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Der Turm, der Leute frass:
Wishbone Ash !!!

Jimmy Balls-O-Steel:
These following Yes albums have my seal of approval:

Close to the Edge (a.k.a. one of the best goddamn albums EVER!!!!)
The Yes Album
Going For The One
Fragile
Relayer (a.k.a. the album that got me into Yes)
s/t 1969 debut

And for the record, fuck "Owner of a Lonely Heart." Why? 'Cause the 80's suck. The albums I listed date from 1969 to 1977. And if you like any/all of them, maybe then will you be ready for the onslaught of pretense known as Tales From Topographic Oceans.

Also, Black Sabbath's first six records are pure guitar-driven kick-ass! (That's right, I just used "kick-ass" as a noun.)

KharBevNor:
Between the Buried and Me aren't metal. Not even something you can have a 'what is emo?' argument about. Not metal. Nuh. Nuh-uh-uh. Elements of metal? Yes. Metal? No.

KharBevNor:
There are a few good reasons to get greatest hits albums. One is if you are going to see a band you're unfamiliar with live (say you're going for the support act) and wish to enjoy the set: the best-of is likely to contain a goodly number of songs that might be included in their set: live albums also are good (ideally better) for this, but sometimes the live albums are out of date, and in a lot of cases, except for famous live albums, they're much scarcer. For example: say you've never heard any motorhead songs except Ace of Spades, but you're going to a festival where they'll be playing. You want to get an intro to them and learn some songs without splashing out on their whole discography: you could get the fantastic 'No Sleep Till Hammersmith', but that only has songs they wrote up till '81. You'd be better off getting 'The Best of Motorhead'. I own that same album, for the second good reason to buy best-ofs: completeness. I got it because it has all three tracks from the St. Valentines Day Massacre EP (which goes for about ?20 as a vinyl 7"...superior yes and I will one day own it) and four otherwise unreleased live tracks. Plus it was like four quid. Same goes for Hawkwind: their discographies complete fucking huge and incomprehensible, and some of the (numerous) compilations/best-ofs contain otherwise extremely hard to locate material. It's like with tribute albums. I don't have a burned copy (no money to nazis lol) of Visions...A Tribute to Burzum because I like Burzum, I have it because I love Ewigkeit and it's the only place their cover of Ea, Lord of the Depths has ever appeared, to my knowledge anyway.

KharBevNor:
Well, the greatest hits thing worked the only time I ever did it (Pitchshifter), so meh. Also, with live set/best-of match-up, it probably heavily depends on the band and how the compilations been put together. If the band selected their own favourite for the best of, it's likely to match the live set more closely. Similiarly, the more obscure a band is (ie the less bona-fide 'hits' they have) the more likely a match is as well. For example, my favourite band, Skyclad: if one takes their live album (Another Fine Mess) and their first compilation/retrospective (Old Rope), you'll see 9 out of 12 songs on the first are on the second. Which is certainly a good comprimise on basically buying their entire discography, had you been new to them at one of the shows on the tour on which AFM was recorded. Good point on the latest album thing: depends on the recency of the compilation I suppose. Also, I'm mainly thinking of bands with pretty large back catalogues (8-10 albums or more). They tend to include a smaller proportion of new material because they accumulate more and more songs they pretty much have to play or the crowd kills them.  Looking at that Motorhead best-of again, I think in the times I've seen them they've probably only played six or seven tracks not on here. It is a two CD however. There's probably a core of nine or ten songs that Motorhead plays every single time they perform, which are all on this compilation, compared to newer bands that might have only one or two 'essential' tracks (to keep it on metal, for example, 3 Inches of Blood fans will only expect two songs as definites at their shows).

By the way, eye guy, you should probably listen to Motorhead, Hawkwind and 3 Inches of Blood.

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