Best ever new tracks on "Greatest Hits" albums

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Instead of continuing in the Pet Shop Boys "Miracles" thread I decided to create a thread of its own, because the topic is interesting and deserves it.

Here are a few of my contenders:

Depeche Mode: Shake The Disease
ABBA: The Day Before You Came
OMD: Dreaming
Prefab Sprout: The Sound Of Crying

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 10 October 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if it was necessarily a "new" track so much as a track that had never been released, but I adore "Lifetime Piling Up" on the Talking Heads best-of, Sand in the Vaseline.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 October 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

The Whole World - Outkast

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Earth, Wind & Fire - "September"
Bob Dylan - "Watching the River Flow"
Madonna - "Justify My Love"
Tom Petty - "Mary Jane's Last Dance"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"In the Clouds" by the Cult (on their High Octane Cult comp.)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Strongly second "September."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

ROB ZOMBIE FEATURING LIONEL RICHIE AND TRINA - "BRICKHOUSE 2003"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Good lord! I must hear that Rob Zombie song!

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 10 October 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

New Order- true faith

― officer Pupp, Friday, 10 October 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, Janet Jackson's "Runaway" needs mentioning too, as I hated all the singles off her third album (except "If") so that was a much welcome return to form for her.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 10 October 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

New Order- true faith

Of course!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 October 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Ozzy Osbourne- "Back On Earth"

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Saturday, 11 October 2003 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

OH MY GOD "Runaway" is fucking gorgeous! It's her most underrated song.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 11 October 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Music Is My Radar woop woop

― samuel, Saturday, 11 October 2003 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Positively 4th Street

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 11 October 2003 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I second "Runaway" which is one of the best things Janet Jackson have ever done.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 11 October 2003 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Search - those pesky new and previously unreleased tracks on greatest hits albums

― Damian (Damian), Saturday, 11 October 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Rolling Stones: Don't Stop

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Saturday, 11 October 2003 07:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Olivia Newton-John: "Tied Up"

― Burr (Burr), Saturday, 11 October 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Did I say?" on the Teenage Fanclub compilation is probably the best track they've ever done I think.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Saturday, 11 October 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Nirvana - You know you're right

― , Saturday, 11 October 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

The only ones that I've ever heard that were good were the three from the Outkast best-of, with a distant second place to Bad Day and Animal from the new R.E.M. Warners best-of.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 11 October 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Ditto R.E.M.

― el maury, Saturday, 11 October 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Last day of the miner's strike" - Pulp

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 October 2003 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

shed seven "disco down"

(well, it's the best thing the band has done anyway. no, please don't hit me!!)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 13 October 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

stevie wonder - ribbon in the sky / do i do

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 13 October 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

'Bring on the Dancing Horses'!

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 13 October 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Does "Who Made Who" by AC/DC (possibly their best song of the past two decades) count?

― chuck, Monday, 13 October 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Destiny Calling" on The Best of James

"Untitled" on Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits

"The Strangest Party (These Are the Times)" on InXS' "The Greatest Hits"

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Monday, 13 October 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, good call on "Do I Do". i love that one.

this is a good topic, I wish I could think of some..."Mary Jane's Last Dance" maybe?

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 13 October 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt Hegelson so OTM he's gonna be pulling rolls of quarters out of his asscrack all week.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

(pout pout I said Outkast first on the original PSB thread pout)

(pout)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe this one counts:
track on a arte de caetano
veloso:

live performance of
'e proibido proibir'
from that TV show

where caetano's mad,
cursing out the audience
while the band plays on

telling them they don't
understand nothing! and they're
all whistles and boos

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay fine Dan, you're so OTM that when you go for a colonoscopy they'll be removing benjamins from your nether regions.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 13 October 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

stevie's OTM.
but yeah 'justify my love' owns thread.

― piscesboy, Monday, 13 October 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Hooray?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 13 October 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

How did I funkin' forget about Do I Do?!

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 13 October 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Honorary mentions (although they were put on live albums rather than "best of"'s) should also go to Rolling Stones' "High Ware" and Duran Duran's "Wild Boys"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 13 October 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Kate Bush, "Experiment 4"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"Saturday Gigs" - Mott The Hoople
"Tonight She Comes" - The Cars
"Under Pressure" - Queen/David Bowie

― John Fredland (jfredland), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you, Tim... I always thought I was th'only one showing "Experiment IV" any love. Kate's best song ever, IMHO.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

sixteen years pass...

Sometimes I think Here At the Western World is the greatest Steely Dan song. And the Sound of Crying is absolutely the best Prefab Sprout song

― J. Sam, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 00:32 (five years ago)

No love for Paul Simon’s “Slip Slidin’ Away” or perhaps “Stranded in a Limousine”?

― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 01:48 (five years ago)

I guess they were mentioned here:
New tracks on best of compilations

― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 01:50 (five years ago)

Experiment IV was the first one that came to mind
but after reading this thread
True Faith clearly the hands down winner of this not-a-competition

― umsworth (emsworth), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:23 (five years ago)

Perry Farrell’s “Rev” is the only good song he’s written in the past 20 years. It features BOTH John Frusciante and Tom Morello

― beamish13, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:53 (five years ago)

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