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Green Day and Compilation CDs

Title:

International Superhits! Parental Advisory [Explicit Lyrics]

Artist:

Green Day

ASIN:

B00005OSZE

Rating:

In order to move home to Canada last November, I had to liquidate my whole library of DVDs, CDs and most importantly, books. The whole collection was far to heavy (and therefore costly) to ship and many of the DVDs were Region 2. While some may regard getting rid of personal possessions as therapeutic, I found this material shedding particularly painful. In the end, I'm back at home and my whole music, literary and film collection of the last seven years has disappeared and is sorely missed. :-(

Consequently, I've had to begin collecting again. I've learned that rebuying one's whole CD, DVD, book collections from scratch is an impossibly expensive task and I've therefore decided to buy CD compilations of bands where I can. Now, this does make the heart bleed if you look at your CDs as trophies or a chronological life journal of sorts. You do feel a little fake, buying compilations and not having the seperate records…something like those who jump on a bandwagon without the appreciation of an artist's history of production. But in the end, who cares? Having said that, I've recently purchased Greenday's International Superhits in an effort to replace my Dooky, Nimrod and Warning collection. This 22 track collection is FAB and Greenday is number one on my top-five-all-time-greatest-bands-ever list. While you may miss out on lesser songs you remember from the individual albums (like "Misery" from Warning :-( ) you do get all the cool tracks up until they released American Idiot on one disk to play in your car, legally…...Great disc….Superb band.

Joanna Jameson : 07 Nov 2005 20:45 |  Tags: Music Review |  Comments (1) |  Close comments |  Report a problem