 | Original Bad Company Anthology by Bad Company
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £7.79 I'm a big Paul Rodgers fan but, if this is the best, I'd hate to hear the worst. Pap muzak for the Amerikas. Shallow and bland,
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 | Land (1975-2002) by Patti Smith
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.00 Another disappointing compilation. If you want someting good buy Easter. One CD would probably have done for this best of and it would have included stuff not on here.
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 | The Best Of... by Siouxsie And The Banshees
Buy new: £5.18 / Used from: £4.94 Times have moved on at what seemed so seminal twenty years ago just sound like bland New Romantic pop now. I used to think Siouxsie was almost punk but no - there's no real attitude here.
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 | I Feel Free - Ultimate Cream by Cream
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.48 Why this doesn't work I'm not too sure - the age old problem of compilers wanting too include too many tracks? It means there's a lot of sub-standard stuff here. There's not many albums to chose from.
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 | The Collection by Traffic
Buy new: £4.47 / Used from: £2.20 This won't be spending too much time in my player - the good stuff is good but there's just not too much of it. Stick with the memories, they're better than the reality.
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 | The Best of Joe Walsh & The James Gang 1969-1974 by Joe Walsh & The James Gang
Buy new: £3.48 / Used from: £2.29 One good Track (Turn to Stone) and one average track (Rocky Mountain Way). Nothing else here I really need.
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 | The Best of David Bowie 1969/1974 by David Bowie
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.70 Bowie's albums are concepts - particularly the early years. A pick & mix approach doesn't work. Not a bad effort but you're better off with Hunky Dory (best ), Ziggy Stardust or Man Who Sold the World
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 | Santana - The Ultimate Collection by Santana
Buy new: £21.48 / Used from: £2.48 Over priced and a lot of self indulgent, pretentious over blown tracks here. I love Carlos dearly but a double CD this shouldn't have been. Buy yourself Abraxas.
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![The Best of The Animals [VINYL]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416A8EF95SL._SL75_.jpg) | The Best of The Animals [VINYL] by Animals
Buy new: £10.08 / Used from: £0.51 Great in their time but none of these collections (and there seem to be thousands of them) come even close. Someone needs to do it properly with some attention to the remastering.
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![New Boots and Panties [2CD Deluxe Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Iq1ltaHrL._SL75_.jpg) | New Boots and Panties [2CD Deluxe Edition] by Ian Dury
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £7.00 I expected so much more after watching the "Stiff" documentary on the telly. A lot of toilet humour lyrics. Not sharp at all. A poor effort.
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 | Definitive Collection by Alice Cooper
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.77 Used to be the best ever live - used to be being the operative bit. Well past his sell by date and hardly captures the magic. More a money spinner than a thoughtful retrospective.
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 | The Best of Tom Robinson Band by Tom Robinson
Buy used from: £2.25 Got this to learn 2-4-6-8 Motorway and thought there'd be some gems here, having seen Tom live a few times. Other than "the anthemic "Glad to be gay" nothing too memorable here.
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 | All Right Now by Free
Buy new: £3.38 / Used from: £0.10 Why would anyone want a Best of Free album. Get off you arse & buy the originals. Tons of Sobs, Free, Fire & Water, Heartbreaker and\or Free at Last. Great albums. Forget Highway - it's the weak one.
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 | Greatest Hits by The Pretenders
Buy used from: £3.80 I was expecting so much more of this. The Pretenders seem to have done loads of great stuff but this just doesn't cut the mustard for me. Still, they can't all be winners.
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 | Ultimate Collection by Eurythmics
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.52 All the great singles here but it just doesn't work together as a collection. Maybe the moment has just passed but I only played this half a dozen times before it was shelved
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