"Greatest Hits" albums

Have you ever been exposed to one of your favorite bands through a "Greatest Hits" album? For example, my favorite band is Deep Purple and the album that got me into them was a compilation entitled "Deepest Purple". I still love that compilation and play it a lot to this day.

SpectreFate wrote:

Have you ever been exposed to one of your favorite bands through a "Greatest Hits" album? For example, my favorite band is Deep Purple and the album that got me into them was a compilation entitled "Deepest Purple". I still love that compilation and play it a lot to this day.

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all the time. If I can get one, Ill use it as an intro to the band. The Upper Crust greatest hits is a classic case for me.

Two of the most important albums in my life were Greatest Hits comps.


Even though I own all the original albums, I still play this compilation from time to time, because this particular cycle of songs was so important to my development.


The 2-LP vinyl collection, it was like discovering the unholy grail.

The first Aerosmith album I ever bought as a teen in the mid 80s was their 1980 "Greatest Hits" compilation. And yes, it did lead to me obsessively collecting every Aerosmith studio album that was available up to that point.

The RAMONES MANIA compilation album also fueled my obsession with the Ramones. I was already semi-familiar with them by the time it was released (1988) due to occasionally seeing them on MTV and from viewing the movie "Rock N Roll High School" numerous times but MANIA was the first album of theirs I bought. It also led to me quickly buying up as many of their albums as I could get my hands on.

I usually do it through live albums:

Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Humble Pie - Rockin' The Fillmore
UFO - Strangers In The Night
Kansas - Two For The Show
MSG - One Night at Budokan
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes (to hear their 70s stuff)

are some examples.

Actual Greatest Hits albums:

Deep Purple - When We Rock, We Rock, and When We Roll, We Roll is a record I still have and play ever once in a while.

Fat Freddy wrote:

The RAMONES MANIA compilation album also fueled my obsession with the Ramones.

that's one that got me as well. also without The Best of the Scorpions (1978), i doubt i would have been as big a Scorps fan. especially their earlier (best) works.

Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits, I bought it at the age of 13 at a flea market for the song 'School's Out' and ended loving the album and grabbing anything I could find by Alice.

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all the time. If I can get one, Ill use it as an intro to the band

Same here. The first coupla that come to mind are WASP's First Blood, Last Cuts and that Sabbath comp Detuned mentioned. The Best of Bruce Dickinson too. There's probably lots more that I just can't remember at the moment.

On the flip side, I have a coupla Greatest Hits comps that I bought, listened to and then decided "Yea, this is probably all I'll need." Primus and Ratt come to mind.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

On the flip side, I have a coupla Greatest Hits comps that I bought, listened to and then decided "Yea, this is probably all I'll need." Primus and Ratt come to mind.

Ditto. Stratovarius' THE CHOSEN ONES did it for me with that band.

That "Deepest Purple" CD was also my introduction to the band.

Not so much got me into it but there's a few that greatest hits are all I need like Night Ranger and Great White.

Whenever I feel like giving my voice a workout I pop in Journey's Greatest hits.

bassman wrote:

Whenever I feel like giving my voice a workout I pop in Journey's Greatest hits.

that's the one my wife wears out anytime she is in a nostalgic mood.

TheNazgul wrote:

Not so much got me into it but there's a few that greatest hits are all I need like Night Ranger and Great White.

That's me too. That generally how I use Best Ofs. Artists like Tom Petty and George Thorogood; all I need of them is greatest hits.

bassman wrote:

Whenever I feel like giving my voice a workout I pop in Journey's Greatest hits.

for toho:

exact33 wrote:

bassman wrote:

Whenever I feel like giving my voice a workout I pop in Journey's Greatest hits.

for toho:

I will resist the urge to rant this time.

tohostudios wrote:

exact33 wrote:

bassman wrote:

Whenever I feel like giving my voice a workout I pop in Journey's Greatest hits.

for toho:

I will resist the urge to rant this time.

you know you want to do it

exact33 wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

exact33 wrote:

bassman wrote:

Whenever I feel like giving my voice a workout I pop in Journey's Greatest hits.

for toho:

I will resist the urge to rant this time.

you know you want to do it

Oh, I sure do. I had some nice zingers ready for bassman but I decided against it.

tohostudios wrote:

exact33 wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

exact33 wrote:

bassman wrote:

Whenever I feel like giving my voice a workout I pop in Journey's Greatest hits.

for toho:

I will resist the urge to rant this time.

you know you want to do it

Oh, I sure do. I had some nice zingers ready for bassman but I decided against it.

is this a new, kinder toho???

exact33 wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

exact33 wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

exact33 wrote:

bassman wrote:

Whenever I feel like giving my voice a workout I pop in Journey's Greatest hits.

for toho:

I will resist the urge to rant this time.

you know you want to do it

Oh, I sure do. I had some nice zingers ready for bassman but I decided against it.

is this a new, kinder toho???

Not really. It's a "less redundant" toho. I think everyone here knows my feelings about Journey so why belabor the point.

tohostudios wrote:

exact33 wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

exact33 wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

exact33 wrote:

bassman wrote:

Whenever I feel like giving my voice a workout I pop in Journey's Greatest hits.

for toho:

I will resist the urge to rant this time.

you know you want to do it

Oh, I sure do. I had some nice zingers ready for bassman but I decided against it.

is this a new, kinder toho???

Not really. It's a "less redundant" toho. I think everyone here knows my feelings about Journey so why belabor the point.

ah. Comprehension is filling my head.

BTW, I like that Taz emote.

tohostudios wrote:

BTW, I like that Taz emote.

I like Taz in general but yes, the emote is nice!

Fat Freddy wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

On the flip side, I have a coupla Greatest Hits comps that I bought, listened to and then decided "Yea, this is probably all I'll need." Primus and Ratt come to mind.

Ditto. Stratovarius' THE CHOSEN ONES did it for me with that band.

That doesn't really work though as they've made several awesome albums. Visions, Destiny, Infinite...

I think the Best of Diamond Head works pretty well here though. But mostly because their discography is a bit of a mess and some of the albums are hard to get (cheap).

like someone said - the Ratt and Roll is pretty much all I need from them...