All I need is a Greatest Hits/Best Of compilation for these Artists | Record Collection

[@worldsforgottenboy]

I wanna be like you when i grow up great collection youre so cool

[@stevecarlsonvinylcommunity9147]

I love Greatest Hits and constantly praise them. Since I decided to limit my collection I do a lot of greatest hits. I may get a few albums from an artist but rarely will I try to be a completist anymore. I like the hits!

[@silviodraco9393]

Yeah sometimes is the best for the pocket.🤷‍♂️👍

[@TheVinylRecordMission]

Hey there, Steve. This makes so much sense. A good first step toward purging records one only listens to for 1 to 3 songs. One must admit that Bowie’s greatest hits of 20 songs actually qualify as great songs. The same goes for the Stones. ✌🏽

[@STEVEHEROLD]

thanks chef. cant argue with that.

[@BryersMusicShowcase]

I have the same Bangles and Flock of Seagulls CDs. I can understand Elton John and David Bowie, I only had a greatest hits for a number of years before buying thier albums. Great video Steve! 😄

[@STEVEHEROLD]

thanks bryer. i almost went with the first Flock album instead of best of. but it was always too expensive.

[@tarrtruck2869]

Yeah, I couldn't agree more with your assessment on the greatest hits collections of many of those bands you mentioned. I pretty much have most of those CDs you displayed and if I want to condense my listening pleasure to the hits, I do. Aerosmith, Elton John and most 70s bands to me are greatest hits only. That Rolling Stones and David Bowie two CD disc cover a lot of turf and would do the casual listener just fine. No problem with that. I do the same things with other bands as well. Nice one!

[@STEVEHEROLD]

what up tarr. good to hear from ya dude. thanks for tuning in.

[@davidellis5141]

Hi Steve - Definitely agree with many of the 80's picks & even Bowie & The Stones stopped making good records in the early 80's. Scary Monsters & Emotional Rescue the last good albums by both.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

yeh david i feel like i prob could pick up some of their catalog and find album cuts i like. but at this point i dont really have any interest, i’m good just listening to these hits.

[@RandyforRoyals]

I'm with you on a lot of these. I do have the Bowie and Elton hits collections but I have a lot of their albums as well (the 70's for Elton). I think they miss a lot of songs that I like. The Stones? I don't know what to say as I have all of their albums. I will say that The Bangles debut is worth having and the hits collection can take care of the rest.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

i’ll have to keep eye out for Bangles debut since you’re second person to mention it. i know i know about Stones. i think part of it is not wanting to dive in. ive never been a big fan even a lotta those hits i never need to hear again. i’m sure if i sat and listened to their catalog i’d find some album tracks i like. just not that interested in diving in i guess. thanks for tuning in dude.

[@mad4vinyl802]

I love a good greatest hits collection. I'm going insist on Men At Work's first album. Run DMC - Please reconsider...🤔BOWIE - Those are fighting words! Elton has a great, very comprehensive CD box. To Be Continued... I could get away with only having 40 Licks; although I do love their early blues numbers.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

to be fair ive never heard men at work’s first album. thought has crossed my mind if i saw them to maybe pick them up if they were cheap. i knew Bowie would get most heat. Just never been that into his stuff beyond the hits. little surprised you are on board with the Stones for most part. thanks for tuning in mark.

[@Harrispilton22]

Your risking the VC wrath with some of these Steve! I would only argue with The Bangles..their first album ‘All Over The Place’ is Rickenbacker Jangle pop heaven...& crucially still cheap on Vinyl. My pick would be Squeeze.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

hahaha. that’s a risk i’m willing to take. up until a year ago squeeze woulda made this list fer sure. but i did find their album east side story at a flea market for $1 so gave it a shot and its really pretty good. but i def agree their hits are what’s best.

[@TheAlanRosenbergShow]

Love this topic - I'm with you on The Bangles. Thompson Twins, Altered Images, Mental As Anything, Flock Of Seagulls (I actually saw them live back then), Eddy Grant, Blink 182 (my kids love them), Run DMC I don't even own a comp and no plans to. I have two Men At Work comps and studio albums....not sure why. I have that Eddie Money hits CD, but his debut and some others are pretty good. I'm a big southern rock guy and 38 Special are pretty good, but not a favorite of mine. Greatest Hits for them is a good one. I have every Aerosmith album.....and I'm not sure why. I never listen to them. David Bowie.....ok.......ummmm......... yea....no. He's amongst the greatest. I have every album and listen to them. But that is a great greatest hits album - he has a ton of them. Elton John....those early classics are largely great. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road alone is essential. If you wanna stick to greatest hits - he has much better than those two. Rolling Stones - you're not kidding, I fell off my chair, broke my nose and went unconscious. Uhhh I'm speechless. But I'll never unsubscribe. I'm just depressed now. Heartbreaker is one of my favorites of all time too. You know I love Goats Head Soup, and I think its "underrated". It's a deep, mellow album - maybe you should try it....just to get Heartbreaker..... Great video as always. Now I'm going to a bar to get a drink because you don't like the Rolling Stones......40 Licks....uhhh. I listened to it twice and filed it away.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

weird i was sure you were gonna insist i run out and buy the entire Run DMC catalog. I did kinda lie though sort of. I do own the first Hot Rocks by the Stones on CD. But I bought that recently for 99¢ at a Goodwill only cause it seemed crazy not to for that cheap. But I didn’t need it cause everything on that is on 40 Licks except maybe 1 or 2 songs. Send me your hospital bill for the damage I caused. Hahah.

[@TheAlanRosenbergShow]

@@STEVEHEROLD Hot Rocks is a perfect listen. Sometimes less is more. Though it’s only up to Brown Sugar and Wild Horses. More Hot Rocks is also great. I’ll get you into the Stones if it kills me. Lol.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

@@TheAlanRosenbergShow hahah. when ya gonna post a photo of you at the Flock of Seagulls concert with that crazy hair do?

[@TheAlanRosenbergShow]

@@STEVEHEROLD yea. Saw them at my college. In Albany. They were good. Exactly what you expected. So much of that 80s music sounds dated to me. Even then actually. Was the drum sound. So of its time.

[@JeffMcCormack777]

I was always one of those anti-greatest hits. But now, later in life, owning so much music, there are quite a few bands I really only needs the best of releases for, especially on vinyl, which is what I buy the most. Sadly, I still feel like I may be missing some of the better stuff from the band. With Aerosmith, I would probably choose a later best of that has the early and later hits, similar to that huge double release like the Bowie, were you get so much more in a single release.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

hey jeff. yeh i hear ya but i just cant stand 80s & later aerosmith. even when it was new i didnt like it. i do think this one i have is pretty slim but it does me fine. im not a big fan to begin with any very rarely ever reach to listen to aerosmith. i’m kinda same with you too for years i tried to avoid best of’s as much as possible. but now its like who cares? thanks for tuning in!

[@excelsiormoviereviews]

Steve, I agree with you some of these, but I own everything from Aerosmith, even though their ‘70s albums are my favorites. I actually own 3 hits collections from the Stones, including 40 Licks, and nothing else, but only because they have way too many albums to collect. I have that same Bowie 2 disc collection, but I also own the Ziggy Stardust album because it’s a classic. A lot of those others, in Blink 182, would probably never make it in my collection, but I do have an ‘80s compilation with The Bangels and Flock of Seagulls I Ran in it.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

ah blink 182 wrote some catchy pop punk tunes. i know people love to hate them but i enjoy this collection.

[@excelsiormoviereviews]

@@STEVEHEROLD All The Small Things is the only song I’ve liked from them. I still like Green Day and NOFX, but that’s enough pop/punk for me. 😂

[@STEVEHEROLD]

@@excelsiormoviereviews funny All the Small Things is a tune I've never liked. hahaha. Dammit might be their best song in my opinion. They do a nice cover of Another Girl Another Planet too.

[@excelsiormoviereviews]

@@STEVEHEROLD they’re not great live though. I don’t know if you’ve ever heard the debut from Suicidal Tendencies, but it’s one of my favorites. Also, NOFX Separation from Church and Skate, but I like it.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

@@excelsiormoviereviews i have heard that suicidal album. actually been looking for it on CD. never come across it. Only album I have by NOFX is heavy petting zoo. i have an interesting tale as to why i have that album too. i went to the santa monica film fest in 1998 and saw a short film there i liked and it had the song philthy phil... in it. i went out and bought the CD right after. weird thing was the short film was made by gore verbinski who at that point hadn't made a feature film yet.

[@jdeluis]

With CD I don’t mind picking up individual artist titles, especially when you’re able to pick them up for a $1. With Vinyl, I steer more towards picking up greatest hits album for a lot of artist with how expensive new pressing cost and used titles being difficult to find at a decent price. Plus with cd, I can just skip through bad songs more easy. With vinyl, I would just not play an album I own if I knew I had to get up to skip tracks. 😅

[@STEVEHEROLD]

hey julio. yeh i get that. i guess im also being more picky these days about what im picking up. i was buying too much just cause it was cheap. running outta room and just finding too many ended up not being something i wanted to hold on to. but you are absolutely right about CD prices these days. Thanks for tuning in!

[@superhuman6156]

As I got older, I realized I didn’t need to have every artists’ complete catalog and really came to appreciate a good compilation. You mention many of the same artists I own compilations of. It’s really a personal choice. Some bands I own all or most of their catalog, and others, a Hits CD will suffice. As controversial as your David Bowie pick is, I’ve also eliminated the Bowie albums from my collection and replaced them with the same compilation you have. As hard as I tried to get into his album tracks, the hits were the only things I really liked from him. Same with Elton John, but I replaced GH & GH Volume 2 with Greatest Hits 1970-2002. However, I ask that you revisit The Rolling Stones (my absolute favorite band) as there really are some albums that have great songs that weren’t considered hits or singles.

[@STEVEHEROLD]

yeh i imagine there’s prob some good album cuts by rolling stones. if i ever found any of their stuff cheap i would prob pick it up outta curiosity.

[@themindseyecmh]

First artist that comes to mind for me is John Mellencamp. I like pretty much all his hits, and i do (and have in the past) owned some of his albums but really all i need to get by is the hits. Take his Best O Could Do collection and add like 3 of his future hit songs and id be happy Steve Miller Band is another for me, Billy Joel, and I'm right there with you on Eddie Money, and even David Bowie. Now before i finished your video, i was thinking of a band that i figured would be controversial to admit that i really only need a hits collection.... and to my surprise it's the same one as you, the Rolling Stones lol

[@STEVEHEROLD]

hahah thats funny bout Rolling Stones. Didn’t think of Mellencamp but agree. I have that Best Of but i also have Scarecrow. but the Best Of pretty much covers it all.

[@themindseyecmh]

@@STEVEHEROLD Rain on the Scarecrow is a good song that isn't on the hits album I have....definitely one I'd add

[@STEVEHEROLD]

@@themindseyecmh yeh. i bought it before i got his Best Of. I went thru a period about 10 yrs ago buying a buncha stuff i had on cassette but not CD. Scarecrow was one of those purchases.

[@themindseyecmh]

@@STEVEHEROLD I'd throw the Beach Boys in this conversation as well

[@EmbryonicRobot]

Hi Steve - I think you are right about a number of these, but Bowie and the Stones! I am speechless. I mean, those are great sets, but wow. I am so disappointed 😞 Where is that unsubscribe button? 🙂But, as long as you don't have Elton's Greats Hits Volume III, everything is fine. I thought you might have mentioned Simon and Garfunkel

[@STEVEHEROLD]

hahah i had a feeling i’d let a few of you down. i think there might be a few that slipped past me including S&G but I’m not even sure i own that. Oh well i apologize brian.

[@worldsforgottenboy]

perioddd you ended that flop elton john exactly! Madonna ended him

[@manofmiracles]

Totally agree some bands all we need are greatest hits but Steve Aerosmith and Elton john 😯i will no longer be watching your videos 😂🤣

[@STEVEHEROLD]

hahah. this was plan all along. i need to make a video to stop jack from watching. it finally worked. dude i wish i could comment with a photo. yesterday i found these lifesize frog statues in a park near where i’m working. first thought was i gotta steal these and mail em to jack. hahah.

[@silviodraco9393]

I have that Men at work record but my favorite song is everything I need. And it is not in the Best.🤦‍♂️😥

[@STEVEHEROLD]

i know dude. i dont know how they left that off. i mean it was an actual hit. their last. mind boggling.