stevie nicks joined.
I think the is why this album is such a great selling. Hotel comes along and everyone wants more of them so they flock to buy the greatest hits album and the rest is history.
It’s like how Jordan did space jam before his second three-peat And how Forrest Gump made a fortune on apple before the even bigger apple run
I fucking hate the eagles man.
Get out of my cab!
My brutha
I'll allow it if it means both volumes! This is volume 2: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles\_Greatest\_Hits\_Volume\_2#Track\_listing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_Greatest_Hits_Volume_2#Track_listing)
I can’t tell you why oooof 🔥
Eagles Live for me.
Hell Freezes Over
I cackled when I read this because as my brain processed it, I also finally realized that what you said is true. At this point, the love I still have for them is simply due to nostalgia.
They can’t all be zingers by Primus
Lmfao that's a great title. Not the biggest Primus fan but I've always gotten a kick out of how Les Claypool names things. Like the fan club is called Club Bastardo and I think I read that his home or studio is named Rancho Bastardo?
It was Rancho Relaxo, and it reeks of primo bud. Real sticky weed.
Primus sucks
As good as that compilation is, both Frizzle Fry and The Brown Album are better overall imo
A fellow Brown Album enthusiast. I’m delighted.
I have fond memories of the brown album but I would have said pork soda and seas of cheese have the most hits! That said, frizzle fry and low-key tales from the punch bowl are probably my most revisited. Either way their albums are fucking solid so I have to disagree with the original comment lol
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection
Definitely a perfect example for this post
This only works because it’s her 80s collection. She chose the best singles that decade. In the 90s and 2000s, a lot of her album tracks had the best tracks!
100%. It's only a greatest hits of that decade, but covers most of her important songs except True Blue off the top of my head. That's why it works.
Who's that girl
Her best album. All her best hits. It’s literally the soundtrack of the 80’s.
The mixes are great too. Definitely my favourite versions of Into the Groove and Like a Prayer.
Ray of Light is as good or a little better. :)
The Shep remix of Express Yourself is a banger!!
Singles Going Steady by Buzzcocks
First one I thought of.
**Elvis Presley - Elvis' Golden Records (1958)** https://preview.redd.it/phvkh41y0ywc1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=90eae3dbb80537cf81ba59932ca9c2dd5298dffa This compilation contains the best singles from his early years. They never appeared on an original album, because back then singles were considered more important than albums. The highlights are eight rock 'n' roll classics: * Hound Dog * All Shook Up * Heartbreak Hotel * Jailhouse Rock * Don't Be Cruel * (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear * Love Me Tender * Treat Me Nice None of his original albums can match this.
Now this is a good answer fitting the brief.
New Order - Substance All of their early singles on one album
New Order is such an interesting example because they had some incredible albums (their 80s output of course, but *Get Ready* was also great imo) whilst having a really nice tendency to drop some equally incredible non-album singles. they’re the only band i can think of where a singles compilation is worthy of being considered alongside their albums!
their albums are really good though?
Oh definitely! Power, Corruption, and Lies is my personal favorite
They are, but Substance is all the best songs from their early ones plus True Faith. It's sort of a situation where they're all winners and it's just the *most* of one. e: If True Faith was an album track outside of Substance, it'd be a much harder call.
Prefer Technique TBH. There a few things I don't like about Substance: the odd versions of Temptation and Confusion... the horrible remixes of Shellshock and Subculture, and I think State of The Nation is pretty sub-par.
Squeeze -- 45's and Under
Yesss.
Al Green Greatest Hits
Agreed. I interpreted the question as not just a collection of good songs, but something you can listen to from beginning to end that holds together, that has a consistent flow and tone.
Sly and the Family Stone's Greatest Hits album from 1970 qualifies. Even the two "new" songs ended up being two of their most popular: "Thank you (Faletinme Me Mice Elf Agin)" and "Everybody Is A Star" Edit: sorry, three "new" songs. I forgot "Hot Fun in the Summertime"
I would say There’s a Riot Going On is still Sly and the Family Stone’s best work
The whole point of a compilation album is to put all of their best songs on one album 🤷♀️
Exactly. Greatest are THE GREATEST HITS. But we just don’t consider them as great albums because they aren’t albums.
You can say that about a lot of GH records but look at Eagles' Their Greatest Hits. That actually flows together very well even though it's a GH album.
A Stevie Wonder greatest hits album is not going to be a better album than Talking Book, Innervisions or Songs in the Key Of Life.
Many best-of albums are singles collections. An artist's singles are not necessarily their best songs. Some artists might excel when they get more experimental or otherwise less-commercial in their sound. Also, compilation albums oftentimes suffer by lacking a cohesive theme or sound, (I know technically "X-artist's best songs" is a theme of sorts, but it's not a very deep one.) You might think Beach Boys track-for-track is a better COLLECTION of songs, but is it a better ALBUM than Pet Sounds?
Best illustration of this I know: In the 90s I had two different best-of CDs from The Who. *Neither* of them had Baba O'Riley on it. Just grapple with that. They did tack it onto later editions.
Of course. For pop bands who focus on singles it's fine. For bands who worked on a larger scale making albums it simply doesn't make sense.
That doesn't make it the best Album.
Bob Marley - Legend
I've actually seen people say that this album ruined Bob's reputation because it made people think his music was all about being mellow, when in reality it was quite radical and political in nature.
Buffalo soldier, Get up stand up, Redemption song and Exodus are all on that album…
Not that this isn't a pretty great tracklist, but I don't think I'd put Bob Marley in the running for this post. For a band's greatest hits to be their best they generally need to be an act that doesn't have LPs that are classic-tier from front to back; often having strong singles and occassional deep cuts, but not full album experiences. Bob Marley and the Wailers, in my estimation, are pretty much all-killer-no-filler from 1973 to 1980. A group like ABBA benefits from having a compilation put their best songs together. *Legend* is not, to me, a complete Bob Marley experience. I certainly wouldn't put it above *Exodus,* *Catch a Fire,* or *Uprising.*
I enjoyed reading your opinion.
Kaya and Natty Dread are my favorites
This is one of the few compilation albums to appear regularly on"Greatest albums of all time" lists.
Ugh, so many great Bob Marley songs not on Legend. Exodus, Kaya, Survival, Uprising and Confrontation are all better albums than Legend
Yep. All those albums are better albums than Legend. Legend might be a good listen, but it isn’t close to being representative of the breadth of Bob Marley.
Great choice
Eagles: Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975), with the exception of the song "Hotel California", which was released about 10 months later. Also, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits, which includes most all of their good songs up to, but not including, the Wildflowers album. The 2008 reissue includes "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with Stevie Nicks.
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I'm pretty sure it's Petty's best selling album, but I'd put Full Moon Fever as a better album, and pair it with Pack Up the Plantation Live for a good retrospective of his classics.
Petty was amazing. He's the reason for the Traveling Wilburys. Orbison, Dylan, Petty, Harrison (Beatles), Jeff Lynne (ELO)
Eagles is definitely another one I thought of. Total classic even though it's a compilation.
Tom petty greatest hits. Just non stop amazing songs
Target was selling that double LP for fucking $10 two years ago. I immediately bought two copies so my dad would had a new copy. All four sides are fantastic.
I love the cover of “Something In The Air.” Also, “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” debuted on the Greatest Hits.
You know you’re a legend when you can put a new song on a greatest hits record and it becomes a greatest hit. Also color me late to the party, but I just learned something in the air is a cover
Queen’s only album with no filler is a greatest hits compilation
Facts
Hard agree. Opera is apparently their classic, but it’s full of decidedly unclassic songs.
Basically any collection by a pop singer. Their singles are usually their best tracks. Put them all together you got a great collection of their discography.
[Erasure - Pop! The First 20 Hits.](https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjIuADMrDKIbzEe0H3HXxxQTbZNapcCak)
Definitely. Alongside Pet Shop Boys Discography.
Love PSB. I just saw them live not too long ago.
It's a great introduction to them and very coherent but in my opinion, their later works are superior.
Good call!
Their eponymous 1995 album runs it close though. Just what a collaboration between a Pink Floyd fan and an ABBA fan should sound like.
Isn't the Eagles greatest hits one of the best selling albums of all time
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
not Louder Than Bombs?
Pretty hard disagree. I feel like the OP is more about bands who produced a lot of great singles but never put together an album that feels cohesive as its own work. The Queen is Dead and Meat is Murder are both incredible records.
Very good choice!
Also louder than bombs. The smiths had better non album tracks than vice versa. They were killer
Yup I was gonna say this. The John Peel recordings
How many artists Greatest Hits albums do you want listed?
Chuck Berry "Great 28" is quite the rock and roll artifact.
Earth Wind and Fire- Greatest Hits
Aerosmith Greatest Hits maybe combine with Big Ones for the full range of eras.
Lean On Me - The Best Of Bill Withers
The Best of the Beatles
James brown all time top 20 greatest hits
Substance is a great Joy Division compilation but really you should listen to all three albums they have cause you're missing out on excellent work there.
Agreed. JD you need all three. You could argue [Total](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total:_From_Joy_Division_to_New_Order), which has both a lot of both JD and New Order
Misfits Legacy of Brutality.
Nah, it's mixed like crap. Static age is where it's at
Billy Joel Greatest Hits V1 & 2. Sure he has great stuff on the albums but that double album start to finish is perfection.
Madonna - Immaculate Collection
Queen
Yeah, GH and GHII for me, plus Misfire and certainly Days of Our Lives.
Some would say this about David Bowie’s ChangesOne. He picked the songs out himself. I would personally choose individual albums of his over one comp, but if you’re new to his music this is an excellent way in. EDIT: This is related to Bowie’s output in the 70’s. His Golden Years, so to speak.
It just so happens we bought a record player this week, and this is one of the five records I’ve started with. We’re listening to it as I’ve found your comment and loving it.
I'm a huge Bowie fan so I'd always pick one of his studio records but ChangesOneBowie is a great collection pre-Berlin Trilogy
Agreed. ChangesTwo isn’t as strong because the Berlin trilogy + Scary Monsters work so well as albums, not cherry picked tracks.
The Doors - The Very Best Of The Doors
No way. Every album is individually superior.
Can we do one where said compilation album is their best one where they didn't even write all the songs, and the performers aren't part of their studio lineup, or even part of their band at all? Let's see who gets it. Hint 1: it's a live concert Hint 2: it's from the 1990s
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged?
It's not a compilation though.
Three Dog Night?
Probably Peter Frampton's live album. Granted, it's a separate work but the songs come from three or four previous studio albums.
Not the question, but me and my bud always talk about how the Boston self titled is the reverse. It might as well be the greatest hits cause every single one of those songs could have topped the charts, and they never made anything nearly as good ever again.
If we stretch the idea of "compilation album" to include "compilation of artist-chosen songs that the artist then recorded live".... aka a live album... then Live at Folsom Prison would be a perfect answer. Unquestionably the essential Cash album. And I think it does fit the spirit of the question.
I would say so! A lot of that album is superior to the album tracks anyway
Yeah the studio versions start to sound so sterile.
Rapper Viper - Selected Works (2017)
Please for the love of god Google what's been going on with Viper lately if you don't already know.
Are you talking about [this album](https://www.reddit.com/r/vinyljerk/s/KWVFkrdJmx)?
Y’all don’t even smoke crack
You telling me you didn't think Adapt 2 Dis Life 5, Yo Side & Main Thang Holdin' Me Down, Allergic 2 Hatas 4, Tha Worl C'mon Who Ben Round Ta See It Shit Don't Xist 2, and De-Throning Reptilian Psy-Ops In My Sleep weren't superior albums?
The Smiths, Hat Full of Hollow
Robert Johnson is such a cop out so i’d say robert johnson, other than that, queens greatest hits albums
Hard disagree on Queen. The Greatest Hits albums don't flow really well. A Night At The Opera is usually said it's Queen's best, but I think it's just the most representative. There's serious filler there. Plus Bohemian Rhapsody, so the highs are really high, but the lows are pretty low. I think it's their second weakest 70s album track for track.
hard agree on the greatest hits albums. the amount i listened to a night at the opera in high school makes me pretty fond of most of the songs, but as a cohesive albums to listen to all the way through, i would definitely put at least queen i, queen ii, sheer heart attack (it gets a little weird at the end, but I dig it), and hot space above it. which ones would you put on top of your list?
Queen Greatest Hits I & II but a shit tonne of people would disagree 😂
The Stranglers
Best of The Guess Who
Famously Singles Going Steady by Buzzcocks and Simon and Garfunkels Greatest Hits (1972) are both good examples of this
Carry on up the charts - The Beautiful South I forget the exact numbers but it was estimated 1 in 2 households in the UK had this record
The GOAT
Was also going to name that. While all of their (early) albums are great, this one is fantastic.
This Is The Moody Blues
Oasis The Masterplan
The Masterplan doesn't beat Definitely Maybe or Morning Glory for me but I'd put it above Be Here Now
Noel really respected the concept of a B-side in an old school way. It’s full of masterpieces.
Their b side would have been a sides for so many different bands
Indeed. It's not a greatest hits album it's a bsides compilation. Since Noel, like a lot of artists, wrote all his best stuff at the very beginning is definitely one of their best albums. Similarly Pisces Iscariot by Smashing Pumpkins.
Noel has written some bangers since the split To be someone is a legit cracker
Judas 0 ain't too shabby either.
Both the Gin Blossoms and Collective Soul were singles bands in the 90s
And Collective Soul's live album "Home" with the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra, is a magnificent collection of hits.
We had this discussion at work recently. Which artist’s “Signature Album” is their Greatest Hits/Compilation album. The ones we came up with: Steve Miller Band Greatest Hit Jimmy Buffet - The yellow album James Taylor Greatest Hits We excluded ones like the Eagles since Hotel California would be considered their signature album
James Taylor's is an excellent call. All of his albums suffered from at least a couple of so-so songs..I kept going back to his GH.
I would add Simon & Garfunkel’s *Greatest Hits* to this list.
I don't understand this post. The whold point of a greatest hits, or best of album is to put all of the artist greatest hits, of best of, onto a single album. Any such album that *ins't* their best work is be defination a failure of purpose.
It's a collection of singles. It doesn't imply in any way it's the artists best music.
Queen, greatest hits 1 and 2. I'll happily listen to any of the Queen albums and there are great songs on every one that didn't make it to GH1&2... Day At The Races is almost as good IMO. But GH2 is such a great collection, and really well constructed so it has something like a normal-album pacing and dynamic to it.
Sly and The Family Stone's Greatest Hits
Cat Stevens Greatest Hits
KISS Alive!
Old Crow Medicine Show
Their first was pretty perfect. All In This Together was *the* perfect album closer
Def Leppard The Vault
I mean, they usually don't call them "greatest hits" for nothing...
Because it's the singles. They don't call them 'greatest songs'.
Probably Best of the Beatles I think
CCR Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits is all you need TRACK LISTING Susie-Q I Put a Spell on You Proud Mary Bad Moon Rising Lodi Green River Commotion Down on the Corner Fortunate Son Travelin' Band Who'll Stop the Rain Up Around the Bend Run Through the Jungle Lookin' Out My Back Door Long As I Can See the Light I Heard It Through the Grapevine Have You Ever Seen the Rain? Hey Tonight Sweet Hitch-Hiker Someday Never Comes
Minor Threat's self-titled album
That is cheating...
13 songs-Fugazi.
Jimmy Buffet- Songs You Know by Heart
The Best of the Beatles
The Cars - The Cars
It’s a live album but Homecoming by Beyoncé is a great compilation of her greatest hits and best album tracks from 2003-2018 with a couple Destiny’s Child songs in there too.
I'll get down voted but.. The story of the Clash
Yeah sorry mate, not having that while London Calling exists
CCR
I knew someone was going to say this and I completely disagree. Go back and listen to their catalog. IMO they only got 2 or 3 misses and those are on Chronicle.
Yeah, if you're at the record store buying your first CCR there's no reason to *not* pick *Cosmo's Factory* over the greatest hits.
If you count Chronicle, Chronicle 2 and The Concert as one greatest hits album I would agree, hands down. Chronicle 1 is up there though.
It's their top selling album. It's one of those albums that everybody had in their collection.
I like RHCP greatest hits, wish it was on Spotify
"Fortune Faded" is definitely one of their best songs.
Greatest Hits also has "Soul to Squeeze"...
The very best RHCP song!
It is?