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Greatest Hits

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almost an hour of music spanning 3 singers and 10 years. the perfect cd to listen to while tearing it up on a bicycle. a collection that was put together by fans voting on their website, not a loser in the bunch. subjects covered include rejection, love, genetics, societal stereotypes, food, coffee, pet frogs, and history. once you buy this, you will be unable to resist their complete discography.

I'll try to keep this short. ALL's greatest hits disc is probably the absolute best that there is-period. The stand out track(no question about it) is "scary sad." If you're a fan of older mxpx, the ataris, and(duh) the descendents than order this NOW!

I've been listening to this album a lot, even though I have all their actual albums. It's so different from most "remastering" jobs. Usually the difference in sound is subtle enough that you can't tell exactly what they did but it sounds more punched up, a little louder, maybe more bottom end or high end. With these remasters they sound like rerecording with better (also maybe a bit too high in the mix) guitar sounds. That's because they are. I found that to be an odd choice, and I didn't know that when I got this album, but it's most obvious on Pretty Little Girl - where the chords are just so much denser, and actually an improvement. I'd say this is a good start, it covers a lot of material [though a couple more Dave Smalley songs woulda been nice - where's "Alfredo's"? (I have trouble believing that "Alfredo's wasn't one of the fan picked top contendors - certainly if "Educated Idiot" made the cut). It isn't very representative of the actual albums though. If someone buys this, and decides to run out and get all their albums (especially the Dave Smalley/Scott Reynold's era ones) they are in for some surprises. Since this is mostly pop, they'll learn the hardway that each album has it's own personality with some very unexpected left turns (the almost glam metal detours on Percolator, the homophobic death metal detours of Pummel, the weird funk/punk/free jazz influenced work outs on their early albums - though Educated Idiot I guess is a good introduction for that), and the fidelity of the guitars, I'm affraid will sound awful if you buy - say - Alroy Sez after hearing the versions on here. The upside though of this introduction is there is still a wealth of great songs on each album too, so it won't be money wasted going out and getting the other albums if you like this - "Sex in the Way", "Alfredo's", "Sugar & Spice", "Don Quixote", "Breathe", "Charligan", "Guilty", "Birthday I.O.U.", "Miranda", "Getting There", "Broken". As well as all of Mass Nerder (the guitar sound is quite similar to the rerecordings here, and mostly covers the pop punk of the majority of the songs on this collection).
There's one other bonus to this - aside from a CD release with the song "Crazy" - is that the rerecording for "Just Like Them" features Milo on vocals - so it's basically a Descendents track in the middle of All. Obviously recorded sometime around Everything Sucks, the recording sounds like almost a B side from that era - and perhaps an improvement on the original.
So those are my 2,000 cents.

I have to hand it to these guys, they're still going, and these mixes are AWESOME!!!! Shreen, Right, and Original Me were rerecorded because something happened to them, and they tried to make them sound as close as possible (I think they did Shreen closest to the original), and Just Like Them (written by Milo of the Descendents) was rerecorded also, only with Milo singing, instead of Scott Reynolds. So, to make a long review not so long, 5 stars to Milo, Bill, Scott, Karl, Stephen, Chad, and Dave (in no order)!!!

A "Best Of" CD. Bill remixed them and I must say most of the new mixes SUCK. The Descendents/ALL is my favorite band too. A lot of the vocals on Chad's stuff, as well as some of the guitars seem to have been re-recorded. The only reason to buy this is to have "Crazy" on CD form, and "Just Like Them" with Milo singing.

There is no word to describe the talent that is aroused when the four men gather to write songs. Through their span of many years recording as their other name (The Decsendents), All has done nothing but improve upon their albums one after another. The Descendents have been known as one of the premier punk bands of all time, however, little is known that the band called All is just 1 member short of the band they called the Descendents. All's title "All" does resolve that the band can be seen and heard as one of the best song writing crews in not only the history of punk rock, but in the history of music as well.

Incredible compilation CD covering a wide range of ALL's greatest moments. Perfect pop tuneage, songs about relationships, just perfect really.
Incidentally, there's a pic inside of Scott Reynolds in mid-air. I took that pic during one of their Australian shows (Sydney), sent them the pics and they included it inside the CD cover. Man, for one of your favourite bands of ALL time to do that is the greatest honour. Thanks guys.

im not going to have to explain why you should buy this supirior greatest hit album.because if you get this and dont like it ALL i would have to say that there is more ALL for me to listen to.thanks bill, karl, stephen, dave, chad ,scott(in no particular order of course) and ALLROY for 13 or so years of making the best version of pop caffine punk i can relate to..........!!

ALL has to be the best band on the planet