Written and directed by Roger Bean — whose pop-hit packages for the stage include "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" and "The Andrews Brothers" — "Wonderettes" presents a procession of tunes hewing to a female perspective, but of two eras.
Forget about comeback tours and "Behind the Music" episodes and greatest-hits packages.
Speed garage was spoiled because the major record companies tried to force it with endless Greatest Hits packages.
New greatest-hits packages from Shania Twain (530,000 sales for the week) and Toby Keith (435,000), both performers on the show, helped the surge.
American V was just the first in a slew of posthumous releases that includes 2010's American VI: Ain't No Grave, compilations of unreleased material (a four-volume bootleg series), expanded editions of classic albums and numerous greatest-hits packages.
The current top 75 singles chart features just eight songs that might be considered, loosely, rock – and two each of those are by Kasabian, Coldplay and the boyband 5 Seconds of Summer – and although the albums chart looks healthier, with 26 of the 75 being "rock" records, 12 of those are hits packages, reissues, or old albums that have been hanging around for years.
In effect, Microsoft is selling its Greatest Hits packages as an upgrade to the old CD versions, throwing in some outtakes and live versions to get the fans to buy the same thing one more time.
Others have been little more than rote greatest hits packages, sometimes baited with a rarity or two for the collectors.
The album is their second greatest hits package and contains songs including 5,6,7,8 and Tragedy.
Best of the rest Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits (Capitol) £12.99 First proper hits package from ace hip hop triad.
Cole Porter, on his deathbed, is treated to a greatest hits package of his life presented by the Archangel Gabriel.
