So if you come across 'Sublime: Greatest Hits' somewhere, just put it down and pick up 40 Oz.'s instead. The real cons of the album totally crash it and burn it: Where are all the songs from RTH? Yeah, Pool Shark and Saw Red are great, but wheres 'Steppin' Razor' or 'STP'? And why did I first look at the tracklisting and not see 'Same In The End'? 'D.J.s'? 'Ball and Chain'? Nothing but singles and radio songs on here.Īgain, I will not reccommend this to a new listener.If your a real collector, I supposed you could still buy this at an internet retailer, but good luck tracking it down in stores. There is no way I could talk to you about Sublime and call this release a good selection. I think twenty songs minimum is suitable for the bands collection. Nice feature is the presence of the almost cultlike Hit'em Up which was previously released on the How Do You Want It single and this Greatest Hits album can even be of interesting to the earlier 2Pac fan. But then you'd be missing out on a dozen awesome songs from the self titled and 'Robbin' The Hood' which you would anyway, by purchasing this. God Bless The Dead and Troublesome '96 hold up the high standard you can expect from a 2Pac song.
Their debut album featured twenty-one truly amazing songs (four of which are on Greatest Hits), and IMO could have been a hits collection on its own. With a total of ten tracks, Sublime's 'Greatest Hits' is not what I think anyone expected. But I would not reccomend it to anyone who hasn't heard much of the bands other work. The casual listener won't be as dissapointed as a more hardcore fan would be, there are some very good songs represented here.
And Sublime has always been what they've dubbed themselves so deservingly. Hell, there should be nothing missing this is Sublime. You'd think it'd be one of the better song collections out there, wouldn't you? It doesn't fall too short, but there is much more missing from it then there should be. A greatest hits album.for an outstanding band.