On That Note: You Say You Want a Compilation

[cyclones500]

Welcome back, music fanatics! This week, we invite you to select favorite/notable compilation albums.

It can involve a best of/greatest hits/anthology/outtakes from a specific artist; tribute albums; thematic compilations; record-label comps; and other such collections.

NOT PERMITTED: Soundtracks, i.e., it cannot have affiliation with a specific movie. (A recent non-OTN thread on CF has that territory covered well).

On That Note is presented weekly on Cyclone Fanatic by @MeanDean, @CycloneRulzzz and cyclones500.

• Last week’s OTN: LVIII Edition

 

[madguy30]

 

[MeanDean]

Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968

Start with the link to Wikipedia that gives some history

Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[JP4CY]

Mine currently: Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East

 

[Cyclones8824]

The Party Never Ends- Juice Wrld
It’s a fan made potential posthumous album compiling some of the most popular leaked unreleased songs. Juice Wrld fans also often participate in group buys were they purchase songs for up to 20-30 thousand dollars!

 

[MeanDean]

It was winter 1996. I was scheduled to go on the trip of a lifetime. A month in Australia and New Zealand. I was helping a buddy doing a flea market in Peoria and stumbled across this CD for like $2. This was when CDs cost $13.95. I know they were from Australia/New Zealand but was only familiar with 2 or 3 of the hits.

I took it home and made a cassette copy to bring with us and it got lots of time in the rental vehicles for that month.

Basically a greatest hits compilation. After this I took a deeper dive into their catalogue and there is much stellar stuff.

 

[MeanDean]

Probably without a doubt this hits compilation spent more time in my CD player than anything else for probably 15 years. Not a clunker to be found. Even includes early stuff when he was with Them.

 

[clonechemist]

 

[cyclones500]

Good choice. That was my entry point to CCR.

 

[madguy30]

Good choice. That was my entry point to CCR.

I just remember we had the cassette on while I'd ride around with my dad deer hunting long ago.

We'd see like 3 sparrows and a mouse all day but just crushing it with 'Lodi'.

 

[pourcyne]

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen "Android Warehouse" Demos from the pre-Steely Dan era.

 

[Cupped]

The Red




And The Blue

 

[pourcyne]

Got a Warner Brothers box set (LP) "Superstars of the 70's" as a gift when I was a kid...back when you stacked those LP's and let them whap one right on top of the other. Still have the set, believe it or not.

Side 1:

School's Out - Alice Cooper
Summer Breeze - Seals & Crofts
Surf's Up - The Beach Boys
Sail Away - Randy Newman
Both Sides Now - Judy Collins
Tightrope Ride - The Doors

Side 2:
Lonely Days - The Bee Gees
Fire & Rain - James Taylor
Truckin' - The Grateful Dead
Where is the Love - Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway
Love the One You're With - Stephen Stills
Roundabout - Yes

Side 3:
Light My Fire - The Doors
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Marrakesh Express - Crosby, Stills, & Nash
Purple Haze - Jimmy Hendrix
To Love Somebody - The Bee Gees
Lola - The Kinks

Side 4:
Anticipation - Carly Simon
American Woman - The Guess Who (long version)
We Gotta Get You A Woman - Todd Rundgren
Ventura Highway - America
Run, Run, Run - Jo Jo Gunne
Tumbling Dice - The Rolling Stones

Side 5:
(Sitting On) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
Hush - Deep Purple
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
Foxy Lady - Jimmy Hendrix

Side 6:
Take It Easy - Eagles
A Horse With No Name - America
Cowgirl in the Sand - The Byrds (yeah, I know, right? Not Neil)
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
These Eyes - The Guess Who
Domino - Van Morrison
Amazing Grace - Judy Collins

Side 7:
Listen to the Music - The Doobie Brothers
Woodstock - Joni Mitchell
In the Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie
Doctor My Eyes - Jackson Browne
Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Side 8:
One Way Out - Allman Brothers Band
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin
Stay With Me - Faces
Chicago - Graham Nash
Happy - The Rolling Stones
Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

***
Yup. I win.

 

[Cupped]

We caught their show in Omaha last Saturday at the CHI Health Center and they're still awesome! The only thing better than seeing The Eagles and Steely Dan in Omaha will be seeing The Cyclones in first round NCAA basketball action there!

This album broke all kinds of records.

Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[pourcyne]

Got that one as a wedding present from some friends.

 

[JP4CY]

We caught their show in Omaha last Saturday at the CHI Health Center and they're still awesome! The only thing better than seeing The Eaglesa and Steely Dan in Omaha will be seeing The Cyclones in first round NCAA basketball action there!

This album broke all kinds of records.




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Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

First time I saw Eagles was at Hilton. Have seen them half dozen times now.

 

[Gorm]

 

[cyclones500]

The Beatles - “Rarities” (1980, U.S.)

I'd categorize this as "memorable," as opposed to a "favorite.'

After decades of retro-Beatles releases, this doesn’t seem “rare” today. At the time, it was a big deal to me.

In the early days of my indulgence/discovery of The Beatles, I indulged Red/Blue albums, was familiar with the big hits, owned a few 45s and was beginning to gather the band’s LPs … and, reading a lot of books about the group.

As I began to explore anything “new” I could find, I encountered this (on cassette!).

(There was a 1978 UK version, with some commonality of tracks.)

Here’s a sample

(this link is remastered version, but it was on Rarities)





Until I found “Rarities,” I had heard only the “Let it Be” version.



Two other tracks that have minor variance from original releases, and I found fascinating at the time — I Am the Walrus (six-note intro instead of four) and Penny Lane (piccolo trumpet in the outro).

 

[cyclones500]

We caught their show in Omaha last Saturday at the CHI Health Center and they're still awesome! The only thing better than seeing The Eagles and Steely Dan in Omaha will be seeing The Cyclones in first round NCAA basketball action there!

This album broke all kinds of records.




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Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Although those songs may "suffer" from overexposure, Eagles Greatest Hits is one of the first albums I remember replaying incessantly ... it was my sister's album, but I sort of adopted it from her (I think she left it at home when she went to college). It inspired me to purchase "Hotel California," one of the first LPs I purchased with "my own money."

I know -- "cool story, bro!"

 

[cyclones500]

“VU” - The Velvet Underground (1985)

I discovered The Velvet Underground the same way a lot of mid-‘80s alt-rock geeks did … through reissue of the band's first 3 studio albums (on Verve). "VU" arrived during that period, and after hearing "Nico," "White Light/White Heat" and self-titled, of course I had to pounce.