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Best 'Best of' (& similar) albums !!

pirlo21pirlo21 Posts: 534
edited November 2007 in Other Music
Everytime someone starts a ‘best album’ thread, they almost always say “you can’t choose any best of/greatset hits or live albums”.
Well, here you can !!

What shall we say, top 5 ? Top 10 if you like. No studio albums remember!
Just Best of, Greatest Hits, Live, B-Sides, Rarities….etc etc

I’ll start with:

REM – And I Feel Fine
Pearl Jam – State College May 3rd 2003
Alice In Chains – Unplugged
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Weld
Smashing Pumpkins – Pisces Iscariot

Anyone else?!
Cymru Am Byth

PJ albums, at the moment!! -
1,Vs 2,Vitalogy 3,No Code 4,Yield 5,Ten 6,Backspacer, 7Pearl Jam 8,Binaural 9,Riot Act.
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  • hguz73hguz73 Posts: 245
    Had to chose 10

    Greatest Hits
    Asian Dub Foundation - Time Freeze (1995 - 2007 The Best Of)
    The Smiths - Singles
    Placebo - One More Feeling Singles 1996 - 2004
    Pixies - Best of Pixies-Wave of Mutilacion

    Live
    Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
    Bjork - Livebox
    Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
    Rage Against The Machine - Live At The Grand Olympic Auditorium

    Rarities
    Deftones - B-Sides and Rarities
    The Cure - Join The Dots: B-Sides and Rarities 1978 - 2001)
  • JulienJulien Posts: 2,457
    best of / greatest hits:
    Neil Young's greatest hits
    R.E.M. and I feel fine
    Faith no more's best of

    live
    Pearl jam (too many boots to think about only one)
    Nirvana unplugged
    Tibetan Freedom concerts (3 Cds boxset from 1996)
    2006: Antwerp, Paris
    2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
    2009: Rotterdam, London
    2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
    2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
    2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
  • glasshouseglasshouse Posts: 1,762
    the gorge box set
    the beatles ~ 1962-1966
    nick cane & the bad seeds ~ the best of...
    talking heads ~ once in a lifetime (greatest hits)
    remastered 4cd box set ~ led zeppelin
    Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30

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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    placebo
    rush- spirit of radio
    afghan wigs
    beatles 1
    neil young- greatest hits
    stp
    pearl jam
    rem- i feel fine AND in time

    those are recent standouts for me. i have a lot of compilations and love them. but it's tough to do a compilation well i think. some try to re-write history and some have glaring omissions. pearl jam did a pretty bang up job of wrapping up every song the casual fan would like to hear. so do the above as far as im concerned. but a truly great comp does more. the best ones are just killer after killer and suck you in. not only do those have all the right songs, they are, on their own, pretty compelling listens that encapsulate the best qualities of the band.
  • ashtrayrockashtrayrock Posts: 167
    I bought a Stevie Wonder greatest hits a couple of years ago

    He da man
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  • JulienJulien Posts: 2,457
    Julien wrote:
    best of / greatest hits:
    Neil Young's greatest hits
    R.E.M. and I feel fine
    Faith no more's best of

    live
    Pearl jam (too many boots to think about only one)
    Nirvana unplugged
    Tibetan Freedom concerts (3 Cds boxset from 1996)

    I forgot:
    Wilco - kicking television
    2006: Antwerp, Paris
    2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
    2009: Rotterdam, London
    2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
    2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
    2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
  • chittychitty Posts: 609
    Counting Crows-Greatest Hits(not sure the name) but I love this cd!
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    R.E.M.~..and I Feel Fine
    Neil Young~Decade (plus the previously mentioned selections by Neil Young)
    Alice in Chains~Music Bank
    King Crimson~The Great Deceiver
    King Crimson~Frame by Frame
    Peter Gabriel~Hit/Miss
    Black Sabbath~The Dio Years
    Genesis~Archive 1967-1975
    Genesis~Three Sides Live
    Metallica~S&M
    Todd Rundgren~Anthology
    The Who~Thirty Years of Maximum R&B (simply worth it for the Keith Moon comedy bits)
    Yes-Yesyears
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • Pearls&StonesPearls&Stones Posts: 585
    pirlo21 wrote:

    REM – And I Feel Fine


    Amen to all of you who picked this. I love this cd, and have probably listened to it 200 times since it came out last fall.

    I like the 2 disc Queen hits collection and Buddy Holly's Greatest Hits
    I love my female wife...
    we sit around and wonder exactly why our marriage should feel threatened by gay marriage
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Pearls&Stones wrote:
    Amen to all of you who picked this. I love this cd, and have probably listened to it 200 times since it came out last fall.
    It's in the six disc changer in the car and refuses to leave!!!! ;)
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
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