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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 446 Registered: 05-2005 |
At Jerrys suggestion on the NY thread. 1. The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Cant Be Wrong 2. New Order - Substance 3. Neil Young - Decade 4. Lee Perry - Arkology 5. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow That was reeled off straight from the top of my head. Ask me tomorrow, and apart from The Fall it might be different. So many great comps out there. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 303 Registered: 08-2004 |
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs Leonard Cohen - So Long Marianne The Jam - Snap Jimi Hendrix - Cornerstones Talk Talk - A-Sides & Besides Talking Heads - Sand In The Vaseline Bunnymen - Songs To Learn & Sing Brinsley Schwarz - Surrender To The Rhythm Stone Roses - The Complete... Velvet Underground - VU/Another View Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks 64-71 ... and many more. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 348 Registered: 04-2005 |
Do box sets count? If so: James Brown - Star Time Velvet Underground - Peel Slowly and See And regular comps: Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady The Kinks - The Kink Kronikles The Who - Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy Neil Young - Decade The Jam - Snap Siouxsie and the Banshees - Once Upon A Time: The Singles Stevie Wonder - Original Musiquarium | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 340 Registered: 10-2004 |
another way-too-long list from me,(and by the way, kevin - excellent list!): The Smiths - Louder than Bombs The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow The Cocteau Twins - Pink Opaque New Order - Substance Love - Best of (Rhino comp with them pictured standing on a bunch of rocks) Pale Fountains - Longshot for Your Love Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady XTC - Waxworks Felt - Goldmine Trash Orange Juice - Very Best Of Left Banke - There's Gonna be a Storm Durutti Column - Valuable Passages Ennio Morricone - Mondo Morricone and then label comps, w/ a variety of arists: Les Disques du Crepuscule - Rough w/ the Smooth Les Disques du Crepuscule - Death Leaves an Echo El - The Ruling Class Respond - Love the Reason Cherry Red - Pillows & Prayers | ||
| Cichli Suite Member Username: Cichli_suite Post Number: 119 Registered: 08-2004 |
I enjoy compilations of cover versions, though there are often some real stinkers included. My favourites are: Total Lee! The songs of Lee HazelWood Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson I used to have that Leonard Cohen covers compilation. I recall liking about half of it. I think the Go-Betweens tribute album is pretty good too. I think its pretty amazing that that album actually happened in the first place. | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 444 Registered: 03-2006 |
Elvis Costello - Girls, Girls, Girls New Order - Singles Leonard Cohen - Best of (w/ timeless cover snap of LC in oval mirror) The Beatles - 1962-66 and 1967-70 (the "red" and "blue" double disc compilations) The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff, etc. O, Brother Where Art Thou? (soundtrack -some may think it cornball, but I think it's the sh_t) Al Green - Greatest Hits Cowabunga! - the Surf Box (SHOULD there be a separate thread for boxes?) Rockers - (another movie soundtrack - Hardin loves the reggae) Bob Dylan - Greatest hits, Vols. 1 & 2 | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 447 Registered: 05-2005 |
metal and shells  | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 136 Registered: 07-2005 |
Decade-Neil Young 50,000 fall fans-The Fall Hatful of Hollow-Smiths Own and Own-Butch Hancock Can't think of any others at the moment, Soundtracks O,Brother Round Midnight I am Sam | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 358 Registered: 05-2005 |
1978-1990 by some Brisbane band. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 411 Registered: 03-2005 |
I love compilations! They so often brought me to new artists including the ones listed by others above for the Go Betweens, Cocteau Twins and even reggae. "After the Fact" was my introduction to Magazine. "Sings His Greatest Hits for You" was my intro to the incomparable Ed Kuepper. One forever great vinyl comp that I don't think was ever issued on CD is 1. "The Beat Merchants" A superb antho of 1963/64 era U.K. beat groups. Few of those tedious people you've already heard of are on here. It's all devoted to the minor local acts who really made up the first British punk music wave and often came up with the most vital recordings of the era from Brum, Kent, Cardiff, Sheffield, Manchester, Essex, Surrey and of course Liverpool and London. On CD: 2. "The Joe Meek Story -- The Pye Years," two discs jammed full of many of his best early and mid-60s indie productions running the gamut from spooky instrumentals to scary mentally ill pop ballads suitable for David Lynch films to Brit Girl beat to mod. 3. The first volume of "Here Come the Girls" which also draws only from Pye Records releases. In the mid-60s, the U.K. had a very distinctive take on female rock and pop and Pye seemed to be at the epicenter. 4. "Chaps" A great 2 disc overview of Monochrome Set's entire lengthy career and probably all you need to have of their 1990s work unless you are obsessive like me. 5. "Esther Phillips Anthology" The only really good collection of her Creed Taylor recordings to date as far as I know. 6. "Boy Child" Scott Walker. I'm surprised somebody didn't already get this one in. 7. "Archeology 1966 - 1976" The Troggs. This is all you really need to have of this seminal U.K. garage punk band, excellently mastered. 8. "The Best of Wipers and Greg Sage." This set really pulls together the best of one of the lesser known 80s U.S. indie acts. 9. "The Classic and Rare Johnny Kidd & the Pirates" Forget Sir Cliff, please. This is the best single disc antho of Britain's first true rock 'n roll god and his power trio band who recorded from 1959 until 1966 when Kidd was killed in one of those classic 60s British rock 'n roll car wrecks. The vinyl version of this same set is even better as it is all in mono and the few extra cuts added to the CD are redundant. and before I forget it, 10. the new "Plug Uglies" disc which apparently sweeps together everything this star-crossed bar band with the dark side ever did. |