Comment on Buying a best-of-album is like giving the artist/label money for a playlist of their songs they created

• mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  In the era of streaming there is no excuses for them it is easy to create your own playlist with the best songs

  Just because they call it best of doesn’t mean it has to align with my ranking

  I didn’t say otherwise.

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  • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A “hit” is a popular song. A band’s greatest hits are their most popular songs. Not sure how you’ve managed to take this personally.

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    • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Most popular do not necessarly means best songs

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      • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Best is arbitrary. You can measure that in a number of obscure ways to suit your views. You basically mean the ones you like the most.

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      • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Re-read my comment. I did not say that’s what that meant. I said that if a “hit” means it’s a popular song, a “great hit” would mean a very popular song, and the “greatest hits” would be the most popular. The band is not saying, “these are our best songs that you have to like more than all the other ones.” They’re saying, “these are the songs the most people have liked from us in a collection.”

        Random example, look at “Welcome to the Black Parade” by My Chemical Romance, it’s by far and large their most popular and well-known song, it’ll of course be on any “greatest hits” album from that band, genre, or time period, but I don’t know a single MCR fan who would say it’s their favorite song.

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