Greatest hits album

I didn't have many of his single albums, but...

I had the History album, which was half Greatest Hits and half an album stuff.

And I would love to try and talk about that History album at one point because it's a fascinating album listening to in context, in nostalgic context.

But that first album was 15 songs from between Off the Wall and Dangerous.

And that 15-track album was the Greatest Hits album.

I listened to that so much.

um got obsessed with it and i think a bit later on i kind of dipped into briefly listened to a couple of the albums but not um as much so like quite a few of the alma tracks songs on this album that weren't on that i'm not as familiar with but there's the key song but the key songs like are pretty much ingrained So when you said Michael Jackson's Thriller, it was a mixture of, oh, finally, I can talk about that album and some of these songs and stuff.

Yeah, whilst I...

It

was really more like a Greatest Hits compilation.

That they put in

it.

it was.

But anyhow.

I was going to say, the folk artist Gordon Lightfoot, when he put out his first Greatest Hits double album called Gorge Gold, he re-recorded every single song with a full band.

Oh, I remember reading that.

Initially, the album was intended to be released under the name of Decade of Decadence as a tribute to their 10 years together.

At the same time, however, Motley Crue was releasing a Greatest Hits package and they quickly dropped in and not only used the name for their album, but ensured they copyrighted the name to stop it being used by anyone else.

In this case, Slayer.

Because Slayer wasn't already pissed off enough by Motley Crue before this.

Two more albums for Goatee followed.

Then, in 2006, the group announced that they would disband after the release of a Greatest Hits album.

Destiny's Child disbanded that year as well.

In September 2024, Out of Eden announced on their Instagram page that they would reunite, with announcements to come about future plans.

So it gets tucked away as an album track.

And then later, he gets to September of 1964, and they're putting out a Greatest Hits record.

And there's a spare gap on it.

A spare gap on it.

And he's like, no, put it on there.

And so they do.

And by all accounts, it gets so popular, it's the track everyone's playing from this greatest hits record.

And DJs keep playing it.

The thing that I think you'll laugh at is that I'm now consistently being approached by people in the late 20s, early 30s who are just saying, you know, we went for a trip around Australia for 12 months in a caravan and mum and dad had two cassettes.

One of them was Slim Dusty's Greatest Hits and the other one was your album, This Road.

And I said, well, I apologise for any lasting damage.

But you realise that unintentionally, you become embedded in people's lives and the reason I find that so rewarding is as a kid in regional Australia, I know how important music was to me personally.