One which really annoys me is Happy Monday's 'Loads' for one reason - they put an awful, unnecessary remix of 'Kinky Afro' on there, when the orginal version is perfect. Anybody heard this monstrosity?
Artists who need a best-of : Sonic Youth (2CD please). The Chills (All of Kaliedoscope World + other early tracks , remixed Brave Words, and cherry-picked trax from the later albums). I guess that makes it a 2CD set at least! Talking of the Chills, a Flying Nun label retrospective could be good.
― Dr. C, Wednesday, 28 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Omar, Wednesday, 28 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Public Enemy's best of would be pretty ace. In fact hip-hop best-ofs are a recent and much-to-be-encouraged trend. I use compilations as a kind of legal Napster quite often - I get an overview and if I like it enough I work my way round to the albums.
― Tom, Wednesday, 28 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― sundar subramanian, Wednesday, 28 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― jel, Wednesday, 28 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Michael Bourke, Wednesday, 28 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― keith, Wednesday, 28 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Dr. C, Thursday, 1 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― cw, Thursday, 1 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Anybody know if Kaliedoscope World ever came out on CD? With the demise of Creation, I guess it won't for some time, if ever.
― keith, Thursday, 1 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Otis Wheeler, Sunday, 4 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Duane Zarakov, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Patrick, Thursday, 8 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Nick, Friday, 9 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Patrick, Friday, 9 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― D.Z., Tuesday, 3 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I find the Fugges Best Of pretty annoying. Almost as much as the Stone Roses one. I don't appreciate Best Of for bands that have two or less albums. Maybe not even three.
― evaristocorona, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 23:53 (seven years ago)
The Red C/Krayola were and are fucking terrible, the nadir of the avant-garde. Please no threads about them.― Otis Wheeler, Saturday, March 3, 2001 5:00 PM (seventeen years ago)
I wonder if Otis ever came to appreciate the awesomeness of Mayo & Co. (they did end up getting a "singles" comp, which I guess is kind of like a best-of).
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 00:14 (seven years ago)
the version of "Best of Blondie" that doesn't have Union City Blue is a crime against best-ofs
― umsworth (emsworth), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 00:50 (seven years ago)