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Articles tagged "greatest hits" Music ReviewGlen Campbell: Greatest Hitsby Juli Thanki[9.Feb.09] :. Everyone loves Glen Campbell. Well, everyone tolerates Glen Campbell. Who could honestly hate the most inoffensive singer since Pat Boone? Featured Article Music ReviewUB40: Greatest Hitsby Evan Sawdey[18.Nov.08] :. 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.  Music ReviewMorrissey: Greatest Hitsby John Dover[10.Apr.08] :. A greatest hits compilation that draws heavily on the fruits of Morrissey's 'second coming'. The result? A vulgar picture.  Music ReviewSly and the Family Stone: Greatest Hitsby Andrew Gilstrap[27.Aug.07] :. 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.  Music ReviewFreddie Jackson: Greatest Hitsby Mike Joseph[14.Feb.07] :. Just dim the lights, chill the bottle of wine, and let Freddie rock you tonight-for old times' sake.  Music ReviewThe Offspring: Greatest Hitsby Adrien Begrand[28.Jul.05] :. The Offspring are the latest band to ride the '90s nostalgia wave. But that's okay, because the '90s ruled. Pat Benatar: Greatest Hitsby Rob Horning[22.Jul.05] :. 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. Shania Twain: Greatest Hitsby Brian James[2.Feb.05] :. 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 Hitsby Zeth Lundy[3.Jan.05] :. As a one-disc career-spanning compilation, Greatest Hits manages well, even if the two-disc retrospective Decade (1977) offers more in-depth analysis. Guns N’ Roses: Greatest Hitsby Jason Korenkiewicz[16.Apr.04] :. A drunk sorority sister in black leather pants singing karaoke while swinging a Bud bar bottle over her head; a trucker hat-clad, unwashed hipster sipping on a cold beer of the same brand in a... Inspiral Carpets: Greatest Hitsby John Davidson[19.Dec.03] :. For sheer scope and ambition, the Inspiral Carpets Greatest Hits collection allows few rivals. While U2 mustered only 14 worthwhile tracks for their Best of 1980-90 set, and barmy... Mott the Hoople: Greatest Hitsby Scott Hreha[1.Aug.03] :. Of all the original architects of glam rock, Ian Hunter is one of the few to have made any long-term commitments to its preservation. While the reasons are certainly debatable, just a cursory glance... The Fugees: Greatest Hitsby TT Clinkscales[6.May.03] :. Q-Tip’s industry rule number 4,080 comes to mind in reference to the Fugees’ Greatest Hits because “record company people are shady.” No doubt. The question most... Björk: Greatest Hitsby Kila Packett[24.Feb.03] :. Completion of a great work-of-art cannot be easily matured by instinct alone. This is especially when many hands are involved in fashioning the project. Is there really such a thing as a complete... Run-DMC: Greatest Hitsby Mark Anthony Neal[8.Nov.02] :. The memory is still quite vivid—I was the last one in the prom night limo, traveling across Queen Blvd. en route to the bridge (Throggs Neck) that was going to return me to my home in the... Mariah Carey: Greatest Hitsby Devon Powers[8.May.02] :. There’s a popular mythology out there that says that certain things—like pop divas and Fortune 500 companies—never die. I’m not talking your average, run of the mill pop star,... Squeeze: Greatest Hitsby David Zahl[17.Sep.01] :. Squeeze were never cool. One viewing of their atrocious videos proves that they could not compete in the image wars of the early 1980s. Their strength was always songwriting and as a result, their... The Byrds: Greatest Hitsby PopMatters StaffThe Lears The Story So Far…(Get Hip) by Sarah Zupko byrds-lears.jpg Yeah, I know, every movie set in the 1960s rehashes “Turn! Turn! Turn!”—to the... Alice in Chains: Greatest Hitsby Andrew GilstrapThe last batch of new Alice in Chains music was their 1995 self-titled release. Since then, it’s been a case of either contractual obligation or of Columbia picking every shred of meat from the... |
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