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We've probably done this already, but what is your favorite(s)"Greatest Hits" or "Best Of" album. I know that they are considered of less importance because they are usually a collection of hits or semi hits....but I like 'em and everybody owns them.

I have to nominate CCR's Chronicle Vol 1. Personally I think John Fogerty's CCR is the best American band ever...I know Eagles fans dispute this, but CCR is just fantastic. Look at this album line-up:

1. Susie Q

2. I Put A Spell On You

3. Proud Mary

4. Bad Moon Rising

5. Lodi

6. Green River

7. Commotion

8. Down On The Corner

9. Fortunate Son

10. Travelin' Band

11. Who'll Stop The Rain

12. Up Around The Bend

13. Run Through The Jungle

14. Lookin' Out My Back Door

15. Long As I Can See The Light

16. I Heard It Through The Grapevine

17. Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

18. Hey Tonight

19. Sweet Hitch-Hiker

20. Someday Never Comes

Yikes!! It's almost an unbelievable collection of classics.

I'm sure there are many other favorites of this genre out there..what are they?

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the first thing that came to my mind was, of course...

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Rearviewmirror ~ Pearl Jam

Disc one

1. "Once" (2004 Remix) (Vedder, Gossard) – 3:16

* Originally from Ten.

2. "Alive" (2004 Remix) (Vedder, Gossard) – 5:42

* Originally from Ten.

3. "Even Flow" (Vedder, Gossard) – 5:03

* Original version is from Ten.

4. "Jeremy" (Vedder, Ament) – 5:20

* Originally from Ten. The mix is slightly different from the album version.

5. "State of Love and Trust" (Vedder, McCready, Ament) – 3:43

6. "Animal" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 2:47

* Originally from Vs.

7. "Go" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:12

* Originally from Vs.

8. "Dissident" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:34

* Originally from Vs.

9. "Rearviewmirror" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 4:44

* Originally from Vs.

10. "Spin the Black Circle" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 2:49

* Originally from Vitalogy.

11. "Corduroy" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 4:39

* Originally from Vitalogy.

12. "Not For You" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 5:53

* Originally from Vitalogy.

13. "I Got Id" (Vedder) – 4:51

* Originally from the Merkin Ball single (with Neil Young).

14. "Hail, Hail" (Gossard, Vedder, Ament, McCready) – 3:44

* Originally from No Code.

15. "Do the Evolution" (Gossard, Vedder) – 3:52

* Originally from Yield.

16. "Save You" (Ament, Cameron, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:55

* Originally from Riot Act.

Disc two

1. "Black" (2004 Remix) (Vedder, Gossard) – 5:39

* Originally from Ten.

2. "Breath" (Vedder, Gossard) – 5:24

* Originally from the Singles soundtrack.

3. "Daughter" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:56

* Originally from Vs.

4. "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 3:15

* Originally from Vs.

5. "Immortality" (Abbruzzese, Ament, Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 5:12

* Originally from Vitalogy.

6. "Better Man" (Vedder) – 4:28

* Originally from Vitalogy.

7. "Nothingman" (Vedder, Ament) – 4:34

* Originally from Vitalogy.

8. "Who You Are" (Gossard, Irons, Vedder) – 3:53

* Originally from No Code. Features a slight lyric change from the original.

9. "Off He Goes" (Vedder) – 6:00

* Originally from No Code.

10. "Given to Fly" (McCready, Vedder) – 4:00

* Originally from Yield.

11. "Wishlist" (Vedder) – 3:26

* Originally from Yield.

12. "Last Kiss" (Wayne Cochran) – 3:17

* Originally from Pearl Jam's 1998 Christmas single

13. "Nothing As It Seems" (Ament) – 5:21

* Originally from Binaural.

14. "Light Years" (Gossard, McCready, Vedder) – 5:10

* Originally from Binaural.

15. "I Am Mine" (Vedder) – 3:36

* Originally from Riot Act.

16. "Man of the Hour" (Vedder) – 3:45

* From the Big Fish soundtrack.

17. "Yellow Ledbetter" (Ament, McCready, Vedder) – 5:03

* Originally from the "Jeremy" single. Also available on the Lost Dogs album.

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Back in 1976 when it was released, this ranked right up there with other greatest hits albums by the super groups.

The Best of Leon Russell

1 Roll Away the Stone

2 Delta Lady

3 Tight Rope

4 Out in the Woods

5 Shoot Out on the Plantation

6 Stranger in a Strange Land

7 Hummingbird

8 Song for You

9 Lady Blue

10 Bluebird

11 This Masquerade

12 Back to the Island

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One of my favourites is the Essential Collection by the Small Faces. They left out some of the early hits like All or Nothing and Sha La La La Lee, but put most of Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake instead, which to me is just as good. This collection got me into the Small Faces... I saw it in a CD shop and liked the cover.

1. Here Comes The Nice

2. I Can't Make It

3. Itchycoo Park

4. Tin Soldier

5. I Feel Much Better

6. Lazy Sunday

7. Wham Bam, Thank You, Mam

8. Wide Eyed Girl On The Wall

9. Something I Want To Tell You

10. Things Are Going To Get Better

11. Donkey Rides, Penny A Glass

12. Green Circles

13. (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me

14. Long Agos & Worlds Apart

15. Don’T Burst My Bubble

16. I’M Only Dreaming

17. Up The Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire

18. Ogden’S Nut Gone Flake

19. Happiness Stan

20. Rollin’ Over

21. Hungry Intruder

22. Journey

23. Mad John

24. Happy Days Toy Town

25. Get Yourself Together

26. Universal

27. Red Balloon

28. Eddie’S Dreaming

29. Autumn Stone

30. Talk To You

31. All Our Yesterdays

32. Happy Boys Happy

33. My Way Of Giving

34. Rene

35. Just Passing

36. Afterglow (Of Your Love)

Now, I can't forget The Who, can I? There are several greatest hits albums, and they're all pretty similar... but Then and Now is the newest and it's got two songs from 2002 on it. There are all the obvious hits on there too.

1. I Can't Explain

2. My Generation

3. The Kids Are Alright

4. Substitute

5. I'm A Boy

6. Happy Jack

7. I Can See For Miles

8. Magic Bus

9. Pinball Wizard

10. See Me, Feel Me

11. Summertime Blues

12. Behind Blue Eyes

13. Won't Get Fooled Again

14. 5:15

15. Love Reign O'er Me

16. Squeeze Box

17. Who Are You

18. You Better You Bet

19. Real Good Looking Boy

20. Old Red Wine

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Soul Asylum - their Black Gold collection. It has 4 unreleased tracks as well. Including one super secret one that you can't even find lyrics to. But they are very good songs :thumbsup: And I think it's quite comprehensive in terms of picking up their best songs.

1. Just Like Anyone

2. Cartoon

3. Closer To The Stars (Live)

4. Somebody To Shove

5. Close

6. String Of Pearls

7. Tied To The Tracks

8. Runaway Train

9. Sometime To Return

10. Misery

11. We 3

12. Without A Trace

13. I Will Still Be Laughing

14. Black Gold

15. Summer Of Drugs

16. Candy From A Stranger

17. Stranger (Live)

18. Can't Even Tell

19. Lonely For You

Apart from that, Kula Shaker's Kollected is excellent too. It's where I first heard their cover of Ballad of a Thin Man. And three of their best B-sides. It misses out some good songs of course, but it's picked up the biggest and the best, otherwise.

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I have to nominate CCR's Chronicle Vol 1.

This is one of my fave albums, and of course, the best compilation I know. I bought it on vinyl twice, though I had all CCR´s LPs and finally bought the cd.

"The best of Otis Redding" (double LP) and... ABBA Gold!! :grin:

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Back in 1976 when it was released, this ranked right up there with other greatest hits by the super groups.

The Best of Leon Russell

1 Roll Away the Stone

2 Delta Lady

3 Tight Rope

4 Out in the Woods

5 Shoot Out on the Plantation

6 Stranger in a Strange Land

7 Hummingbird

8 Song for You

9 Lady Blue

10 Bluebird

11 This Masquerade

12 Back to the Island

I never would have thought about Leon, but this is a great collection.

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Songs You Know By Heart - Jimmy Buffett

1. Cheeseburger In Paradise

2. He Went To Paris

3. Fins

4. Son Of A son Of A Sailor

5. A Pirate Looks At Forty

6. Margaritaville

7. Come Monday

8. Changes In Latitiudes, Changes In Attitudes

9. Why Don't we Get Drunk

10. Pencil Thin Mustache

11. Graperfruit-Juicy Fruit

12. Boat Drinks

13. Volcano

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I am sure this will be of no surprise to those that know me, but this is one collection I am thrilled I have to listen to. You hear rare cuts from Janis in the early days and some awesome live tracks.

Janis

Disc: 1

1. What Good Can Drinkin' Do

2. Trouble In Mind

3. Hesitation Blues

4. Easy Rider

5. Coo Coo

6. Down On Me

7. The Last Time

8. All Is Loneliness

9. Call On Me

10. Women Is Losers

11. Intruder

12. Light Is Faster

13. Bye, Bye Baby

14. Farewell Song

15. Flower In The Sun

16. Misery'n

17. Road Block

18. Ball And Chain

Disc: 1

1. What Good Can Drinkin' Do

2. Trouble In Mind

3. Hesitation Blues

4. Easy Rider

5. Coo Coo

6. Down On Me

7. The Last Time

8. All Is Loneliness

9. Call On Me

10. Women Is Losers

11. Intruder

12. Light Is Faster

13. Bye, Bye Baby

14. Farewell Song

15. Flower In The Sun

16. Misery'n

17. Road Block

18. Ball And Chain

Disc: 2

1. Combination Of The Two

2. Need A Man To Love

3. Piece Of My Heart

4. Turtle Blues

5. Oh, Sweet Mary

6. Catch Me Daddy

7. Summertime

8. Kozmic Blues

9. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)

10. One Good Man

11. Dear Landlord

12. To Love Somebody

13. As Good As You've Been To This World

14. Little Girl Blue

15. Work Me Lord

16. Raise Your Hand

17. Maybe

Disc: 3

1. Me And Bobby McGee

2. One Night Stand

3. Tell Mama

4. Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)

5. Cry Baby

6. Move Over

7. A Woman Left Lonely

8. Half Moon

9. Happy Birthday John (Happy Trails)

10. My Baby

11. Mercedes Benz

12. Trust Me

13. Get It Whle You Can

14. Me And Bobby McGee

When I want to get lost in her soul, all I need to do is listen to this collection. I get chills, if you are a Janis fan, you need this in your collection!

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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits

1. American Girl

2. Breakdown

3. Listen To Her Heart

4. I Need To Know

5. Refugee

6. Don't Do Me Like That

7. Even The Losers

8. Here Comes My Girl

9. The Waiting

10. You Got Lucky

11. Don't Come Around Here No More

12. I Won't Back Down

13. Runnin' Down A Dream

14. Free Fallin

15. Learning To Fly

16. Into The Great Wide Open

17. Mary Jane's Last Dance

18. Something In The Air

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These two albums were the soundtrack for much of my underage imbibing.

Jimmy Buffett--Songs You Know by Heart

1. Cheeseburger In Paradise

2. He Went To Paris

3. Fins

4. son Of A son Of A Sailor

5. A Pirate Looks At Forty

6. Margaritaville

7. Come Monday

8. Changes In Latitiudes, Changes In Attitudes

9. Why Don't we Get Drunk

10. Pencil Thin Mustache

11. Graperfruit-Juicy Fruit

12. Boat Drinks

13. Volcano

Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits 1974-1978

1. Swingtown

2. Jungle Love

3. Take The Money And Run

4. Rock 'N Me

5. Serenade

6. True Fine Love

7. The Stake

8. The Joker

9. Fly Like An Eagle

10. Threshold

11. Jet Airliner

12. Dance, Dance, Dance

13. Winter Time

14. Wild Mountain Honey

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I loved:

Smash Hits - Jimi

1. Purple Haze

2. Fire

3. The Wind Cries Mary

4. Can You See Me

5. Hey Joe

6. All Along the Watchtower

7. Stone Free

8. Crosstown Traffic

9. Manic Depression

10. Remember

11. Red House

12. Foxey Lady

And...

Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits

1. I'm Eighteen

2. Is It My Body

3. Desperado

4. Under My Wheels

5. Be My Lover

6. School's Out

7. Hello Hooray

8. Elected

9. No More Mr. Nice Guy

10. Billion Dollar Babies

11. Teenage Lament '74

12. Muscle Of Love

These two tore thru the Jensens in my '77 Firebird.

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Best Of BTO ..... I play this alot also..

1. Roll On Down The Highway

2. Hey You

3. Lookin' Out For #1

4. Gimme Your Money Please

5. Let It Ride

6. Take It Like A Man

7. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

8. Blue Collar

9. Takin' Care Of Business

10. Four Wheel Drive

11. Free Wheelin'

12. Down To The Line

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Simon And Garfunkel Greatest hits released in 1972. Every song is good.

1. Mrs. Robinson

2. For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her

3. Boxer

4. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)

5. Sound of Silence

6. I Am a Rock

7. Scarborough Fair/Canticle

8. Homeward Bound

9. Bridge over Troubled Water

10. America

11. Kathy's Song

12. Condor Pasa (If I Could)

13. Bookends Theme

14. Cecilia

I also really love The Best of The Band, released in 1976.

Up On Cripple Creek (from The Band) (Robertson; - 4:34)

The Shape I'm In (from Stage Fright) (Robertson; – 4:00)

The Weight (from Music From Big Pink) (Robertson; – 4:38)

It Makes No Difference (from Northern Lights/Southern Cross) (Robertson; – 6:34)

Life Is A Carnival (from Cahoots) (Danko-Helm-Robertson; – 4:00)

Twilight (from the 1975 single) (Robertson; – 3:17)

Don't Do It (from Rock of Ages) (Holland-Dozier-Holland; – 5:00)

Tears Of Rage (from Music From Big Pink) (Dylan-Manuel; – 5:23)

Stage Fright (from Stage Fright) (Robertson; – 3:43)

Ophelia (from Northern Lights/Southern Cross) (Robertson; – 3:32)

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (from The Band) (Robertson; – 3:33)

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Holla to The Eagles, Steve Miller Band, and The Band's greatest hits! :bow:

Duran Duran - Greatest

1. Is There Something I Should Know?

2. The Reflex

3. A View To A Kill

4. Ordinary World (Single Version)

5. Save A Prayer (US Single Version)

6. Rio (US Edit)

7. Hungry Like A Wolf

8. Girls On Film

9. Planet Earth (Single Version)

10. Union Of The Snake

11. New Moon On Monday

12. Wild Boys

13. Notorious

14. I Don't Want Your Love (Shep Pettibone 7-in Mix)

15. All She Wants Is (45 Mix)

16. Electric Barbarella (Edit)

17. Serious (Edit)

18. Skin Trade (Radio Cut)

19. Come Undone (Edit)

Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol. 1-2

Disc: 1

1. Piano Man

2. Captain Jack

3. Entertainer

4. Say Goodbye to Hollywood

5. New York State of Mind

6. Stranger

7. Scenes from an Italian Restaurant

8. Just the Way You Are

9. Movin' out (Anthony's Song)

10. Only the Good Die Young

Disc: 2

1. My Life

2. Big Shot

3. You May Be Right

4. It's Still Rock And Roll To Me

5. Don't Ask Me Why

6. She's Got A Way

7. Pressure

8. Allentown

9. Goodnight Saigon

10. Tell Her About It

11. Uptown Girl

12. The Longest Time

13. You're Only Human (Second Wind)

14. The Night Is Still Young

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Down South Jukin'

Saturday Night Special

Gimme Three Steps

What's Your Name

You Got That Right

Gimme Back My Bullets

Sweet Home Alabama

Freebird

That Smell

On The Hunt

I Ain't The One

Whiskey Rock 'n' Roller

Simple Man

I Know A Little

Tuesday's Gone

Coming Home

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1. I Feel Free

2. Sunshine Of Your Love

3. White Room

4. Crossroads

5. Badge

6. Presence Of The Lord

7. Blues Power

8. After Midnight

9. Let It Rain

10. Bell Bottom Blues

11. Layla

12. I Shot The Sheriff

13. Let It Grow

14. Knockin' On Heaven's Door

15. Hello Old Friend

16. Cocaine

17. Wonderful Tonight

18. Promises

19. I Can't Stand It

Not sure if this qualifies as greatest hits...I guess it does show some of Clapton's greatest songs that he has done with all the groups he has been in....I have this album/cd also....Good Tunes Definitely! :guitar:

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A tie…

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1 Love Me Do

2 Please Please Me

3 From Me to You

4 She Loves You

5 I Want to Hold Your Hand

6 All My Loving

7 Can't Buy Me Love

8 A Hard Day's Night

9 And I Love Her

10 Eight Days a Week

11 I Feel Fine

12 Ticket to Ride

13 Yesterday

14 Help!

15 You've Got to Hide Your Love Away

16 We Can Work It Out

17 Day Tripper

18 Drive My Car

19 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

20 Nowhere Man

21 Michelle

22 In My Life

23 Girl

24 Paperback Writer

25 Eleanor Rigby

26 Yellow Submarine

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1 Strawberry Fields Forever

2 Penny Lane

3 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

4 With a Little Help from My Friends

5 Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

6 A Day in the Life

7 All You Need Is Love

8 I Am the Walrus

9 Hello Goodbye

10 The Fool on the Hill

11 Magical Mystery Tour

12 Lady Madonna

13 Hey Jude

14 Revolution

15 Back in the U.S.S.R.

16 While My Guitar Gently Weeps

17 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

18 Get Back

19 Don't Let Me Down

20 The Ballad of John and Yoko

21 Old Brown Shoe

22 Here Comes the Sun

23 Come Together

24 Something

25 Octopus's Garden

26 Let It Be

27 Across the Universe

28 The Long and Winding Road

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1. I Feel Free

2. Sunshine Of Your Love

3. White Room

4. Crossroads

5. Badge

6. Presence Of The Lord

7. Blues Power

8. After Midnight

9. Let It Rain

10. Bell Bottom Blues

11. Layla

12. I Shot The Sheriff

13. Let It Grow

14. Knockin' On Heaven's Door

15. Hello Old Friend

16. Cocaine

17. Wonderful Tonight

18. Promises

19. I Can't Stand It

Not sure if this qualifies as greatest hits...I guess it does show some of Clapton's greatest songs that he has done with all the groups he has been in....I have this album/cd also....Good Tunes Definitely! :guitar:

:bow: :bow: :bow:

One of my favs, great choice Laurie!

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The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks

Disc one

1. Street Fighting Man – 3:15

2. Gimmie Shelter – 4:31

3. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction – 3:43

4. The Last Time – 3:40

5. Jumpin' Jack Flash – 3:42

6. You Can't Always Get What You Want – 7:28

7. 19th Nervous Breakdown – 3:56

8. Under My Thumb – 3:41

9. Not Fade Away (Charles Hardin/Norman Petty) – 1:48

10. Have You Seen Your Mother Baby? – 2:35

11. Sympathy for the Devil – 6:17

12. Mother's Little Helper – 2:46

13. She's a Rainbow – 4:12

14. Get Off of My Cloud – 2:55

15. Wild Horses – 5:43

16. Ruby Tuesday – 3:13

17. Paint It Black – 3:44

18. Honky Tonk Women – 2:59

19. It's All Over Now (Bobby Womack/Shirley Jean Womack) – 3:26

20. Let's Spend the Night Together – 3:26

Disc two

1. Start Me Up – 3:33

2. Brown Sugar – 3:50

3. Miss You – 3:35

4. Beast of Burden – 3:28

5. Don't Stop – 3:59

6. Happy – 3:05

7. Angie – 4:32

8. You Got Me Rocking – 3:34

9. Shattered – 3:46

10. Fool to Cry – 4:07

11. Love Is Strong – 3:48

12. Mixed Emotions – 4:00

13. Keys to Your Love – 4:11

14. Anybody Seen My Baby? (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards/K.D. Lang/Ben Mink) – 4:07

15. Stealing My Heart – 3:42

16. Tumbling Dice – 3:47

17. Undercover of the Night – 4:13

18. Emotional Rescue – 3:41

19. It's Only Rock'n Roll (But I Like It) – 4:09

20. Losing My Touch – 5:06

Admittedly I would prefer it if they replaced most of their releases from the last 25 years with other classic 60s/70s tracks, but it is still a great collection.

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