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Elvis: 30 #1 Hits
(2002)
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Elvis Presley
RCA and the Elvis estate made no bones about their intention on replicating the blockbuster success of the Beatles' The Beatles 1 with their own single-disc collection of number one hits -- hence, the 2002 release of Elvis: 30 #1 Hits. The idea of collecting all the number one hits is simple enough, but there are problems inherent with the concept ...
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The Legend of Johnny Cash
(2005)
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Johnny Cash
The Legend of Johnny Cash is billed as the "first ever complete career spanning collection," which is true to a certain extent -- other collections cover territory from 1955 to 2003, but this is the first to contain everything from Sun to Cash's Rick Rubin-produced comeback recordings for American in the '90s and 2000s. Since the biggest complaint ...
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16 Biggest Hits
(1999)
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Johnny Cash
Many of Johnny Cash's biggest hits, among them "Ring of Fire," "Understand Your Man," and "A Boy Named Sue," are included on Legacy's 16 Biggest Hits. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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All-Time Greatest Hits
(1972)
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Marty Robbins
Released in 1972, the double-album/single-CD All-Time Greatest Hits remains one of the best compilations ever assembled on Marty Robbins. Featuring 20 tracks -- including most of his big hits -- there are very few essential tracks missing from the collection. As an introduction, this relatively concise compilation is a bit more manageable than the ...
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American Graffiti
(1973)
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Original Soundtrack
The soundtrack to the George Lucas film about teenage life in a small California town in the early '60s was probably the best thing about the movie, featuring several dozen outstanding early rock & roll hits. There's nothing terribly obscure here -- in fact, most of these were big smashes -- but it's a good survey of rock's early days, ranging ...
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The Dirty Boogie
(1998)
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Evidently, Brian Setzer doesn't take the jump blues and swing of the Brian Setzer Orchestra as a joke. Dirty Boogie is his third album with his large band, and instead of sounding tired, the record is the group's best effort yet. Setzer rocks the band hard, tearing through blues and rock & roll covers with vigor, and delivering made-to-order ...
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Live at the BBC
(1994)
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The Beatles
From 1962 to 1965, the Beatles made 52 appearances on the BBC, recording live-in-the-studio performances of both their official releases and several dozen songs that they never issued on disc. This magnificent two-disc compilation features 56 of these tracks, including 29 covers of early rock, R&B, soul, and pop tunes that never appeared on their ...
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Greatest Hits [MCA]
(1988)
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Patsy Cline
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A Lifetime of Song (1951-1982)
(1983)
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Marty Robbins
It's a mystery why Columbia has so many Robbins compilations in print, since they all cover roughly the same territory. Lifetime of Song (1951-1982) isn't as comprehensive as the Essential Marty Robbins: 1951-1982 box, nor as concise as The Story of My Life; what it is, rather, is a kind of a follow-up to 1972's All-Time Greatest Hits collection, ...
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Greatest Hits [Capitol 2005]
(2005)
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Ricky Nelson
Released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Ricky Nelson's tragic death, Capitol/EMI's 2005 compilation Greatest Hits is not the first collection to bear that title, nor is it the first to span from his first big hit (1957's "Be Bop Baby") to his last (1972's "Garden Party"). However, it is the best of these Greatest Hits albums, and the ...
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Just a Closer Walk with Thee
(1995)
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Patsy Cline/Loretta Lynn
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Songs the Lord Taught Us
(1980)
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The Cramps
Continuing the spooked-out and raging snarls of their Gravest Hits EP, the Cramps once again worked with Alex Chilton on the group's full-album debut, Songs the Lord Taught Us. The jacket reads "file under: sacred music," but only if one's definition includes the holy love of rockabilly sex-stomp, something which the Cramps fulfill in spades. ...
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The Buddy Holly Collection
(1993)
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Buddy Holly
Given the reluctance of MCA to release a CD version of the complete Buddy Holly recordings (due to either legal issues or a skepticism of its commercial worth), the double-disc 1993 set The Buddy Holly Collection stands as the most comprehensive and greatest CD-era retrospective of the legendary rock & roller. Though it contains all the big hits, ...
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Liquor in the Front
(1994)
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Reverend Horton Heat
Reverend Horton Heat (aka Jim Heath) always wanted to sound like the wildest, noisiest rockabilly guitarist on Earth, so it was fortunate that he crossed paths with Ministry braintrust Al Jourgensen during his brief spell as an advocate of roots music (and whatever happened to the Buck Satan project, Jourgensen's promised collaboration with Buck ...
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At San Quentin [CD/DVD]
(1969)
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Johnny Cash
At San Quentin was released as a single-disc expanded edition in 2000 bearing the subtitle "The Complete Concert," so the appearance of the triple-disc Legacy Edition of the album a mere six years later brings up one simple question: if the 2000 edition was complete at a single disc, how is this set more complete? The answer is both complicated ...
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The Top Ten Hits
(1987)
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Elvis Presley
The Top Ten Hits is exactly what it says it is -- every Top Ten hit that Elvis Presley ever had during the course of his career, from "Heartbreak Hotel" in 1956 to "Burning Love" in 1972. Even though this double-disc set covers a lot of ground, there's a huge amount of terrific material that isn't included on the compilation. There's none of his ...
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FlameJob
(1994)
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The Cramps
Something of a return to form, Flamejob features the band's most committed, energetic performances in quite some time, with wild, crazed vocals from Lux Interior and sizzling guitar work from Poison Ivy enlivening some of the band's most entertainingly stupid and crude offerings, including "Let's Get Fucked Up" and "Inside Out and Upside Down ...
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Gospel Glory
(1992)
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Johnny Cash
Sony Music Special Products' Gospel Glory contains a selection of ten gospel tunes Johnny Cash recorded for Columbia Records over the years, including songs he sang with the Carter Family. It may just be a budget-priced collection, but it's surprisingly strong, containing such essentials as "Daddy Sang Bass," "(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley ...
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Rockabilly Riot, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Sun Records
(2005)
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Brian Setzer
The concept is stated in the title and the execution is about what you'd expect from one of the most popular rockabilly revivalists in contemporary music. It's not much of a stretch for Stray Cat Brian Setzer to take a break from writing his own rockabilly tunes that often sound like classic Sun material anyway, but by narrowing his focus roughly ...
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The Essential Roy Orbison
(2006)
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Roy Orbison
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The Definitive Collection
(2006)
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Buddy Holly
2006's The Definitive Collection replaces 1996's Greatest Hits as the best available single-disc Buddy Holly collection on the market, and it replaces 1985's From the Original Master Tapes as the best single-disc Buddy Holly CD yet released. At 26 tracks, it's eight songs longer than the 1996 set and six songs longer than the 1985 set, so it's ...
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The Essential George Jones
(2006)
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George Jones
It has a similar title and a similar length to Epic/Legacy's 1994 double-disc set The Essential George Jones: The Spirit of Country, but Epic/Legacy's 2006 collection The Essential George Jones is a different beast entirely. At 40 tracks, it's four songs shorter than the 1994 comp, but the real difference is in the song selection. Where The Spirit ...
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Classic Country: Best of Classic Country '50's
(2006)
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Various Artists
Modern country really began in the early '50s, which saw the country music genre increasingly centered in Nashville, where a ready pool of skilled session musicians and songwriters soon gathered. By understanding the pop charts (but not necessarily emulating pop itself -- that would come early in the next decade) and fighting off rock & roll by ...
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Bad Music for Bad People
(1984)
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The Cramps
An extremely skimpy compilation, Bad Music is only 31 minutes long. Still, this dog's breakfast of material, assembled upon the Cramps' departure from IRS, was the only place for a variety of B-sides and rarities, at least for a long while. The most well-known is "New Kind of Kick," covered later by the the Jesus and Mary Chain. It isn't as out ...
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50 Years of Hits
(2004)
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George Jones
The idea sounds good, and it may even make sense: collect one song from each of the 50 years that George Jones has been recording, and present them in one exhaustive triple-disc set, appropriately titled 50 Years of Hits. Seems simple enough, but in practice, the set doesn't quite work, either as an overview of Jones' career or as an enjoyable ...
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