Best Of...

[Dan]

So yeah, I was like "Yi, has this been made" & he assured me it hadn't.

Anyway, if YOUR favourite band brought out a best of album, what would you like it to be?

For me, I picked Coheed & Cambria, I've tried to keep a mix of the more known songs and my personal favourites while keeping it short.

Keeping The Blade

Always & Never

A Favor House Atlantic

Devil In Jersey City

33

In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3

Welcome Home

Once Upon Your Dead Body

No World For Tomorrow

Mother Superior

The Velorium Camper I: Faint Of Hearts

The Suffering

Delirium Trigger

The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut

[Gabriel]

Here's one for Blitzkid, which is probably my favorite horrorpunk band not named Misfits.

-Mary and the Storm

-Pretty in a Casket

-Let's Go to the Cemetery

-Motel Hell

-Lady in the Lake

-The Fog

-Deadhouse

-These Walls

-Return to the Living

-Nosferatu

-Torn Prince

-She Dominates

-Starlite Decay

-Dying Day

-Love Like Blood

Here's one I put together in February for Sloppy Seconds. I had their entire discography, but due to space issues, have had to cut down on some things, so I put together a best of for a few bands, to help create extra room on my computer.

The Best of Sloppy Seconds... Growing Up is Hard to Do

-I Won't Grow Up

-The Mighty Heroes

-(I'm Gonna) Run Away

-I Can't Slow Down

-Let's Kill the Trendy

-The Horror of Party Beach

-Come Back, Traci

-So Fucked Up

-Drop That Chick

-Your Sister

-It Finally Happened

-If I Had a Woman

-Ice Cream Man

-The Pop My Dick Song

-Pubic Beat

-Time Bomb

-Why Don't Lesbians Love Me

-You Got a Great Body, but Your Record Collection Sucks

-Where Eagles Dare

-I Don't Wanna Be a Homosexual

-Lonely Christmas

-TV Party

-Ephedrine Machine

-Leaving on a Jet Plane

[Farmer Reil]

I'm sure this has been done before. I KNOW it's been done for genres, because I did it. Sure it's been done for individual bands too.

Anyway:

The Best Of... Tobias Sammet

(All songs from Edguy albums unless artist is specified)

Disc One: The Opera House

01. Mysteria [Hellfire Club]

02. Vain Glory Opera [Vain Glory Opera]

03. How Many Miles? [Vain Glory Opera]

04. Sign Of The Cross [Avantasia - The Metal Opera pt. 1]

05. Tears Of A Mandrake [Mandrake]

06. The Piper Never Dies [Hellfire Club]

07. Babylon [Theatre Of Salvation]

08. The Seven Angels [Avantasia - The Metal Opera pt. 2]

Bonus: Holy Water [some EP or other]

Bonus: Pride [Tobias performing Shaaman's song with Shaaman live on tour, from a Shaaman DVD]

Disc Two: The Ballads

09. Another Time [Theater Of Salvation]

10. Scarlet Rose [Vain Glory Opera]

11. Inside [Avantasia - The Metal Opera pt. 1]

12. What Kind Of Love [Avantasia - The Scarecrow]

13. When A Hero Cries [Kingdom of Madness]

14. The Spirit Will Remain [Hellfire Club]

15. Forever [Hellfire Club]

16. Farewell [Avantasia - The Metal Opera pt. 1]

Bonus: Land Of The Miracle (Live) [Rocket Ride]

Bonus: The Life And Times Of A Bonus Track [King Of Fools EP]

Bonus: Save Me (Acoustic) [uh... YouTube? ¬_¬]

Disc Three: Aboard Hair Force One

17. The Unbeliever [Theatre of Salvation]

18. Save Us Now [Mandrake]

19. Superheroes [Rocket Ride]

20. No More Foolin' [Vain Glory Opera]

21. The Headless Game [Theatre of Salvation]

22. Lavatory Love Machine [Hellfire Club]

23. Another Angel Down [Avantasia - The Scarecrow]

24. Fucking With Fire (Hair Force One) [Rocket Ride]

Bonus: Judas At The Opera

Bonus: Flight Of Torek [Aina - Days Of Rising Doom]

[Guest Dr. Potato Head]

The Best Of The New Pornographers

Letter From An Occupant

Twin Cinema

Myriad Harbour

Miss Teen Wordpower

Challengers

Sing Me Spanish Techno

Mass Romantic

The Laws Have Changed

Jackie, Dressed In Cobras

Star Bodies

The New Face Of Zero And One

Execution Day

Adventures In Solitude

The Spirit of Giving

The Bleeding Heart Show

...not that it's hard, they only have four albums.

[YI]

I made sure every album was represented here. I wanted 20 songs, but I really felt I couldn't leave anything out...but grrrrr...there's some stuff that I wanted in as well, which wouldn't fit. But I'd say that's a good indication of my 21 favourite SO songs. If you took out "I Remember When" that could quite possibly be the list of my 20 favourite SO songs.

The Best of "Strung Out":

1. Firecracker ("Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues")

2. Savant ("The Element Of Sonic Defiance")

3. The Misanthropic Principle ("Exile In Oblivion")

4. Alien Amplifier ("An American Paradox")

5. Blew ("The Element Of Sonic Defiance")

6. Solitaire ("Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues")

7. Mission Statement ("Blackhawks Over Los Angeles")

8. Bring Out Your Dead ("Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues" but re-recorded "Live In A Dive" style )

9. Barfly ("Crossroads & Illusions EP")

10. Wrong Side Of The Tracks ("Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues")

11. Gear Box ("Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues")

12. I Remember When ("The Skinny Years: Before We Got Fat (Demo's)")

13. The Exhumation Of Virginia Madison ("Twisted By Design" but with the slow bit they do post "Live In A Dive")

14. Everyday ("The Element Of Sonic Defiance"......preferably with a yell of "EVERY 'FUCKING' DAY!! YEAH!!" before it...and at LIAD speed, just an little quicker literally makes it sound so fucking nuts)

15. Never Speak Again ("Exile In Oblivion")

16. Lost Motel ("Live In A Dive")

17. Mad Mad World ("Another Day In Paradise"...with a new kick arse solo added to the end)

18. Mephisto ("The Element Of Sonic Defiance")

19. Diver ("Blackhawks Over Los Angeles")

20. Your Worst Mistake ("Fat Music Vol. VI: Uncontrollable Fatulence (Compilation)")

21. Matchbook ("Twisted By Design")

[nWoHollywood]

Nothing 

Edited April 17, 2018 by nWoHollywood

[Mr Evil Guy]

Out of 160 something songs I will try to get 15-20.

The Best of Magnetic Fields

From The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees

1. Kings

2. 100, 000 Fireflies

From Holiday

3. Strange Powers(ON A FERRIS WHEEL, LOOKING DOWN ON CONEY ISLAND. UNDER MORE STARS THAN THERE ARE PROSTITUTES IN THAILAND.)

4. Swinging London(I READ YOUR MANIFESTOS AND YOUR STRANGE RELIGOUS TRAAAAACKS. Wonderful!)

From The Charm of the Highway Strip

5. Born on a Train

From Get Lost

6. You And Me And The Moon

7. All The Umbrellas in London

From 69 Love Songs(This is going to be hard as shit. )

8. I Don't Want To Get Over You

9. The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side

10. Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits

11. The Book of Love

12. If You Don't Cry

13. Long-Forgotten Fairytale

14. Epitaph For My Heart

15. Yeah! Oh, Yeah!

From I

16. I Don't Really Love You Anymore

17. I Thought You Were My Boyfriend(The gayest, catchiest song I've ever heard)

From Distortion

18. California Girls

19. Please Stop Dancing

20. The Nun's Litany

I missed out a lot there.

The Best of Architecture in Helsinki

1. One Heavy February

2. Owls Go

3. Fumble

4. It'5!

5. Maybe You Can Owe Me

6. Do The Whirlwind

7. The Cemetary

8. Hold Music

9. Like It 'Ar Not

10. Lazy (Lazy)

That was a lot easier to narrow down.

Edited May 25, 2008 by Mr. Evil Guy

[nWoHollywood]

Nothing 

Edited April 17, 2018 by nWoHollywood

[tristy]

Not So Pretty Now:

The Best-Of Nine Inch Nails

CD1: Late 80s / Early 90s

Head Like A Hole

Terrible Lie

Something I Can Never Have

Sin

Wish

Last

Mr. Self-Destruct

Heresy

Closer

Ruiner

The Becoming

Reptile

Hurt

CD2: Late 90s / 00s

The Perfect Drug

Somewhat Damaged

The Frail / The Wretched

We're In This Together

The Fragile

La Mer / The Great Below

The Mark Has Been Made / 10 Miles High

The Big Come Down

And All That Could Have Been

All The Love In The World

The Hand That Feeds

Only

The Line Begins To Blur

Beside You In Time

Right Where It Belongs

Survivalism

The Good Soldier

Me, I'm Not

Capital G

The Great Destroyer

In This Twilight

Zero-Sum

CD3: Bonus Material / Unreleased

Purest Feeling (Demo)

Maybe Just Once (Demo)

Last (Butch Vig Remix)

A Warm Place (w/ Stella Soleil)

Get Down, Make Love

Home

...and some other unreleased demo tracks from all the albums, and shit.

Tried to keep it fairly realistic, with some of my favorites thrown in. I think Interscope will cash in on a best of before long, so here's hoping. Although, Trent himself has already released 3 (?) volumes of what he imagines to be his best of on various torrent sites.

[Evil Chase K]

Metallica, though my favorite band, would be insanely hard for me to do because I love all their stuff. So I will choose...

Corrosion Of Conformity.

01.) Big Problems

02.) Rather See You Dead

03.) White Noise

04.) Vote With A Bullet

05.) The Land Of Free Disease

06.) Wishbone (Some Tomorrow)

07.) Steady Roller (Unreleased)

08.) Senor Limpio

09.) Long Whip/Big America

10.) In The Arms Of God

11.) Dirty Hands Empty Pockets/Already Gone

12.) Dance Of The Dead

13.) Clean My Wounds

14.) Congratulations Song

15.) 13 Angels

16.) Wiseblood

17.) Albatross

[Only In Dreams]

Dusty Gems and Raw Nuggets - The Best of Weezer

Greatest Hits [Disc 1 1994 - 1996]

1. My Name Is Jonas

2. Undone - The Sweater Song

3. Buddy Holly

4. Say It Ain't So

5. In the Garage

6. Pink Triangle

7. El Schorcho

8. The Good Life

9. Getchoo

10. The Good Life

11. Only In Dreams

Greatest Hits [Disc 2 2001 - Present]

1. Hash Pipe

2. Island in the Sun

3. Dope Nose

4. Keep Fishin

5. Take Control

6. Beverly Hills

7. We Are All On Drugs

8. Pardon Me

9. Pork and Beans

10. Everybody Get Dangerous

11. The Greatest Man That Ever Lived

Raw Nuggets [Disc 3]

1. The Answer Man

2. Theif, You've Taken All That Was Me

3. Walt Disney

4. Blast Off!

5. Devotion

6. Velouria (Pixie's Cover)

7. Mykel and Carli

8. Susanne

9. Jamie

10. Paperface

11. I Just Threw Out the Love of my Dreams

Raw Nuggets [Disc 4]

1. You Gave Your Love to me Softly

2. My Brain

3. O Girl

4. Saturday Night

5. Your Room

6. Prodigy Lover

7. Living Without You

8. Change the World

9. Mr. Taxman

10. Seafaring Jam

11. Faith in the Light

[nWoHollywood]

Nothing 

Edited April 17, 2018 by nWoHollywood

[nWoHollywood]

Nothing

Edited April 17, 2018 by nWoHollywood

[Burzudeath]

Best Of Nirvana

1. Come As You Are

2. About A Girl

3. In Bloom

4. Big Cheese

5. Marijuana

6. Downer

7. Polly

8. Silver

9. Breed

10. Rape Me

11. Dumb

12. Heart-Shaped Box

13. Pennyroyal Tea

14. Lithium

15. Smells Like Teen Spirit

[Guest Dr. Potato Head]

Needs some All Apologies unplugged.

[YI]

Again, trying the whole "something from every album" thing...this one should be much easier.

Death Cab For Cutie:

1. We Laugh Indoors ("The Photo Album")

2. Company Calls ("We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes")

3. Company Calls Epilogue ("We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes")

4. Lightness ("Transatlanticism")

5. What Sarah Said ("Plans")

6. The New Year ("Transatlanticism")

7. Cath ("Narrow Stairs")

8. President Of What? ("Songs About Airplanes")

9. A Movie Script Ending ("The Photo Album")

10. Long Division ("Narrow Stairs")

11. Brothers On A Hotel Bed ("Plans")

12. Expo '86 ("Transatlanticism")

13. 405 [acoustic] ("We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes")

14. I Will Possess Your Heart ("Narrow Stairs")

15. Talking Like Turnstiles (B-Side)

16. The Sound Of Settling ("Transatlanticism")

17. Passenger Seat ("Transatlanticism")

18. I Will Follow You Into The Dark ("Plans")

19. Tiny Vessels ("Transatlanticism")

20. Transatlanticism ("Transatlanticism")

Could have done with more "...Facts..." and "Photo Album", but besides that, swank.

[METALMAN]

In order to keep me from studying Biology, I've made three.

The Best of Belle and Sebastian

1. Funny Little Frog (The Life Pursuit, 2006)

2. A Century of Fakers (3.. 6.. 9 Seconds of Light EP, 1997)

3. Like Dylan In The Movies (If You're Feeling Sinister, 1996)

4. Dog On Wheels (Dog On Wheels EP, 1997)

5. Jonathan David (Jonathan David EP, 2001)

6. Wrapped Up In Books (Dear Catastophe Waitress, 2003)

7. I Don't Love Anyone (Tigermilk, 1996)

8. Lazy Line Painter Jane (Lazy Line Painter Jane EP, 1997)

9. I'm A Cuckoo (Dear Catastophe Waitress, 2003)

10. It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career (The Boy With The Arab Strap, 1998)

11. I'm Waking Up To Us (I'm Waking Up To Us EP, 2001)

12. Legal Man (Legal Man EP, 2000)

13. She's Losing It (Tigermilk, 1996)

14. The Model (Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant, 2000)

15. The Boy With The Arab Strap (The Boy With The Arab Strap, 1998)

16. Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying (If You're Feeling Sinister, 1996)

17. The Stars of Track And Field (If You're Feeling Sinister, 1996)

18. You're Just A Baby (Tigermilk, 1996)

19. Piazza, New York Catcher (Dear Catastophe Waitress, 2003)

20. Step Into My Office, Baby (Dear Catastophe Waitress, 2003)

The Best of Death Cab For Cutie

1. The New Year (Transatlanticism, 2003)

2. The Employment Pages (We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes, 2000)

3. I Will Follow You Into The Dark (Plans, 2005)

4. Title and Registration (Transatlanticism, 2003)

5. Lightness (Transatlanticism, 2003)

6. Pity and Fear (Narrow Stairs, 2008)

7. Cath... (Narrow Stairs, 2008)

8. Coney Island (The Photo Album, 2001)

9. A Movie Script Ending (The Photo Album, 2001)

10. I Will Possess Your Heart (Narrow Stairs, 2008)

11. I Was A Kaleidoscope (The Photo Album, 2001)

12. Amputations (Something About Airplanes, 1998)

13. Long Division (Narrow Stairs, 2008)

14. Crooked Teeth (Plans, 2005)

15. This Charming Man (You Can Play These Songs With Chords, 2002)

16. 405 (We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes, 2000)

17. Blacking Out The Friction (The Photo Album, 2001)

18. Transatlanticism (Transatlanticism, 2003)

19. The Sound of Settling (Transatlanticism, 2003)

20. A Lack of Color (Transatlanticism, 2003)

The Best of Ryan Adams

1. New York, New York (Gold, 2001)

2. Note To Self Don't Die (Rock n Roll, 2003)

3. My Winding Wheel (Heartbreaker, 2000)

4. Goodnight Rose (Easy Tiger, 2007)

5. To Be Young (Rock n Roll, 2003)

6. Why Do They Leave? (Rock n Roll, 2003)

7. Firecracker (Gold, 2001)

8. Answering Bell (Gold, 2001)

9. Touch, Feel and Loose (Gold, 2001)

10. Everybody Knows (Easy Tiger, 2007)

11. So Alive (Rock n Roll, 2003)

12. Let It Ride (Cold Roses, 2005)

13. Shadowlands (Love Is Hell pt. 1, 2003)

14. The Drugs Not Working (Rock n Roll, 2003)

15. I Taught Myself How To Grow Old (Easy Tiger, 2007)

16. The Rescue Blues (Gold, 2001)

17. Carolina Rain (29, 2005)

[Keith Kannon]

I've done Nirvana also, I really didn't like the track listing on there greatest hits. This isn't exactly what I'd want, as I've done it quite quickly and I've tried to keep it realistic as well.

Nirvana

Blew (Bleach)

Negative Creep (Bleach)

Been A Son (Incesticide)

In Bloom (Nevermind)

Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nevermind)

Come As You Are (Nevermind)

Aneurysm (Incesticide)

Serve The Servants (In Utero)

You Know You’re Right (Nirvana)

Heart Shaped Box (In Utero)

tourette's (In Utero)

About A Girl (MTV Unplugged)

Where Did You Sleep Last Night? (MTV Unplugged)

All Apologies (MTV Unplugged)

Couldn't decide between "Something In The Way"/"Lake Of Fire"/"Where Did You Sleep Last Night". Went with the last one, but I'm not sure. Would have liked "Sappy" or "Verse Chorus Verse" on there too.

Edited May 25, 2008 by Keith Kannon

[Nerf]

"Toxic" - The Very Best of Aerosmith

CD1: The Early Years

1. Dream On

2. Mama Kin

3. Same Old Song and Dance

4. Seasons of Wither

5. Toys in the Attic

6. Walk This Way

7. Sweet Emotion

8. Back In The Saddle

9. Draw The Line

# Come Together (Live)

CD2: Big Ones

1. Rag Doll

2. Dude (Looks Like A Lady)

3. Love In An Elevator

4. Eat The Rich

5. Livin' On The Edge

6. Cryin'

7. Crazy

8. Amazing

9. I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing

10. Janie's Got A Gun

# Walk This Way (w/ Run DMC)

Edited May 25, 2008 by Nerf

[Dingle]

The Best Of The Smiths

1. The Queen is Dead

2. Still Ill

3. This Charming Man

4. Hand In Glove

5. Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

6. Suffer Little Children

7. Meat Is Murder

8. Panic

9. What Difference Does It Make?

10. Barbarism Begins At Home

11. Girlfried In A Coma

12. The Boy With a Thorn In His Side

13. Handsome Devil

14. I Know It's Over

15. How Soon Is Now?

16. Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One

17. Shoplifters of the World

18. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

I missed a few older songs I'd want in, but aren't that maintream; Reel Around The Fountain, Wonderful Woman, Well I Wonder and maybe These Things Take Time, Asleep or Ask but hmm.

The Best of Morrissey

My Early Burgulary Years

1. November Spawned a Monster

2. Hairdresser on Fire

3. Sweet and Tender Hooligan (live)

4. The Last of The Famous International Playboys

5. Pregnant For The Last Time

6. King Leer

7. Whatever Happens, I Love You

8. Jack The Ripper

9. Ouija Board, Ouija Board

10. Spring Heeled Jim

11. I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday

12. Disappointed (live)

13. Everyday Is Like Sunday

14. Speedway

Who Puts The 'M' In Manchester?

1. First Of The Gang To Die

2. Alma Matters

3. How Can Anybody Possible Know How I Feel?

4. I Have Forgiven Jesus (live)

5. Alsation Cousin

6. Late Night, Maudlin Street

7. I Like You

8. Irish Blood, English Heart (live)

9. That's How People Grow Up

10. Almbitious Outsiders

11. The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores

12. You Have Killed Me

13. Lost

14. All You Need Is Me

15. I Just Want To See The Boy Happy

16. You Know I Couldn't Last

17. Girl least Likely To

18. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (live)

19. America Is Not The World

20. Jack The Ripper (live)