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Posted by: dandy* 17th February 2021, 03:56 PM

Greatest hits albums are gradually going out of fashion, well as new releases anyway, but once upon a time they were a very successful extra chance at making money from the same songs - or in some cases provided great sales for acts who had rarely sold as much before.

I firmly believe there is an art to making a great one of these though and whilst some are excellent, quite a few often miss the mark. But for this thread let's focus on the ones that do hit the target spot on... so I'm asking you, which greatest hits albums are essential for you and what is it about them that make them so very good?

Posted by: dandy* 17th February 2021, 04:18 PM

I'm going to start with the first compilation from the Pet Shop Boys as I think it's one of the absolute best examples of how to do a greatest hits album. You get all the singles in chronological order up to 1991, something I really prefer in these albums as it documents the journey that the band have gone through up until that point in their career. Plus you get a couple of new tracks for good measure that feel like part of the journey, rather than just tagged on left overs.

In this case it helps that pretty much every one of this singles is essential, with imo only Was It Worth It not really hitting the mark. Their later attempt 'Pop Art' is also pretty great but it doesn't quite have the same level of consistent standard that this has. It's a record that shows what a fantastic band they were and I believe that pretty much every song on here still stands up so well today - from the pinnacles of OTT pop that was It's a Sin and Always On My Mind through to more thoughtful classics such as Being Boring and Rent. It's got absolutely everything I could want.

I also really like the way they give you stats in the album notes about the success of the tracks (or not!) and there is a snippet from Neil about each song that provides an extra little bit of connection to the experience - I particularly love the note about Where The Streets Have No Name where he mentions that Bono asked "What Have I Done To Deserve This"???

10 West End Girls
08 Love Comes Quickly
09 Opportunities
10 Suburbia
10 It's a Sin
10 What Have I Done To Deserve This?
10 Rent
10 Always On My Mind
10 Heart
09 Domino Dancing
10 Left To My Own Devices
09 It's Alright
10 So Hard
10 Being Boring
07 Where The Streets Have No Name
10 Jealousy
09 DJ Culture
05 Was It Worth It

Posted by: Liam.k. 17th February 2021, 04:23 PM

Madonna's 'The Immaculate Collection' for the same reasons you state!

I ought to check out that collection from Pet Shop Boys, I like their big hits and I've been revisiting 'It's a Sin' a lot lately.

Posted by: dandy* 17th February 2021, 04:29 PM

You should definitely take a listen Liam, I really think you'd enjoy it. It is very comparable to The Immaculate Collection in the way it's structured, you get the first big hit followed by a lesser hit and then gradually a constant climb in terms of popularity and creativity, then a more serious and reflective side... in fact even down to the two bonus tracks - with both showing a different side to them, DJ Culture being more low impact but rewarding and Was It Worth It being more of a precursor of where they would go in the 90s

The Immaculate Collection is great as you know - but I'd possibly say that Discography manages to be ever so slightly better

Posted by: gooddelta 17th February 2021, 04:34 PM

I think I personally prefer PopArt as far as PSB collections go, they have so much great stuff from especially the Very and Billingual albums that obviously came after Discography, and I like the way the two discs separated the poppier side and the less commercial side of their music. Granted there are some fillers on it, but it's to be expected of a two-disc set.

Ultimate Kylie from 2004 was also excellent, I liked the split between the two well defined elements of her career up to that point and while it wasn't chronological, the tracklisting made a lot of sense, especially all the big hits kicking off the second disc.

Posted by: dandy* 17th February 2021, 04:51 PM

Oh there's definitely a lot of excellent to be had from PSB after the Discography compilation was released - although I do think it has more low points without a doubt too. A little off the top of my head but I'm particularly fond of the following and I'd have them as a second best of album with no hesitation...

01 Can You Forgive Her?
02 Go West
03 I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing
04 Before
05 Se a Vida é
06 A Red Letter Day
07 I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More
08 You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk
09 Home And Dry
10 I Get Along
11 Flamboyant
12 Minimal
13 Integral
14 Love etc
15 The Way It Used To Be
16 Leaving
17 Vocal
18 Love Is a Bourgeois Concept
19 The Pop Kids
20 Burning The Heather

Posted by: fiesta 17th February 2021, 04:55 PM

I bought more greatest hits albums than studio albums. I have by these acts
Queen (1 & 2)
Inxs
Simply Red
Beatles (no .1s)
Michael Jackson (essential)
U2
killers
Pet Shop Boys (discography)
Paul Weller
Creedence Clearwater revival
Crowded house
Kinks
Bruce Springsteen
Tina Turner
Oasis
Wham (final)
George Michael
The Who
Eurythmics
Texas
Bon Jovi
David Bowie
Wings
Supertramp
Roachford
Spencer Davis Group
Billy Joel
Alison Moyer
Small Faces
Sugababes
Stevie Wonder
Erasure
10cc
Robert Palmer
Robbie Williams
Eagles
James
Bryan Adams
Jamiroquai
Thompson twins
Mike & mechanics
Duran Duran
Prince
Electric Light Orchestra
Monkees
Elton John

Queen is the best imo

Posted by: Popchartfreak 17th February 2021, 05:24 PM

Pet Shop Boys Popart is amazing apart from the Non-Chronological thing which really really bugs me on hits compilations, but I love them throughout their career, right up to recent stuff. I may be biased.

The only acts to compare in my affection are Abba and The Beatles, in which case the single hits albums aren't enough (Gold & 1) it has to be Abba Thank You For The Music boxed hits collection and the Red & Blue albums for the Beatles with a preference for the Blue album if I'm forced to pick.

Outside them, Bee Gees, ELO, Monkees, Beach Boys, Bowie 4 CD or 2CD packages, T.Rex, George Michael, Motown hits, zillions of others obviously. I prefer later Madonna hits albums cos I like the single versions not remixes, but I'm still waiting for the definitive Madonna collection cos she's so bloody-minded that True Blue among others still haven't appeared on them. So, as I always take a strop when artists don't do EXACTLY WHAT I WANT I don't buy the albums till I catch them in bargain bins or charity shops for next to nothing.

If I was streaming, which I'm not, I'd make up my own hits Playlists - I pretty much have done that on CD's for the car for a decade now, cherry-picking current tracks I love so I get exactly what I want.

Hits collections still waiting for: KLF. Rihanna. Katy Perry. Gaga. De La Soul. Among many.

Posted by: Chez Wombat 17th February 2021, 05:38 PM

The Immaculate Collection is great as you can clearly see the progress she makes and how mature and experimental her music gets over the years. Ending on 1990 with Justify My Love was a great way to show she was still very much on top of her game. The Beatles' 1 also shows a similar pattern, granted it only works as a retrospective but it's great seeing their progress from standard bubblegum pop-rock to some of the most adventurous and distinctive music of all time.

ABBA's Gold is great as well mainly as they are an absolutely incredible singles band and the tracklisting is good as it spreads out the hits so you're not quite sure what's coming next.

Posted by: Simon. 17th February 2021, 05:42 PM

My personal favourite is Eternals

Posted by: Jade 17th February 2021, 05:52 PM

That Pet Shop Boys Greatest Hits is a fab shout, Dandy. As you know I've recently added it to my record collection! I also second the nods to ABBA's Gold and the 'Red' and 'Blue' Beatles ones - those really show off what they're all about a whole lot more than '1', as such an ever evolving group with iconic album tracks too.

My go-to greatest hits is Basement Jaxx 'The Singles' which doesn't have as clean a structure as mentioned here but is still peppered with some thought. For example, you can easily identify that it begins with their biggest hit and ends with their least well known song. 'Good Luck' and 'Oh My Gosh' are then as high as they are due to their recency when it was released and hit status. But I do still think it fits together pretty well sonically and there are so many wall-to-wall bangers.

I also enjoyed how comprehensive Prince's '4Ever' Greatest Hits is - so many songs and the first-time inclusion of 'Batdance' for one of his Hits compilations.

Posted by: Tafty 17th February 2021, 05:54 PM

Does anyone have any favourite artists where one greatest hits is better that the other, despite not being TOO different (except including newer hits)?

For example, I think that Britney's 'My Prerogative' is stronger than 'The Singles Collection' & I low-key prefer 'The Sound of...' to 'Ten' by Girls Aloud and I don't understand why! They have the same tracks (bar a couple of exclusions, to make room for newer singles - which I enjoy just as much as the excluded singles etc..)

I low-key hate when a greatest hits isn't in chronological order lmao! I like seeing how much an artist has progressed and grown into the artists that they ended up being. It's my one pet-peeve about Kelly Clarkson's GH (but that's riiiight up there as one of my favourites) along with... The Saturdays 'Finest Selection'!

Posted by: Liam.k. 17th February 2021, 06:07 PM

Yep I totally feel this! 'Lucky' not appearing on 'The Singles Collection' is infuriating! I wanted to buy it at the time but refused on that basis alone.

Also, you mentioning Kelly Clarkson's greatest hits reminds me that I hate when collections are tagged as "part 1", usually because you know there's no way they're going to have enough future hits to justify a "part 2".

Posted by: Tafty 17th February 2021, 06:12 PM

My mate literally said the same. He didn't buy 'Singles Collection' due to it not including 'Lucky' or 'Sometimes'

Oh the "Part/Vol 1" and "Part/Vol 2" stuff is definitely irritating

Posted by: Tafty 17th February 2021, 06:27 PM

OH MY DAYS!

I am SO sorry for hi-jacking this pre-2000's thread with post-2000's albums! I genuinely thought this was the lounge

Posted by: Jade 17th February 2021, 06:37 PM

Oh yeah oops the Basement Jaxx one I suggested is from the 2000s too well... some songs on it are from the 90s?

Posted by: Doctor Blind 17th February 2021, 06:44 PM

The Cure's Greatest Hits is a good example of a Greatest Hits done well, all chronological too - the middle run from “Just Like Heaven” is

Posted by: dandy* 17th February 2021, 06:46 PM

I'm sure we can allow discussion of post 2000 greatest hits in here...

...but if I catch you discussing pre-2000s music in the rival retro forum then there will be serious consequences!

Posted by: King Rollo 17th February 2021, 06:47 PM

When I first starting buying albums in the early 80s, two of the first ones I bought were Queen's Greatest Hits and 10cc's Greatest Hits. They were two of my favourite groups when I was growing up in the 70s so it was good to be able to listen to their singles in one place.

Posted by: Bjork 17th February 2021, 08:27 PM

not the biggest fan of Greatest Hits, I'd rather buy all the studio albums instead

funnily, when I thought what's a greatest hits that I really like, the first one I thought of was Basement Jaxx

The Immaculate Collection is great but don't think it's perfect, maybe if Dress You Up was there instead of Lucky Star
also miss True Blue and Who's That Girl

Posted by: Bjork 17th February 2021, 08:28 PM

which one? they have so many

Posted by: dandy* 17th February 2021, 08:31 PM

Both 'Galore' and 'The Greatest Hits' are perfect to me, their earlier one is often cited as the essential one but it's the one I like the least

Posted by: Last Dreamer 18th February 2021, 07:14 AM

YVA - Geriausiu Dainu Albumas

Posted by: RabbitFurCoat 18th February 2021, 07:23 AM

I always found Greatest Hits albums as a good way of getting into older acts you only know a few songs of, I've never had any interest in a compilation by an act who I've followed.

I guess on the basis they're the act I've gone on to buy the most studio albums from following the purchase of a Greatest Hits the best collection would have to be "Singles 93-03" by The Chemical Brothers - it's in chronological order which I agree is always a must, and has the full edits of tracks not radio edits. Obviously it only covers half of their career but the one they released some years later is poor in comparison, missing so much off and with a tracklist that's all over the place.

Posted by: Josh! 18th February 2021, 09:40 AM

This is the same for me. It's how I really got into the Carpenters in the last year with their Gold album which is such a gorgeous selection of songs.

I don't think I'd ever play a greatest hist from an artist I know well though... There's always too many snubs and fan favourites that I'd miss out on listening to!

Posted by: Herbs 18th February 2021, 10:20 AM

Queen and ABBA are great ones for me - full of amazing songs

Posted by: Among Haus 18th February 2021, 10:31 AM

The 30 Biggest Hits XXX is a Greatest Hits album that has fully made me fall in love with Roxette so I'd say it does the job very well in introducing them to new people!

Off the top of my head, ABBA's Gold, The Immaculate Collection, Queen Greatest Hits I and II, Best of Bowie, and Prince 4Ever / Ultimate are some of my favourites.

One thing I don't like with greatest hits are when they are too specific so they miss out other essential songs (such as Michael Jackson 'Number Ones' and Mariah has one similar too).

Also does Madonna's Something to Remember count as a greatest hits or is a compilation album or are they the same thing? if it counts here, then I love how it structures itself on her greatest BALLAD hits to make it a more cohesive listen through.

Posted by: Last Dreamer 18th February 2021, 11:37 AM

"More Gold" is the best ABBA compilation.

Angeleyes, When I Kissed The Teacher, Honey Honey, When All Is Said And Done, Ring Ring, Head Over Heels

"That's Me" still missed.

Posted by: common sense 18th February 2021, 04:28 PM

I am gobsmacked that no-one has mentioned Bob Marley's Legend, first released in 1984 where it spent all summer, 10 weeks at No.1. A steady seller ever since though. Okay a Best Of rather than a GH but has all his hits and has sold 30 million copies worldwide, the best-selling reggae album ever. Is This Love, No Woman No Cry, Three Little Birds, Jammin', Satisfy My Soul and so on and on. One classic after another.

If you don't own it then why?

Posted by: Bjork 18th February 2021, 04:32 PM

Was thinking now that one GH I really like is Sheryl Crow-The Very Best

I bought it cos I really liked her cover of The first cut is the deepest, which was one of the new tracks on the GH

I think it's really good, doesn't have all the singles and it's not in chronological sequence, but that doesn't bother me,
but on the other hand it has some nice album tracks that were not singles like I Shall Believe

Posted by: Doctor Blind 18th February 2021, 04:39 PM

Greatest Hits have definitely for modern artists become very throwaway and a lot less valued than previously... they seem to occur earlier and earlier in the careers of these artists and groups now too.

Dave Gorman's commentary on the Scouting For Girls 'Greatest Hits' is a particularly good take down: https://youtu.be/LWJ-U_-6vys?t=515

Posted by: Simon. 18th February 2021, 06:42 PM

Oh my god how did I forget this, I completely agree, their greatest hits is a must for anyone. However I had the 'A collection of Roxette Hits' album which wasn't too different.

Another one would be 'Absolute Garbage' by Garbage.

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever 18th February 2021, 08:42 PM

I love a greatest hits album, i always have enjoyed them especially from artists you like all or most of the output, they are also great for artists where you enjoy some of the singles but wouldn't buy an album, for me id love a black eyed peas greatest hits.

Posted by: dandy* 18th February 2021, 09:53 PM

Seeing as I've been buying up a lot of PSB and Erasure 12" singles of late, I thought I may as well go on to this singles collection that I think also does a sterling job.

Again it's an accurate document of their career up until the early 90s, neatly lining up all of their singles in (of course) chronological order. It starts rather hesitantly with their first three singles, all are okay but not exactly their best - although it's arguable that Oh L'amour should have been a bigger hit than it was. It's from the next track, Sometimes, onwards that things really began to look up for them as the remaining tracks all made the top 20 in a great run of success.

Erasure were my absolute favourite band as a child and I still have very fond memories of these songs - yep they were never as stylish as the likes of the PSBs and I doubt anyone ever thought they were cool, but as an out and out pop act they were pretty darn hard to beat. You can really see the progression in the way they perfected their style, the early songs are pretty flamboyant but perhaps veered towards show territory but in the Circus era they began to write some more complex material - you then journey through the excellent singles from The Innocents (A Little Respect! ) before Stop!ping off at the Crackers International EP before finishing with the Chorus album, my favourite era of the compilation - all four singles were excellent. Oh and of course it also has the ABBA-Esque track too, just for me it's the worst one they could have chosen to include.

06 Who Needs Love (Like That)
06 Heavenly Action
08 Oh L'amour
09 Sometimes
08 It Doesn't Have To Be
09 Victim Of Love
10 The Circus
10 Ship Of Fools
10 Chains Of Love
10 A Little Respect
09 Stop!
10 Drama!
10 You Surround Me
10 Blue Savannah
07 Star
10 Chorus
10 Love To Hate You
10 Am I Right?
10 Breath Of Life
07 Take A Chance On Me
07 Who Needs Love (Like That) (Hamburg Mix)

Sadly it stops one single short of Always

Posted by: Bjork 19th February 2021, 07:42 AM

^Oh I own that one, thats a good one for sure

Posted by: Popchartfreak 19th February 2021, 09:54 AM

Classic album obv, but I already have the singles and one of the albums. We need a more comprehensive update with Sun Is Shining, and others included

Posted by: dandy* 19th February 2021, 12:04 PM

I bought Legend last year... and I don't really love it tbh. Reggae isn't a genre that I particularly like but even so it's not as good as I expected it to be from the level of acclaim it gets.

Posted by: Colm 19th February 2021, 06:03 PM

Here goes...

I'll start with a rate and discussion of Discography and Pop! The First 20 Hits because they were both released by my favourite band at the time of release.

Pet Shop Boys - Discography

07 West End Girls
09 Love Comes Quickly
09 Opportunities
10 Suburbia
10 It's a Sin
10 What Have I Done To Deserve This?
10 Rent
10 Always On My Mind
10 Heart
06 Domino Dancing
08 Left To My Own Devices
08 It's Alright
10 So Hard
10 Being Boring
07 Where The Streets Have No Name
08 Jealousy
08 DJ Culture
07 Was It Worth It

This is obviously excellent, even though I don't play it any more - preferring my Spotify playlist instead as it includes album tracks from Actually, Behaviour, Very and later singles like Minimal and Integral.

PopArt is much weaker for me as I liked very little after Very. The only essential single post-Very and pre-Fundamental is Flamboyant, for me. I really get nothing out of the rest.


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Erasure - Pop! The First 20 Hits

06 Who Needs Love (Like That)
07 Heavenly Action
08 Oh L'amour
09 Sometimes
08 It Doesn't Have To Be
08 Victim Of Love
08 The Circus
10 Ship Of Fools
08 Chains Of Love
10 A Little Respect
08 Stop!
09 Drama!
09 You Surround Me
09 Blue Savannah
07 Star
10 Chorus
10 Love To Hate You
08 Am I Right?
10 Breath Of Life
07 Take A Chance On Me
08 Who Needs Love (Like That) (Hamburg Mix)

This is great - but again, I have my own best of playlist on Spotify which includes Always, I Love Saturday and Fingers and Thumbs. I maintain that from 1990 to 1995 there was no better pop band than Erasure.

I'm generally not a fan of 80s Madonna but I've come around to appreciating Into the Groove and Papa Don't Preach. They put the real ploddy mix of Like A Prayer on The Immaculate Collection. :sadface:

Celebration is much better.

ABBA Gold is amazing but everyone knows that.

Girls Aloud - Ten was an excellent update on The Sound of Girls Aloud because it removed some of the songs I didn't like, added the singles from 2007/2008/2009 and presented the whole thing in reverse chronological order which is exactly what I would have done.

The Cure's Greatest Hits is great but I do also love Staring at the Sea.

New Order's Substance would be up there for me - the only skippable song on it is Thieves Like Us. Apart from that we get 12" versions of some of the best singles that came out in the 80s. The Best of and Singles are decent too.

The Very Best of Stone Roses is an example of almost flawless compilation despite not being my favourite. It brought together the highlights of their scattered catalogue in once place. It was sequenced it such a way that the singles from The Second Coming were not totally outshone by the rest. It left nothing out that could be deemed essential. It summed up a career that (at the time) was very unlikely to be added to. There was very little superfluous on it but it still managed to come to nearly 80 minutes of music so no-one could quibble about being short-changed if they purchased it.
It was booked ended by the same four tracks that booked ended their debut. A perfect execution.

The Smiths - Singles is similarly comprehensive and a whole lot better than The Very Best of - which makes a lie of its title.

Enya's Paint the Sky With Stars is great when you get past Orinoco Flow and better than her The Very Best of - which also makes a lie of its title.

I'd like to talk about a few other artists and their adventures in compilation.

Manic Street Preachers' Forever Delayed was missed opportunity. While what they included on it is fine music, it really should have been approached in more balanced way. It undersold their pre-Everything Must Go material. Judicious track selection and intelligent sequencing could have rendered it as great a summary as any non-fan would need. They seemed to be intent on having 20 tracks on it so some of the tracks were shortened to fit them all in. National Treasures did the job better even though the last quarter of it is not great.

A similar botched job was done when Tori Amos released her Tales of a Librarian 2003. Like Forever Delayed, including 20 tracks seemed to be more important than any other consideration. Bizarre track selection too - 2 dull new tracks for obsessive fans, album tracks and b-sides that were nowhere near her best work and the remix of Professional Widow disrupting the flow. She deserved better.

Kate Bush needs to update The Whole Story. She's had 4 albums since then with some great singles on them. Plus her Peter Gabriel duet. I really don't know why it didn't occur to anyone to release it in late 2014. If done right it would not look as if it was an opportunistic release.

Muse, Coldplay and Rihanna have all missed their chance at releasing a perfect Great Hits compilation. If they do bother to put one out now, they'll have to include later, weaker material.

Muse and Coldplay should have released theirs in 2010. Rihanna in 2013.

The KLF may still do one. Unlikely, but a hell of a lot more likely than it used to be.


Finally. in August last year Suede released their 4th compilation. While earlier compilations were very very good, I think that their latest is the best.

The 2 disc set has the following as its track listing on CD 1

01 The Drowners
02 To The Birds
03 My Insatiable One
04 Metal Mickey
05 Animal Nitrate
06 So Young
07 Pantomime Horse
08 Stay Together [long version]
09 My Dark Star
10 We Are The Pigs
11 Killing Of A Flashboy
12 Heroine
13 The Wild Ones
14 New Generation
15 The Asphalt World
16 Still Life

I don't think there will ever be a better account of any band's first 3 years taking into account that this includes in 7 tracks from my favourite ever album and the flashes of genius of their debut.

Posted by: Bjork 19th February 2021, 08:33 PM

^Tori Amos - Tales of a Librarian must be in contention for worst Best Of ever. The most bizarre thing is they excluded Caught a lite Sneeze!!
Alanis has a very strange Best Of too that missed most of her singles, cannot recall the title now... and Bjork's Greatest Hits didn't include her biggest hit It's oh so quiet

so moral of the story, stay away from Alt_Divas Greatest hits

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever 20th February 2021, 02:11 AM

As they are mentioned Erasure, Pet Shop Boys and Enya all have great graetest hits albums, i would also add Sinead o O Connor to that. Again as they are mentioned, Rihanna, Muse, Coldplay all should release Greatest Hits, Rihanna could have released one to fill a gap in the last few years, black eyed peas, mel c, Ac Dc ( i know the band wont allow it) metallica, beyonce, alicia keys and possibly Katy Perry all could do with releasing one.

Posted by: Bjork 20th February 2021, 07:25 AM

^not that crazy about the Sinead O'Connor Best Of, missed Three babies and has some bizarre collaborations no one cared about... in the case of Sinead, you're better off buying her first 2 albums...

Posted by: Popchartfreak 20th February 2021, 08:46 AM

My track listing for a Marley Hits album:

Soul Rebel
Stir It Up
Get Up Stand Up
I Shot The Sheriff
No Woman No Cry
Exodus
Waiting In Vain
Jamming
One Love/People Get Ready
Punky Reggae Party
Is This Love
Satisfy My Soul
So Much Trouble In The World
Could You Be Loved
Three Little Birds
Redemption Song
Buffalo Soldier
Iron Lion Zion
Why Should I
Keep On Moving
What Goes Around Comes Around
Sun Is Shining
Turn Your Lights Down Low (with Lauryn Hill)
Rainbow Country


A much better representation of Marley, and that's still less than half of his singles...

Posted by: gooddelta 20th February 2021, 10:35 AM

Se a vida é and You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk are both essential for me, and actually both in my PSB top five. I thought Bilingual was a brilliant album, though Nightlife and Release not so much. I'd say they've had quite a few other great singles since those too, the ones you mentioned plus Love Etc, Love Is A Borgeouis Construct, Vocal, The Pop Kids to name a few, which it would be good to see collected on the inevitable next hits album. They've rescheduled their GH tour to next year so there's a chance they could release one to coincide with that maybe.

Posted by: steve201 20th February 2021, 05:39 PM

My favourite great hits is probably The Prodigy or Eminem ones from the noughties

Posted by: Popchartfreak 21st February 2021, 09:54 AM

Yes both essential tracks for me, and granted I'm biased but around 40 tracks since Discography have topped my personal charts vs 14 from Discography. Go West, Can You Forgive Her, Footsteps, Miracles, Integral, Liberation, Numb, All Over The World, More Than A Dream, Burn and so many more fab tracks.....

Posted by: common sense 22nd February 2021, 03:33 PM

Wouldn't say More Abba Gold is better than Gold but is just as good and more people should discover it. The lesser hits and some album tracks too.

The 2-disc The Definitive Collection with all the singles in chronological order is the best one really.

Posted by: common sense 22nd February 2021, 03:34 PM

Curtain Call - The Hits by Eminem is good if you don't want to buy all his albums.