Classics

Usurping the Big Ones hits package, the self-depreciating, proud, and humorous liner notes by bassist Scott Smith boost this definitive compilation. Time won't have wiped the kneejerk sneer from the mouths of critics--dismissed long ago as "eunuchs in a whorehouse" by manager Lou Blair--but a new generation of listeners will approve. --Jeff Bateman

• Greatest Hits
• The Very Best of the A&M Years 1977-1988
• The Best Of Eddie Money
• The Best Of Survivor
• Essential Billy Squier
• Get Lucky (25th Anniversary Edition)
• The Best of Rick Springfield
• Styx: Greatest Hits
• Greatest Hits by Pat Benatar
• Playlist: The Very Best of Loverboy