Most frustrating greatest hits collections

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  1. Wollensack

    Wollensack Beatles maniac

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    My jaw hit the floor when I first heard 'Chicago's Greatest Hits' on vinyl. The hiss was so loud, and the sound very flat.
     
  2. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Most frustrating greatest hits collections

    Right on, Jeff!
     
  3. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    And, I hate it whan the use a different edit than what the single actually was.
     
  4. Casino

    Casino Senior Member

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    I doubt it. That song was on the same label as most of his other hits. They were probably just too cheap to include it. No Pitney collection should be without that track.
     
  5. HGN2001

    HGN2001 Mystery picture member

    No one's mentioned Carpenters. Their many compilations have been frustrating original-version seekers for decades.

    But they get points in my book for coming up with interesting ways to present familiar material. Take the very first compilation, Singles 1969-1973. Though songs are segued and edited to fit together, the album presented these old songs together in a new way that was designed for the listener's enjoyment. So one man's treasure is another man's curse, when you consider that this album also annoyed disc jockeys and program directors to hell.

    Richard has released dozens of compilations over the years, and virtually NONE of them are free of remixes or re-records. For those, one needs the Remastered Classics series of original albums. Even there though, you're still lacking the original singles mixes.
     
  6. rjp

    rjp Senior Member

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    i am surprised at this choice.

    other than "born on the bayou" what more could you ask for?

    renny
     
  7. Claus

    Claus Senior Member

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    Monster Magnet's Greatest Hits... they had only one hit!
     
  8. lv70smusic

    lv70smusic Senior Member

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    This is why I had to make my own "greatest hits" CDR for Carpenters, which is unfortunately still missing a couple of single mixes. Because the expanded "Singles" cd came out at the same time the individual albums were remastered, I got excited that there would finally be a Carpenters comp with original hit singles. I was surprised (and saddened) when I got the disc home and found mostly the same old remixes.

     
  9. Jimbo

    Jimbo Forum Hall Of Fame

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    Renny: "Cotton Fields" and "Midnight Special" to name two. But that's what Chronicles II was for!:)
     
  10. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    I DID mention the Carpenters comps that contain Richards remixes and embellishments on the first page of this thread...
     
  11. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    I agree, Renny! Years ago, I was so pissed, I was forced to make my own CCR comp on tape. This was years before CD-R was available.
     
  12. HGN2001

    HGN2001 Mystery picture member

    Sorry. I missed it in your list. But at least we're in agreement.

    Harry
    ...who seems to need to apologize a lot in these forums, online...
     
  13. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    Don't think a thing of it. I miss things too!
     
  14. Stateless

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    I love both of those comps. I think they sound great too.
     
  15. Stateless

    Stateless New Member

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    Imagine how great a 2CD best of AC/DC could be! :eek: I hope it happens. I don't own any AC/DC CD's so I've been waiting for something like this. Even if they short change BIB it will be great. I'm sure most people who are into the band own that album anyway. (I will buy the new remaster one of these days)
     
  16. Rspaight

    Rspaight New Member

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    Well, they're on Epic now, so I would think an "Essential AC/DC" double is an inevitability.

    Ryan
     
  17. jeendicott

    jeendicott Senior Member

    Re: Re: Most frustrating greatest hits collections

    If you're talking about the one with the band logo in red and white, another annoying "feature" was the missing intro to "Sweet Emotion." That was the coolest thing about that cut!

    Runner up: The censored "Lawyers, Guns and Money" on Warren Zevon's A Quiet, Normal Life best-of. :realmad:
     
  18. Pug

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    I have to admit that I was irritated by the use of edited versions of Miss You and Emotional Rescue on Forty Licks by the Rolling Stones. I also hate when greated hits CDs include new tracks.

    I thought Echoes:The Best of Pink Floyd was pretty weak. I still think On the Turning Away should replace Sorrow.

    On the other end of the spectrum, I think the new Elton John Greatest Hits CD nails it perfectly.

    Sean
     
  19. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    Hi Sean! Welcome to our sickness!:D

    You are aware that the latest Elton John Greatest hits (the 2-CD set?) has early fades that do not match the singles and was NR'ed...
     
  20. Pug

    Pug The Prodigal Snob Returns!

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    No I didn't know either. I don't have the singles to compare the CD to. Was this done to fit more music on the CD?

    I didn't the SQ was that bad? Wow! My ears must suck! :)

    Sean
     
  21. bartels76

    bartels76 Forum Hall Of Fame

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    I think the most complete 2-CD Elton John set is the Very Best Of Elton John a UK import from 1990. It covers his best material up to that point except for Tiny Dancer and Levon.
     
  22. Beatlesfan03

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    I haved mixed feelings about Echoes. It's not the best, and it's not the worse. But I will agree that "On The Turning Away" should have been on there.
     
  23. BradOlson

    BradOlson Country/Christian Music Maven

    Kris Kristofferson comps always miss some or many key tracks but the albums are the way to truly appreciate Kris's work.
     
  24. tim_neely

    tim_neely Forum Hall Of Fame

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    Rhino's recent 2-CD Carly Simon compilation missed one of her best singles, "You Know What To Do," and had way too many songs from the less interesting Arista years.

    The most recent Squeeze "Greatest Hits" CD isn't so great because it omits their best single, "If I Didn't Love You."

    Any "greatest hits" collection that segues between songs rather than lets them decay naturally -- unless they segued originally -- receives demerits in my book. The Moody Blues' sets are notorious for this, especially their box set and This Is the Moody Blues.

    Any "greatest hits" collection that uses "fake" single edits gets demerits. The problem with the second disc of "Forty Licks" wasn't that it included single edits; it's that the "edits" in some cases didn't match the original 45s (or the promo 45s). The version of "Emotional Rescue," for example, is a "fake" single edit; it doesn't at all match the promo 45.

    And why couldn't Columbia go back to the original tapes and create a mix of "Song for the Asking" by Simon & Garfunkel without the cross-faded applause from "Bye Bye Love"?
     
  25. Joel1963

    Joel1963 Senior Member Thread Starter

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    One more from me: Rhino's original The Best of War... and More."

    Where's The World Is A Ghetto? The new 2-CD collection appears to be better.
     
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