Comments on: Your Take: Why Haven’t Greatest Hits Albums Become Obsolete?

By: Country Universe » Alison Krauss, A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection

Country Universe » Alison Krauss, A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:45:12 +0000

[...] Rather than make a quick buck by slapping on some new tracks to old album cuts, an annoyance that The 9513 called labels on a few weeks ago, Rounder has taken the novel approach of collecting Krauss’ [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:20:52 +0000

When I look at the video Country Music Greatest Hits on youtube.com – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxB7Eq4CVcs

I can instantly recognize hundreds of greatest hits that I can hum. That is what greatest hits outstanding.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:14:06 +0000

The collection of greatest hits is like your favorite dessert. It puts a smile on your face.
See a list of the greatest country hits on youtube.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxB7Eq4CVcs

By: New Porter Wagoner Collection is What a Compilation Should Be -- The 9513

New Porter Wagoner Collection is What a Compilation Should Be -- The 9513 — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:45:55 +0000

[...] and they’re an affordable way to obtain the best tracks from artists who do not make good albums. We’ve discussed this at The 9513 and it appears that our readers value these collections for a variety of reasons, but [...]

By: Have the London office call the Nashville office. Please. « Country Universe

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:00:54 +0000

[...] a great debate going on over at The 9513 regarding the uselesness of hits collections with new tracks, and I think it’s just as [...]

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By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:35:55 +0000

There are artists who have recorded some songs that I like but who aren’t such stellar performers that I usually purchase their albums (or fill their albums with a lot of lesser fodder). For such artists I wait for the Greatest Hits collections before making a purchase

For me this would include artists such as Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Kenny Chesney, Olivia Newton John, Roy Drusky, Johnny Lee, Brooks & Dunn, Reba McEntire, Ernie Ashworth and many others.

On the other hand I race out to purchase every George Jones, Tracy Lawrence or Merle Haggard album; consequently, I usually don’t purchase hit collections for these artists unless I find them used or in cut-out bins

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:20:48 +0000

I think that hits compilations seem a bit gratuitous these days, at least the ones of the “three new tracks” variety. I downloaded the “new tracks” off of Tim McGraw’s last year and I will do the same for Gary Allan next month, since I have his entire catalog.

Even more ridiculous to me is the reissuing of albums from the 80’s and earlier with “two bonus tracks”, when the label could squeeze two albums onto a CD and give the consumer a bit of bang for the buck. I’m very frustrated with the upcoming Dolly Parton reissues of albums that already exist on CD, while the bulk of her catalog gets ignored. Sony did the same thing w/Rosanne Cash and Rhino did it with Emmylou Harris: reissue albums already in print and continue to leave others out-of-print.

The “digital age” should result in entire artist catalogs existing online, but it hasn’t happened yet.

By: Taylor Trask

Taylor Trask — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:08:04 +0000

Greatest Hit Albums DO work when the artist/label does one or all of the following:

1 – Compelling packaging with a big booklet retrospective, lots of older concert photos, etc

2 – Re-mastered or re-recorded audio

3 – Companion DVD or bonus product

John Mellencamp recently released his Words & Music hits compilation with all re-mastered tracks. The difference in sound quality from the previous albums was tremendous and no digital store sold those songs in that quality furthering the need to get the actual disc.

Unfortunately the majority of hits packages released don’t adhere to any of the above, thus rendering them a pretty pointless product.

By: Linda Banks

Linda Banks — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:09:35 +0000

It’s the record labels who put out, benefit most from the greatest hits, isn’t it? A coupld months ago I asked James, who runs Billy Joe Shaver’s fan site, what was going to be on Billy Joe’s upcoming “Greatest Hits” release. James said he asked Billy Joe, and he said he didn’t know, it was the record company’s idea.