Just looked at that out of curiousity, and it's by far the worst compilation album I've seen in recent memory. The cover is atrocious and the tracklist (Although it contains good material, It's Motorhead after all) is mostly based on APD and wildly fluctuates between three very differently sounding periods of the band's musical history. See for yourselves:
01. Burner
02. Born to Raise Hell
03. Ace of Spades
04. Back at the Funny Farm
05. Tales of Glory
06. Marching off to War
07. Iron Horse/Born to Lose
08. Shine
09. Keep Us On the Road
10. City Kids
As fans we'd all say that's all good stuff more or less, but for the casual outsider or rock/metal fan it's a shambling mess which you can't really form much of a balanced opinion on.
I agree with you totally. When someone who never heard Motorhead ask me which album is best to start I said "never listen best of's"! You listen only albums studio and later live, never "best of". Because, every album is story for it self and specially when you have line up changes, if you mix all that you got a big mess. "Best of's" are ok for people who knows every Motorhead album and song. "Best of's" are not for new fans. I think today when we have internet and computers that "best of" albums are totally stupid thing, because if you going out somewhere you can burn or put on your mp3 player your own "best of". In old days with no computers and burning cd's "best of's" were cool but today WHO NEEDS THEM?
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