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What are your top 5 'Best Of Albums' not necessarily by your five best bands, but the best all round packeages.  In no order:

Underworld - 1992-2002
Death In Vegas - Milk It
Prodigy - Their Law (double disk Ltd Edition)
Groove Armada - The Best Of (double disk Ltd Edition)
Stone Roses - The Very best Of

Best of Robbie Williams
Beatles - 1
Steps - Gold
Abba - Gold
the as yet unreleased but probably due in 2006 - Best of Oasis!

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Travis-The Man Who
Stereophonics-Performance And Cocktails
Nirvana-Nevermind
Muse-Origin Of Symmetry
Ocean Colour Scene-Songs For The Front Row (Best Of)

At the drive in - Relationship of command
R.e.m- Murmur
Leftfield- Leftism
Rancid- ....And out come the wolves
Buzzin' fly vol 1- Ben Watt

The Music - The Music

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The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

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Blur - Parklife

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Oasis - Definitely Maybe

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BRMC - BRMC

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David Grey - White Ladder
Foo Fighters - In your Honour
Limp Bizkit - chocolate starfish and the hotdog flavoured water mix
Oasis - whats the story
Travis - singles

i can't help but notice a lot of these aren't even "best of" albums...?!

my favourites would be...

mogwai - government commisions
super furry animals - songbook
rolling stones - 40 licks
led zeppelin - early and latter days
beastie boys - the sounds of science

Well done Lebowsi!

Chemical Brothers - exit planet dust
Massive attack - blue lines
Athlete - Tourist
Fun Lovin criminals - best of
The Verve - urban hymns

Whoops, i didn't read it properly...

Rolling Stones - 40 Licks
Stone Roses - Best of...
Ian Brown - The Greatest
Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits
T-Rex - Best of...

Fuck, I didn't read it properly either!

I'll stick with the flc....
Blur - best of
Prodigy - their law
Supergrass - greatest hits
Queen - greatest hits  :shock:

Ah, i see now.....DOH!

Supergrass
Green Day
Red Hot Chili Peppers
REM
Ocean Colour Scene

bollox i'm not changing mine

queen-greatest hits vol1
stevie wonder-song review
ocean colour scene-songs for the front row
bob marley-one love
rolling stones-jump back

My favs and cant think of five but:

oasis - definately maybe
Oasis - whats the story
Red Hot chilli peppers - shit forgot name
oh bollocks cant think?
Whigfield?

brilliant album, greatly underrated.

top 5 compilation/best of's

1 Rough Trade Shops: Indiepop Vol. 1
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2 The Cure - Staring At The Sea
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3 The Specials - Singles
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4 The Field Mice - Where'd You Learn To Kiss That Way?
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5 The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong
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top 5 favourite albums

1 The Wedding Present - Seamonsters
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2 Jehst - Falling Down
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3 R.E.M. - Murmur
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4 Blur - Leisure
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5 Pavement - Brighten The Corners
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My top five best of (in no particular order)

1) Bob Marley - Legend
2) Groove Armada
3) The bluetones
4) Stone Roses
5) Stevie Wonder

Rolling Stones - The London Years (triple album)
Mando Diao - Bring em in
Glenn Miller - Best of
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Pearl Jam - Ten

stone roses- best of
stranglers- best of
the doors- the doors

best of albums annoy me somewhat, the beauty of a normal album is that it has songs that some people skip and others love, and a shit song on an album only makes the good songs better.

for this reason- 5 best ofs is nigh on impossible for me.

regards

darkboy

i.e. Rocky Raccoon from the White Album, some people's shit can be some other persons gold.   If you know what I mean.

I agree dex, but some best ofs, like the roses one, have tracks that weren't on normal studio albums, and often offer a good range of remixes etc, they always seem to leave off one or two songs that I would consider to be essential to them, singles collections are worse though.

Complete Stone Roses, Stone Roses
Anthology, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
A Slight Case of Overbombing, Sisters of Mercy
One Love, The Very Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers
Best of New Order, New Order

I'm not a big one for 'Best ofs'  either to be honest.  The exception being when I hear a couple of tracks that take my fancy and I haven't got any of the previous material.  Or if I have all their previous stuff and want a piece for completion.

exactly.

for instance on defo maybe, i hate shakermaker but love slide away- whereas im sure its vice versa for someone else

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indiepop 1 > rock 'n' roll 1

 :o

1) Oasis - Defientley Maybe

2) The Verve - Urban Hymes

3) Clubber's Guide To Ibiza - Summer 1999

4) Duran Duran - Greatest Hits  8)

5) Paul Van Dyk - Vorsprung Dyk Tecknik (Van Dyk Remixes)

Top 5 best of's, ok.

At the drive-in - This Station Is Non Operational

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A Tribe Called Quest - Anthology http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JJMK.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

Super Furry Animals - Songbook

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Manic Street Preachers - Forever Delayed

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De La Soul - Best of De La Soul

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The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
Pogues - Very Best Of
Pixies - Death to the Pixies
Manics - Forever Delayed
Pulp - Hits