Acts that have indeed released ENOUGH "Best Of" albums by now

Bjork has released more than enough merch in general (she has like 30 different DVDs)...

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Kim Wilde Album releases
Kim Wilde (1981)
Select (1982)
Catch as catch can (1983)
Teases & dares (1984)
Another step (1986)
Close (1988)
Love moves (1990)
Love is (1992)
Now & forever (1995)

Kim Wilde Compilation albums
The very best of Kim Wilde (1984)
Disque d'Or (1984)
Trio box set (1984)
Top 16 (1985)
1 heure de musique (1987)
Greatest hits (1988)
Best album (1992)
Love blonde: the best of Kim Wilde (1993)
The best of Kim Wilde & Sheena Easton (1993)
The singles collection 1981-1993 (1993)
Special sampler (1993)
The remix collection (1993)
Star Collection: Best Hits (1993)
The Originals (1995)
Greatest hits : the gold collection (1996)
Water on glass / Select (1996)
The best of Kim Wilde (1996)
Best of Kim Wilde (1996)
20 classic tracks (1996)
The singles collection (1996)
Centenary collection (1997)
Premium gold collection (1997)
More of the best (1998)
Collection (1998)
Collection (1998)
Original gold (1998)
Best of the 80's (2000)
Golden collection (2000)
The Divine Kim Wilde (2000)
Rough & tough (2001)
You keep me hangin' on (2001)
The Collection (2001)
The very best of Kim Wilde (2001)
The best (2002)
Discomania (2002)
Music box (2002)
The Ultra Selection (2005)
Het beste van Kim Wilde (2005)

Greatest Hits [Elektra]
Hits K-Tel
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Parlophone
Classic Queen Hollywood
Greatest Hits [Hollywood]
The Queen Collection (Classic Queen/Greatest Hits/Queen Interview)Singles Box [12-Cd] Import
Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2 Hollywood
Rocks, Vol. 1 Hollywood
Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 Hollywood
Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 [UK Bonus Tracks]
Platinum Collection, Vol. 1-3 EMI
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 [EMI] EMI
Greatest Hits [Japan] EMI
Gold EMI
Jewels Japanese Import
Greatest Hits [We Will Rock You Edition]

Apparently, Smokie have released more "Best Of"s than ordinary studio albums, and they have released considerably more studio albums than The Smiths.

And the day James Blunt releases his greatest hits will be the day he releases one too many.

Aren't Best Ofs, for dinosaur acts and/or small-lable acts, just a way of licensing the songs by different lables for a quick buck? Meaning .. the Best Of compilation that came out five years ago is out of print because the licensing was for a limited run .. so the newer Best Of is meant as a replacement - just a new deal to keep selling the same staples. ..just a guess..

then again they have to do it its not like ian brown sold any copies of his solo greatest hits album (teh lol)

Same about compilations with various artists too. And yet, they have yet to release a really good chronicle of the stereo versions of their 60s material.

This morning on telly I saw a Bryan Adams best of ad. I think one is enough. Or rather too much already.

At least this new one has a track from his usually forgotten first album - "Remember." Catchy.

I believe Bowie released one compilation specially made for each country a few years back, so he will beat most here anyway. :)

Btw. anyone else noticed how EMI are responsible for an alarming lot of these acts?

Substance
(the best of)
International
Singles

This is a ridiculous assertion.

Rhino did 'em in the early 90s as part of a Stax/Atlantic reissue series, but they are currently OOP (like most of the series titles apparantly).

That new box set with the comics and all is really nice, but Sire is milking the Ramones like RCA does Elvis!!

Other acts who are overrepresented on the compilation circuit:
- the Mamas & the Papas
- the Lovin' Spoonful
- the Blues Project (not so much anymore, but MGM reissued the hell out of their stuff in the late 60's-early 70's...bet the band didn't see one red cent)

New Order are "My favourite band ever" but if they release another greatest hits with like one or two damn tracks on that i haven't already got I am gonna be so angry and...and...and probably buy it anyway. sigh.

completely otm

I've seen 4 disc compilations on sale at Best Buy for $9.99 and then next door at the used CD place for $24.99. its a friggin menace!!! His music would be so refreshing were it not abused.

...who delivered two albums all by they own selves, with ABSOLUTELY no input from Mr. Mojo Risin, due to his being dead and all!

(And has anything from those two LPs ever appeared, on ANY compilation?! I think not.)

http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=312&name=Dave+Mason

"I CANNOT BELIEVE BOB MARLEY HASN'T BEEN NAMED YET?!!"

I was shocked when I thought that I might actually make it to the end of this thread without someone mentioning Bob Marley. In spite of some serious competition from some others, he - or rather his estate - are the prime offenders in this category.

Jimi Hendrix must have quite a few too.

1976 Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) (compilation) #1 US, #2 UK, US Sales: 28,000,000
1982 The Eagles Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (compilation) #52 US, US Sales: 11,000,000
1984 The Best of the Eagles (European compilation) #8 UK
1994 The Very Best of The Eagles (1994) (European compilation) #4 UK
1994 Hell Freezes Over (live album) #1 US, #18 UK, US Sales: 8,000,000 (newly certified 6/05)
2000 Selected Works: 1972-1999 (box set) #109 US, US Sales: 1,000,000
2001 The Very Best of the Eagles (2001) (European compilation) #3 UK
2003 The Very Best of the Eagles (2003) (compilation) #3 US, #27 UK (called The Complete Greatest Hits in Europe), US Sales: 3,000,000

I love both bands, but I hate having to look through at least two dozen CDs only to have each of them be a different "Best Of" release. :(

(and yeah, I was about to mention Bob Marley... he suffers the worst of this.)

When you have to do research to actually buy a legit studio album by any of the artists above, you know it's just gone beyond THAT point.

Possibly because I did, already in the initial article :)