Best Greatest Hits Albums

[YoungGerl]

I'm sure there are more, the but the first ones that popped into my head were:

- Red Hot Chili Peppers' Greatest Hits - picked it up after seeing them at the Bridge School Benefit that Paul headlined in 2004 - I played this one over and over in my car.

- Madonna's The Immaculate Collection (the first one)

- George's "Best of Dark Horse" album - I know it's not an all-encompassing album, but it was a great introduction to George's solo music, paired with All Things Must Pass of course.

- Travis has a great "Singles" album out too...but then again, all of their albums are wonderful.

[UsagiAndMamoru]

There's alot of those!

Foreigner-The Very Best & Beyond
Night Ranger-Greatest Hits
AC/DC-Who Made Who (okay, well it's not exactly a hits collection, but it's got a few of some of the band's best tunes)
Lionel Richie-The Definitive Collection
Blondie-Greatest Hits: Sound and Vision (worth it for "Rapture Riders" alone!)
Prince-The Very Best of Prince
Van Halen-Best of Volume 1
Dire Straits-Money For Nothing
INXS-Shine Like It Does:The Anthology
Laura Branigan-The Best of Branigan
Genesis-Turn It On Again:The Hits
Phil Collins-Hits
Cheap Trick-The Essential Cheap Trick
George Thorogood & The Destroyers-Greatest Hits: 30 Years of Rock
Joe Cocker-The Best of Joe Cocker [Capitol Records]
Ratt-The Essentials

Just some I know off the top of my head.

[ddr]

A Quiet Normal Life/The Best of Warren Zevon
This is the Moody Blues
The Best That I Could Do - John Mellencamp
Bee Gees Gold Vol I
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume I or II


ddr

[maccastheman]

Why was Blurs so good it made the list twice?

I'm really not a fan of greatest hits albums. The only ones I like are ones I've either made myself. Apart from Queen II, I like that one for some reason.

The CD so nice, I named it twice!

I understand your point about greatest hits albums, but that's sort of what I was getting at - they don't work for some people, but for others I almost think that's all you need. (Especially if the artist was basically a singles artist)

[Paperback Writer]

Add these:

Greatest Hits:
Marvin Gaye
Temptations
Supremes
Creedence
John Cougar Mellencamp
Bob Seger
Mama's Papas
The Animals
Kinks
Del Shannon
Ronnettes