Best-Of Bands
 

These are artists or groups who have never made a consistently solid record, but have enough good songs that a compilation would be very fine. This occurred to me while going through S and the Banshees discography, but may have first entered my mind when listening to Belle and Sebastian.

In your opinion, who are some tasty Best-Of Bands?

The Banshees is a good one for this.

JSBX and Rocket from the Crypt

I once bought teh Santana greatest hits CD thinking they were ripe for this type of best-of treatment, and there were only 2 songs worth anything on it. Santana sucks that bad.

creedance?

I'm going to go out on a limb: Sleater-Kinney. Lots of great great songs, but plenty of "skippers" as well.

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That's hilarious about Santana. I've always wondered about the rest of his stuff, having only heard two songs. Now I know the two I've heard are all I need to hear.

Then how about a Rolling Stones best-of for the past 43 years? There's probably enough good stuff to fill up one disc. Maybe.

Echo and the Bunnymen

Cocteau Twins. Actually, a CT best-of would be amazing.

i have almost every santana album, multiple formats too

First two albums yes. Dig Me Out and The Hot Rock especially no. Sleater-Kinney make albums, no filler material, albeit some tunes aren't as strong as others. I vote for Smashing Pumpkins as the ultimate best-of-band. Second place? Journey. Definitely Journey. Maybe they should even take first? The Bronze goes Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Do they even make albums, or great EP collections of great singles with a shitload of funky filler?

New Order

Agree 100%. In fact, the only album I have of there's is Substance. It's killer, but I can't get through a full album

Abba, the Carpenters, Girls Aloud, Queen, Madness, Britney, Pet Shop Boys... much of pop music, sadly.

the clean

The Fall 1984-2013

Cocteau Twins

I think JUJU is a fucking excellent album...

their first 3 albums are all best of albums, especially Porcupine.

FUCK OFF!
Sure they did a hell of a lot of great singles, but listen to Sheer Heart Attack, News Of The World, A Night At The Opera and The Game then tell me that their best stuff is their singles.

indeed it was!

How about the Who? Live at Leeds doesn't count.

yeah, the who might work. i never really got any of their albums, but i hate many many songs of tommy and quadrophenia.

now, i maybe speaking out of ignorance, but the cure? i only know the hits.

Treasure is a pretty great album.

And so is Sticky Fingers.

and beggars banquet, exile on mainstreet, and even some girls is pretty solid all the way through

Pinkerton is way awesome too

I agree. I'm not a particular stones fan aside from Sticky Fingers, but they are a solidly album band for sure!

There's some good stuff on Some Girls, also Tatoo You. Cut out the crap, squash the decent material together, and you've got an acceptable album. The rest of the post-EXILE Stones is pretty much useless. And before Aftermath (which has a lot of dross), they didn't make a decent LP. All told, they have about 4 or 5 good albums. That averages out to one good record for every decade.
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I gave EandtheB's Crocodile, Porcupine and Ocean a spin again last night. I found myself skipping a lot, but really liking the songs I didn't skip. I insist: a best-of band, and a very good one. (Though they are very silly. "C-c-cucumber, c-c-c-colliflower...")
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Also listened to Cocteau Twins' Treasure. First side is great, second side wanes. I'll take a best-of over this proper album.

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And that's the point. Would you take a proper album over a compilation? If yes, then the artist in question doesn't belong in this thread. If no, throw the name in the ring.

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Lou Reed! I can't believe I didn't think of this. Some okay albums, but no masterpiece. A compilation artist for sure.

Beyond "Singles Going Steady" what more do you need from The Buzzcocks?

How about The Germs?

Iggy Pop's non-Stooges output?

How about Lush?

The Psychedelic Furs?

I think here´s mentioned many great bands who have great albums: Siouxsie and the Banshees (Kaleidoscope, Juju, a Kiss in the dreamhouse), Creedence (all of their albums except Mardi Gras), New Order (Brotherhood & Technique), the Who (the Who Sell Out, Who´s next, Tommy, Quadrophenia) Lou Reed (transformer, Berlin) & Santana (their three first albums). If you disagree I think you should at least listen those albums first.

Maybe Abba didn´t have any great original album, but at least Waterloo has some much more interesting songs than those hits everybody have heard 1000 times.

About the Stones I think also Tattoo You, Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge & Bridges to Babylon are great albums. Of course not as great as Beggars, Let it Bleed etc. but very great comparing many albums that has come in same time.

If a Royal Trux compilation pops up, I'll look at it.
Yo Se was great on Veterans of Disaster, and there are 2 songs above the rest on their 2 self-titled.

Holly Golightly.

Hall and Oates