Bands for whom a best-of would be enough

Which would be the bands for whom you'd only need a good best-of in your collection?

It's a personal thing, based on how important a specific artist is to you. I usually don't collect "best of" discs, because if I like an artist enough to own one of their albums, then there's a good chance I'll want to own several.

Bryan Adams, Foreigner, Journey, The Police, Phil Collins, and Eric Clapton. These are all bands I feel have had there best songs released as hits. I missed a lot, but off the top of my head this is what I came up with.

This should also be moved to the all music section..

pretty good topic. i guess it would consist of the bands i only seem to like a few songs from. this would include bands like Pantera, Meliah Rage, Type O Negative, Blind Guardian, etc.

If i'm not familiar with a band, i normally pick up a best of. If things go the way i like it, i'd start investing in their catalogue. The following bands in my opinion are only worth a best-of : pantera, meliah rage, metalium, dokken, obituary, primal fear, hammerfall, sinner,mob rules, bon jovi, whitesnake and white lion.

For me it would be bands like Poison,Warrant,Slaughter.Stuff where I like a few songs here and there.

Firehouse is my first choice...

Alex

exact33 wrote:

Firehouse is my first choice...

Alex

Having Firehouses self titled is enough IMO.

Poison and Ratt. I have "Best-Of" compilations from both (POISON'S GREATEST HITS 1986-96 and RATT N ROLL 8191, respectively) and that pretty much covers all my needs from both bands.

Living Colour, Chicago, Jethro Tull, Ozzy led Sabbath (shut up!)

Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne, Fleetwood Mac, The Police, David Bowie

SpectreFate wrote:

Ozzy led Sabbath (shut up!)

Now that you mention it, the only Ozzy-era Sab I have on CD is on the SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE 2-CD compilation.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Now that you mention it, the only Ozzy-era Sab I have on CD is on the SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE 2-CD compilation.

See?

When I had them all, I only really ever listened to "We Sold Our Soul".

To illustrate my point, try to make it through "Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath" or
"Sabotage" (sorry SAHB) without either finding your mind wandering or
totally falling asleep.

I admire the band intensely, and completely respect their place in the
history of metal, I just think when the word "overrated" is mentioned,
that incarnation of that band should be on the top of the list.

SpectreFate wrote:

To illustrate my point, try to make it through "Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath" or
"Sabotage" (sorry SAHB) without either finding your mind wandering or
totally falling asleep.

Personally I think Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage are two of their most interesting albums. They do a nice job of demonstrating that there is much more than just "metal" in Sabbath's arsenal.

Also, Spec...you might want to re-listen to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath because that's Rick Wakeman playing all the keyboards on that album.

I had a bunch of the Ozz-era Sab on cassette back in the day (I know I had SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH, PARANOID, SABOTAGE, and VOL. 4, maybe there were others, I honestly don't remember) but I've never gotten round to upgrading any of 'em to CD. When that SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE comp came out a few years back it all came down to simple economics. "Woot! Cheap shortcut!"

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Also, Spec...you might want to re-listen to
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath because that's Rick Wakeman playing all the
keyboards on that album.

Yeah, I knew that. I don't want this thread to go in a totally different direction like the Limp Bizkit one, but I have listened to all these albums within the last year and decided to liquidate them because they bored me. Early Sabbath has some killer tunes, but just enough for a single disc comp.

That's cool, different strokes and all that....now back to the topic at hand:

Some bands I would only need a best-of (but I'd have to select the tunes myself).

Kiss, Supertramp, Tom Petty, U2, Rainbow, R.E.M., Megadeth, Ozzy (post-Randy Rhoads), Dio, Accept, Scorpions.

I would say Warrant too, Only their best songs would not be on a best of CD. These guys have some really good songs out there but the Best Of CDs you see completely overlook the rockers that they have produced over the years. Heaven, I Saw Red, Cherry Pie, I can live without that kind of stuff

Alot of bands listed I love, Scorpions love the earlier years and I am huge Black Sabbath fan boy so not alot of bands or artist I would only want a greatest hits package.

thrasher73 wrote:

exact33 wrote:

Firehouse is my first choice...

Alex

Having Firehouses self titled is enough IMO.

Having any Firehouse is too much for me.

I have Ratt's 81-91 Greatest Hits and that's enough for me. Same with Poison. There are probably more, buit those are the 1st two that popped into my mind.

EDIT: I just thought of another one. Primus. I know that this will get Schleprock's undies in a twist, but I bought their Greatest Hits that came out last year. Based on the strength that, I picked up Sailing the Seas of Cheese. Didn't care for it. I'll stick with the greatest hits for those guys.

Deep Purple
Pat Benatar
REO Speedwagon
Styx
Most Hair Band stuff...
Tom Petty
Fleetwood Mac
The Eagles

It would be hard for me as I tend to prefer a lot of album tracks to the singles.



Arttie

arttieTHE1manparty wrote:

It would be hard for me as I tend to prefer a lot of album tracks to the singles.



Arttie

Ah, but a "best of" can literally be the "best of". Sure, it's usually just another term for "greatest hits" to the marketing folks, but...

arttieTHE1manparty wrote:

It would be hard for me as I tend to prefer a lot of album tracks to the singles.



Arttie

I can relate. For the longest time, the only WASP album I owned was First Blood, Last Cuts, which as you probably know is a Best of comp. I've recently been going back and purchasing their entire studio discography and discovering some great tunes that aren't "hits". I only wished I picked up more of their stuff earlier.

The Eagles
Kansas
George Thorogood