Continuing my daily entries about Greatest Hits albums. Bands that should have Greatest Hits Albums:
- The Wallflowers – While most people remember Bringing Down the Horse as the allencompassing Wallflowers album, they tend to forget the subsequent albums with minor radio hits, but good sounds. Breach and Red Letter Days are those albums. Songs like “Sleepwalker” and “How Good Can It Get” you’ve probably never heard of, but are great songs. I suspect the Wallflowers will fade into obscurity if and when a greatest hits album appears. However I’m hoping obscurity will not happen.
- Oasis – Definitely maybe. I really doubt that you’ll see a greatest hits albums from the self proclaimed “greatest band in the world.” That would be too easy. Sure they did put out a whole album of B-sides. Oasis isn’t ready to admit defeat by putting together an anthology or hits album. But their fame is slowly fading.
- Third Eye Blind – Of course most of the supposed greatest hits album would come from their self titled debut album. “Semi-charmed Life,” “Jumper,” and “Graduate.” Then there were a couple of good hits from their sophomore album, “Blue” such as “1000 Julys” and “Anything.” I saw their lead singer, Stephan Jenkins on a MTV show similiar to the Gong Show. His job as a celebrity judge was the rate unsigned bands. He gave all the bands 10’s, no matter how bad they were. I remember thinking this was lame, especially seeing the state of some of the bands. Jenkins came across as being self-righteous.
- Foo Fighters – I’m thinking a great album packed full of hits like “Everlong,” “Monkey Wrench,” “Learn to Fly,” “Stacked Actors,” “This is a Call,” “Big Me,” “My Hero,” and “Times Like These.”