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Post by Duragizer on Jan 14, 2021 3:48:54 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2021 11:16:33 GMT -5
Put on my first Greatest Hits compilation for the year today....by The Police I got a 2cd 'greatest hits' set for $2 and will keep that one in the car.
People like to crap on 'greatest hits' or 'compilations', but they really are a wellspring for helping to rope in people to a 'new to them' artist or group This++. Once I get into an artist, I'm a full-album-listen kind of guy. But a sampler is a good way to figure out if you if you need to start exploring their albums, and which albums to start with . Well, before Youtube and such, anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2021 14:31:55 GMT -5
Yes, agreed. I've got plenty friends who aren't familiar with more than 2-3 songs from Duran Duran, so a Greatest Hits album with 19 songs is a great way to introduce them.
Not to mention that many Greatest Hits albums are available for cheap....
I've got Sarah McLachlan, Basia, Gwen Stefani & No Doubt and Ace of Base in my car right now....
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Post by Batflunkie on Jan 23, 2021 10:45:35 GMT -5
Re-Flex- Politics Of Dancing
Had this on a cassette tape that my mom got me from somewhere in the early 00's, always thought that it was an interesting song from a style perspective
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2021 23:21:13 GMT -5
This earworm just popped up on a blues channel I was listening to, and now needs to get added to my playlists...
-M
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2021 14:58:20 GMT -5
A pair of relatively newer (to me) Dylan songs have been popping up on the blues channel I listen to at night.
First Goodbye Jimmy Reed...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2021 14:58:48 GMT -5
and Crossing the Rubicon...
-M
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Post by Duragizer on Feb 13, 2021 22:40:10 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2021 22:56:46 GMT -5
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Post by berkley on Feb 14, 2021 1:22:08 GMT -5
I thnk the viability of Greatest Hits albums very much depends on the individual artist: some bands - most obviously bands with a lot of hit singles - one can,yes, get a good introduction to them with a Best of album. But others, even some that have had good singles chart performances, aren't well-served by the Greatest Hits format, in my experience - I would cite Roxy Music as an example, beyond the more obvious "album bands", the prog-rock genre as a whole, etc.
Roxy always springs to mind with this question becuase I remember recommending them to a few friends in the early 80s and they were so completely unimpressed by the Best of package. To me they were all such incontrovertibly great songs, I was more puzzled than disappointed - though of course we're always disappointed to some degree when one our recommemdations falls flat. But then I started to think about how different their experience with those songs were to mine: I had heard and loved Virginia Plain in the context of that particular album, (Roxy Music's 1st, self-titled) in the middle of an album with its own ebb and flow, its own sound, its own personality, different to all the other Roxy albums. They had heard it mixed up with other tracks from other albums, and my guess is that the whole thing didn't really mesh together, that each song sounded like an isolated entity, with a jarring transition from one to the next.
Or maybe they just didn't like it, who knows?!
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Post by Duragizer on Feb 14, 2021 17:25:02 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 17, 2021 18:50:30 GMT -5
This seemed appropriate today.
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 17, 2021 20:42:33 GMT -5
On Facebook right now, Relix magazine is streaming a 2014 concert by Joe Russo's Almost Dead (JRAD) with Phil Lesh sitting in on bass. This configuration is known as "PhilRAD".
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Post by impulse on Feb 17, 2021 23:15:40 GMT -5
1990s-era Motorhead. They are like AC/DC in that they have a standard formula they don't deviate too far from, but they seem to have delivered much more consistently good results.
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Post by impulse on Feb 17, 2021 23:20:07 GMT -5
I thnk the viability of Greatest Hits albums very much depends on the individual artist: some bands - most obviously bands with a lot of hit singles - one can,yes, get a good introduction to them with a Best of album. But others, even some that have had good singles chart performances, aren't well-served by the Greatest Hits format, in my experience - I would cite Roxy Music as an example, beyond the more obvious "album bands", the prog-rock genre as a whole, etc. Roxy always springs to mind with this question becuase I remember recommending them to a few friends in the early 80s and they were so completely unimpressed by the Best of package. To me they were all such incontrovertibly great songs, I was more puzzled than disappointed - though of course we're always disappointed to some degree when one our recommemdations falls flat. But then I started to think about how different their experience with those songs were to mine: I had heard and loved Virginia Plain in the context of that particular album, (Roxy Music's 1st, self-titled) in the middle of an album with its own ebb and flow, its own sound, its own personality, different to all the other Roxy albums. They had heard it mixed up with other tracks from other albums, and my guess is that the whole thing didn't really mesh together, that each song sounded like an isolated entity, with a jarring transition from one to the next. Or maybe they just didn't like it, who knows?! It was bizarre to me how on the Rolling Stones compilation of career-spanning 40 hits, it hits a point where someone has flipped a switch and they go from sounding good to sounding just awful. The difference in styles over decades is far more pronounced when you listen to cherry-picked samples from different musical eras, so I second the greatest hits format being hit and miss for some bands. It also depends on how it's done. Career-spanning versus, say, best from early period, then another best of middle period, etc. In my general and anecdotal experience, compilations of bands who started in the 60s and 70s but survived and produced into the 80s and 90s are typically not well served by a career-spanning greatest hits format.
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