Snap! by The Jam

Neil Young's Decade was a massive influence on me. Motorhead's No Remorse too. Also, UFO's Best Of '74-'83 is as perfect a comp as I've ever heard.

Marvin Gaye's Super Hits---everything you need from his '60s Motown years

Singles-45’s And Under A rare example where one of my beloved bands has a hits album that outshines any of their studio LPs

One of my all-time favorites

Savage Young Dü, lately. Completist, excellent book. Live albums-p funk live earth tour, Curtis Live! (at the Bitter End), The Baby Huey Story

There are singles compilations. And then, there's Standing on a Beach.

Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady Oasis - The Masterplan Sly and the Family Stone - Greatest Hits

Creedence - Chronicle John Coltrane - The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings Duke Ellington - The Blanton-Webster Band Mississippi John Hurt - 1928 Sessions Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs The Fall - 458489 A Sides Charley Patton - Screamin & Hollerin

a lot have been mentioned, but not chuck berry - the great twenty-eight (all you need, really)

Decade, Neil Young. Great selection of tracks, including five unreleased crackers, and track-by-track commentary by Neil himself. Also fabulous packaging on the original records. Only downside is having to decipher Neil’s handwriting.

so many Rhino two-disc sets from the '90s, but esp this

I was thinking the other week how I took those Rhino double-disc comps for granted back in the 90s. This may have been my inspiration.

the "5" Royales, the Spinners... just a lost era of artist curation

All Killer No Filler! The John Prine one, the Johnny Rivers set. Truly a golden age.

For years when I saw a Rhino CD in the used bins, I would grab it whether I was familiar with the artist or not. They helped me get up to speed on those I didn't know well (Pitney, Nazz, Sparks, countless doo-wop combos) and dig deeper into artists I already loved (Coasters, Turtles, Warwick).

yeah they really knew how to fill in the gaps, to pick that one late-career hit you needed, without padding

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Razor & Tie did such great work.

A lot of the early big hitters on Flying Nun have great comps of their beginning material: Hello Cruel World by Tall Dwarfs, Juvenalia by The Verlaines, Kaleidoscope World by The Chills, Compilation by The Clean.

Beatles red album - all the early hits in one place, very well-chosen Bob Marley - Legend - a party whenever you put it on Madonna - Immaculate Collection - platonic ideal of a greatest hits Pink Floyd - Echoes - I didn't think you could pull off a PF greatest hits but they did it here somehow

Prine’s “Great Days” anthology.

There are many but all I've been listening to in the car for the past two months is the two-disc "Ultimate Bee Gees" collection so I'll go with that.

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Easy/obvious answer for me is Singles Going Steady (the original version with 16 songs)

Huggy Bear "Taking the Rough with the Smooch," Robert Wyatt "Nothing Can Stop Us," Home Blitz s/t

always Substance. also Songs To Learn and Sing.

Substance is stem-to-stern brilliance.

Substance 1987 CD version, or streaming version for the restored 'The Perfect Kiss'.

"The Kink Kronikles". It is also the very best Kinks album (a double, at that). Thanks for asking. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kin...

technically a live album; also a greatest hits