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Post by slayrrr666 on Apr 25, 2008 10:13:36 GMT -5
Something I've been thinking of, when going through my CD collection:
Do you guys buy band's greatest hits CDs at all?
I know there's a few groups that decide to release additional material on a greatest hits CD (cover songs, unreleased B-sides, live songs, demos, etc) but a lot of times, by just having the collection contain the songs and nothing else ruins the experience a little.
So, what do you guys do?
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Post by Bartwald on Apr 25, 2008 10:25:15 GMT -5
Unless there's some extra stuff on them - I don't usually buy these. But new tracks or videos do tempt me, especially if I don't have the regular albums in my collection. Latest Best Of CD I bought was from the band Live - it had an additional DVD with all their videos so far, cool stuff.
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Apr 25, 2008 18:46:02 GMT -5
I have a bunch of "greatest hits" cd's. Some because I really like the band and like mentioned, there might be something "extra" on there, and others because quite frankly I was only interested in the "hits", or the songs I was already familiar with, and wasn't too interested in collecting everything by certain artists.
With the bonus stuff nowadays, I might be more inclined to just buy it on iTunes or something as opposed to buying an entire cd of stuff I already own, just for one or two bonus tracks.
I'll list all my greatest hits cd's later when I have more time, just because even I'm curious as to exactly how many I have.
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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Apr 25, 2008 21:25:25 GMT -5
I usually just buy greatest hits cd's when it's a band that I like, but not enough to buy every single cd they put out. Does that make sense? Just bands that I'm a casual, but not a die-hard fan of. But sometimes I'll buy a greatest hits of a band I really like just so I won't have to dig through all my cd's of that particuar group just to listen to one particular song. For example, I bought the U2 18 Singles cd just for when I'm in the mood to listen to them in general and not just one particular album, b/c that cd spans their whole career.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Apr 26, 2008 10:34:42 GMT -5
I'm pretty similar to you, LDG. I usually buy them the majority of the time only for throwing on something that will give me an overview of a certain artist. However, they're usually some of the last CDs to fill out the roster that I get, simply because the fact that I like the group means that I'm into everything that they release, so very rarely do I get into bands because of a few good songs and I can't tolerate the rest. That happens very rarely.
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Post by Quorthon on Apr 29, 2008 14:28:05 GMT -5
To be fair, I used to pick up a greatest hits album to get into a band, now I just download a bunch of stuff for a sampler. Now, I'll rarely ever pick one up. Usually as a collectible or something like that.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Apr 30, 2008 10:14:38 GMT -5
Q, you bring up an interesting point, picking up a GH album to get into a band before a proper CD. Maybe we should steer it there to keep discussion going: buying it first to discover a new band.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Apr 30, 2008 17:21:49 GMT -5
To be fair, I used to pick up a greatest hits album to get into a band, now I just download a bunch of stuff for a sampler. Now, I'll rarely ever pick one up. Usually as a collectible or something like that. That's pretty much what I do too when I buy a greatest hits record. Or used to. Always found it a good place to launch off, you know? Or if your unsure about a band you just check that out. Now I usually look at what might be considered their best album and go from there. Or just grab the record and if I don't like it, I'll delete it from my music library (one of the coolest things about working in a radio station is that you get so much music for free and early). |
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Post by Quorthon on May 7, 2008 12:51:34 GMT -5
Q, you bring up an interesting point, picking up a GH album to get into a band before a proper CD. Maybe we should steer it there to keep discussion going: buying it first to discover a new band. That's what I did with Testament. Bought their greatest hits several years back before tyring out any regular album. It was released about the same time as their Demonic album. At the time, that was the closest to becoming a real Death Metal band that they'd ever come. That's also how I started with Hypocrisy, though to be fair, I just got a copy of their GH disk from someone else. But it was a Greatest Hits type album that got me into them. The only KISS album I own is a Greatest Hits record. |
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Post by slayrrr666 on May 8, 2008 9:56:40 GMT -5
Ah, Signs of Chaos, with the black cover right? I wanted to get that one, but by the point I finally found it in stores I had most of the collection already and didn't think it was necessary to pick up a Greatest Hits collection that featured songs I already had plus the new ones I hadn't heard from Souls of Black. I already had The Very Best of at that point, pretty much right when it came out, and with very little in change towards track listing, I decided to keep that one.
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Post by Quorthon on May 27, 2008 14:42:38 GMT -5
Ah, Signs of Chaos, with the black cover right? I wanted to get that one, but by the point I finally found it in stores I had most of the collection already and didn't think it was necessary to pick up a Greatest Hits collection that featured songs I already had plus the new ones I hadn't heard from Souls of Black. I already had The Very Best of at that point, pretty much right when it came out, and with very little in change towards track listing, I decided to keep that one. I'm no longer much of a fan of Testament as some of thier stuff fails to impress me, so this GH album is a decent part of my collection. I would like to get the Demonic album again, though. It was one of the one stolen all those years back that I never replaced. |
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Post by slayrrr666 on May 29, 2008 10:19:27 GMT -5
To me, I've always called The Big Four of American 80s Thrash the Big Five: Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Testament and Overkill, those were how I've always called it and still believe it to be so. I haven't been disappointed with a Testament album yet (though I still don't have Souls of Black or that re-recorded one they did when Chuck beat cancer) but everything else has been a welcome and frequent play in my rotation and they have rarely, if ever, been boring. They've always been one of my favorites.
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Post by Quorthon on May 30, 2008 8:34:21 GMT -5
Souls of Black is one of their better albums, I think. It was also stolen along with Demonic. Practice What You Preach, however--I can barely get into. There are only 3 songs on there I really like.
What's your opinion on the big German Thrashers? Kreator, Destruction, and Sodom, was it? I was always more into the American Thrash Metal movement and so far, only have one Kreator album (Enemy of God) and one Sodom album (M-16 in MP3 format). I almost bought M-16 a couple weeks ago, but picked up Tiamat and a Dreamcast game instead.
Oh, and shame on you for neglecting Megadeth in your big Thrash line-up! Unlike Metallica, Megadeth has still put out thrashy music since 1995!
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Post by slayrrr666 on May 30, 2008 10:39:13 GMT -5
Practice is okay, though The Legacy is much better. The Germanic trio (which I also extend to a foursome with Holy Moses) is just as good as the American stuff. Kreator is the Slayer of the group, where it's just about brutality and going faster than possible. Sodom would be the Megadeth, experimenting with structures and the like though still being thrashy, and Destruction is the Metallica, actually coming out before Kreator but they get the credit since the two switched in the 90s (not Destruction's fault, they split up) and Kreator got big while Destruction was left to wallow until they're reformation in 2000, again, similar to Metallica recently. Holy Moses is then the Anthrax of the group, being just about thrashing away and not taking themselves too seriously. If you can get a chance, they would be the ones I would suggest, as there's a lot of good stuff there in the underground as well (Protector, Deathrow, Iron Angel) so they have as healthy a thrash scene as the Americans do. In fact, you might want to give THIS a read for some good Germanic thrash. Megadeth was okay, but once I discovered Death and Black Metal, they never stuck with me like the other thrash groups. I think I traded in my old copies when I heard the re-issues were coming out but I could never find them, so I just gave up and forgot about them. They've been playing them quite heavily on my metal channels and I forgot they were pretty good, so I may have to re-discover them, as I did remember that they were pretty good. |
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