Your personal Best Of... albums

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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
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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)

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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.

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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
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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
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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.
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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)

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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
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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)

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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
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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
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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. :slight_smile:

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Yes, they are good songs, but hell, what could I leave away?

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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

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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.

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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
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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

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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!

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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

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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
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