No over-thinking, no spreadsheets, no calculations, just hit me with a top 3 for each topic on instinct alone.
ABBA Gold
The Very Best Of The Pogues
Supergrass Is 10
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The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates
The Cure - Greatest Hits
Nirvana - Nirvana
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I’d have to say…
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ABBA - Gold
Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
The Kinks - The Ultimate Collection
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ABBA - The Singles
Super Furry Animals - Songbook: The Singles Vol 1
The Cure - Greatest Hits
I think the only ones I own are ABBA Gold, the Cure one and the Nick Cave one.
Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
Greatest Hits - The Cure
Full Clip - Gang Starr
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Crowded House
Bob Marley - Legend
Gang Starr
- The Best Of R.E.M.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Best_of_R.E.M.
I bought that at an Asda in 1992 and bankrupted the piggy bank of BMS1 with that purchase. Easily my most played CD ever. I just haven’t see that version of their IRS years best of mentioned much.
- ABBA - Gold
- Neil Diamond - All Time Greatest Hits
(I’ve subscribed to an annual subscription of pipe and slippers magazine and have bought several kilograms of Werther’s Originals on the back of my top 3 there).
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REM - Out Of Time
Placebo - Singles
ABBA Gold
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The Essential Leonard Cohen
Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964
Tom Waits - Asylum Years (Not perfect as a time-period best of, but it was the first Tom record i ever owned)
The real answer is Abba Gild, obvs but…we got that covered.
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Yeah this would be my number 4 I think.
Ash - Intergalactic Sonic Sevens
Beastie Boys - Anthology: The Sounds of Science
Smashing Pumpkins - Rotten Apples
Honourable mention to Bjork’s Greatest Hits from 2002 and Neil Young’s Decade
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Reckon it’s just a ‘what you heard first’ thing? Guess if you’ve listened to one a lot the other tracklisting just sounds a bit off.
Wave of Mutilation was the one my dad owned without having any studio albums so listened to it all the time when I was a kid. Listened to Death to… Later and it just didn’t feel right
Very fairly listen to best ofs. Think the only ones I have listened to out of choice are…
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Chic - Les Plus Grands Succes de Chic
Sly and the Family Stone - Anthology
Blondie - The Best of Blondie
The Cure - Staring at the Sea
The Cure - Galore
idk, maybe Björk?
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Pixies - Death to The Pixies
Ash - Intergalactic Sonic 7s
Beatles - Blue album
By an absolute mile:
The Immaculate Collection (Madonna)
Greatest Hits (The Cure)
then take your pick, idk, 20 Golden Greats (The Beach Boys)
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