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Better than having to buy 4 complete albums just to get the 5 popular songs you actually wanted to listen to.
Solution to a problem from "back in the olden times"
Only if you already have all the songs.
Buy my mixtape
That would rather be the equivalent to "Bravo Hits 18" (or whatever they were called in other countries)
To be fair, I discovered a lot of my favorite artists through compilations like Bravo Hits and later Crossing All Over and Punk-O-Rama... and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 of course.
For me it was the weekly telephone song votings on the radio.
They often deliberatly put niche stuff in there up for vote that then stuck with me :-)
You mean where they used cheap studio bands to recreate big hits? I bought one once, in the 80s. What a letdown. But iirc Bravo Hits always used the original music.
I remember in high school one of my friends bought one of these, not knowing what it was. He was so pissed and called it a knock-off.
That's exactly what they were.
No they're not, or at least not any more than any other album. If you buy an album, you're buying the music on that album
True, but then again, every album is a playlist.
A lot of "best of" albums I have are remasterings, so it at least is an upgraded version that sounds cleaner than the original.
The default way something operates and how much attention is required to change that is actually very important for the user experience. Not to mention the sound engineering that often goes into it
this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2025
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