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Wednesday, March 2 2011

Jay-Z: The Hits Collection Volume One

Artistically, Jay-Z's Hits Collection could be tons stronger, and anyone curious about the rapper who buys this without skimming his non-radio friendly cuts will be missing out on his best work.


Friday, December 4 2009

The Bee Gees: The Ultimate Bee Gees

Yet another greatest hits collection from the Brothers Gibb. Worth grabbing the Limited Edition just for the videos, but the two audio discs are redundant.


Monday, February 9 2009

Glen Campbell: Greatest Hits

Everyone loves Glen Campbell. Well, everyone tolerates Glen Campbell. Who could honestly hate the most inoffensive singer since Pat Boone?


Tuesday, November 18 2008

UB40: Greatest Hits

Quite possibly the finest summation of the band's career as you're likely to find, improving on 2000's Very Best of... in every conceivable away.


Thursday, April 10 2008

Morrissey: Greatest Hits

A greatest hits compilation that draws heavily on the fruits of Morrissey's 'second coming'. The result? A vulgar picture.


Monday, August 27 2007

Sly and the Family Stone: Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits is not only an excellent, high-spirited party disc, but it also serves as the perfect headstone for the optimism that defined the early part of Stone's career.


Wednesday, February 14 2007

Freddie Jackson: Greatest Hits

Just dim the lights, chill the bottle of wine, and let Freddie rock you tonight-for old times' sake.


Thursday, July 28 2005

The Offspring: Greatest Hits

The Offspring are the latest band to ride the '90s nostalgia wave. But that's okay, because the '90s ruled.


Friday, July 22 2005

Pat Benatar: Greatest Hits

Benatar was one of the first pop singers as famous for how she looked as how she sounded, and thus was instrumental for cluing the music industry in to how image alone could sell records.


Wednesday, February 2 2005

Shania Twain: Greatest Hits

If you don't know what's great about this, you have never been forced to listen to soft rock non-stop for 40 hours a week.


Neil Young: Greatest Hits (Reviews) [3.Jan.05]
Guns N’ Roses: Greatest Hits (Reviews) [16.Apr.04]
Inspiral Carpets: Greatest Hits (Reviews) [19.Dec.03]
Mott the Hoople: Greatest Hits (Reviews) [1.Aug.03]
The Fugees: Greatest Hits (Reviews) [6.May.03]
Björk: Greatest Hits (Reviews) [24.Feb.03]
Run-DMC: Greatest Hits (Reviews) [8.Nov.02]
Mariah Carey: Greatest Hits (Reviews) [8.May.02]
    Squeeze: Greatest Hits (Reviews) [17.Sep.01]
The Byrds: Greatest Hits (Reviews) [1.Jan.95]
Alice in Chains: Greatest Hits (Reviews) [1.Jan.95]
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