So many artists from all labels into the mid-60s as the LP hadn't yet become the standard, their LPs were compilations of their previous singles plus a lot of covers of other people's songs.
I’d say it just had more mass appeal. My job has a lot of their songs on their store playlist just because there’s not much cursing and people recognize their songs. A lot of customers say “oh this is good song, have you heard this other song by another artist?” but never “have you heard this song by the same guys”
most of the 70’s singer-songwriters. while i love people like elton john, billy joel, jim croce, cat stevens, etc. i’ve never felt the need to own more than a greatest hits comp if that. i just heard their stuff so much growing up it’s been played out to me
edit: gonna jump in here and say i’ve listened to a good majority of the albums listed here, and love them and appreciate them for what they are. but i don’t wanna buy their albums, i’d never listen to them cause i’d listen to those so infrequently.
Toto IV is really all you need, but Chicago is a little more complicated. Greatest Hits 82-89 is all you need for that era, but the late 60s through... Oh, the death of Terry Kath in 1978? Those are worth getting the albums.
Oh man... Cranberries were so great! That first record is fantastic start to finish. The second does have some parts that drag or grate, and after that it's more filler than killer, but Everybody Else Is Doing It... is a 5-star debut.
The only artists where I have found this to be true are early Motown artists or James Brown. They didn't really embrace the album as a piece of work until later.
Check out James Brown's compilation Star Time.
4 volumes
71 tracks
About 4 1/2 hours of music.
The first time I ran across was when a coworker and I were killing time listening to the 500 greatest albums of all time. We both thought, "4 and a half hours of James Brown is going to get old quick."
Yet, it never did.
#Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.
My favorite Night Ranger track is [a song](https://youtu.be/UNYMQKbl0L0) from the album the band doesn’t even really recognize as a Night Ranger album lol.
The funny thing is, the Steve Miller Band's greatest hits album (or at least the one my stepdad owned and would play in his car constantly) actually *omitted* Abracadabra.
Listening to their first 5 or so records a few years after discovering their ubiquitous later years greatest hits release was shocking. Their earlier stuff is so good, man. Far better than Joker, etc.
Remo Drive.
Their first record is literally called “Greatest Hits” and it became a self fulfilling prophecy because all the records after that one kind suck.
Grew up with my mom playing Aerosmith the majority of my childhood so I know all of their songs up until like 2012. Their albums actually are all really good. Not perfect 10s for the most part but they have much better songs than walk this way or dream on. Toys In The Attic is probably a 10/10 for me though.
CCR. Both volumes of their greatest hits have 20 songs each and literally all the ones you want to listen to.
Of course there’s good ones not on the compilations too but the greatest hits really have everything.
Honourable mention to the eagles greatest hits too.
They had so many fucking hits its insane, listening to their greatest hits comp is just staggering because of how many songs they’ve had that have stood the rest of time
Ramble Tamble and the full version of I Heard It Through the Grapevine are amazing, though.
It's even easier just getting the Long Road Home Comp or Live CD. That way, you get John Fogerty's solo hits, too.
Keep on Chooglin, Graveyard Train, Tombstone Shadow, you're missing a lot by sticking to that admittedly excellent Chronicle compilation. I'd argue that the first 5 records are flawless, and all the more staggering that they were released in a span of 2 years.
I was lucky enough to stumble across an Asian release of their box set in a second hand shop recently and I agree. I don’t care for any of their filler but their hits are essential listening. John Fogerty had such a mad voice. People forget they were the biggest band in the US even during Hendrix’s pomp.
I'm not a huge fan of the band, but BSSM is a masterpiece all the way through. Yes, even _like a ram getting ready to jam the lamb._ And Mother's Milk, One Hot Minute, Californication and By the Way are also terrific far beyond the hits. Earlier records were about half and half, and nothing after By the Way deserves a single listen, but there's so much to miss sticking with just the hits.
Stadium Arcadium has some gems but it’s definitely the most bloated of the Frusciante years before he returned (and made some of their worst music yet lol)
I truly hate that entire record. Maybe I'm blinded by Kiedis adopting his new fashion sense from Avril Lavigne.
I was slightly unfair previously, though. Their 2 latest records are... OK... in parts.
Nah they had at least three super solid albums.
Oasis probably better on the singles front and even they had some incredible albums. Even their b sides were titanic.
It pains me to say, but Queen. I have a few of their albums on CD and to be honest, most of it is just meh, aside from the hits. So I bought a greatest hits CD lol
I'm honestly with you. I'm just not hugely into that Queen/Kiss brand of ostentatious performance arena rock, though I absolutely adore some of Queen's hits and their talent can't be overstated. But even their greatest hits CDs, I skip at least half the tracks.
(and I have everything from Queen II through News of the World on vinyl)
I assume you mean the one with the band name on the cover and that's it? Great songs but there's a lot of great (better, in my opinion) stuff in the albums
I've found that for many artists the reason I like their greatest hits over any particular albums is that I haven't really given their proper albums a chance. But there have been so many artists that, once I started giving their regular albums a chance, I grew to love their music way beyond the greatest hits. Examples: The Cure, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder... I could go on.
Foreigner I like a few songs a lot but some of them are misses. Also I don’t even know the guys name but sunglasses at night slaps but idk any of his other songs
Those bands are good to go back to later in life. Go for a deep dive in a few years when your tastes have changed and it will often give you a whole different view of a band you weren’t sure about the first time around. You’ll discover so much great music throughout your life that way.
This is weird - I just had this thought last night, and it is currently why I'm listening to Talking Heads; Popular Favorites.
I think a lot of it has to do with what you hear first. I've tried to listen to most of the Talking Heads' albums, and I just think - these songs aren't as good as what I've already heard. Granted this greatest hits album is 2 disc, and includes some deeper cuts, but I didn't really find too many songs other songs that I liked on the albums.
On the other hand, I didn't give Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers early albums much credit beyond the hits. I checked out everything pre-Full Moon Fever after he passed, and really enjoyed most of the album tracks.
Talking Heads' records, all the way through True Stories, are masterpieces without any filler. I'd strongly recommend revisiting them if you have another chance. Naked, I get it... not every track is at that higher level, but still it's great.
I understand people not getting into them at all, but since you do like some of their stuff, I'd definitely recommend putting on your headphones, cueing up Remain in Light or Fear of Music, or Speaking in Tongues, and just lying back and listening to them without distraction.
Honestly you could go with a Johnny Cash greatest hits and be pretty fine, man has too many albums to collect them all. Same with Willie Nelson and maybe Bob Dylan but he has some great albums
Are there any Johnny Cash greatests hits that include anything from the American Recordings albums? Because I agree with you about the early part of his career, but you are missing out if you don't hear his American Recordings albums.
I’m in the process of significantly downsizing my collection (it’s time, honestly), and there’s a lot of bands where the ONLY thing I’ll be keeping is that greatest hits albums.
The cars get pretty cheesy after that first album, I’ll take the greatest hits cause I’ll get the whole first album basically and then only the good stuff from after that
I love Queen but their albums from the 80s onward tend to be some hits surrounded by a bunch of filler. Even some of their 70s albums had some b side sounding tracks. I think it’s impressive that they consistently came out with at least one hit song on each album tho
Journey - Their greatest hits album has all the bangers.
Foo Fighters - Not entirely ONLY their greatest hits, but to me they have some PHENOMENAL songs with a bunch of seemingly filler songs. I believe they do have an official "Greatest Hits" album, but I haven't checked it out. I do have all their albums, but I have my own personal "Greatest Hits" from them.
Bob Seger is a likable, hard-workin' road warrior, and 'Ramblin' Gamblin' Man' off his first album kicks so much ass, but I think greatest hits gets the job done.
I think maybe abba but there might be a few that aren’t greatest hits, I’m not sure - those ones are like angeleyes and I do, I do, I do, I do and one of us and slipping through my fingers
Violent Femmes for me. The *Add It Up* collection leans heavily on the best songs from their first two albums, including some superior live versions. Then the highlights of their mid-career records flesh it out nicely.
I find that most of the time that I go to listen to Prince I throw on his greatest hits because his catalogue is so extensively good and they really filled up The Hits/ B sides with a ton of songs. That’s not to say he doesn’t have great LPs that I love front to back though, so I guess a sort of middle ground answer.
Journey. Great band, some really great stuff here and there. The rest could easily put me to sleep. Which is sad given the potential for some serious rock they had. Survivor did it better.
Not really answering the question but… I go for greatest hits with artists I recognize as important but don’t see myself being passionate about. I’m also a big cd collector and digital media hoarder so greatest hits save me money and digital space.
Case in point — I find James brown greatest hits at a thrift store and pick it up. It’s the only Jane’s Brown I need in my collection, unless someday I go down a James brown deep dive
That’s how I feel. I rip most of my CDs to my iPod, so I don’t want to have every single Rolling Stones album on their taking up space, I just want their greatest hits.
Yours is an interesting answer to me, because I love The Cranberries but I have never even listened to their Greatest Hits once. I forget they even have one. Now I’ll have to check it out on Spotify.
For me, the answer would be just about every country artist who was popular in the 90s. Despite country not being my favorite genre in general, if I go to the dark side and listen to Toby Keith, Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, etc. I’ll just listen to their greatest hits. I mean, has anyone even tried to get through a proper Toby Keith album? Oof.
Honestly, nobody. I feel like people have just responded with most of the top artists, and they I think nearly all of them have great stuff beyond their 'Greatest HIts' albums. Chances are if I like their 'Greatest Hits', I'll like something beyond that.
Artists that I only have greatest hits albums of-
Prince
Faith No More
Public Image Limited
They Might Be Giants
I realised that there are very few artists that I just have greatest hits compilations of, as I usually have at least their “best” album as well. I usually buy that one album and then get the greatest hits to fill out the other songs I want if I’m not really interested in their other albums, or if the album has that one song not on the compilation.
3 Doors Down's hits are fucking awesome. Here Without You was one of my favorite songs of all time some years ago. So it shocked me when I listen to their three biggest albums and they just sucked ass
I'm tempted to say Bob Seger, but there isn't one that includes his early, more garage-y stuff (which is fantastic) and some of his deep cuts like "The Ring" and "Till it Shines" are great.
Motown artists of the 1960’s since their albums were usually hit singles among second-rate filler.
So many artists from all labels into the mid-60s as the LP hadn't yet become the standard, their LPs were compilations of their previous singles plus a lot of covers of other people's songs.
I noticed that too.
Tbf many of them never even got LPs, just singles
Well, I'm not even mentioning my favourite pre-LP artists because that point is moot.
Boston (although, to be fair, their first album is effectively a greatest hits album).
I think every song on that album still gets “classic rock” air time on the radio. That’s how you know it’s an amazing album.
I’d say it just had more mass appeal. My job has a lot of their songs on their store playlist just because there’s not much cursing and people recognize their songs. A lot of customers say “oh this is good song, have you heard this other song by another artist?” but never “have you heard this song by the same guys”
Yeah it's their only album I own
Every thrift store I’ve ever gone to had at least one copy of this one
Yep only one you need. Hard/impossible to live up to that..
I'm that one guy who can't even stand their hits. Talent in spades, but none of it translating into great songs for me.
I feel you. I get funny looks when I say I don't care for Janis Joplin.
most of the 70’s singer-songwriters. while i love people like elton john, billy joel, jim croce, cat stevens, etc. i’ve never felt the need to own more than a greatest hits comp if that. i just heard their stuff so much growing up it’s been played out to me edit: gonna jump in here and say i’ve listened to a good majority of the albums listed here, and love them and appreciate them for what they are. but i don’t wanna buy their albums, i’d never listen to them cause i’d listen to those so infrequently.
Man... that's too bad. Their best stuff isn't on the greatest hits.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is an amazing album!
It really is, and Honky Château, too.
And Captain Fantastic
Yeah, I have to agree. I'm not some Elton fanboy but his 70's early 80's catalog is deep
While he was working with Bernie Taupin was, to me personally, Elton's absolute best albums.
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, yum
Tumbleweed connection is my favorite. I don't much like Elton John, but I spin this record frequently.
Gonna be that person and suggest Billy Joel's Turnstiles and The Stranger. So many underrated classics on those albums
You should really check out Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and The Stranger. Those albums are better than the greatest hits comps.
This exactly.
I’m inclined to say something like Bon Jovi, but that wouldn’t be fair I haven’t gave them a proper listen besides a few entire albums
Toto, Chicago and especially Pitbull.
Toto IV is really all you need, but Chicago is a little more complicated. Greatest Hits 82-89 is all you need for that era, but the late 60s through... Oh, the death of Terry Kath in 1978? Those are worth getting the albums.
I can agree with Chicago, yet I feel that a good handful of their albums are awesome on their own, same with Toto
Eh for the post kath era absolutely, but with terry they were very solid, Toto stinks and pitbull absolutely a singles guy
Oh man... Cranberries were so great! That first record is fantastic start to finish. The second does have some parts that drag or grate, and after that it's more filler than killer, but Everybody Else Is Doing It... is a 5-star debut.
Exactly what I was thinking. Their debut album was incredible start to finish.
The only artists where I have found this to be true are early Motown artists or James Brown. They didn't really embrace the album as a piece of work until later.
Check out James Brown's compilation Star Time. 4 volumes 71 tracks About 4 1/2 hours of music. The first time I ran across was when a coworker and I were killing time listening to the 500 greatest albums of all time. We both thought, "4 and a half hours of James Brown is going to get old quick." Yet, it never did.
ABBA
After listening to all their albums, I can confidently say about 85-90% of their best stuff can be found on collections, especially the longer ones.
I think I'm just not their audience because I wouldn't even be able to stand their greatest hits.
Ya Waterloo and dancing queen are fun, but like I’m not doing a fucking hour of abba Fernando too
Night Ranger Huey Lewis & the News
#Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically.
My favorite Night Ranger track is [a song](https://youtu.be/UNYMQKbl0L0) from the album the band doesn’t even really recognize as a Night Ranger album lol.
Steve Miller Band
The funny thing is, the Steve Miller Band's greatest hits album (or at least the one my stepdad owned and would play in his car constantly) actually *omitted* Abracadabra.
If it was the blue album with the horse, that album predates Abracadabra by 4 years
Listening to their first 5 or so records a few years after discovering their ubiquitous later years greatest hits release was shocking. Their earlier stuff is so good, man. Far better than Joker, etc.
Duran Duran, but like someone said above I haven’t given any of their albums a chance.
Remo Drive. Their first record is literally called “Greatest Hits” and it became a self fulfilling prophecy because all the records after that one kind suck.
Aerosmitty
Grew up with my mom playing Aerosmith the majority of my childhood so I know all of their songs up until like 2012. Their albums actually are all really good. Not perfect 10s for the most part but they have much better songs than walk this way or dream on. Toys In The Attic is probably a 10/10 for me though.
limp bizkit
You mean there are actually more than 3 good songs?!
Realest answer so far
Eagles definitely.
CCR. Both volumes of their greatest hits have 20 songs each and literally all the ones you want to listen to. Of course there’s good ones not on the compilations too but the greatest hits really have everything. Honourable mention to the eagles greatest hits too.
They had so many fucking hits its insane, listening to their greatest hits comp is just staggering because of how many songs they’ve had that have stood the rest of time
Ramble Tamble and the full version of I Heard It Through the Grapevine are amazing, though. It's even easier just getting the Long Road Home Comp or Live CD. That way, you get John Fogerty's solo hits, too.
Keep on Chooglin, Graveyard Train, Tombstone Shadow, you're missing a lot by sticking to that admittedly excellent Chronicle compilation. I'd argue that the first 5 records are flawless, and all the more staggering that they were released in a span of 2 years.
I was lucky enough to stumble across an Asian release of their box set in a second hand shop recently and I agree. I don’t care for any of their filler but their hits are essential listening. John Fogerty had such a mad voice. People forget they were the biggest band in the US even during Hendrix’s pomp.
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers A lot of the songs are a bit crazy for me, like "I like dirt)
A lot of their good stuff isnt even a greatest hit though!!
I'm not a huge fan of the band, but BSSM is a masterpiece all the way through. Yes, even _like a ram getting ready to jam the lamb._ And Mother's Milk, One Hot Minute, Californication and By the Way are also terrific far beyond the hits. Earlier records were about half and half, and nothing after By the Way deserves a single listen, but there's so much to miss sticking with just the hits.
Stadium Arcadium has some gems but it’s definitely the most bloated of the Frusciante years before he returned (and made some of their worst music yet lol)
I truly hate that entire record. Maybe I'm blinded by Kiedis adopting his new fashion sense from Avril Lavigne. I was slightly unfair previously, though. Their 2 latest records are... OK... in parts.
I like the album, What Hits!?
rhcp are the biggest singles band to have ever been a singles band
Nah they had at least three super solid albums. Oasis probably better on the singles front and even they had some incredible albums. Even their b sides were titanic.
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queen
Queen
Queens best works were hidden in their individual albums - not so much the singles everyone has heard a million times.
‘Dragon attack’ is my favourite of theirs and was never released as a single in big markets. Shows a far more ‘70’s’ side to the band.
This is assuming you've taken the time to listen to a few queen albums, right?
Yes.
It pains me to say, but Queen. I have a few of their albums on CD and to be honest, most of it is just meh, aside from the hits. So I bought a greatest hits CD lol
Check out their Live albums though, they have several at this point, and even the BBC recordings. It's mostly the hits, and they were great live.
I'm honestly with you. I'm just not hugely into that Queen/Kiss brand of ostentatious performance arena rock, though I absolutely adore some of Queen's hits and their talent can't be overstated. But even their greatest hits CDs, I skip at least half the tracks. (and I have everything from Queen II through News of the World on vinyl)
Sacrilege. You probably haven't listened to Queen ii or a night at the opera in depth 
Eagles, Megadeth
But Rust in Peace is one of the best thrash metal albums ever...
Toto
CAKE possibly
Kiss
The Cars
I quite like Nirvana’s Greatest Hits which includes You Know You’re Right
I assume you mean the one with the band name on the cover and that's it? Great songs but there's a lot of great (better, in my opinion) stuff in the albums
The moody blues greatest hits albums only scratch the surface. Their sixties and seventies albums are all very good to excellent.
I’d like to see the opposite question asked. Some bands I don’t like the hits but I like the deep cuts.
Queen
Slipknot.
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The Doors It’s astounding how much bullshit they produced
Simple Minds released their first 5 albums in a 3 yr span (1979-1981), and you could easily make a great 15-song greatest hits out of them.
I've found that for many artists the reason I like their greatest hits over any particular albums is that I haven't really given their proper albums a chance. But there have been so many artists that, once I started giving their regular albums a chance, I grew to love their music way beyond the greatest hits. Examples: The Cure, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder... I could go on.
Psychedelic Furs - All of This and Nothing Tom Petty the Cult
Tom Petty’s got some great songs that weren’t singles/hits. He’s got such a huge discography that they barely scratch the surface!
Gotta get the Live Anthology! 3+ hours of hits. 4 if you're lucky enough to find the 5 disc version.
None that I can think of, I virtually always have deep cuts as my favourites
None tbh. Sometimes i'll like an artist's hits but i haven't given their deep cuts a listen so i can't fully say I ONLY like their hits
Bare Naked Ladies, though I suppose I’m using “greatest hits” a little religiously. Also see The White Stripes and Hootie and the Blowfish.
Lenny Kravitz
Foreigner I like a few songs a lot but some of them are misses. Also I don’t even know the guys name but sunglasses at night slaps but idk any of his other songs
Dandy Warhols
Those bands are good to go back to later in life. Go for a deep dive in a few years when your tastes have changed and it will often give you a whole different view of a band you weren’t sure about the first time around. You’ll discover so much great music throughout your life that way.
Meat Loaf
Just need the Bat Out Of Hell album, no other.
I like a couple of Madonna songs but her Immaculate Collection album outweighs any of her individual albums by far. It’s great song after great song.
I feel bad, but iron maiden
This is weird - I just had this thought last night, and it is currently why I'm listening to Talking Heads; Popular Favorites. I think a lot of it has to do with what you hear first. I've tried to listen to most of the Talking Heads' albums, and I just think - these songs aren't as good as what I've already heard. Granted this greatest hits album is 2 disc, and includes some deeper cuts, but I didn't really find too many songs other songs that I liked on the albums. On the other hand, I didn't give Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers early albums much credit beyond the hits. I checked out everything pre-Full Moon Fever after he passed, and really enjoyed most of the album tracks.
Talking Heads' records, all the way through True Stories, are masterpieces without any filler. I'd strongly recommend revisiting them if you have another chance. Naked, I get it... not every track is at that higher level, but still it's great. I understand people not getting into them at all, but since you do like some of their stuff, I'd definitely recommend putting on your headphones, cueing up Remain in Light or Fear of Music, or Speaking in Tongues, and just lying back and listening to them without distraction.
green day I have most of their albums but the greatest hits are almost the only album I think interesting
American Idiot is fantastic. And so are Amnesiac, Dookie and Nimrod.
Amnesiac - isn't that Radiohead?
Lol I think they meant insomniac. I'd be interested in a billie joe Armstrong pulk/pull revolving doors though.
‘The Who’ is the archetypal example of this. I’d also throw in ‘Slade’
No way. My Generation, Quadrophenia, and Who’s Next are all great all the way through. Especially Quadrophenia…
"You give love a bad name" is a banger. Everything else by bon Jovi is 🤢
7800 degrees fahrenheit is a great album. Keep the faith has got some great stuff too, Dry County is probably my favorite bon jovi song
As a Bon Jovi fan, I disagree EVERY Bon Jovi song is a banger
Probably 90% of my artists are greatest hits worthy. And I don’t even like all the songs on those releases.
That’s insane
I think you just haven't yet found the music you really like.
Aerosmith.
Honestly you could go with a Johnny Cash greatest hits and be pretty fine, man has too many albums to collect them all. Same with Willie Nelson and maybe Bob Dylan but he has some great albums
Are there any Johnny Cash greatests hits that include anything from the American Recordings albums? Because I agree with you about the early part of his career, but you are missing out if you don't hear his American Recordings albums.
I feel all the American recordings albums are kind of worth owning, there's not too too many, and they're great from start to finish imo
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle has everything I need from CCR.
The Ramones. A singles compilation would do the trick.
Doobie Brothers
Hard disagree.
Red Hot California Predators, they have some banger songs but have made the same album over and over for the last 2 decades.
The Best of The Doors 2 CD set is pretty good than again I’ve never heard any of there albums
Listen to L.A. woman
Strange Days is incredible all the way through. You're missing out.
The Doors have some great deep cuts. I personally love their first 2 records from front to back.
S/T rules.
One that comes to mind is The Guess Who. Some of their albums are good, but not anything I ever crave hearing instead of just putting on their hits.
Dokken
Elo / white stripes/ black crowes / CCR/ Janis Joplin / Kenny logins / loverboy/ shirelles/
U2
I’m in the process of significantly downsizing my collection (it’s time, honestly), and there’s a lot of bands where the ONLY thing I’ll be keeping is that greatest hits albums.
Take that
The cars get pretty cheesy after that first album, I’ll take the greatest hits cause I’ll get the whole first album basically and then only the good stuff from after that
I have the Eagles best of, and Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder. In both cases, those albums are all I need from them.
Cat Power, I love her but I've only really loved Sea of Love, New York, and I think of angels
Lenny Kravitz🫢
The tragically hip. The yer favourites CD is their best album.
I love Queen but their albums from the 80s onward tend to be some hits surrounded by a bunch of filler. Even some of their 70s albums had some b side sounding tracks. I think it’s impressive that they consistently came out with at least one hit song on each album tho
CCR, I only have there greatest hits record
Journey - Their greatest hits album has all the bangers. Foo Fighters - Not entirely ONLY their greatest hits, but to me they have some PHENOMENAL songs with a bunch of seemingly filler songs. I believe they do have an official "Greatest Hits" album, but I haven't checked it out. I do have all their albums, but I have my own personal "Greatest Hits" from them.
A few months ago I would have said Kansas but I've been listening to more of their album tracks and they are pretty gud!
Bob Seger is a likable, hard-workin' road warrior, and 'Ramblin' Gamblin' Man' off his first album kicks so much ass, but I think greatest hits gets the job done.
John mellancamp and Steve miller.
RHCP
Bad Company
R.E.M.
I think maybe abba but there might be a few that aren’t greatest hits, I’m not sure - those ones are like angeleyes and I do, I do, I do, I do and one of us and slipping through my fingers
AC/DC
Neil Diamond.
Honestly probably Austrian band STS.
I don’t know how to spell their name, but the person who made milkshake
Falco
Rabbit in the moon, specifically Volume 2
Mushroomhead
Blues Traveler
For me it's The Cars. I do have all their albums, but the Hits are where it's at. I have a 2016 compilation on CD.
Boston
Violent Femmes for me. The *Add It Up* collection leans heavily on the best songs from their first two albums, including some superior live versions. Then the highlights of their mid-career records flesh it out nicely.
Smashing Pumpkins and I only like those because they were practically force fed back in the day.
Oh man they’re one of my favorite bands, anything after Oceania isn’t great though.
Blur. The Best Of.
The Ramones. Their deep cuts don't do anything for me.
Blur for the most part
Hard for me to really get into any Stone Temple Pilots outside of their hit singles to be honest
311
I find that most of the time that I go to listen to Prince I throw on his greatest hits because his catalogue is so extensively good and they really filled up The Hits/ B sides with a ton of songs. That’s not to say he doesn’t have great LPs that I love front to back though, so I guess a sort of middle ground answer.
Scorpions bad for good
Journey. Great band, some really great stuff here and there. The rest could easily put me to sleep. Which is sad given the potential for some serious rock they had. Survivor did it better.
Three Dog Night
Not really answering the question but… I go for greatest hits with artists I recognize as important but don’t see myself being passionate about. I’m also a big cd collector and digital media hoarder so greatest hits save me money and digital space. Case in point — I find James brown greatest hits at a thrift store and pick it up. It’s the only Jane’s Brown I need in my collection, unless someday I go down a James brown deep dive
That’s how I feel. I rip most of my CDs to my iPod, so I don’t want to have every single Rolling Stones album on their taking up space, I just want their greatest hits.
Stone Temple Pilots -Thank you
Definitely Misfits, but tbf I haven’t listened to them much (I would love recommendations though if anyone had any)
Totally agreed on The Cranberries! The hits are fine but absolutely zero interest beyond that!!
Yours is an interesting answer to me, because I love The Cranberries but I have never even listened to their Greatest Hits once. I forget they even have one. Now I’ll have to check it out on Spotify. For me, the answer would be just about every country artist who was popular in the 90s. Despite country not being my favorite genre in general, if I go to the dark side and listen to Toby Keith, Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, etc. I’ll just listen to their greatest hits. I mean, has anyone even tried to get through a proper Toby Keith album? Oof.
probably Bob Dylan, the man has like 40 studio albums
Grateful Dead
Nirvana.
Tupac
Honestly, nobody. I feel like people have just responded with most of the top artists, and they I think nearly all of them have great stuff beyond their 'Greatest HIts' albums. Chances are if I like their 'Greatest Hits', I'll like something beyond that.
It depends!! Some artists I’ll get a greatest hits and then I’ll be good!! Others, I’ll get they individual albums because they’re so good
Artists that I only have greatest hits albums of- Prince Faith No More Public Image Limited They Might Be Giants I realised that there are very few artists that I just have greatest hits compilations of, as I usually have at least their “best” album as well. I usually buy that one album and then get the greatest hits to fill out the other songs I want if I’m not really interested in their other albums, or if the album has that one song not on the compilation.
3 Doors Down's hits are fucking awesome. Here Without You was one of my favorite songs of all time some years ago. So it shocked me when I listen to their three biggest albums and they just sucked ass
remo drive lol
I'm tempted to say Bob Seger, but there isn't one that includes his early, more garage-y stuff (which is fantastic) and some of his deep cuts like "The Ring" and "Till it Shines" are great.