Joshua TreeAndere Kandidaten wären auch: Singles Going Steady von den Buzzcocks (eine ausgesprochene Singles Band) und Hatful Of Hollow von den Smiths.
Garry Mulholland, der ein schönes Buch über seine 261 „Greatest Albums since Punk and Disco“ geschrieben hat und sehr wohl „Best Ofs“ mit aufführt, schreibt dazu:
There will also be a smattering of what has become a total no-no in learned discussions of best albums ever: Greatest Hits Collections. That’s Right. Partly because Roxy Music’s „Greatest Hits“ is one of the biggest things that ever happened to me, but mainly because the Best of set is often an artist’s best collection of fun, entertainment and song and dance numbers, and therefore is the record we most often get out when we really want to enjoy listening to our favourite band. The Idea that these are somehow not proper albums goes back to this odd notion that we should like the band’s double concept album more because that unlistenable fifteen-minute meditation on root vegetables or the everlasting pain of being healthy, wealthy and never having fought in a war ist good for us. If you don’t eat you self-indulgent album-filler greens you’ll never get any singles dessert. No wonder they call it dadrock“.
Nicht ganz meine Meinung, aber doch recht amüsant.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest time, and to the latest. Henry David Thoreau, Journals (1857)