Best of compilations great bands are always a difficult thing. On one hand, they are essential to listeners with access to the music of the corresponding band, who have no interest to scour all the studio albums; but then encountered by the need to leave out good and important songs, often sees the inclined fan in front of the head, which by publishing poorly represented his favorites. At Oasis, which now no longer exist and have brought so much: 7 studio albums in the 15 years shown it, they found a very good solution in my view, for this dilemma: "Time Flies ... 1994-2009" is simply a compilation all single-release of the band. This may result in crucial tracks of the band's history are missing because they were simply not released as singles (either because they for the radio appeared like "Slide Away" is too long or because they did not represent the typical band sound quite like the sung by Noel and acoustically instrumented "The Master Plan"), but it has the distinct advantage that you can save any discussion about the compilation of the songs. In this respect, this approach is to call consistently, and it is particularly therefore very compatible, because it still "Stop the Clocks", the other Best of is that represents the counter-movement to the tough selection criteria of Singles Collection, namely the relatively free-form compilation (supposedly) more representative tracks of the tape. Despite this clever approach when it comes to Best ofs you should make it clear that "Time Flies ..." to be buying only offered if you do not own the studio albums and also has no interest, they still get in retrospect. Otherwise one has everything already, and the pieces come in original album context of course the better, because linked to their immediate history, to advantage. The only published as a single between the first two albums "Whatever" likes to be one or the other argument, but again access here - but there is the number now again both as Maxi-CD and as a download, so you of a worthwhile investment in "Time Flies ..." only can speak, if you will be limited to a best of.
