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Bad for Good: The Very Best of the Scorpions
(2002)
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Scorpions
Clocking in at 79 minutes and 55 seconds, the Scorpions have yet another greatest-hits compilation, this 2002 release on Hip-O entitled Bad for Good: The Very Best of the Scorpions. Two brand-new recordings can be found closing out the disc on tracks 17 and 18, produced again by Dieter Dierks, who is represented on 11 of the dozen-and-a-half ...
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Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy
(1971)
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The Who
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy has the distinction of being the first in a long line of Who compilations. It also has the distinction of being the best. Part of the reason why it is so successful is that it has an actual purpose. Meaty was designed as a collection of the group's singles, many of which never appeared on albums. The Who recorded their ...
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Then and Now: 1964-2004
(2004)
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The Who
When Then and Now: Maximum Who was released in March 2004, there were no less than four Who hits compilations on the market (including the classic singles collection Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy, which was available as an import), which raises the question: why another hits compilation, especially one that shares its title with Sanctuary's midline ...
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Live at Leeds [Bonus Tracks]
(1995)
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The Who
Rushed out in 1970 as a way to bide time as the Who toiled away on their sequel to Tommy, Live at Leeds wasn't intended to be the definitive Who live album and many collectors maintain that the band had better shows only available on bootlegs. But those shows weren't easily available whereas Live at Leeds was, and even if this show may not have ...
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Live at Leeds [Deluxe Edition]
(2001)
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The Who
This two-disc set should be the final word regarding the Who's February 14, 1970, performance at Leeds University. The main impetus for consumers -- who may have repurchased this title in its various formats -- is having the entire Tommy rock opera intact. While impressive, that performance merely scratches the surface of the multifaceted sonic ...
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Pin Ups
(1973)
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David Bowie
Pin Ups fits into David Bowie's output roughly where Moondog Matinee (which, strangely enough, appeared the very same month) did into the Band's output, which is to say that it didn't seem to fit in at all. Just as a lot of fans of Levon Helm et al. couldn't figure where a bunch of rock & roll and R&B covers fit alongside their output of original ...
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Who's Better, Who's Best
(1988)
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The Who
Who's Better, Who's Best is a compilation of the Who's best-known songs, containing all of the familiar items -- "I Can't Explain," "I Can See for Miles," "Pinball Wizard," "My Generation," "Substitute" -- but presented without much care. The album is further plagued by the presence of some filler tracks that really don't deserve to be on any best ...
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Thirty Years of Maximum R&B
(1994)
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The Who
This four-CD collection does include all of the Who's big hits and the lion's share of their key album tracks. Previously unreleased rarities include some interesting selections (the '60s outtakes "Early Morning Cold Taxi" and "Melancholia"), but these bits and pieces, which include some live versions, commercials, Keith Moon sketches, and the ...
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British Invasion: 1963-1967
(2004)
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Various Artists
There have been countless compilations covering the British Invasion, from budget-line single-disc rush jobs to exhaustive multi-volume series to box sets like Hip-O's 2004 three-disc compilation, The British Invasion: 1963-1967. While this isn't the best of the British Invasion sets released over the years -- that would be Rhino's The British ...
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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Scorpions
(2001)
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Scorpions
By one-upping the 1989 best-of Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads, Scorpions' 20th Century Masters makes the claim of being the hair metal band's definitive single-disc best-of. It does so by adding "Send Me an Angel" and "Wind of Change," the latter being one of Scorpions' largest and most well-known hits ever. Since these two songs were released after ...
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The Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads
(1989)
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Scorpions
Even though it's the official greatest-hits compilation of the Scorpions' '80s releases, The Best of Rockers 'n' Ballads is actually missing some of their best rockers and ballads. While it contains such hits as "Rock You Like a Hurricane," "Blackout," and "The Zoo," the 12 songs listed simply don't give the listener a complete impression of what ...
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Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
(1996)
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The Who
This double CD is pretty similar in sound and content to the expanded Live at Leeds album, except there's much more from Tommy, and a few semi-obscure numbers like "I Don't Even Know Myself," "Water," and "Naked Eye." Hardcore Who fanatics seem to prefer Live at Leeds, which was recorded only a few months before this material. That viewpoint is ...
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Live at the Royal Albert Hall
(2003)
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The Who
The Who's Live at the Royal Albert Hall captures a charity concert for a cancer organization the reunited group performed in November of 2000. Given the band's spotty track record in their farewell tours and reunions of the '80s and '90s, it's easy for some longtime fans to be skeptical of the musical merits of the triple-disc hybrid SACD release ...
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Box of Scorpions
(2004)
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Scorpions
The average listener with only a passing interest in heavy metal might be surprised that the Scorpions had been recording since 1972 -- they actually formed in 1965 -- as their success in the United States didn't really begin until the release of 1982's Blackout. Hip-O's Box of Scorpions is the first U.S.-released box set from the veteran German ...
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Live on Sunset Strip [CD/DVD]
(2007)
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The Raspberries
The Raspberries' history was a study in joy mixed with frustration -- a well-nigh perfect power pop band that, through a combination of bad timing, record label lethargy, and personnel and personality conflicts, never quite lived up to its commercial promise, leaving behind three great albums and a fourth that was not as good, for a total of about ...
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The Kids Are Alright
(1979)
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The Who
Like the film itself, the soundtrack to the Who's Kids Are Alright documentary is frustrating even as it pleases, since it falls short of being definitive. If the film was supposed to explain the excitement and history of the Who, tracing their evolution from mod superstars to arena rock gods, it somehow failed by just not quite gelling together. ...
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Hooligans
(1982)
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The Who
Hooliganstakes a slightly different angle than previous compilations, concentrating on the group's '70s album rock heyday. Only three songs ("I Can't Explain," "I Can See for Miles, " "Pinball Wizard") from the '60s are included, with much of the album being devoted to radio hits and album tracks, with three of non-LP singles, "The Relay, " "Let's ...
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In Person!
(1997)
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The Flamin' Groovies
There are loads of Flamin' Groovies live recordings out there, some more legitimate than others, but until now all of them have required some allowances in the mind of the listener to their sonic and musical shortcomings. Not In Person!, which actually works as an album. The first ten tracks on this disc were taped for radio broadcast during the ...
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Who's Last
(1984)
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The Who
A double-disc document of The Who's 1982 farewell tour, Who's Last is a tepid and utterly forgettable album. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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My Generation: The Very Best of the Who
(1996)
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The Who
The Who have issued more greatest-hits collections than any other major artist, releasing a vast array of compilations while they were together and in the years following their breakup. Released in 1996, My Generation: The Very Best of the Who was intended to be the definitive single-disc collection, replacing all the others that preceded it. ...
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You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast
(1993)
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Spin Doctors
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Flibbiddydibbiddydob
(1996)
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Snuff
An EP that mostly consists of silly covers done in the Snuff style of energetic thrash-pop, Flibbiddydibbiddydob showcases the full extent of their non-seriousness with an added full-time trombone player. Their covers of Simon and Garfunkel's "Hazy Shade of Winter," the commercial jingles "Brand Flakes" and "Do it Quick," renditions of the Four ...
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A Break from the Norm
(2001)
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Various Artists
Even casual fans of Fatboy Slim (or those who don't care for him at all, for that matter) should be able to appreciate this ultra-hip compilation, which digs into the artist formerly known as Norman Cook's eclectic record crates to unearth 15 gems he's sampled to create some of his best songs. Starting off appropriately enough with Camille ...
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Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years
(1997)
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Scorpions
It's quite difficult to find a young person who knows about the Scorpions. Even when their careers were peaking in the '80s, they were never widely recognized, existing always as more of an underground band. The lack of hit singles produced by the group is by no means a judgment of its talent, however, as Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years proves. ...
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Nostalgic for Right Now
(2007)
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Ruth's Hat
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