Best Of's

[LMA]

These days the only CD's I tend to buy are Best Of's currently I've got, to name a few:

Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Dinosaur Jr, Paul Kelly, Billy Bragg, Primal Scream, Groove Armada, Faithless, Go Betweens, Buffalo Tom, Stone Roses, You Am I, Ed Kuepper, The Pogues, Bowie, Fleetwood Mac...........

Anyone got anymore suggestions or recommendations?

[zipzap]

I was going to say compilations are a bit crap, but just looking through my anally retentive iTunes list I had more than I thought. Sometimes I like a compilation for someone I'm a little bit interested in but don't want their whole catalogue (eg Prince, Neil Young, Velvet Underground...), sometimes I buy it as a completist who blindly collects everything a band puts out (eg New Order, R.E.M.) and sometimes a compilation will just nail it and actually supersede a band's albums as the definitive statement (eg. Housemartins, Echo & The Bunnymen, Suede...). Here are some of my faves...

The Housemartins' 'Now That's What I Call Quite Good' - absolute gem
The Cure - Standing on a Beach is essential, Galore good too
The Field Mice - Where'd You Learn to Kiss That Way?
Pet Shop Boys - PopArt, the earlier Discography was good too.
Joy Division - Heart & Soul box set
The Triffids - Australian Melodrama
Morrissey - Bona Drag
The Smiths - Louder than Bombs
Suede - Sci-Fi Lullabies, Singles
Lou Reed - Retro
Velvet Underground - The Best Of
Teenage Fanclub - Four Thousand Seven Hundred & Sixty Six Seconds
Beach Boys - Classics Selected by Brian Wilson
New Order - Substance
Echo & The Bunnymen - Songs to Learn & Sing
Nancy Sinatra - Lightning's Girl
Saint Etienne - Smash the System
Ride - OX4
Split Enz - Spellbound
Stone Roses - The Complete...
Duran Duran - Decade (!)
R.E.M. - Eponymous
Neil Young - Greatest Hits
Prince - Ultimate
Beatles - The Beatles Box - this cool Readers Digest box set of 8 LPs!
Billy Bragg - Must I Paint You a Picture?
Cocteau Twins - Stars and Topsoil
Ed Keupper - The Butterfly Net
Kate Bush - The Whole Story
Go Betweens - 1978 - 1990
Falling Joys - Singles
Leonard Cohen - The Essential...
Hoodoo Gurus - Electric Soup / Gorilla Biscuit
Blur - Best Of
Rolling Stones - Rolled Gold
Kraftwerk - The Mix / Minimum:Maximum
Ian Brown - The Greatest
Manic Street Preachers - Forever Delayed
Led Zep - Early Days / Latter Days
John Lennon - Legend
Lightning Seeds - Like You Do...
Madness - It's...Madness!

[LMA]

Some good stuff there Zip, have a handful of them, might have to look out for a few others.
Ride that's a band I forgotten all about, Going Blank Again one of the first CD's I bought.

[zipzap]

Some good stuff there Zip, have a handful of them, might have to look out for a few others.
Ride that's a band I forgotten all about, Going Blank Again one of the first CD's I bought.

Is LMA after the Mark of Cain song? I LOVE that song!!!

[LT Smash]

Faith No More: Who Cares A Lot?

My personal favourite Best Of release

[LMA]

Some good stuff there Zip, have a handful of them, might have to look out for a few others.
Ride that's a band I forgotten all about, Going Blank Again one of the first CD's I bought.

Is LMA after the Mark of Cain song? I LOVE that song!!!

Yep - Ill At Ease, very good album

[Pseudo]

These two come to mind immediately:

Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army - Premier Hits
Apart from his first two albums, the rest of Gary Numan's catalogue is comprised of singles plus filler. Therefore Premier Hits neatly combines (almost) the best of his work into one album.

Grace Jones - Island Masters
Doesn't have Slave To The Rhythm or anything released afterwards, but is a good compilation of her earlier stuff. Better than Island Life.

[southee]

I find it hard with best of's ...I have them but love getting the whole album's. Its always nice to listen to albums from start to finish and take it all in....ie. The Wall - Pink Floyd etc...

I have sometimes started with a best of....then if I get hooked with buy the back catalogue. (And keep them in order!!!) Very fastidious that way.....

Must say Best of's are a good starting point.

[godoubleblues]

I personally like the best of CD's by artists, means I can get a playlist of generally the good stuff
some of the best of's in the collection at the moment:
Steve Miller Band
Beach Boys
Neil Young
Radiators
Angels
Joe Jackson
Richard Clapton
and others

[brod]

Some good stuff there Zip, have a handful of them, might have to look out for a few others.
Ride that's a band I forgotten all about, Going Blank Again one of the first CD's I bought.

Is LMA after the Mark of Cain song? I LOVE that song!!!

Yep - Ill At Ease, very good album

Id say better than very good, but I guess that would surprise nobody

[Leaping Lindner]

Some good stuff there Zip, have a handful of them, might have to look out for a few others.
Ride that's a band I forgotten all about, Going Blank Again one of the first CD's I bought.

Is LMA after the Mark of Cain song? I LOVE that song!!!

Yep - Ill At Ease, very good album

Id say better than very good, but I guess that would surprise nobody

I still prefer Battlesick (but I'm old )

[Snaggletooth Tiger]

Seems to me like BLACK SABBATH have brought out more 'Best of' albums than new releases eh!

[Snaggletooth Tiger]

I still prefer Battlesick (but I'm old )

...Bottlesick?

[Leaping Lindner]

I still prefer Battlesick (but I'm old )

...Bottlesick?

I own them both and let's just say one gets played more than the other - not that Bottlesick isn't good.

[LMA]

Went to JB's on the weekend to get Swervedriver's 2cd best of/b sides - Juggernaut Rides and Ride - Ox4. Unfortunately didn't have either ended up getting Wii Mario Karts instead

[zipzap]

Went to JB's on the weekend to get Swervedriver's 2cd best of/b sides - Juggernaut Rides and Ride - Ox4. Unfortunately didn't have either ended up getting Wii Mario Karts instead

Bummer. I used to have a spare of that too, think I gave it to my brother. You can get it in a 3 CD box set with a Bsides and Live album too. Can find it on eBay sometimes. Listening to Leave Them All Behind at Reading 92 right now

[Mr66]

'Closer - The Best of' - Sarah McLachlan
'The Best of' - Radiohead.
2 disc editions of both.

[LMA]

The Sound of the Smiths. A band you'll never admit liking to your mates but great music nonetheless

[Punk Rooster]

Went to JB's on the weekend to get Swervedriver's 2cd best of/b sides - Juggernaut Rides and Ride - Ox4. Unfortunately didn't have either ended up getting Wii Mario Karts instead

I thought you said Skrewdriver there for a minute...

[LMA]

Went to JB's on the weekend to get Swervedriver's 2cd best of/b sides - Juggernaut Rides and Ride - Ox4. Unfortunately didn't have either ended up getting Wii Mario Karts instead

I thought you said Skrewdriver there for a minute...

Reckon I Have heard of their stuff, not Pollitically Correct if you know what I mean. Is that them