The Beatles - Hey Jude The Beatles - Past Masters I & II The Guess Who - Greatest Hits Vol. I Elvis Costello & the Attractions - The Best of ... Neil Young - Decade Spirit - The Best of ... Steve Miller Band - Anthology Steve Miller Band - The Best of 1968-1973 Mott the Hoople - The Ballad of Mott James Gang - 16 Greatest Hits
Buddy Holly best-ofs, collections, greatest hits etc are numerous but ' Legend ' , a double album with great sound, is outstanding.
Queen - Greatest Hits is perfection others I like a lot are The Who - Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady Madness - Complete Madness Ultravox - The Collection Slade - Sladest Hot Chocolate - Greatest Hits (1976) The Stranglers - The Collection 1977-82 also the original 60s Greatest Hits collections from The Temptations, The Supremes, Four Tops etc. Most of these don't include all the hits as they were released when the acts were still very successful, but my favourite compilations are sequenced well and play like a proper album, rather than unimaginatively just putting the hits in chronological order. That approach can work well too of course, but usually they don't flow so well.
I hear ya about this album... It probably is all the Chicago one needs. I have a 2-CD set which has all their Top40 hits and a selection of album cuts but it's a somewhat tiresome listen when it moves out of the 70s into the David Foster years and those ballads. I prefer my Chicago horn-driven.
This was the first Roxy Music LP I heard and I ended up getting everything. I love that it includes the sublime Mother of Pearl. I'll have to pick it up again when I next see it cheap. Another one that flows wonderfully.
Aerosmith - Greatest Hits (1980), even though I really like all the original albums. Alice Cooper - Greatest Hits Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 Foreigner - Records Golden Earring - The Continuing Story of Radar Love Hank Williams, Jr. - Greatest Hits Journey - Greatest Hits, however I would swap out of a couple of the songs for different ones. Also, the original albums are very good. Queen - Greatest Hits (1981 Elektra version) Reo Speedwagon - The Hits Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits (1993)
A couple of my all time favorite contemporaneous best-ofs (vs. later career spanning anthologies) that I play as much as I play any album by the artists Sly and the Family Stone - Greatest Hits Aretha's Gold War - Greatest Hits Four Tops - Greatest Hits The Best of Sam and Dave Elvis' Golden Records The Best of Sam Cooke
Certainly agree about High Tide & Green Grass - great album! However, my all time favorite has to be The Best Of The Animals, the original MGM LP, 1965.