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Originally Posted by KC911

Many I have listed are live albums ... so somewhat of a collection of hits in many cases.

For pure greatest hits, doubles .... add in the

Stones -Hot Rocks (for the earlier years)
The Beatles - The red one and the blue one.

I was never a big fan of Greatest Hits albums.... as I bought all the albums individually, but in the mid-80s, when rock CDs began to appear and few offerings .... I bought anyrhing I could get my hands on .

For years... both for albums and later CDs, I would visit a couple of "stores" just about every Tuesday (release day) to see what just came out. Often I got exposed to new stuff they were playing in the store as I browsed the sections.

The Beatles album you mentioned was long my favorite (it was the only one we had for a long while) ...but it eventually grew tiresome after hearing it a million times (and over and over on the radio).

I like the Greatest Hits Albums in most cases. A lot of groups simply cannot seem to fill an album with good music...but put one great song each on a lot of albums. I guess that kept the money flowing. I just cant afford to buy them all.