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If the first volume of the Greatest Hits stripped clean any vestiges of the Buffalo band's rock & roll past by concentrating on their placid AAA radio hits, the second installment is a classic case of over-corrective steering, offering nothing but album tracks, B-sides, demos, fan favorites, and covers, almost all of which happen to feature the loud, blaring guitar that was conspicuously missing from. This doesn't necessarily mean that the album is a full-blown excavation of the group's beginnings, as it does focus on their major-label years, often digging fairly deep - or at least far enough to exclude such MTV-ready singles as 'We Are the Normal,' cut before the days of 'Iris.' That breakthrough hit is here in demo form, providing one of the collection's lightest moments, but its very presence accentuates how this collection is designed as fan bait, to rope in diehards who have been around since the beginning and probably wish never cut 'Name.' For those fans, this provides a bunch of high-octane rock & roll, with all the promise and banality that phrase suggests, as can strike every rock & roll pose without ever really feeling like they're rocking; witness how the breakneck 'Torn Apart' never really seems in danger of spitting in two. Such a complaint is one lodged by the uncommitted; for the devoted this is a good way to catch a lot of their better latter-day hard rock material and some rarities.
But for anybody who isn't a fan, it's hard to wonder how a band with the good taste to cover both ' 'A Million Miles Away' and ' 'I Wanna Destroy You' - the former a staple of '80s oldies comp, the latter a college-radio cult classic - could wind up sounding so stiff and ham-fisted.
Hard to believe it, but at one point all ever wanted to be was - nothing more than a ragged band playing kickass rock & roll along with the occasional heartbroken ballad. Of course, they were never as chaotic as; they were good guys where and company were ornery, unpredictable artists, prone to self-sabotage, legendarily throwing away their potential breakthrough gig on Saturday Night Live. They never met an opportunity they didn't turn down, slowly morphing from baby to the cheerful corporate rockers showcased on this 2007 compilation,. This 14-track collection ignores the entire first act of the band's history, picking up the tale with 1995's, which not so coincidentally is where the band abandoned its aspiration and started being the alt-rock band that played by the rules (even then, 's breakthrough hit, 'Name,' is re-recorded here, the better to make it fit with the placid pop of their later years). Where all their peers shunned power ballads, embraced them, slowly turning into a group that specialized in soaring ballads and anthems with no discernible roots: this was merely modern rock that existed in the moment, usually moments that occurred in offices, malls, waiting rooms, and 's Transformers.
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Surely there was an audience for this, as the group ruled the adult Top 40 charts throughout the 2000s without ever having a single that truly made waves in the pop charts, the way 'Name,' 'Iris,' and 'Slide' did in the late '90s. It wasn't for lack of trying, though: kept refining and smoothing that blueprint out, so each progressive year turned more anonymous. But they were reliable, and they satisfied fans, many of whom would probably never have even known the name, not even as the name of the high school in Heathers. For those fans, this will satisfy, as it has all those hits that sound the same, and nothing else.
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