mancabdriver said:

I wouldn't call these artists 'done' but i really want to see a GH from:

- Erykah Badu

- Jill Scott

- Maxwell

- Lil Kim

- Foxy

-Johnny Cash (Rick Rubin years)

-Prince (post-Warners material)

JoeTyler said:

-Johnny Cash (Rick Rubin years)

-Prince (post-Warners material)

Now that would be nice. I dug the material I heard from it. Johnny was always cool.

Vesta Williams. And I don't even count that piece of trash combo CD that A&M threw together with she and Ce Ce Peniston. Ce Ce eventually ended up with her own Best Of package. Still, nothing on Vesta.

Timmy84 said:

JoeTyler said:

-Johnny Cash (Rick Rubin years)

-Prince (post-Warners material)

Now that would be nice. I dug the material I heard from it. Johnny was always cool.

I had to make my own compilation , lots of good stuff from the I,II,III and IV albums and the four (or five? I lost count) posthumous releases...

I looked in my iPod and found these self-made compilations for semi-retired artists who have released more than two albums without any official best-of collection:

Boss Hog - Year of the Hog

DISC 1:

Trigger, Man

Pull Out

Spanish Fly

Dandelion

Sugar Bunny

Fix Me

Big Fish

Bunny Fly

Black Throat

Not Guilty

Ruby

Some Sara

Cream Agent

The Black Betty

Hustler

DISC 2:

I Dig You

Hell Mary

Soultrap

Winn Coma (LP Version)

1,2 X U

Texasville

Boogie with Marce

Reform

Whiteout

Count Me Out

Structure

Defender

Get It While You Wait

Drive Me Crazy

Dedicated (Demo)

Itchy & Scratchy

Gitane Demone - A Retrospective

Incendiary Lover

A Heavenly Melancholy

Sound of War

Gloomy Sunday

Perv

Passion, Pleasure & Pain (Remix 1996)

Tongue of Fire (Live in Cannes)

These Vulnerable Eyes

Lose This Gravity

Ball of Love

Stars of Trash (Guitar Version)

Solitary War (Radio Remix)

Strange-Baby-Strange (Edit)

Portrait of a Dead Girl

Geri Halliwell - Singles Vol. 1 & 2: A & B-sides

DISC 1:

Look at Me

Mi Chico Latino

Lift Me Up

Bag it Up

It's Raining Men

Scream if You Wanna Go Faster

Calling (WIP 'Coeur De Lion' Edit)

Ride It

Desire

Love Never Loved Me

Au Nom De L'Amour

DISC 2:

Brave New World

New Religion

Breaking Glass

Very Slowly

Live and Let Die

I Was Made That Way

G.A.Y.

Getting Better

These Boots Are Made for Walking

Summertime

Destiny

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

3 pages thus far in THIS thread and no one bother to mention Jane Child.

A GHs/BO compilation with Don't Wanna Fall In Love, Welcome To The Real World, Do Watcha Do, & Yo Bluebird would sell well among die-hard synthfunk & synthrock fans.

I think a rerelease of Miseducation titled Greatest Hits would be nice

TonyVanDam said:

3 pages thus far in THIS thread and no one bother to mention Jane Child.

Isn't she considered a "one hit wonder"?

mrjun18 said:

Some pretty good names being mentioned here. Latoya def needs one at least.

I dont think any of these artists have a "best of album" (to the best of my knowledge):

-Troop (I think they had like 3 albums or so)

-Christopher Williams? (not sure)

-Faith Evans?

-Tracie Spencer?

-Avant?

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Avant just recently released an album not to long ago... I wouldnt say his career is over....maybe (mainstream) wise.

TonyVanDam said:

3 pages thus far in THIS thread and no one bother to mention Jane Child.

A GHs/BO compilation with Don't Wanna Fall In Love, Welcome To The Real World, Do Watcha Do, & Yo Bluebird would sell well among die-hard synthfunk & synthrock fans.

I think a reason for that may be because one, she don't have many "hits" and two, she is probably against the idea of having a "hits" set because she's still aptly performing real well without having a lot of hits. I hear she's living comfortably off publishing though.

JoeTyler said:

Timmy84 said:

Now that would be nice. I dug the material I heard from it. Johnny was always cool.

I had to make my own compilation , lots of good stuff from the I,II,III and IV albums and the four (or five? I lost count) posthumous releases...

Yeah I could see why you would. All that work with Rubin was enough for a box set with rarities or what not.

MickyDolenz said:

TonyVanDam said:

3 pages thus far in THIS thread and no one bother to mention Jane Child.

Isn't she considered a "one hit wonder"?

You'd be surprised how many 'one-hit wonder' acts have 'best of' compilations For example,I actually have a Wild Cherry 'best of' CD in my collection!

the guys who sang "Play That Funky Music,White Boy".

That's why it's absurd that there are no 'best of' compilations by Sheila E,The Time and The System (acts who actually have more than one hit).

SoulAlive said:

MickyDolenz said:

Isn't she considered a "one hit wonder"?

You'd be surprised how many 'one-hit wonder' acts have 'best of' compilations For example,I actually have a Wild Cherry 'best of' CD in my collection!

the guys who sang "Play That Funky Music,White Boy".

That's why it's absurd that there are no 'best of' compilations by Sheila E,The Time and The System (acts who actually have more than one hit).

I agree 100%.

I'd say Play That Funky Music is more well known than the Jane Child song. Wild Cherry was played on rock radio too, which is not dependent on being a hit on Top 40 or even being a single, since AOR also played album tracks. People tend to think "hits" only means the pop charts.

MickyDolenz said:

I'd say Play That Funky Music is more well known than the Jane Child song. Wild Cherry was played on rock radio too, which is not dependent on being a hit on Top 40 or even being a single, since AOR also played album tracks. People tend to think "hits" only means the pop charts.

Yup. WC was very popular in the '70s. Only pop fans know "Play That Funky Music" because if you make it on the "pop charts", you "made it".

Timmy84 said:

MickyDolenz said:

I'd say Play That Funky Music is more well known than the Jane Child song. Wild Cherry was played on rock radio too, which is not dependent on being a hit on Top 40 or even being a single, since AOR also played album tracks. People tend to think "hits" only means the pop charts.

Yup. WC was very popular in the '70s. Only pop fans know "Play That Funky Music" because if you make it on the "pop charts", you "made it".

It's like Rush didn't really have any pop hits, but they recieved a lot of AOR airplay, and they have a compilation. It's not called 'greatest hits' though.

MickyDolenz said:

Timmy84 said:

Yup. WC was very popular in the '70s. Only pop fans know "Play That Funky Music" because if you make it on the "pop charts", you "made it".

It's like Rush didn't really have any pop hits, but they recieved a lot of AOR airplay, and they have a compilation. It's not called 'greatest hits' though.

Yeah. Interesting thing, most rock groups/acts never really got pop airplay anyways so why should we expect any different now? But that's for another topic of course.

Timmy84 said:

Yeah. Interesting thing, most rock groups/acts never really got pop airplay anyways so why should we expect any different now? But that's for another topic of course.

If it's not pop, then it's not important. People talk about Mariah Carey or Michael Jackson having a bunch of number ones, but I think George Strait has more than her or The Beatles, but since it's the country chart, then it doesn't count. As far as rock, that was more an album thing than singles. Many of the old rock groups sold a lot of albums without having hit singles, and in some cases with little radio airplay of any kind. I think that's part of the reason the rock press (ie. Rolling Stone [at least that's how they started out, maybe not now ], Creem) tends to take rock acts more seriously than ones who are singles oriented.

MickyDolenz said:

Timmy84 said:

Yeah. Interesting thing, most rock groups/acts never really got pop airplay anyways so why should we expect any different now? But that's for another topic of course.

If it's not pop, then it's not important. People talk about Mariah Carey or Michael Jackson having a bunch of number ones, but I think George Strait has more than her or The Beatles, but since it's the country chart, then it doesn't count. As far as rock, that was more an album thing than singles. Many of the old rock groups sold a lot of albums without having hit singles, and in some cases with little radio airplay of any kind. I think that's part of the reason the rock press (ie. Rolling Stone [at least that's how they started out, maybe not now ], Creem) tends to take rock acts more seriously than ones who are singles oriented.

Yeah you got country acts that have like 40 number-one hits and shit. No one talks about James Brown's 17 number-one R&B hits and only focus on why he failed to hit number-one pop. It's tiring if you ask me. But yeah rock acts (always) relied on albums. It was never singles.

Whitney.

Her GH is trash.

Terrib3Towel said:

Timmy84 said:

Yeah you got country acts that have like 40 number-one hits and shit. No one talks about James Brown's 17 number-one R&B hits and only focus on why he failed to hit number-one pop. It's tiring if you ask me. But yeah rock acts (always) relied on albums. It was never singles.

That's why some acts made music designed to crossover to pop. That's where the money and media attention is. The record labels and the stores don't give the same attention to acts who were only popular on non pop charts. I can go to the record store and find albums on obscure pop and rock acts, but for R&B/funk, there's mostly just a bunch of compilations. Then if you want that, you have to buy an import from Japan, which is not even the home country for the genre.

I don't think Marky Mark has a greatest hits compilation. That would be a great album.

Terrib3Towel said:

Whitney.

Her GH is trash.

I wouldnt call it trash, but it is missing a bunch of songs. Not sure why they skipped on hits like Miracle, I Wanna Dance With Somebody Im Every Woman etc, and put that 2nd disc with all the dance remixes and stuff.

She does have another greatest hits which is one disc but again, is missing a lot of songs. Surprisignly shes doesnt have a solid double disc greatest hits package with ALL her major hits on it.

MickyDolenz said:

Timmy84 said:

Yeah you got country acts that have like 40 number-one hits and shit. No one talks about James Brown's 17 number-one R&B hits and only focus on why he failed to hit number-one pop. It's tiring if you ask me. But yeah rock acts (always) relied on albums. It was never singles.

That's why some acts made music designed to crossover to pop. That's where the money and media attention is. The record labels and the stores don't give the same attention to acts who were only popular on non pop charts. I can go to the record store and find albums on obscure pop and rock acts, but for R&B/funk, there's mostly just a bunch of compilations. Then if you want that, you have to buy an import from Japan, which is not even the home country for the genre.

Pretty much.

MickyDolenz said:

TonyVanDam said:

3 pages thus far in THIS thread and no one bother to mention Jane Child.

Isn't she considered a "one hit wonder"?

Welcome To The Real World was also a hit, hence why Jane is actually a two hits wonder.

BTW, Jimi Hendrix is an one hit wonder (his cover of Bob Dylan's Along The Watchtower being Jimi's only career Top 40 hit). And he still had plenty of GHs/BO compilations.

TonyVanDam said:

BTW, Jimi Hendrix is an one hit wonder (his cover of Bob Dylan's Along The Watchtower being Jimi's only career Top 40 hit). And he still had plenty of GHs/BO compilations.

Hendrix had lots of AOR airplay though. He wasn't a Top 40 act. Parents complained when Jimi was the opening act for The Monkees and some of their audience didn't understand his music, they just wanted to see Davy. Jimi also had to go to England to get recognition.