The Byrds
The Essential Byrds [ Columbia Records / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/1993 ] A magnificent career retrospective including 33 tracks and over two hours of digitally re-mastered music. |
Cheap Trick
The Essential Cheap Trick [ Legacy Records / 2 CD - released 27/Oct/2006 ] A great 2-disc summary of Cheap Trick's entire career, with songs spanning from their self-titled debut in 1977 through to 2003. |
Cyndi Lauper
The Essential Cyndi Lauper [ Legacy Records / CD - released 14/Sep/2003 ] A greatest-hits collection that lives up to its title, jam-packed with lots of the fun mid-Eighties music. |
Dr Hook
The Essential [ Columbia / Sony / CD - released 31/Oct/2011 ] One of the most successful bands to emerge from the California rock scene in the 1970s, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees became radio staple with their mix of rock, pop and blue-eyed soul. Group harmonies and an often tongue-in-cheek approach... |
Foster & Allen
The Essential Foster & Allen [ Big Jo-Ke / CD - released 8/Jun/2009 ] This 2CD set features 36 Foster & Allen hits & favourites - including "Maggie", "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen", "The Mountains of Mourne", "Bunch of Thyme", "The Fiddler' and more. |
Joe Satriani
The Essential Joe Satriani [ Sony Music / 2 CD - released 21/Feb/2011 ] 30 of the best from one of the world's greatest guitar players - Joe Satriani a.k.a. Satch. |
Lou Reed
The Essential Lou Reed [ Sony / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] One of the most important figures to emerge from the New York art & music movement of the 1960s & 70s, Lou Reed has influenced generations of musicians. The principal songwriter and guitar player in experimental group The Velvet Underground, a band... |
Mi-Sex
The Essential Mi-Sex [ Sony Australia / CD - released 26/Jul/2007 ] This speThis specially priced CD is a comprehensive collection, covering the best-known tracks and hits by New Zealand '80s band, Mi-Sex, who were fronted by the late Steve Gilpin. |
Sly and the Family Stone
The Essential Sly and the Family Stone (2CD) [ Legacy Records / 2 CD - released 14/Jul/2003 ] Featuring 35 tracks by one of the most influential, innovative artists of all time, this is a digitally re-mastered comprehensive, "Best-of" Sly collection. |
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble [ Epic Records / 2 CD - released 29/Jan/2008 ] 'The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan' features his 33 best songs, all digitally re-mastered. These are the SRV selections you need!! |
Alabama
The Essential Alabama [ Legacy / 2 CD - released 27/Jun/2006 ] This is a digitally re-mastered, definitive, double disc collection from country band, Alabama - including many of their best-known songs. |
Alan Jackson
The Essential Collection [ Sony / Arista / 2 CD - released 17/Apr/2012 ] A career-spanning, double-disc collection featuring all 34 of Jackson's #1 hits. With 37 songs in all, the project will also include two rare tracks and the single, "As She's Walking Away," with Zac Brown Band featuring Alan Jackson. Alongside Alan's... |
Alice in Chains
The Essential Alice in Chains [ Legacy Records / 2 CD - released 30/Jan/2007 ] This double disc set covers all the best tracks from the late Layne Staley and the AiC guys. What a great collection, dude!! |
Backstreet Boys
The Essential Backstreet Boys [ Sony / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] There was a magic chemistry to the five Backstreet Boys that makes them a worldwide phenomenon which continues to this day. Their successes are legendary, their songs unforgettable. These two Essential CDs prove why it was destiny that A.J., Brian,... |
Barbra Streisand
The Essential Barbra Streisand [ Columbia Records / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/1993 ] The Essential Barbra Streisand brings together for the first time all of Streisand's groundbreaking pop hits, classic recordings, and fan favourites on one breathtaking two disc, 40 song collection. Beginning with 1963's "A Sleepin' Bee" and... |
Billy Joel
The Essential Billy Joel [ Columbia Records / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/1993 ] This excellent collection features 33 of Billy's all-time greatest songs - including "Piano Man", "The Entertainer", "New York State of Mind", "She's Always a Woman", "Movin' Out", "Just The Way You Are", "Uptown Girl", "Honesty", "We Didn't Start... |
Bob Dylan
The Essential Bob Dylan (Gold Series) [ Sony / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] This is an updated version of the US Essential title including tracks from his more recent hit albums. This 2014 edition of The Essential Bob Dylan is a much more complete career overview. Includes the Dylan classics Blowin' In The Wind, The... |
Boney M
The Essential Boney M [ Sony Music / 2 CD - released 7/Sep/2012 ] One of the most successful pop groups to emerge from Europe in the 1970s, Boney M have sales of more than 100 million units. Utilising the contemporary studio techniques of the day and coinciding with the disco era, Boney M had a string of hits... |
Britney Spears
The Essential Britney Spears [ Sony / 2 CD - released 31/Oct/2014 ] |
Bruce Springsteen
The Essential Bruce Springsteen (2015 Revised Edition) [ Sony / 2 CD - released 23/Sep/2016 ] In the decades following his emergence on the national scene in 1975, Bruce Springsteen has proved to be that rarity among popular musicians, an artist who maintained his status as a frontline recording and performing star, consistently selling... |
Carole King
The Essential Carole King [ Epic / Legacy / Sony / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2010 ] 33 of Carole's greatest songs, including "It Might as Well Rain Until September", "I Feel the Earth Move", "You've Got a Friend", "Nightingale", "Now and Forever", "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", "Chains", "You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and... |
Celine Dion
The Essential [ Sony / 2 CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] |
The Clash
The Essential Clash (2CD) [ Sony / 2 CD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] It's somehow fitting that the first Clash collection to be released in the wake of frontman Joe Strummer's December 2002 death should be the closest anyone's ever come to a truly definitive non-box-set anthology. The two discs essentially work... |
Dave Brubeck
The Essential Dave Brubeck [ Columbia Records / 2 CD - released 2/Mar/2003 ] 31 best tracks, digitally re-mastered, personally chosen by the man himself |
Dean Martin
The Essential Dean Martin [ Sony / 2 CD - released 31/Oct/2014 ] Two CD collection of some of the biggest hits from Dean Martin, this is The Essential Dean Martin! |
Dixie Chicks
The Essential Dixie Chicks [ Columbia / Legacy Records / 2 CD - released 23/Aug/2010 ] 30 tracks across 2 CDs, including hits such as "Landslide", "Wide Open Spaces", "Long Time Gone", "owboy Take Me Away", "Ready To Run", "Not Ready To Make Nice" and more. |
Dolly Parton
The Essential Dolly Parton [ Sony & BMG Entertainment / 2 CD - released 28/Mar/2006 ] This is a definitive double disc collection of the best known and most loved numbers from popular country singer, Dolly Parton. |
Doris Day
The Essential (Gold Series) [ Sony / 2 CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ] Definitive, career-spanning and comprehensive, The Essential series features the biggest hits and best-loved songs from the most famous names in music history! An incredible value, each 2CD package features classic hits and signature songs by superst |
Dragon
The Essential Dragon [ Sony & BMG Entertainment Australia / 2 CD - released 11/Apr/2002 ] Digitally re-mastered for the first time, this is a comprehensive 2-disc collection from NZ's quintessential 70s rock band, Dragon. The set features 27 classics including "Are You Old Enough", "April Sun in Cuba", and more. |
Electric Light Orchestra
The Essential Electric Light Orchestra [ Sony Essentials / 2 CD - released 3/Feb/2012 ] This 15-track hits collection provides a great overview of the work of these hugely popular, orchestral-pop pioneers. Immediately recognizable for their electro-classical arrangements and "futuristic" production (courtesy of group founder,... |
Elvis Presley
The Essential Elvis Presley (Gold Series) [ RCA Records / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] This 40-track double disc set covers all of the best songs from the late great king of rock 'n' roll. Since its release in 2007 The Essential Elvis Presley has become one of the most popular titles in this series. This is a definitive career... |
Fleetwood Mac
The Essential Fleetwood Mac [ Legacy Records / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2007 ] This specially priced, digitally re-mastered double disc set is a comprehensive collection, covering the best-known songs and hits by the early Fleetwood Mac, led by guitarist Peter Green. |
George Benson
The Essential (Gold Series) [ Sony / 2 CD - released 28/Jun/2019 ] For the past four-plus decades, George Benson has been considered among the elite jazz guitarists. |
Gipsy Kings
The Essential Gipsy Kings [ Sony Music / 2 CD - released 7/Sep/2012 ] The Gipsy Kings are a group of flamenco, salsa and pop musicians from Arles and Montpellier (in the south of France), who perform in the Spanish language with an Andalusian accent. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly... |
Glenn Miller
The Essential Glenn Miller [ Legacy Records / 2 CD - released 28/Mar/2006 ] This is a definitive double disc collection of the best known and most loved numbers from popular jazz band leader, Glenn Miller. |
The Highwaymen
The Essential Highwaymen [ Sony / 2 CD - released 10/Jan/2011 ] Essential recordings from the Country Music supergroup that featured legends Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson & Kris Kristofferson. |
Janis Joplin
The Essential Janis Joplin [ Columbia Records / 2 CD - released 11/Apr/2002 ] Digitally re-mastered from the original source tapes. 30 of her greatest performances, including two previously unreleased Woodstock performances |
John Denver
The Essential John Denver [ RCA Records / 2 CD - released 27/Feb/2007 ] This specially priced double disc set is a comprehensive collection, covering the best-known songs and hits by the late John Denver. |
Johnny Cash
The Essential (2CD) [ Columbia Records / 2 CD - released 29/Jan/2008 ] 36 All-Time Country Classics from The Man in Black - including "I Walk The Line", "Don't Take Your Guns To Town", "Ring of Fire", "It Ain't Me Babe", "Folsom Prison Blues", "(Ghost) Riders In The Sky", "Highwayman", "The Wanderer" and many more! |
Johnny Mathis
The Essential Johnny Mathis [ Legacy Records / 2 CD - released 2/Apr/2006 ] This is a definitive double disc collection of the best known and most loved numbers from the popular crooner, Johnny Mathis. |