How did you guys leave off Shalamar’s “Ultimate Collection” and Enuff Z’Nuff’s “Greatest Hits”

Creed. I mean, it’s Creed, ya know?

Cutting Crew- they put out 2 (!!!!!) greatest hits albums.

Kriss Kross

Milli Vanilli

What about Aerosmith!! The classic “red” greatest hits is all you need!!

The Baha Men

kajagoogoo anyone? nothing like 8 versions of ‘too shy’.

i don’t know what’s worse… bands with one/two hits putting out greatest hits, or great bands repackaging the same damn songs 50 times.

and ‘new’ or ‘previously unreleased’ tracks should be outlawed. just because it’s on a greatest hits album does not make it a hit in its own right.

Men Without Hats?! Come on… they’ve had some good songs other than Saftey Dance.

“Pop Goes the World”
“On Tuesday”
“Antartica”
“No Dancing”

Give the guys a break!

Umm Semi-Sonic millenium collection? That was at least slightly ridiculous.

I think there is a Billy Ray Cyrus best of out there somewhere. There is also the very best of David Hasselhoff. A killer combo to get any party started.

How about the self-titled Nirvana? Great songs, but what a total waste of time. The only reason that thing is in existence was to pad the bionic ass of Courtney Love, just cuz she believed “You Know You’re Right” would have more commercial potential on a small disc instead of a box set. Fucking useless.

Eh, what about the No Doubt Box Set. That’s pointless.

I swear that I saw a Don Johnson “Greatest hits”…and more expensive than other cd’s !!!!

I saw the Creed’s “greatest hits” too…

“The Best of John Travolta” has 20 tracks on it.

Oh, too many to choose from. Greatest hits packages from the following groups:
New Kids on the Block
Corey Hart
Genesis
John Waits
Michael Bolton
Rick Astley
Kenny G.
Falco
Gerardo
New Kids on the Block
These should all be listed under the Geneva Convention as crimes against humanity if they aren’t already.

How about another category, bands that deserve a good greatest hits, but have never gotten one. R.E.M. for example. They have a slew of them, but they’re all crap! Either they don’t have the old stuff, or the other way around.

For hip hop fans. Cappadonna? Greatest Hits? What hits?

How about Norman “Spirit In the Sky” Greenbaum, who has a 35 track (!) anthology consisting of such classics as “New Dead Shrimp Blues,” “Gondoliers, Shakespeares, Overseers, Playboys and Bums,” and my personal favorite “The Eggplant That Ate Chicago.” (Google it. I can’t make this stuff up.) While the existence of this set alone proves that record companies should stop the madness of reissue campaigns, we’ll know we’ve hit saturation point when they finally release that 10-disc “Collected Works of Procol Harum” set we’ve all been waiting for.

God, some of your readers (Marcus, nic, Barret, Pongo, Rockstar 70) are complete idiots with the answers they gave. Like the music or not, do you know what a “hit record” is?

Anyway, if you had two “hits” or less (with three or four pushing it), there should be a law against putting out a “Greatest Hits” album. So when The Donnas try to put one out…

On the other hand, everyone should be able to put out a “Best of…” complilation. After all, some of Shaq’s crap had fresher peanuts in it than his other crap.

Does Madonna have a greates hits album? She does? Does it fit on a 45?

Madonna has enough material to fill three discs.

Dimwit.

Limp Bizkit

Lenny Kravitz – what the hell is “Black Velveteen” doing on there?

Does Kris Kristofferson have a greatest hits cd?

This list is lame itself.

A couple of “Greatest Hits” I have seen that made me laugh were:

MC Hammer/Vanilla Ice Greatest Hits…on one cd! hahahaha awesome… Good deal actually cuz it was really cheap, and since it was the two on one, it cut it to the one or two of their good songs, and maybe only 2 or 3 other bad ones.

Also, Baha Men’s Greatest MOVIE Hits… I thought that was funny because it’s like an album’s worth of songs they did for movies…and not one was a hit except for the “Who Let the Dogs Out” song.

It’s funny the Shaq one was mentioned cuz I saw that the other day and thought “What the hell is this?”

I must respectfully disagree withyou on that men without hat CD, or was that men at work, oh skip it….

how could you people forget everyone’s all-time favorite singer, JOHN TESH!!!! Shame on you, and runner-up would go to William Shatner/Leonard Nimoy for grammy winning records of the year!!

how bout john tesh, or william shatner/leonard nimoy!!!

You guys aren’t even trying anymore with these lists are you?

But to answer the question, as much as I love The Cure, I don’t need entire discs of 2 minute songs recorded in Robert Smiths’ bathroom. I guess something needs to keep Rhino in buisness.

Total Coelo (Nee Toto Coelo) actually have a hits package, which is shocking, given that they never had a whole albums worth of material.

And was there really a need for more than one Toni Basil package?

Hmmmm….

How ’bout Damned Yankees Greatest Hits?

That lovely compilation from the Spin Doctors…

Creed??? CREED???? CREED?!!!!?!?!?

fuel…brutal

Guns ‘n’ Roses, I like them and all, but the greatest hits is about half covers of other songs.

I don’t think some of you guys understand the idea behind this list. Just because an artist sucks doesn’t mean they don’t merit a greatest hits record. I hate, hate, HATE Celine Dion, but she has had an awful lot of hits -so even if her greatest CD were the worst “Greatest Hits” ever it wouldn’t be the lamest – at least a hits album isn’t a ridiculous concept in her case. Now, if Right Said Fred were to put out a “Greatest Hits” album (do they have one?) THAT would be utterly ridiculous. It’s about true one-hit wonders (i.e., groups who had one or at most two big singles and then faded into obscurity) having absurdly inflated best-of CDs. I read somewhere that Simple Minds have a double-CD collection, and while that may make sense abroad, it seems pretty silly to American listeners. Modern English has a best-of album as well – I think it has two or three versions of “I Melt With You”; how could it not?

And by the way, Shalamar is great. And they had like 15 hits on the R&B charts, so f**k off, K?

Oh yeah, and there ARE too many covers on the GN’R Greatest Hits. Where the hell is “Mr. Brownstone”?

…Despite the fact that the aforementioned Guns N’ Roses comp is basically a legitimate “Greatest Hits” – they did have eight top 40 singles and several other hit “album tracks”. Just had to make the comment about the cover songs though.

The thing is, no one would release these things if there wasn’t SOMEONE buying them. I don’t think any artist should be allowed to release a greatest hits, live or even a DVD unless they’ve got at least 3 albums of material.

Despite that though, some of these bands just didn’t get a fair shake commercially, had one or two hits, then faded away because of the harsh nature of the business. Fastball and Semisonic are good examples.

Actually, what’s been pissing me off nowadays are these greatest hits disc that always seem to leave out ONE song. 311 left off “Prisoner,” Korn left off “Thoughtless,” and now Jane’s Addiction lef off “Hard Charger.”

I saw a Alice in Chains Greatest Hits with 10 songs, 10 songs! Lame! I know they have more hits than that.

Nirvana’s self titled greatest hits, with 14, but, “You Know You’re Right” is the exceptional track on there.

Genesis deserves a best of. They have some great stuff:
Home by the Sea
Mama
That’s All
Just a Job to Do
No Son of Mine
Jesus Knows Me
I Can’t Dance
Illegal Alien
Land of Confusion

Aaron Carter has a greatest hits album , I saw it in dollar bin somewhere.

also there one of my favorite bands but Aerosmith has too damn many greatest hits cds. and what sucks about all of them is there all very incomplete sounds like a marketing ploy to me.

I think Fine Young Cannibals has two greatest hits albums, the same number of studio albums, not counting a remix album. The thing that is lame is that they never did follow up The Raw and the Cooked.

Or that Steve Miller collection that draws almost exclusively from two albums save for the “Joker.” The songs are great but it should have covered more ground.

William Shatner’s Best Of.
The Best of The Knack. (25 songs that aren’t My Sharona?)
The Best of Milli Vanilli. (they had two hits, ok?)
The Best of Nikki Webster. (for the Aussies…)

Yeah, Areosmisth has far too many greatest hits collections, especially ones covering their 80s and 90s hits. This includes the one with the Sumo Wrestler, Young Lust, O Yeah, and Gold, and they’re coming out with yet another covering the same era. What we need is a good 2 CD set of their 70s stuff and call it the Essential Aerosmith.

note-there is a best of genesis cd called ‘TURN IT ON AGAIN’….a bad hits lp? hmmmmm…..ace of base’s ‘greatest hits’ is slightly pointless.

lest we forget the Silverchair best of…

why…or rather.hhhhow did that happen?

Best Of Fuel

BLUE !!!! makes me see red

Best of Republica. Remember them? Oh…you don’t? Exactly as I thought.

I know it’s cliche, but I saw a Vanilla Ice GH album in my local Vintage Stock last week for eight bucks. Eight bucks! Twelve tracks, and only one of them is ‘Ice Ice Baby.’

Master P, Silk tha Shocker and all those other No Limit fools have greatest hits

The Best of Hanson Live and Electric (CD & DVD)

Christmas Collection: 20th Century Masters by Hanson

20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Hanson

Martika : Best Of: More Than You Know (1997)
then another … Toy Soldiers: The Best of. (2005)

Suzanne Vega : Retrospective: The Best of Suzanne Vega (2003)

just found out Cee-Lo is releasinig a greatest hits Oct 31 after 2 solo albums and guest shots called “closet freak: The best of Cee-lo Green the SOul Machine. probably contract obligations…

Greatest Hits – Rembrandts

….”I’ll Be There For You” (Theme song from Friends)….

18 tracks on this Zinger!

How many Eagles Greatest Hits have their been over the years? From a band that only had one great song.

so many shit on this comments and only one thing is true,read the real question b56$$s! the eagles,new kids,aerosmith and madonna have their hits,my choice is latoya jackson hits album and kajagogo feat limahl hits album,and that’s all

People, let’s get together and make a choice. it is obivous that the worst greatest hits album needs to be from a terrible band that hardly has any hits. the worst greatest hits album is so obvious then:

LIMP BIZKIT. When your biggest of greatest “hit” is a cover song, you know you’re in trouble. Apparently, they did it all for the nookie…

Genesis does have a best of CD, plus a 3 disc hits collection as well. I have the 3 disc…..It’s pretty good.

It seems pointless now but I uncovered a copy of Eagles Greatest Hits and it doesn’t have Hotel California on it. I understand that it came out before that song was even written…..but now it just seems irrelevant (yet it’s the #1 album of all time). Never was a big eagles fan though.

Brittany Spears!!!!!!! Thats the worst joke ever!!!!! Jay-Z should have an official one. As well as Nas.

Winger? The Very best of Winger?

I’m thinking this list encompsses acts that didn’t have a proportionate number if hit songs to warrant a Greatest Hits album. Like it or not, at one time NKOTB were insanely popular and Creed and Limp were two of the biggest bands in the world.

I think Men Without Hats actually entitled their “best-of” Greatest HATS, as endlessly clever as THAT is!

A few weeks ago the 409th Ramones Greatest Hits (or variation thereof) was released. I think 7 or 8 was enough, especially when they keep using the same basic tracklisting.

I bought a Best of Don Mclean CD. I looked for the “American Pie” song and only found one Mclean CD, the greatest hits. It had two versions on American Pie and about 8 songs that were horrible.

Are you guys nuts? That shaq album has the sickest beats!

Can’t get any better than shaq’s greatest hits.. I agree with shaq lover, sick beats, incredible rhymes, what more can you ask for?? SHOOT PASS SLAM!!!

Right on, brother!

I enjoyed the Greatest Hits of Mr. Mister…all three hit songs

I also love that Virgin Records tried to release a (second) Cracker best of without their knowledge so they rerecorded everything and put out theirs on the same day to spite them.

Little River Band’s 1982 Greatest Hits release. Sooooo very sappy by today’s standards.

im gonna have to agree with rs and say aaron carter…because he put out a greatest hits cd, and umm….HAS NO HITS?!?!!?!?!

Gary Numan…

Excuse me, people, Cutting Crew…the band that brought you “I…I just died in your arms tonight/It must’ve been something you said” (a hilarious Will Ferrel SNL skit)…has 2, yes TWO, Greatest Hits albums. How the hell is that possible.

The 15th Aerosmith Greatest Hits CD is pushing it. Of course, the 14 other ones are ALL necessary. Only a bad that full of themselves can release a new greatest hits after every new studio album.

my favorite worst: flock of seagulls- a thin collection that includes no original versions of the songs. all remixes-

We must reserve a special place for those bands that release a single disc greatest hits collection-only to be followed by an expanded 2-disc version-so that fans have to buy the same songs multiple times:

1) Van Halen-releases GH vol. 1 with the DLR tunes only to re-release much of the same material with new Sammy tunes on the 2003 ‘best of’

2)The Who & Aerosmith (tie): How many times can you ask people to shell out $$$ for the same songs…these bands are the tops when it comes to ripping off the fans.

3) Mellencamp: releases ‘The best that I can do’ and then re-releases most of the tunes again on the two disc-’words & music’ in 2004.

I say just about any band, popular or not, with three or more albums’ worth of material is entitled to release a “Best Of” collection. As we’ve established, however, it’s the “Greatest Hits” title that seems particularly absurd when applied to certain acts. If a band that never had ANY hit singles releases an album called “Greatest Hits,” it can be pretty funny. Anybody here heard of Half Japanese? Well, they’ve got a “Greatest Hits” album, too. It’s 2 discs and something like 68 tracks. These guys have never even come close to hitting any chart – even music geeks are lucky to know about them – but the sheer chutzpah of putting out such a comp is kind of brilliant.

Peter Schilling. I think his greatest hits consisted of 10 versions of “Major Tom”

Who cares if marginal acts put out Greatest Hits records? Only a handful of people will buy them away. The bigger crime occurs when record companies omit an artist better material, artists that people actually give a damn about Obviously, it’s an attempt to sucker you into buying more than one CD. For example, Dire Straits put out a Greatest Hits record w/o “Skateaway”, the Clash put an 8-minute inaudible interview on “Story of the Clash”, space that could have been better utilized by putting three more tracks on the album.

I wonder when they’ll ever come up with a career spanning collection by Seals and Crofts featuring all their hits. All that is available is that 10 song greatest hits album from 1976 which doesn’t even have Get Closer, probably their most popular song outside of Summer Breeze. If Simon and Garfunkle can issue countless box sets and greatest hits albums, why can’t Seals and Crofts even issue one deluxe anthology?

And I should mention the first three Beachboys greatest hits albums released in the 60s, including such big hits as Long Tall Texan, Frosty the Snowman, and Louie Louie.

Although not the point of the thread and has been said before on this thread, I must admit I frustrated with artists / record companies cycling out a new greatest hits after a few studio albums. I love Aerosmith, but I read that they are coming out with yet another greatest hits set with 2 new tracks on it…that I will most likely buy.

I guess the fans who keep buying these things (such as me) are the real suckers.

Someone else posted this – I think a more interesting list is the greatest hits sets that make you want more.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Warner Bros. Hits set – missing Can’t Stop, Zephyr Song, Aeroplane, Warped, I Could Have Lied, Blood Sugar Sex Magic etc., etc.

Has there ever been a Cure hits package that got it right yet?

Screw the greatest hits. Buy all the studio CD’s of your favorite artists or just download any worthy songs and burn your own Greatest Hits collection. That’s what the hell I do. Of course with a band like “The Beatles” or “The Rolling Stones”, you can have 4-6 GH discs, but the bands don’t get royalty one off what you made, just from the original material that you had bought over the years.

Reggie and the Full Effect’s first album was titled “Reggie and the Full Effect’s Greatest Hits.”

The Boomtown Rats greatest hits- Best of.

It’s terrible- mind you I did listen to it on a Monday and I was having a bad day.

Don’t get me wrong: Madness are indisputably great. But they put out, like, six albums and over a dozen “best-of”s.

TWISM 4 LIFE!

Eminem – Curtain Call, how fucking lame is that?

and Snoop Dogg’s greatest hits with Priority. I mean, all his good shit was with Death Row, and that’s basically just Doggystyle. Who gives a shit about anything after that? Not me, that’s for damn sure.

How about Chris Gaines Greatest Hits? The songs on there are horrible. Okay, it’s really Garth, but this is really the lamest greatest hits album of all.

White Lion notes: Vito Bratta is the greatest guitar player alive who won’t play his guitar anymore. Yeah, Mike Tramp was a pussy, but Vito is AWOL selling real estate in L.A.
P.S. I own that CD and it kicks ass.

All greatest hits = lame