Title: can't have this one without the first!
Product review: I really enjoy this compilation. It has a couple more tracks than the first Greatest Hits CD, and it plays for considerably longer --- although you can't really have it without the first, in my opinion. Taken together, these two CDs serve as great overview of Al's career from his very first days to the mid-'90s. I personally found the 2-CD Essential collection, which came out much later than the Greatest Hits CDs, to be disappointing, and it included 38 tracks overall! Altogether, the two Greatest Hits CDs only have 22 songs, but I don't consider even one of them to be a waste of space on the discs. Sure, the CDs are each sold separately, and they don't include any of Al's recordings from '96 onward, but they're still better than the so-called "essential" collection, at least if you look at them as a single entity rather than two separate collections. (In fact, you could burn them onto a single disc, but you'd have to sacrifice a song or two.)
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