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Thread #137152   Message #3135732
Posted By: maple_leaf_boy
15-Apr-11 - 10:31 AM
Thread Name: 'Favorite Fifty' folk/country albums
Subject: RE: 'Favorite Fifty' folk/country albums
I agree with the no best of albums. I'll tell you why I don't care for them. A friend of mine and I were talking about them, and we agreed that record companies make several "best of" albums of a particular artist and many of them have basically the same songs, just in a different order and maybe there are a couple of songs that are different. (Their staple songs, and a couple of minor hits.) They put a different cover on the record. They (the record companies) do this, because they're after the money.

I like some of the albums on your list. I couldn't make a list myself,
because I like all the albums I have equally. I don't really have a
"favorite" all time album. My favorite is the one that I'm listening to. I like "concept albums." Cash recorded several of them "Bitter Tears" being one of them with the Native American ballad theme.