The Singles Collection: The Songs of Ray Davies - Waterloo Sunset
Artist: The Kinks
Acoustic Live
Artist: Nils Lofgren

Acoustic Live is a small treasure for longtime Nils Lofgren fans. Capturing Lofgren alone in front of an appreciative audience, knocking out such favorites as "You," "No Mercy" and "Keith Don't Go," plus six new songs. Even with the new songs, there are no real revelations, only a selection of little gems that will certainly bring a smile to the... Read More

Best of Billy Swan - LEGACY
Artist: Billy Swan
Community Score: 8.00

Epic/Legacy's The Best of Billy Swan is a fine 16-track collection that features highlights from his recordings for Monument, Columbia, and Epic in the '70s and '80s. Swan's unexpected crossover hit, "I Can Help," is here, but the remaining 15 songs veer closer to country, bearing just a slight resemblance to the bouncy pop/rock of the hit.... Read More

The Golden Classics of Blue Swede
Artist: Blue Swede

The Golden Classics of Blue Swede is a 12-track collection that contains all of the group's first album, Hooked on a Feeling, plus two bonus tracks. All of the group's hits -- not only the fluke number one "Hooked on a Feeling," but also the lesser-known "Silly Milly," "Never My Love" and "Hush/I'm Alive" -- are on the disc, and although the... Read More

Archive
Artist: Roy Wood & Wizzard

In a way, Rialto's Archive isn't all that bad, even if the packaging seems a little shoddy and the sound isn't all that great. Also, the facts are a little iffy. Archive claims to concentrate on Wizzard's recordings instead of Roy Wood's solo material, but that's not entirely true. There are a couple of selections from Eddy & the Falcons, plus a... Read More

The Best That I Could Do (1978-1988)
Artist: John Mellencamp
Community Score: 8.29

The Best That I Could Do is an appropriately self-deprecating title for John Mellencamp's greatest-hits collection, considering that the heartland rocker never seemed too convinced of his own worth. Of course, he had to struggle to get any respect after he was saddled with the stage name Johnny Cougar early in his career, but this 14-track... Read More

Flaming Pie
Artist: Paul McCartney
Community Score: 7.40
All Time Greatest Hits of Roy Orbison - DCC
Artist: Roy Orbison
Community Score: 8.00

The listener is immediately convinced, from the opening a cappella bits of "Only the Lonely," that no one conveys pain and longing more sublimely or succinctly than Roy Orbison. But his songs are also masterpieces of production: so technically precise that his deceptively simple tunes and lush melodies flow even more smoothly behind his... Read More

Greatest Jukebox Hits
Artist: Elvis Presley
Community Score: 8.00

Appropriately, Greatest Jukebox Hits is a brief but entertaining selection of some of Elvis' biggest hits -- the songs that are frequently heard on the radio and jukeboxes across the land. There are no surprsies here, and while there are certainly a lot of hits missing, this isn't a collection designed for collectors -- only casual fans will... Read More