Entre_Perpetuo Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Have you ever noticed the existence of a greatest hits album or a best of collection for an artist who doesn't actually enough hits to fill out that kind of album? Here's the place to post about it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Dream Theater has one called Greatest Hit and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs. Type O Negative has one called The Least Worst Of. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted June 29, 2020 Author Share Posted June 29, 2020 Dream Theater has one called Greatest Hit and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs. Type O Negative has one called The Least Worst Of. I was gonna mention the DT one, lol. But at least they were self aware enough to name it what they did. The other one you mentioned is funny! How about all of those "20th Century Masters" collections for pretty much every band that ever had a minor hit for a week or two? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRogers Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 The Sweet. Missing Persons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
custom55 Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 (edited) I've always had an issue with the greatest hits / best of albums. If I like a song/band enough, I'll purchase the album from which the song was released. Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd album. Hearing "The Great Gig in the Sky / Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun / Money" together is just wrong. Edited June 29, 2020 by custom55 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjbear05 Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 I've always had an issue with the greatest hits / best of albums. If I like a song/band enough, I'll purchase the album from which the song was released. Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd album. Hearing "The Great Gig in the Sky / Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun / Money" together is just wrong.But the echoing of "died" from "Us and Them"/fade in to "Learning to Fly" is genius! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_hi_water._ Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 (edited) PoisonCounting CrowsJonas Brothers :) Edited June 29, 2020 by _hi_water._ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HemiBeers Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 RHCP What hits? album, which was true at the time since they just broke out with BSSM. It was a compilation between their record companies and a money grab. I don't mind greatest hits albums if I'm just want a sampling of material without investing the whole catalog. But for die hard fans that got the whole catalog, it's pretty much a money grab. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepphead Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 The Sweet. Missing Persons. gotta disagree with sweet. they got more than enough hits. Hows about public enemys - greatest misses.......... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Dream Theater has one called Greatest Hit and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs. Type O Negative has one called The Least Worst Of. Remind me, the dt hit was take the time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RushFanForever Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 A lot of the 'one-hit wonder' artists have 'best of' albums and the other tracks didn't get initial attention at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grep Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Anthrax has a B-sides album. Called 'Best of the B-Sides'. As awesome as Anthrax is, they've never really had a 'hit'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grep Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Dream Theater has one called Greatest Hit and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs. Type O Negative has one called The Least Worst Of. Remind me, the dt hit was take the time? Pull Me Under. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Dream Theater has one called Greatest Hit and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs. Type O Negative has one called The Least Worst Of. Remind me, the dt hit was take the time? Pull Me Under. thanks bro! I was a huge DT fan early on. read awhile ago petrucci is doing a second solo record. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddysMullet Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 The Cars had enough songs for their greatest hits album, but I'm still disappointed that they didn't call it "Used Cars" like they said they would. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_World_Man Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Probably too many. I'm not really sure. I was looking for a greatest hits album or compilation album by the band Cake since most of their albums aren't supposed to be very good. Interestingly I do have a compilation album(cd)by Everclear. Go figure. Yes, I like 90's bands. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New_World_Man Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Actually one that comes to mind for me is "what hits?" by the Red Hot Chilipeppers. Only a few were actually hits if I remember right. They didn't really have many hits so I suppose their title was rather appropriate. Also, Frank Zappa had one called "Strictly commercial" but he didn't have many hits either(only "dancing fool" and "Valley Girl" charted as far as I know). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 The first album by Alien Ant Farm was titled Greatest Hits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_hi_water._ Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 The Cars had enough songs for their greatest hits album, but I'm still disappointed that they didn't call it "Used Cars" like they said they would.right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Dream Theater has one called Greatest Hit and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs. Type O Negative has one called The Least Worst Of. Remind me, the dt hit was take the time? Pull Me Under. Yes, that is considered their hit. But I do remember Take The Time getting some good radio play and video rotation on headbangers ball too. The radio also played Another Day a little bit. They got Images and Words out just in time before grunge engulfed the whole music world. When Awake came out nobody heard anything from it until they bought the album. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J2112YYZ Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 The Sweet. Missing Persons. gotta disagree with sweet. they got more than enough hits. Hows about public enemys - greatest misses.......... I know two Sweet songs off the top of my head. Ballroom Blitz and Action. Maybe I would know more if I heard them but I'm drawing a blank on anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick N. Backer Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 The Sweet. Missing Persons. I have The Sweet's on my iPhone right now as a matter of fact. I just put that one and T. Rex's on yesterday. I still can't bring myself to listen to anything heavy right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted June 29, 2020 Author Share Posted June 29, 2020 Dream Theater has one called Greatest Hit and 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs. Type O Negative has one called The Least Worst Of. Remind me, the dt hit was take the time? Pull Me Under. Yes, that is considered their hit. But I do remember Take The Time getting some good radio play and video rotation on headbangers ball too. The radio also played Another Day a little bit. They got Images and Words out just in time before grunge engulfed the whole music world. When Awake came out nobody heard anything from it until they bought the album. That's interesting, I've always thought Take The Time sounded like it could've been on that radio! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 The Sweet. Missing Persons. gotta disagree with sweet. they got more than enough hits. Hows about public enemys - greatest misses.......... I know two Sweet songs off the top of my head. Ballroom Blitz and Action. Maybe I would know more if I heard them but I'm drawing a blank on anything else. fox on the runlove is like oxygenwig wam bamlittle willie i only recently learned about action. they had some hits in england and europe iirc before ballroon blitz and fox on the run. i am not an expert but have been digging a little deeper as of late. love them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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