What are the best compilations ever?

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Various artists, not box sets, just one (or two at a push) disc CD compilations.

I start this having recently bought Nuggets From Nuggets and dug out my copy of Dave Godin's Deep Soul treasures Vol. 4, which are both fucking ace.

What's a good Chicago house comp? A good funk comp? What are good jazz comps?

Which labels do the best comps? Do Rhino rool the roost? Are Kent Soul classic?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 October 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe I spelt Rule Rool.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 October 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

chains and black exhaust
beyond the calico wall
grindcrusher (the UK version)
ethiopiques 3

yeah

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 10 October 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

Do mixes count?

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 10 October 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

chocolate soup for diabetics
peculiar hole in the sky

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 10 October 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

What are all these things compilations of?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 October 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

Temple Cloud

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 10 October 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

in order: maggotbrain-y funk, psychedelia, grindcore/death metal, and ethiopian music.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Monday, 10 October 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

I found Isolationism a bit gobsmacking a decade ago and Sound 01 (the Big Dada comp) seemed like the freshest thing in years (for an ignoramus like me).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

That Robert Crumb compilation for the abortive writers-make-CDs series EMI(??) did at the end of the 90s, Now That's What I Call Sweet Music, incredibly eye-opening collection of 20s dance-band pop, a really handy counterweight to all the post-Harry Smith mythologising of the era too.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

What's a good Chicago house comp? A good funk comp? What are good jazz comps?

The Mastercuts series is hard to fault in it's no-nonsense 'rough guide to' approach - not definitive as they're only one disc but a good place to start no matter the genre.

As pop chronicles, Now That's What I Call Music is surely the most successful series ever.

The DJ Kicks series features many excellent mixes - perhaps the most consistent series ever, at least in the contemporary Dance domain.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 10 October 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

disco not disco!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

best label comps has to be :

On U Sound and their Pay It all Back series (now supposedly been replaced by the Chainstore Massacre series of which there has to date only been Volume 1 released ..)

all of them are worthy

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

Other stores to shop at:

Various Artists Compilations POX
POV : compilations
best compilations?
S&D: Compilations that should be dropped onto everyone's iPod
The Best Compilations EVER!
Compilations that were so good you started buying the back catalogue stuff

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

NOISE YSI

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

The Black Saint listener series comps are really excellent, though you've got to enjoy Black Saint jazz.

― js (honestengine), Monday, 10 October 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

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