Perhaps it was inevitable that 's would pale next to its double-disc predecessor. covered nine albums (it ignored ), a period during which had 26 Top 100 hits. If it had picked up where the first collection left off, would have covered three studio albums, which produced 11 hits. That alone would have made a respectable hits collection, and it would have made sense, since marked the beginning of a new phase of 's career. Instead, the 17-song begins with a pair of songs from ( ) that sound entirely different from the material that follows, which finds delving into mechanized, slickly produced . The remaining songs don't strictly adhere to his charting hits, substituting such album tracks as and for hits like and his non-LP cover of ' Even with those missing hits, does summarize 's latter career quite well, culling most of his best songs from the time. However, the album ends on a down note, as it adds three new songs, all covers, that are limply produced and colorlessly played. -- which decided to perform as if it was a slow, sanitized outtake -- is the best of the trio, but none of them qualify as classics, and they are an inauspicious way to end this chapter of his career. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine