The best compilations ever
 

Let's say , your top 5.
Or your top 200 if you can't help making lists.

Is this about various artists compilations?

Yes.

Flying Nun 25th Anniversary Boxset
Nuggets
John Peel's Festive 15 (Compilation which came with Uncut magazine)

I can't think of any more.

I start:
Guitarrorists.
There are a lot of good tracks on this , eventually by bands I don't enjoy otherwise ( Flaming Lips ) , and somehow , I think the whole stuff is made as a record , not just a bunch of tracks put together to promote the artists.

Pillows and Prayers
Harmony of the Spheres
The Tone Of The Universe (= The Tone Of The Earth)
The Invisible Pyramid Elegy Box
The Devils Jukebox

short music for short people
jukebox buddah
blearughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
garden of forking paths
contemporary guitar

I think it has 10 good songs out of one hundred , that's rather low:rolleyes: .

Ask batreleaser, he's an expert.

short music for short people rules. it's intellectually stimulating.

No New York
American Hardcore
If I Were a Carpenter

Those are about all I've got.

nuggets
a free mojo cd from about 5 years ago... drug music...
sexual life of the belgians
rough trade post punk vol 1
zip up your boots for the showbands (irish compilation of mid nineties post punkers)

Aside from nuggets and one or two others, I can't think of many compilations I think are worth hunting down. Compilations generally kind of suck.

if there is half of the shit on a comp that you like, then its a good compilation, thats my rule of thumb..

If there is half of the shit on a comp that you like, you should be spending your money on those bands' original LPs instead. That's my rule of thumb.

Not to emulate Family Feud, but, "Good Answer!"

Just included it the other day as one of the best albums of the nineties.

Yes, Nuggets is rather obligatory here.
I suppose we are shying away from compilation albums as in a greatest hits collection or else I'd have to mention John Lennon - Shaved Fish. Oops, just did anyway.


Also, heehee...
Atari's Picks: Sonic Youth Live Vols. 1-10
Atari's Picks: Another Point of VU
Atari's Picks: Interstellar Overdrive
Atari's Picks: Dark Star Vols. 1-2
Atari's Picks: The Beatles 1968 Vols. 1-4
Atari's Picks: Best of 2006
Atari's Picks: Best of 2007 Vols. 1-2
Atari's Picks: VU NYC '66-'67
Atari's Picks: Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Live
Atari's Picks: Party Train

(ready, but never shared)
Atari's Picks: Dazed and Confused
Atari's Picks: Grateful Dead '65-'67
Atari's Picks: Grateful Dead '67-'69
Atari's Picks: Grateful Dead 70-'77
Atari's Picks: Grateful Dead '78-

...and never shared publicly because there is some official content:
Atari's Picks: Lee Ranaldo
Atari's Picks: Kim Gordon
Atari's Picks: Roots Rock
Atari's Picks: Seventies
Atari's Picks: Eighties
Atari's Picks: Blues
Atari's Picks: Funk/R&B

this is boston not la
bulb singles volume 1
soul jazz new york noise
amphetamine reptile singles volume 1
no new york (obviousfuckingly)
la noise compilation (i think thats what it was called, came out a few years ago, john wiese and such, i dont own it anymore it was rad though)
siltbreeze tard and furthered
soul jazz the story of konk
sublime frequencies the pop spectacular
sublime frequencies probidao forbidden gang funk of rio de janeiro
dischord singles 1981
hanson underground series folume 4
load repopulation program providence
skin graft the blue ghost party favor
esp disk faith and power
nuggets

New York Noise-I guess all of them
No New York
Killing Joke-Laugh? I Nearly Bought One

Left of the Dial (duh)

No Thanks! (duh, again)

1. Smack My Crack (in part for the title but the line up is incredible too: Butthole Surfers, Einsturzende Neubauten, William S. Burroughs, Diamanda Galas before she thought she was a soul singer and was actually great, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Swans, and more!)

2. Deep Six (Green River, Melvins as a fast punk rock band, Malfunkshun, U-men, Skin Yard, and pre-bloat Sound Garden!)

3. Sub Pop 100 (Sonic Youth doing "Kill Yr. Idols", U-men, Steve Albini, Steve Fisk, Savage Republic, Wipers, Naked Raygun, Shonen Knife, and more!)

4. Kill Rock Stars (Melvins, Unwound, Nirvana, Steve Fisk, Bikini Kill, Kicking Giant, Witchy Poo, Jad Fair, Nation of Ulysses, Some Velvet Sidewalk, and other stuff too!)

5. Wiretapper #9 (2 cd edition with Wire, Liars, Themselves, Suicide, A Small Good Thing, Pulseprogramming, Amon Tobin, Supersilent, Mum, Vadim, Leafcutter John, Sun, and a whole fuck of a lot more great stuff too!)

6. Jungle Exotica (Crypt Records comp. of crossover garage rock/exotica tracks from 32 acts you never heard of who all fucking rule!)

7. The Elephant Table Album (Chris & Cosey, Coil, Nurse With Wound, Lustmord, SPK, Nocturnal Emissions, Legendary Pink Dots, and lots of other killer proto-gothic industrial psyced out weird shit!)

8. CRI The Composer-Performer, Forty Years of Discovery 1954-1994 (Harry Partch, Henry Cowell, Otto Luening, Alice Shields, Tan Dun, Guy Klucevsek, and many other geniuses!)

9. Sub Pop 200 (you know...)

10. Pebbles Vol. 1 (beats Nuggets by a landslide in my book, favorite tracks include Kim Fowley's "The Trip" and The Wild Knights incredible "Beaver Patrol"!)

11. All Tomorrow's Parties 1.0 (The Sea and Cake, Prefuse 73, Yo La Tengo, Tortois, Mike Ladd, Boards of Canada, Atmosphere, Autechre, and everyone else is great too!)

12. The Tyranny of the Beat (Mute comp that oddly has many tracks with little or no beat and some where that is what it's about, but anyway SPK, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Die Krpps, Einsturzende Neubauten, Non, Can, Wire, Swell Maps, Dome, The Halfler Trio, Loop, Fad Gadget, and other killer stuff)

13. Throne of Drones (pretty much what it says, all great, but standouts from Maryanne Amacher, Biosphere, and Jeff Greinke)

14. Sidereal Rest (a Scratch Records comp based upon sleepiness with Noggin, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, U.S. Saucer, Sun City Girls, Loren Mazzacane, Bugskull, Roughage, Pork Queen, Caroliner, Kathleen Yearwood, and much more!)

15. Shimmy Disc - The 20th Anniversary of the Summer of Love 1967-1987 (Half Japanese, Fred Frith, Shockabilly, Bongwater, Missing Foundation, King Missle, Krackhouse, Tuli Kupferberg, Allen Ginseberg with Steve Taylor, and tons of other awesome shit!)