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Old 04-10-2009, 12:39
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REM's greatest hits did not have Shiney Happy People

Kylie's greatest hits never had Some Kind Of Bliss

Will Young's upcoming greatest Hits lacks the long and winding Road.

Madonna Celebration does not have "true Blue"

You wonder why they don't just make space for the 2 or 3 extra tracks But theres a trend now for sticking a couple of extra unheard unreleased songs on the albums like celebration, will young's has 2 bonus tracks and the spice girls made headlines.


The only thing better than a greatest hits is the complete set on i-tunes. I downloaded the spice girls complete set and theres about 40 songs on it!
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Old 04-10-2009, 12:48
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Bjork's Greatest Hits CD didn't have "It's Oh So Quiet" on it.
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Old 04-10-2009, 13:24
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Kylie's ''Ultimate'' misses off Hand On Your Heart which is one of her best iconic!

And I won't even get started on Madonna's Celebration. Nevermind about True Blue being absent. What about Rain, Bad Girl, Deeper & Deeper ect. She could have fitted an extra 17 tracks on her GH!!
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Old 04-10-2009, 13:27
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Kylie's ''Ultimate'' misses off Hand On Your Heart which is one of her best iconic!

And I won't even get started on Madonna's Celebration. Nevermind about True Blue being absent. What about Rain, Bad Girl, Deeper & Deeper ect. She could have fitted an extra 17 tracks on her GH!!
Are you sure about HOYH? My copy of Ultimate Kylie has it

I agree about Madonna though, although she has sooooo many hits loads were bound to get missed off

Tina Turners 'All the Best' missed off 'Whatever You Want'
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Old 04-10-2009, 13:30
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Are you sure about HOYH? My copy of Ultimate Kylie has it

I agree about Madonna though, although she has sooooo many hits loads were bound to get missed off

Tina Turners 'All the Best' missed off 'Whatever You Want'
Its not on mine

The tracklist

Disc: 1
1. I Should Be So Lucky
2. Got To Be Certain
3. The Locomotion
4. Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi
5. Especially For You - With Jason Donovan
6. Never Too Late
7. Wouldn't Change A Thing
8. Never Too Late
9. Tears On My Pillow
10. Better The Devil You Know
11. Step Back In Time
12. What Do I Have To Do
13. Shocked
14. Give Me Just A Little More Time
15. Celebration

Disc: 2
1. Confide In Me
2. Put Yourself In My Place
3. Where The Wild Roses Grow - With Nick Cave
4. Did It Again
5. Breathe
6. Spinning Around
7. On A Night Like This
8. Kids - With Robbie Williams
9. Please Stay
10. Can't Get You Out Of My Head
11. In Your Eyes
12. Love At First Sight
13. Come Into My World
14. Slow
15. Red Blooded Woman
16. Chocolate
17. (Can't Start) Giving You Up
18. I Believe In You


It should have been on over Never Too Late, imo.
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Old 04-10-2009, 13:41
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Bjork's Greatest Hits CD didn't have "It's Oh So Quiet" on it.
Excuse my ignorance...but that's the only Bjork song I've heard of...I thought that was her most famous one. I'd have thought that would be on the greatest hits!
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Old 04-10-2009, 14:07
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Excuse my ignorance...but that's the only Bjork song I've heard of...I thought that was her most famous one. I'd have thought that would be on the greatest hits!
There was a vote on her website, and It's Oh So Quiet didn't get on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greates...%C3%B6rk_album)
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Old 04-10-2009, 15:01
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There was a vote on her website, and It's Oh So Quiet didn't get on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(Bj%C3%B6rk_album)
Excuse my ignorance...but that's the only Bjork song I've heard of...I thought that was her most famous one. I'd have thought that would be on the greatest hits!
Bjork's Greatest Hits CD didn't have "It's Oh So Quiet" on it.
It's Oh So Quiet wasn't actually her song. It was a cover of "Blow a Fuse" by Betty Hutton.

The reason it never made it onto the greatest hits, as LTG2201 said, is because the greatest hits was made up of a web vote, and obviously the fans never voted this one on.

She has so many more singles but I guess is unlucky to be known by most as "the one who sand It's Oh So Quiet". It's a good song, but she has a lot better.

Anyway...

Greatest Hits are always different depending on who puts them together. If it's the record label then it's usually the most popular ones. If it's the band then it's usually the ones they think are best. If it's the fan vote then I guess this is the only true way of showing what people like best.

Some acts would probably have enough hits to fit onto 3 or 4 CDs but that just gets silly so they choose (pardon the phrase!) the best of the best.
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Old 04-10-2009, 15:06
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It's Oh So Quiet wasn't actually her song. It was a cover of "Blow a Fuse" by Betty Hutton.

The reason it never made it onto the greatest hits, as LTG2201 said, is because the greatest hits was made up of a web vote, and obviously the fans never voted this one on.

She has so many more singles but I guess is unlucky to be known by most as "the one who sand It's Oh So Quiet". It's a good song, but she has a lot better.
Anyway...

Greatest Hits are always different depending on who puts them together. If it's the record label then it's usually the most popular ones. If it's the band then it's usually the ones they think are best. If it's the fan vote then I guess this is the only true way of showing what people like best.

Some acts would probably have enough hits to fit onto 3 or 4 CDs but that just gets silly so they choose (pardon the phrase!) the best of the best.
ahh, thanks for the feedback. Learn something new everyday
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Old 04-10-2009, 15:15
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R.E.M understandably loathed 'Shiny Happy People' which is why it wasn't on their Greatest Hits.
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Old 04-10-2009, 15:45
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R.E.M understandably loathed 'Shiny Happy People' which is why it wasn't on their Greatest Hits.
It's also not a "Greatest Hits" - it's a "The Best Of" - there is a difference.
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Old 04-10-2009, 15:47
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Its not on mine

The tracklist

Disc: 1
1. I Should Be So Lucky
2. Got To Be Certain
3. The Locomotion
4. Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi
5. Especially For You - With Jason Donovan
6. Never Too Late
7. Wouldn't Change A Thing
8. Never Too Late
9. Tears On My Pillow
10. Better The Devil You Know
11. Step Back In Time
12. What Do I Have To Do
13. Shocked
14. Give Me Just A Little More Time
15. Celebration

Disc: 2
1. Confide In Me
2. Put Yourself In My Place
3. Where The Wild Roses Grow - With Nick Cave
4. Did It Again
5. Breathe
6. Spinning Around
7. On A Night Like This
8. Kids - With Robbie Williams
9. Please Stay
10. Can't Get You Out Of My Head
11. In Your Eyes
12. Love At First Sight
13. Come Into My World
14. Slow
15. Red Blooded Woman
16. Chocolate
17. (Can't Start) Giving You Up
18. I Believe In You


It should have been on over Never Too Late, imo.
I think that's the promo edition of Ultimate K. HOYH is meant to be track 6, but you seem to have Never Too Late on both track 6 & track 8

I've also thought of Robbies GH, it misses off Something Beautiful which is strange seeing as it's one of the highest charters from Escapology

Janets Design of a Decade also missed off loads of tracks from her 'janet.' album

Shania Twain left 'Thank You Baby' off hers, thats one of my all time favourite Shania track, i was devestated!!
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Old 04-10-2009, 15:48
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REM's greatest hits did not have Shiney Happy People
I am sure I remember reading that REM really don't like that song so its probably why.
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Old 04-10-2009, 15:50
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There was no "Country House" on Blurs "Midlife"
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Old 04-10-2009, 16:14
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There was a vote on her website, and It's Oh So Quiet didn't get on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greates...%C3%B6rk_album)
It does seem that the whole website vote backfired quite badly. Bjork's Greatest Hits managed to peak at only #53 on the album chart.
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Old 04-10-2009, 16:19
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ABBA Gold is missing "Summer Night City", one of their best 'disco era' hits. And "The Day Before You Came", one of their favourites with fans and critics.
Yet "Thank for the music" is on Gold despite never even being a single while the group were still going. Lots of their other hits are on "More Gold" ...
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Old 04-10-2009, 16:45
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Christina Aguilera's greatest hits does not include her collaboration with Lil kym even though it was more successful then songs that were included such as I Turn to you and her crap duet with Ricky Martin.

Britney spears's upcoming greatest hits misses out a couple of good songs.

Madonna's latest greatest hits is missing a number of good songs

Sugababes's greatest hits album misses out a couple of songs from their first album.
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Old 04-10-2009, 17:19
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Christina Aguilera's greatest hits does not include her collaboration with Lil kym even though it was more successful then songs that were included such as I Turn to you and her crap duet with Ricky Martin.
I didn't understand why they missed out Can't Hold Us Down either. Despite being a big Christina fan i've gotta admit that her GHs was pretty lame. They clearly struggled to fill the whole disc yet still didn't include every single
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Old 04-10-2009, 17:21
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Shed Seven didn't include Parallel Lines on their greatest hits!
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Old 04-10-2009, 17:23
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Its not on mine

The tracklist

Disc: 1
1. I Should Be So Lucky
2. Got To Be Certain
3. The Locomotion
4. Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi
5. Especially For You - With Jason Donovan
6. Never Too Late
7. Wouldn't Change A Thing
8. Never Too Late
9. Tears On My Pillow
10. Better The Devil You Know
11. Step Back In Time
12. What Do I Have To Do
13. Shocked
14. Give Me Just A Little More Time
15. Celebration

Disc: 2
1. Confide In Me
2. Put Yourself In My Place
3. Where The Wild Roses Grow - With Nick Cave
4. Did It Again
5. Breathe
6. Spinning Around
7. On A Night Like This
8. Kids - With Robbie Williams
9. Please Stay
10. Can't Get You Out Of My Head
11. In Your Eyes
12. Love At First Sight
13. Come Into My World
14. Slow
15. Red Blooded Woman
16. Chocolate
17. (Can't Start) Giving You Up
18. I Believe In You


It should have been on over Never Too Late, imo.
It's on my Ultimate Kylie too!!!
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Old 04-10-2009, 17:25
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ABBA Gold is missing "Summer Night City", one of their best 'disco era' hits. And "The Day Before You Came", one of their favourites with fans and critics.
Yet "Thank for the music" is on Gold despite never even being a single while the group were still going. Lots of their other hits are on "More Gold" ...
Simply a space issue as Abba Gold was 76 minutes so no more room and Thank You... was considered a fan favourite and one of their iconic tracks despite not being a single. As you say, the missing ones are one More Abba Gold.
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Old 04-10-2009, 17:54
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A lot was said of the Oasis best of, the problem was that you could fit like five CDs and still miss out. Noel said he didn't want to do three because they weren't big enough. :P.
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Old 04-10-2009, 18:06
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Pet Shop Boys "Discography" omitted "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?" (double A side with "Where The Streets Have No Name") which was also omitted from "Pop Art" (the second greatest hits), along with "Was It Worth It?" (because it wasn't a top 20 single).
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Old 04-10-2009, 18:23
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R.E.M understandably loathed 'Shiny Happy People' which is why it wasn't on their Greatest Hits.
Thats no excuse! They should still have put it on. Thats ignorance, the album is for the fans, not them!

It's also not a "Greatest Hits" - it's a "The Best Of" - there is a difference.
Shiney Happy People is one of their best works!
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Old 04-10-2009, 18:34
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Thats no excuse! They should still have put it on. Thats ignorance, the album is for the fans, not them!



Shiney Happy People is one of their best works!
The fans would have already heard "Shiny Happy People" about 3 million times already, it's one of the most overplayed tracks.

The band have been going for 30 years nearly and have so much to choose from.
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