Fan bait, lazy cash grab, legit musical archive, or all three? All such claims are easy to levy at compilation albums, though they do serve as a good gateway to get people into a band's wider ...

Greatest hits compilations are a tricky bit of business. Many are made for cynical reasons. Others try to eke out a few extra dollars from an act that doesn’t really have enough hits to quite make up ...

In the 1990s, music fans were insatiable. Not only did we want regular record releases, but we raced to the stores for movie soundtracks, underground mixtapes, and greatest hits albums. We just couldn ...