i cant believe that this great site dont have the reviews for oasis best of collection "Stop The Clocks"!

essential.

my verdict?10΄/10

I don't think Metacritic grades best of/compilations unless there's a great deal of new material.

n what about the beatles - love?

I'm not quite sure, but it's really up to the editors... I suppose they decided that given the "remixing" of Love, it was new enough.

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Originally posted by sk:
n what about the beatles - love?

The general standard is the best-of collections without some new incentive to buy them (substantial amounts of new or unreleased material, etc) don't get reviewed. I think Love gets consideration because it's made up of some new parts and some old parts, as the blurb on the Metacritic review points out:

"The 26 mashed-up tracks here were augmented with additional instrumentation and vocals performed by The Beatles themselves, culled from hours of original demo and master tapes, with pieces of 130 songs ultimately represented in some form."

Note that the reissue of the Clash's London Calling got a Metascore but does not sit in the all-time high scores (it has a perfect 100) because all that was REALLY new was the Vanilla Tapes disc. But the Talking Heads disc, which had a substantially larger number of unreleased tracks, does rate in the all-time scores.

I'm with you, though, on the collection. It is a great set. Haters will hate it, but it's chock full o' goodness.

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