Pointless Greatest Hits Albums
What would you say were the most pointless Greatest Hits albums ever released? I'll start:-
Spice Girls Greatest Hits - They only released 3 albums and only 12 singles. Also the timescale of the songs was only like 4 years which I think defeats the purpose of a GH because I personally think a GH album's purpose is to look back over a long period of an artists career and show the growth of their music
Spice Girls Greatest Hits - They only released 3 albums and only 12 singles. Also the timescale of the songs was only like 4 years which I think defeats the purpose of a GH because I personally think a GH album's purpose is to look back over a long period of an artists career and show the growth of their music
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And Scouting For Girls.
Pretty soon, there will be a 1D great hits or best of, with an extra song, its all milking the fans tbh.
For me the worst one has to be Slipknot, I love slipknot, but it was way too early to be doing that
She's had a few now, hasn't she? I don't own any of them as I have her albums with all the singles on them. I downloaded the three songs from My Prerogative I didn't have. I suppose they're handy for casual fans but for hardcore fans like me they're a waste of money.
Elton John Single
Yeh im a massive Britney fan but I agree with you. She released her 1st one in 2004 after her 4th album which back then I thought was ridiculas but now that's normal. Then she released another one in 2009 after JUST TWO more albums!!!
What I don't like are the budget 'best of' compilations that are released for certain artists. Usually the artist will already have had a greatest hits album released prior to this and these budget compilations often leave out some of the more 'expensive' tunes (rights issues) and usually have plenty of album track/b-side filler to make up the shortfall. It's also obvious that the artist has had little or no involvement in these releases.
She has a GH album? Ur having a laugh right?
Christina Aguilera- Way way way way way way too early.
Celine Dion- All The Way, less a GH more a new album completely pointless.
P!nk- Her greatest hits was abyysmal i waited so long and there were too many omissions and far too many non single replacements.
And the new JLS one looks shocking - copy and paste job it seems
Santana's Greatest Hits is pretty pointless because Abraxas is a better album.
Others are put out by greedy record companies, keen to cash in on an old band, who've moved labels and become more successful.
I saw the cover of that and thought it looked as though it was done in MS Paint. Must've cost all of 5p to make I could do better with a blank CD and a CD burner
The best of vanilla ice
The very best of chesney hawkes
Tag team - The best of
Crazy frog - best of crazy hits
Tone Loc: Wild Thing and Other Hits
Was pretty much Gold - Greatest Hits with some slight changes.
Perhaps she's doing it the old fashioned way, waiting til the end of her career (or before a career break) to release it.
The Crazy Frog had a greatest hits album?! What was it, a CD of pre-iPhone mobile phone ringtones masquerading as music?
Many bands that don't do well in the charts release best of albums, very few release a greatest hits.
Sometimes the album titles are a nod to the fact they haven't had any actual hits, e.g. before Red Hot Chilli Peppers hit big in the charts they had a best of album called What Hits
It's still nice to have a retrospective occasionally