Rockpop for grown-ups: a vintage year for best-of CDs

If you’re wondering about buying rockpop for grown-ups best-of CDs as Xmas presents, you’re spoilt for choice this year. A pile of exciting new releases has made 2007 a vintage year for this oft-derided but very popular form of release.

Stunning best-ofs praised here this year (you can find them via the Archive) include:

* Doors – Very Best Of The Doors (2CD/DVD/booklet version preferred)

* Dylan – DYLAN (3CD version preferred)

* Van Morrison – Still On Top (3CD version preferred)

* Mick Jagger – Very Best Of

* Rolling Stones – Rolled Gold+

* Led Zeppelin – Mothership (2CD/DVD version preferred)

* Ella – Forever Ella

* The Very Best Of Miles Davis: the Warner Bros Sessions 1985-1991.

Mamma mia! Any one of them would bring a broad smile to my face on Xmas morning. Supermarkets and online suppliers (eg play.com) generally undercut the music megastores on such product – so you can save lots by shopping around.



Gerry Smith