Best-Of Bands
 

These are artists or groups who have never made a consistently solid record, but have enough good songs that a compilation would be very fine. This occurred to me while going through S and the Banshees discography, but may have first entered my mind when listening to Belle and Sebastian.

In your opinion, who are some tasty Best-Of Bands?

The Banshees is a good one for this.

JSBX and Rocket from the Crypt

I once bought teh Santana greatest hits CD thinking they were ripe for this type of best-of treatment, and there were only 2 songs worth anything on it. Santana sucks that bad.

creedance?

I'm going to go out on a limb: Sleater-Kinney. Lots of great great songs, but plenty of "skippers" as well.

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That's hilarious about Santana. I've always wondered about the rest of his stuff, having only heard two songs. Now I know the two I've heard are all I need to hear.

Then how about a Rolling Stones best-of for the past 43 years? There's probably enough good stuff to fill up one disc. Maybe.

Echo and the Bunnymen

Cocteau Twins. Actually, a CT best-of would be amazing.

i have almost every santana album, multiple formats too

First two albums yes. Dig Me Out and The Hot Rock especially no. Sleater-Kinney make albums, no filler material, albeit some tunes aren't as strong as others. I vote for Smashing Pumpkins as the ultimate best-of-band. Second place? Journey. Definitely Journey. Maybe they should even take first? The Bronze goes Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Do they even make albums, or great EP collections of great singles with a shitload of funky filler?

New Order

Agree 100%. In fact, the only album I have of there's is Substance. It's killer, but I can't get through a full album

Abba, the Carpenters, Girls Aloud, Queen, Madness, Britney, Pet Shop Boys... much of pop music, sadly.

the clean

The Fall 1984-2013

Cocteau Twins

I think JUJU is a fucking excellent album...

their first 3 albums are all best of albums, especially Porcupine.

FUCK OFF!
Sure they did a hell of a lot of great singles, but listen to Sheer Heart Attack, News Of The World, A Night At The Opera and The Game then tell me that their best stuff is their singles.

indeed it was!

How about the Who? Live at Leeds doesn't count.