You know what I'm talking about, those artists that have not been around for long. Which ones have you seen that you can't believe.

The most recent one for me was Macy Gray.

Most of those artists have no say in the matter. It's all the record company's doing.

Creed.

Britney Spears

I'll never forget when - after three albums, spanning a five-year career - Silverchair dropped a "best of" on us.

Wow! Such hostility! I guess I'll scrap my "Greatest Hits" album for a while. According to you all, I have to have several albums out, and I have to have several years under my belt.

Wouldn't it be funny if a band put out a "Greatest Hits" album as its first album?

I guess I should mention that I don't, as of this printing, technically have any albums out. In fact, I don't technically have a band.

Korn. I know they've put out a bunch of albums, and had a lot of hits, btu it still seems weird that a band that saw its heyday while I was in high school come out with a greatest hits package.

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I think Korn deserved to put out a "Greatest Hits" album ...

but here's something to consider ...

How can a band release a "Greatest Hits Volume 1" album when the greatest hits cd has songs that were recently released?

How can they be so cocky to think that their "Greatest Hits Volume 2" is going to take place?

"Don't tempt fate" is a lesson that a lot of people have to learn the hard way.

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Here's a tip for all the bands who've rushed a greatest hits album: think about how long it took Van Halen, one of the top rock bands ever, to release a greatest hits. Answer: 10 studio albums, 2 lead singers, and 18 years. How many good songs did they leave off of that first GH album? Yeah, I know they just released another GH, but my point is made.

Chris Gaines

the freaking Spin Doctors.

Snow.

I kid you not.

Koby Teith, Tim McG@y, Kimmy Chesney

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I kid you not.

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i had to be sure.. and damned if you werent right.. one album then a greatest hits album..

kenny chesney put his greatest hits CD out EARLY in his career. when an artist has to include like 3 or 4 new songs on a greatest hits album just so it will be a full CD...that is ridiculous.

Metallica doesn't have one yet. Megadeth does. Skynyrd has like 30.

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Snow
Informer

What's up man hey yo what's up
Yeah what's goin' on here
Sick an' tired of five-oh runnin' up on the block here
You know what I'm sayin'
Yo Snow they came around here lookin' for you the other day
Word word bust it

CHORUS:
Informer you no say daddy me Snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective mon said daddy me Snow me stab someone down the lane
A licky Boom Boom Down.

CHORUS.

Police them come an' now they blow down me door
One him come crawl through through my window
So then they put me in the back the car at the station
From that point on me reach my destination
When the destination reached it was the east detention
Where them whipped down me pants looked up me bottom so

CHORUS.

Bigger they are they think they have more power
They're on the phone me say that on (every) hour
Me for want to use it once an' now me call me lover
Lover who I'll be callin is the one Tammy
An' me love her in me heart down to my belly
Yes me daddy me Snow me I feel cool an' deadly
As the one MC Shan an' the one daddy Snow
Together we-a love 'em as a Tor-Na-Do

CHORUS.

Listen for me you better listen for me now (x2)
When me rockin' the microphone me rock it steady
Yes sir daddy me Snow me are the article don
But in the in an' the out of a dance them they say where you come from
People them say you come from Jamaica
But me born an' raised in the ghetto that's the one I want you to know
Pure black people mon that's all I mon know
Yeah me shoes are tear up an' me toes used to show
Where me born in on the one Toronto so

CHORUS.

Come with a nice young lady.
Intelligent yes she's gentle an' irie
Everywhere me go me never left her at all
Yes its daddy Snow me are the roam dance mon
Roam between a dancin' in a in a nation-a
You never know say daddy me Snow me are the Boom Shakata
Me never lay-a down flat in that one cardboard box
Yes say me Daddy me Snow me I'll go reachin' at the top so

CHORUS.

Why would he (x2)

Me sittin' 'round cool with my dibbie dibbie girl
Police knock my door lick up my pal
Rough me up an' I can't do a thing
Pick up my line when my telephone ring
Take me to the station black up my hands
Trail me down 'cuz I'm hangin' with the Snowman
What I'm gonna do I'm backed an' I'm trapped
Slap me in the face an' took all o' my gap
They have no clues an' they wanna get warmer
But Shan won't turn informer

CHORUS.

nashville churns out greatest hits albums, which is probably a good thing if you are into nashville country. Most albums are so full of crap except for the 3 singles on each album, which they release each year, that is not a big deal just to wait 3 or 4 years for the GH album to come out.

But Snow?!?!? Un-frickin-believable.

Goldie Lookin Chain has only been putting out albums since 2000 and their latest release is a greatest hits. It's pretty funny too.

http://www.youknowsit.co.uk/
http://www.dreamwater.org/bradyman/GLC.htm

update: I think that their original releases were bootlegs sold at local music shops in England, but their first label release is a Greatest Hits, though I could be wrong.

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There's a band playing the northgate music fest called Space Cadet who's only album is titled Greatest Hits. They aren't bad either...

didn't candlebox put one out? or somebody like that...

Counting Crowes

One of my friends mentioned that he had bought the Counting Crowes Greatest Hits. I asked him if it was just a blank CD. He was not impressed. I thought it was funny.

So was Snow's greatest hits album just a re-release of his first album?

for that matter, was it just a bunch of remixes and/or live cuts of informer?

david allen coe was good, but he must have 4 greatest hits albums