# Your personal Best Of... albums **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956 "2003-02-23T12:02:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/41 "2003-02-25T15:39:19Z")
Best of Black Sabbath: 1. Black Sabbath 2. Children of the Grave 3. War Pigs 4. Fairies Wear Boots 5. Wheels of Confusion 6. Snowblind 7. Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath 8. Megalomania 9. Hole in the Sky 10. Neon Knights 11. The Mob Rules 12. Trashed ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/42 "2003-02-25T17:22:56Z")
Best of KaTe Bush: 1. The man with the child in his eyes 2. The ninth wave 3. Mother stands for comfort 4. Cloudbusting 5. Running up that hill 6. Army dreamers 7. Hounds of love 8. The man I love 9. Breathin’ 10. Babushka 11. Wuthering heights (remake) 12. Delius Bonus track: the duet with Peter Gabriel (Don’t give up) ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/43 "2003-02-25T21:05:16Z")
Come to think of it, after extensive Doolittle-listening, I’m ready to swap the two last tracks of the Best of Pixies record for Tame and There Goes My Gun. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/44 "2003-02-26T00:55:00Z")
kevja’s best of the Carpenters 1.Rainy Days and Mondays 2.Now 3.For All We Know 4.Bless the Beasts and the Children 5.Don’t Cry for Me Argentina 6.Yesterday Once More 7.Superstar 8.Hideaway 9.Calling Occupants 10.Hurting Each Other 11.Solitaire 12.Close to You 13.Ticket To Ride 14.We’ve Only Just Begun 15.Goodbye to Love kevja’s best of The Beach Boys 1. I Can Hear Music 2. Don’t Worry Baby 3. All Summer Long 4. Wouldn’t It Be Nice 5. In My Room 6. I Get Around 7. Fun, Fun, Fun 8. Barbara Ann 9. Surfer Girl 10.Sloop John B 10. Do It Again 11. California Girls 12. Heroes and Villains 13. Little Duce Coupe 14. Dance, Dance, Dance Kevja’s best of the Bee Gees 1. Tragedy 2. Nights On Broadway 3. Run to Me 4. To Love Somebody 5. Love So Right 6. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart 7. Heartbreaker 8. One 9. Holiday 10 I Started a Joke 10. Night Fever 11. How Deep Is Your Love 12. Fanny 13. More Than a Woman 14. You Should Be Dancing ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/45 "2003-02-26T01:47:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astorian \* > \*\*Best of Billy Joel: > > 1. Captain Jack > 2. The Entertainer > 3. Scenes From an Italian Restaurant > 4. Only the Good Die Young > 5. Stiletto > 6. You May Be Right > 7. A Matter of Trust > 8. Baby Grand > 9. Allentown > 10. Leningrad > 11. The Downeaster Alexa > 12. And So It Goes > > \*\* Best of Billy Joel (2): 1. Piano Man 2. New York State of Mind 3. Angry Young Man 4. Vienna 5. Zanzibar 6. State of Grace 7. Summer, Highland Falls 8. Miami 2012 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway) 9. Close to the Borderline 10. Big Man on Mulberry Street ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/46 "2003-02-26T01:57:54Z")
Best of The Buggles (EP): 1. “Video Killed The Radio Star”. 2. Out takes from “Video Killed The Radio Star”. 3. “Video Killed The Radio Star” with an alternate verse. 4. Drummer’s girlfriend snoring that the engineer recorded for a goof. 5. Bass players outgoing answering machine message. ---
**Author:** ![djxiii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6f9a4e/32.png) [@djxiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djxiii)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/47 "2003-02-26T02:52:48Z")
Best of the Catherine Wheel 1. Black Metallic 2. I Want to Touch You 3. Painful Thing 4. Crank 5. The Nude 6. Heal 7. Waydown 8. Capacity to Change 9. Eat My Dust you Insensative F\*\*\* 10. Ma Solituda 11. Here Comes the Fat Controller 12. Lifeline 13. Sparks are Gonna Fly hidden tracks - Wish You Were Here (PF cover), Spirit of Radio (Rush cover), Don’t Want to Know if you are lonely (Husker Du cover) ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/48 "2003-02-26T07:17:59Z")
**Best of Cake** 1. Going the Distance 2. Short Skirt, Long Jacket 3. I Will Survive (cover) 4. Love You Madly 5. Stick Shifts and Safety Belts 6. Frank Sinatra 7. Sheep go to Heavan 8. Shadow Stabbing 9. Long Line of Cars 10. Daria 11. Mrs. Robinson (cover) 12. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps **Best of They Might Be Giants** 1. Birdhouse in Your Soul 2. Why Does the Sun Shine 3. Whistling in the Dark 4. Istanbul (not Constantinople) 5. I Palindrome I 6. Man it’s so Loud in Here 7. Particle Man 8. Four of Two 9. Cyclops Rock 10. Mink Car 11. She’s an Angel 12. Dr. Worm ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/49 "2003-02-26T07:24:06Z")
Peter Gabriel: 1. San Jacinto 2. Family snapshot 3. Wallflower 4. Biko 5. The rhythm of the heat 6. Suzanne 7. Blood of Eden 8. Mercy street 9. In your eyes 10. Red rain 11. The family and the fishing net 12. The intruder Bonus track: the duet with Kate Bush (Don’t give up) ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/50 "2003-02-26T07:26:08Z")
Carpenters - my take: 1. This masquerade 2. I need to be in love 3. Yesterday once more 4. Superstar 5. Mr. Guder 6. Heather 7. Top of the world 8. Rainy days and Mondays 9. Solitaire 10. I won’t last a day without you 11. Goodbye to love 12. Hurting eachother ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/51 "2003-02-26T07:29:03Z")
Pink Floyd (a multi CD package obviously) 1. Shine on you crazy diamond (part 1) 2. Shine on you crazy diamond (part 2) 3. Julia dream 4. Comfortably numb 5. Echoes 6. A pillow of winds 7. See Emily play 8. Wish you were here 9. Mother 10. Time 11. Money 12. Saint Tropez ---
**Author:** ![Jberto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jberto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jberto)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/52 "2003-02-27T06:40:15Z")
> [@](#): > > _From Kantalooppi’s OP_ > **Kantalooppi’s Best Of Pixies** > > 1. Velouria > 2. River Euphrates > 3. Debaser > 4. Gigantic > 5. Wave of Mutilation > 6. Caribou > 7. Monkey Gone To Heaven > 8. Here Comes Your Man > 9. Alec Eiffel > 10. Where Is My Mind? > 11. Mr. Grieves > 12. Is She Weird? No offense intended, but how could you leave off “Cactus,” “Bone Machine,” “Break My Body,” or (my favorite) “Gouge Away”? I definitely like your addition of “Tame” in a later post. I’m nitpicking however. It’s hard to pick just 12 Pixies songs. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/53 "2003-02-27T09:13:27Z")
Yes, they are good songs, but hell, what could I leave away? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2003, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/54 "2003-02-27T15:29:30Z")
**Journey in 24 Paces:** Disk I 1. Feeling That Way 2. Anytime 3. The Party’s over (Hopelessly in Love) 4. Stone in Love 5. Any Way You Want It 6. Don’t Stop Believin’ 7. Separate Ways 8. Just the Same Way 9. City of the Angels 10. Wheel in the Sky 11. Raised on Radio 12. Patiently Disk II 13. Only The Young 14. Lights (live version) 15. I’ll Be Alright Without You 16. Open Arms 17. Be Good To Yourself 18. After the Fall 19. Who’s Crying Now 20. Faithfully 21. Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ 22. Send Her My Love 23. Walks Like a Lady 24. Still They Ride ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/55 "2003-03-02T22:54:11Z")
**Jane’s best of The Replacements** 1. Left Of The Dial 2. I Will Dare 3. Unsatisfied 4. Skyway 5. Androgynous 6. Hold My Life 7. Customer 8. Waitress In The Sky 9. Alex Chilton 10. Can’t Hardly Wait 11. Valentine 12. Achin’ To Be 13. I’ll Be You 14. If Only You Were Lonely **Jane’s best of Paul Westerberg/Grandpaboy** 1. Attitude\* 2. All Shook Down\* 3. Dyslexic Heart 4. Things 5. Knockin’ On Mine 6. It’s A Wonderful Lie 7. AAA 8. Kickin’ The Stall 9. No Place For You 10. Boring Enormous 11. Lush And Green 12. Crackle & Drag (unrelased) \*Since All Shook Down was a Replacements album in name only I put songs from that in this category. ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/56 "2003-03-03T00:37:09Z")
**The Best of…Live** 1. Pain Lies on the Riverside 2. Beauty of Gray 3. Selling the Drama 4. I Alone 5. The Dam at Otter Creek 6. Lightning Crashes 7. Pillar of Davidson 8. Lakini’s Juice 9. Turn My Head 10. The Dolphin’s Cry 11. The Distance 12. Sparkle 13. Overcome **The Best of…The Tragically Hip** (only available in Canada) 1. New Orleans is Sinking 2. 38 Years Old 3. Twist My Arm 4. Little Bones 5. At the Hundredth Meridian 6. Locked in the Trunk of a Car 7. Fully Completely 8. Wheat Kings 9. Grace, Too 10. Nautical Disaster 11. Gift Shop 12. Fireworks 13. Vapour Trails 14. It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken ---
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/57 "2003-03-03T01:06:21Z")
Jimi Hendrix Side 1. Voodoo Chile 3rd Stone from the Sun Side 2 Purple Haze I Don’t Live Today (live version) The Wind Cries Mary She’s So Fine Spanish Castle Magic Burning of the Midnight Lamp Machine Gun (Isle of Wight version) Side3 Little Wing Crosstown Traffic Catfish Blues Little Miss Strange Message of Love (Band of Gypsies version) Like A Rolling Stone Hear My Train a-Comin’ (acoustic version) Side 4 Star-Spangled Banner 1983 (a Merman I Should Turn to Be) All Along the Watchtower Stone Free Hey Joe Angel Johnny B. Goode ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/58 "2003-03-03T01:33:48Z")
My personal Best of the Smashing Pumpkins: 1. Tonight, Tonight 2. Soma 3. Drown 4. Rhinocerous 5. Cherub Rock 6. Luna 7. Bullet With Butterfly Wings 8. Zero 9. Muzzle 10. Ava Adore 11. Perfect 12. 1979 13. Try, Try, Try 14. Wound 15. With Every Light I limited to 15 because thats about what record companies do. And, looking back, it really doesn’t look very good… and the orders all hectic… ::sigh:: BUT!.. Best of Sublime 1. What I got 2. Chica Mi Tipo 3. Caress Me Down 4. April 29, 1992 5. Jailhouse 6. KRS-One 7. Santeria 8. Seed 9. Pool Shark (Acoustic) 10. Smoke Two Joints 11. Same In the End 12. Garden Grove 13. 40 Oz. To Freedom 14. No Woman No Cry 15. Saw Red Now that, right there, is one great album. That 20th Century Master’s Best of thing released a 10 song Sublime album, and it was hoorible! ---
**Author:** ![MemoryGongs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@MemoryGongs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MemoryGongs)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/59 "2003-03-03T02:54:31Z")
Tori Amos (Chronilogical Order) Precious Things Girl God Caught A Lite Sneeze Hey Jupiter Black Roses Liquid Diamonds Cruel Glory of The 80s Taxi Ride Pancake Bonus Tracks I’m On Fire Smells Like Teen Spirit Massive Attack Blue Lines Be Thankful For What You Got Protection Better Things Three Mezzanine Risingson Group Four Chill Out Volume 1 Bbyhndrychord - Aphex Twin Amo Bishop Roden - Boards of Canada Any Day Now - Elbow High Monkey Monk - The Cocteau Twins Star Guitar - The Chemical Bros. Roads - Portishead Everything In It’s Right Place - Radiohead Come To Me - Bjork Mary Of Silence - Mazzy Star Bobcaygeon - The Tragically Hip Transfatty Acid (Remix) - Lamb Angry At The World Vol.1 Antichrist Superstar - Marilyn Manson Burn - NIN New Noise - Refused Aerials - System Of A Down Disposable Heroes - Metallica Seasons In The Abyss - Slayer I Stand Alone - Godsmack Primal Scream - Motley Crue Appetite For Destruction - NWA File Under Spoon, Gag Me With A: The Best of The 80s I Ran - Flock Of Seagulls Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran Oh Shiela - Ready For The World Echo Beach - Martha and The Muffins Change - Tears For Fears Cars - Gary Numan Chain Gang - The Pretenders Spirits In A Material World - The Police Dreamworld - Midnight Oil Big Time - Peter Gabriel Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys The Sun Always Shines On TV - A-Ha Heart and Soul - Huey Lewis and The News Touch and Go - The Cars ---
**Author:** ![MemoryGongs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@MemoryGongs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MemoryGongs)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2003, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956/60 "2003-03-03T02:55:30Z")
Tori Amos (Chronilogical Order) Precious Things Girl God Caught A Lite Sneeze Hey Jupiter Black Roses Liquid Diamonds Cruel Glory of The 80s Taxi Ride Pancake Bonus Tracks I’m On Fire Smells Like Teen Spirit Massive Attack Blue Lines Be Thankful For What You Got Protection Better Things Three Mezzanine Risingson Group Four Chill Out Volume 1 Bbyhndrychord - Aphex Twin Amo Bishop Roden - Boards of Canada Any Day Now - Elbow High Monkey Monk - The Cocteau Twins Star Guitar - The Chemical Bros. Roads - Portishead Everything In It’s Right Place - Radiohead Come To Me - Bjork Mary Of Silence - Mazzy Star Bobcaygeo [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-personal-best-of-albums/156956.md?page=4)