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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
Bill Withers
The Essential Bill Withers [ Sony Music / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] The Essential Bill Withers is a 34-track anthology that features all of Withers' notable singles, along with other highlights from the singer's albums for the Sussex and Columbia labels, from 1971's Just as I Am through 1985's Watching You Watching... |
Blue Oyster Cult
The Essential Blue Oyster Cult [ Sony Music / 2 CD - released 7/Sep/2012 ] |
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... |
Boz Scaggs
The Essential (Gold Series) [ Columbia / Legacy Recordings / 2 CD - released 25/Apr/2014 ] The Essential Boz Scaggs collects 32 key tracks - the soundtrack of a life's journey so far by a sophisticated soul singer nonpareil. Guest appearances by: Booker T. & The M.G.'s, Michael McDonald, Phoebe Snow, Donald Fagen and others. |