I like a lot of music, but I have to weigh in with the Beatles, since they are the band I most respect for pure talent and songwriting.
The Beatles/1962-1966 set is freaking amazing on so many levels.. (listening to it now) songs like:
Cant Buy Me Love, A Hard Days Night, Eight Days A Week, I feel fine, Ticket to Ride, Yesterday, Help, You've Got To Hide Your Love Away, We Can Work It Out, Day Tripper, Drive MY Car, Norwegian Wood, Nowhere Man, Michell, In My Life, Elanor Rigy....... man what band in their first 4 years has anything close to these ?
Then we have The Beatles 1967-1970:
Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, With A Little Help From MY Friends, A Day In The Life, All You Need Is Love, I Am the Walrus (one of my favorites, very complex), Hello Goodbye, Hey Jude, Revolution, Back In the USSR, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Here Comes The Sun, Come Together, Something, Let It Be, Across The Universe,
Not many Bands can produce two DOUBLE albums of greatest hits PLUS their recent album of only their NUMBER 1 hits..... 27! ( bigest selling album of 2000) or was it 2001?
let me add some others that I like: Hey Bulldog, Get Back, Glass Onion, Julia, Dear Prudence, Mother Natures Son, Revolution 1, Helter Skelter, Cry Baby Cry, Happiness is A Warm Gun, I'm So Tired, Rain, She Said She Said, For No One, Tomorrow Never Knows, Junk, Girl, Getting Better,
In an 8 year period of time, the Beatles produced enough songs for 5 greatest hits albums.
