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when you want to start listening to an artist who has a huge amount of records out...do you go for the greatest hits to have an idea.....or do you start with recomended release i am thinking about giving elvis costello a listen greatest hits? or??? |
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i dunno........sometimes if i failed to buy an album from an artist and they've been around a FEW years IF i see a greatest hits i go for that cos it has all the GREAT tracks......ehehhehe i like greatest hits in general tho.....so i may be in the minority! ELVIS COSTELLO is sooooo good, i don't have any of his releases.....but i would buy a greatest hits from him COS he's got the voice and the GLASSES.....ehehhe |
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see i heared songs in random his greatest hits is a 2 cd set |
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yeah ive been thinking of getting the fleetwood mac greatest hits....because they rule |
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Most artists develop, and therefor it might be a good idea to listen to the album which has the tracks you like. If it is good, then buy it, if it is "nah" then buy the greatest hits. I regret buying Crowded House 1st album... it was not as good as I thought it would be. I do not regret owning it, but I'd rather have bought the greatest hits at first. Then some artists make great tracks never released on single... I really like Placebo and most of their tracks are real good, not just the singles... so I buy all of their albums... hope you get my point! (still having high fever)... |
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for elvis c id go with greaest hits first.. |
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I'd never buy a greatest hits album...I don't think I own one album where my favourite track on it has been released as a single. |
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i own crowded house greatest hits and it came with a bonus live cd, i got pet shop boys...an early one...soft cell...comunards....orbital's work.... greatest hits are good for road trips |
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I just make my own mix CD's for road trips :D |
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I think greatest hits are cool sometimes... however, sometimes they can be a pain in the ass... for instance, I love Peter Gabriel, but I bought his greatest hits album as one of my first purchases of his stuff... anyways, most of the So album is on the greatest hits cd, except for a couple songs, including the awesome In Your Eyes... now, I love that song, and want it and So so bad, yet I feel like it's almost a waste to buy So seeing as I have most of the songs already... |
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he has a huge career and most of his greatest hits are from SO that is SO pathetic! |
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I search for some webpage about that artist that has a forum.. and ask for the best album. |
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narrrrrrr man, get the albums, it's worrth it. don't forr a grreatest hits they all miss some rreally good stuff off. almost all of his albums have 100% grreatness on them. |
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even when greatest hits albums are filled with good songs... they are still the devil... go for albums... get an early one, a later one, and the one with the most critical acclaim... nothing beats the vibe of a nice coherent album... |
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sometime criticallt acclaimed albums are over hyped or orverrated or made for mass consumers! i usualy go read the negative reviews on amazon.com before the good ones to see why people didnt like the album and see if they have a legit reason or just " no..dont buy this ,,,IT SUCKS!!!" |
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I never bother with greatest hits, I search the web and get the big studio masterpieces first. Some bands are so inconsistent that all you really need is a greatest hits, though... ''One'' is pathetic, Beatles-wise. 40 Licks for the Stones is much better, doesn't leave out as much... and it's twice as long. |
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when i make my own greatest hits cds of artists with shit loads of albums, i rarely use many of the singles. I like the other tracks usually. Greatest hits albums for sale are just singles albums, and singles are 3 minute money makers nine times out of ten |
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what album did you buy??? greatest hits or one of his classics? |
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the only example i can think of with this myself, is with the pixies i think in this case, the best of... was a good idea because it cuts out all the crap tunes... (no offense to pixies fans) but for example if you got marvin gaye's greatest hits, then you would miss out... in his later druggy years, he made masterpieces that went ignored (see : here, my dear) |
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I bought Sounds Of Science, the Beastie Boys compilation. The only bad thing really is that all the best songs from Check Your Head are on there, so when I bought Check Your Head I was really disappointed to find that the songs I hadn't heard were generally mediocre. |
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WTF, what bad tunes??? No i know you said sorrrry fans i'm only joking. But on theirr firrst thrree albums therre arre rreally no bad tunes. |
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going for spike |
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i got Duran Duran's thank you album where they have covers and i LOVED watching the detectives didnt read the booklet and didnt know he wrote it unill i heard the origional on the radio |
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YOUR pathetic... I bet that's you in your avatar... |
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just go and post some thread funk.... |
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